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I love all of the implied lore in the game. The whole thing, despite its space western vibe, is set in a ultra-capitalist hellscape where a few megacorporations are basically feudal lords fighting over planets and sucking them dry of all resources. The biggest questions that Borderlands invites you to ask is WHY the planet is covered in trash and bandits, why guns are ubiquitous but water is scarce, why talented mercenaries are hunting for treasure instead of working for someone. All of this becomes more explicit in later games but it was all there from the beginning.
You can call Roland a 'human fighter' but I played him like a cleric. I went down his support tree and getting similar skills. I could shoot my friends to heal them, my turret had a healing aura if you stood close, and my turret would launch out packages that gave ammo and grenades to myself and friends. Yeah, it made it slower, but once I got the mod that increased everyone's magazine size by 78% (yes, friends included) and regenerated everyone's ammo, we never ran out of bullets and could shoot with reckless abandon. Edit to add stupid funny story from the first time we played: after one of the first few quests, you get a class mod and we all had a good laugh at the name of the achievement. 'There are some who call me...Tim' achievement was a nice laugh for us all, not because of the Monty Python reference, but due to my name being Tim and us all now being Tim apparently. Edit 2 for further stupidity: I drove my friends crazy when we got to certain towns as I'd hunt down my 'favorite' npc and make him repeat "Welcome to hell" over and over because apparently, they could hear the NPC speak when I did this.
Borderlands was easily the foundation of the way a "Looter Shooter" should be made. Basically on par with the tone Halo Combat Evolved set for FPS's. You gotta love the OG's :D
The vibe I get from Borderlands 1 is this Wild West post - gold rush journey that few games really explore. Its not the apocalypse, its not some golden age. Its just hardcore recession. Borderlands 2 picks up on that backstory a little bit in the caustic caverns where Tannis tells you about why there are so many psychos on Pandora in the first place and I really like how that side quest in BL2 recontextualized BL1 for me. Its just people left behind after the corporations couldn't squeeze out any more valuables out of it. Its a somewhat timeless feeling in the setting of the world. Very beautiful, very simple yet effective. Storywise there really isn't much to say. Collect pieces of a MacGuffin , have a master mind steal the key item from you after doing the dirty work for them and now you chase them for revenge and then to get the promised loot. Its not much and clearly it didn't need it either given what it sparked later down the road in its own franchise. Its worth playing, especially on PC with some mods that alter some of the quality of life experience.
Best mechanic the first had was the actual weapon used by enemies drop upon being killed after. That alone made it fun to search for random legendaries or a really good purple
Borderlands was my life growing up. The gameplay, the lobbies were someone would give a modded invincibility shield/one-shot gun, those were the days ❤😭
In my personal revisit of the entirety of the game series in order, I gained a newfound appreciation for BL1. Though I’m mostly doing one-and-done playthroughs in this revisit, there’s a part of me that while I’m currently playing 2 wants to go back and do a new run of 1. You can very obviously tell in the DLCs for 1 that they found their footing for the direction they wanted to go for 2, but the base game itself is a wholly unique experience unbound by very much. It gives that same feeling I get of wandering New Vegas with nothing but the Mr. New Vegas serenading me with oldies from time well past, only it’s Claptrap telling me there’s new missions at the New Haven Bounty Board. It’s a tad simpler there, like coming home from a long day at work
I came to Borderlands VERY late, it was after 2015 when I started playing it. I had started the game before that but I just didn't 'get' it. I couldn't parse what was going on, didn't understand the idea of "playthrough 2" and more. So I left it in the drawer and played other things. Eventually I decided to try the game again, finally beat Sledge and started to click with what was going on. Now I've played 1, 2, 3 and pre-sequel. Each game has ridiculous levels of depth and re-playability (just check Joltzdude's videos to see that) and I have a blast whenever I load them up.
My friend had me play through this game years after we had played through a majority of 2 and Pre-Sequel and it was special. The best moment was when he got the Pestilent Defiler at level 19. It was the only weapon he used for the rest of the game. He fully invested into Plaguebearer Lilith and the entire game from that point on was him giving every enemy we came across "The Sick".
I'm glad I wasn't the only one when it came to the Legendaries in this game. The first I got was at like Level 7 or something ridiculous, it was a Fire Sniper Rifle that has X4 burn on it, somehow it remained the best weapon I had up until like Level 20. It truly felt Legendary. I think I picked it up like a year after it came out. Just browsing the pre-owned section in my local video store. And yeah, I became addicted to Borederlands as a franchise and the looter shooter genre ever since.
The Lance Hideout (where you go after Krom) is probably one of the greatest places to farm loot. Multiple Badasses and red chests made it pretty fun for me before I got the Secret Armory of General Knoxx. Quick edit: So I paused the video about nine minutes through because I gotta say that the Roland playthrough I had was insane on my old 360. I had a ton of ammo regeneration, but honestly? I didn't know jack about builds. I just got whatever looked good to me, skill wise. A perk that gives me 2.5% ammo regeneration while my turret is active? Uh yeah, sign me the hell up please. A purple rarity Torgue Steel Shotgun that does more damage than the legendary rocket launcher that I have? Sure, why not. My "grail gun" (to quote Zach Hazard) was the Atlas Gorgon, a Legendary Atlas revolver that shifted between each element either per shot or per reload, I don't remember, but that was the one legendary that I had never been able to get. By the end of it all, I had a heap of ammo regen from perks and my Support Gunner COM, and was regenerating ammo faster than I was using it.
BL1 nails that "Mad Max meets Trigun" vibe better than the later games. 3:54 That right there is a hybrid of a burger and a Dagwood. In fact, that's more Dagwood than most Dagwoods! And yes, the Dagwood sammich is named after the classic comic strip character (who was notorious for making comically huge sammiches with lots of layers just like Shaggy and Scooby). 4:55 That was "The Middle of Nowhere," right? That one nook tucked away in a cranny in Rust Commons East. 6:09 Trackballs are better. Change my mind. Gotta be the symmetrical kind for gaming, though. 8:41 Tina perceives Roland as a Lawful Good Paladin. 8:50 Plaguebearer build w/Maliwan Plague (wrongly called "Crux" in-game). 10:12 All throughout playthru-1, and throughout most of playthru-2, any piece of gear could potentially last nine levels before it was outmoded because of the way certain manufacturer's goods occur on specific level tiers. For example, S&S goes from Lv.13 to 22, then 31, 40, et cetera. That level tier brand system becomes void around Lv.47-50 or so. Then anything can be of any level regardless of manufacturer. 10:44 Like Dahl, a lot of S&S weapons are well-balanced. Their main weakness is slow reload, which makes sense because bigger mags are heavier. Apart from that, their machine guns will have slow fire rate with even-numbered body types, but will do just fine with odd-numbered body types. The one you have there has body2 (fire rate of 4.9). Note: 11:10 I've always wished "safari rifles" were a regular weapon type. They'd be a sub-category of "sniper rifles" that always had iron sights and no scope, which is in keeping with how safari hunting was actually done. This was to keep peripheral vision open, allowing for an intuitive and adaptive style of hunting. Plus, it's just satisfying to score long-Sh0ts with Ir0n sights. Mordy, Zer0, Sir Hammerlock, and "Twainwright" Jakobs would all back me up on that. A consistent feature with "safari rifles" should be that they deal "massive damage" per Sh0t (and maybe also have ultra-high crit bonus). There's also such a thing as a "payload rifle" which in-game would be an explody sniper rifle (like the Torgue Cobra). IRL, it's more like a direct-fire grenade launcher. Imagine a cross between a safari rifle and a payload rifle! 14:52 Mad Max AND Trigun! 17:24 OG BL1 (or "Oscar Golf Bravo Lima One" as Axton would say) when it first came out in 2009. Being 29 at the time (same age as James Rolfe), I'd grown up on the Mad Max original trilogy.
Borderlands is peak gaming whether it's on console or on PC and Borderlands 1 still holds up to this day thanks to the art style and amazing game play mechanics, not to mention the slapstick comedy.
My favourite thing about borderlands one was the Crimson Lance they’re my favourite group of enemies to fight and when the DLC of General Knox came out I just love that even more
I...just don't have any words to express my appreciation for this game. It has been one of the best playthroughs of my life. I could boot it up with friends on a happy get together or just shoot the psychos into oblivion when I was feeling down. I hold this game in high regards for each of its shining aspects. I wish I could get the same feeling with the games nowadays.
I remember picking up a atlas multishot masher on roland at level 25, and it carried and still carried now that i'm on level 52, it's an absolute killing machine.
Borderlands was the first game I ever owned. I still don't know how my parents allowed me to get it at 6 years old. But they did and it is still the game I have the fondest memories of. This game was my intro to gaming outside of unity browser games and I think just that makes it one of the greatest games of all time for me.
Yeeeessss. I am so excited for you to be talking about the other BL games. I just started playing 1, 2, 3, and the pre-sequel after playing tales from the borderlands which was my introduction to this world and I cannot stop thinking about them. They are so much fun and now these games mean so much to me after ignoring them for years, but now playing them as an adult I think I can appreciate them more now then when I was a kid. I can really understand these characters and just feel like a badass being them in this awesome world. Anyway thank you for making this video and if you do make videos on 3, Tales from the Borderlands, and the pre-sequel, that will definitely be ONE OF THEM MOMEEEENNNNTTTTSSSS! Rest in peace Scooter.
Borderlands has great characters like gaige lilith moze TINA!!! CLAPTRAP!!!! And jack so many great characters Wonder if gaige and moze will end up being friends since both love robots and both are or was vault hunters or maybe moze tina gaige and a new tech or explosives expert makes a team to make some auto bombs or something idk just trying to think of some cool robots mixed with EXPOSIVES!!!! Type of things i love borderlands so much
15:50 Concord failed because the developers said it "wasn't made for gamers but the modern audience" and it died because of that. While there is a plethora of arena shooters out there, Concord died to its dev's hubris.
It definitely is distinct from 2 and the other follow-ups. In some ways, it's actually better. Mechanically it's not as good, and it's a bit too brown and grey visually, but it's also not a technicolour explosion of the sequels, and all that colour and visual effects can be a bit much. In a way, it's a bit refreshing to come back to it after playing the rest. Don't forget about the drop-in/out co-op. The video didn't really emphasize how neat that was as an option (even if I personally didn't use it too much). It's something that became more popular after this game came out too. Lilith was my favourite to play, especially with the double anarchy (I still want them to bring that line of SMGs bag. Ultra close range bullet hose!
Playing a shotgun and combat rifle Lilith is fun. Her smg skills are broken but I save that for bosses who have just too spongy of a health bar to wanna deal with. Also I love the guns in this game. Their so much better and way better balanced then bl2.
A movie so bad it made people look back to the classics just to see if they were good In the case of Borderlands. Yes, the original was good enough, and that's what matters
BL1 was the first game I got on steam, and will almost certainly be my favorite game of all time. I've completet the main story -DLC in one sitting multipletimes, I just love the atmosphere. I know about 50-75% of the quest by heart, but I dosent take away even a slither of the fun I have completing them. I could only drag myself through Diablo 3' story once, and then exclusively playing adventure/season. And while the story was awsome, It's quests and characters just never captured like BL did.
Gonna be honest. My wife and I have the whole collection. Loved Borderlands 3. The 1st feels so janky and ridiculous, so much that its not fun. We got to the Mine Gate key and we got to level 13, did all the side quests we could find, and our weapons were very weak. It was not an enjoyable experience. Plus the intro cutscene didnt play, maybe because its the One X version we got? We honestly skipped it, we are going to start the Pre-Sequel then do 2.
I played the second one first and only tried one a few weeks ago and sadly it feels a bit "old" to me... I can see where the love came from like but for me it just feels like a prequal that I personally am missing things that I have got used to from 2 but hey that's me
Played through both 1 and 2 this summer (3 is on the backburner while I decide what to delete from my drives), and I have to say that they're both brilliant. 1 has the simplicity and you can just roam the world in peace, without feeling that much pressure, while 2 has the more engrossing story and characters. Gunplay is great in both, the style is beautiful in its own way, and the feel of the world just... works. The only thing I didn't like about 1 were the Eridian enemies towards the end. So. Damn. Annoying. Otherwise - both of those games are masterpieces, that can be enjoyed both solo and in co-op.
I've always preferred the tone that BL1 has over the sequels. The latter half of BL2 kind of touches on it, taking itself a bit more seriously with dialogue and whatnot but I've always preferred the slightly grittier tones rather than the comedic ones.
My partner and I bonded over Boarderlands over our dating part of us getting to know one another. When Boarderlands 3 came out, we ordered everything including DLCs. We promised to only play together, as the ONLY TRUE DUO MOZE AND FL4K! We did it to completion. It was honestly our Friday night date night game. It was beautiful. And further proof GearBox is the only company that gives their players quality, variety, replayability, decent DLC content and ALL NOT FUCKING PRICE GOUGING AND SATURATING THE GAMES WITH FUCKING GAMBLING. Thats what fuckin lootboxes are. Gambling. Im looking at you Actiblizz, Bungie, EA!
Gearbox: * Rips a massive line of coke off a stripper's ass * What if Diablo but with guns and aliens? I'm a Krieg main in 2. A Mordy main in 1. 1 and 2 I apparently love the hardest playable characters. In 3 I'm Zane. Not sure how he falls on the difficulty scale but he's fun.
My only beef with this game it's outside the game itself, how gearbox funneled the funds Sega assigned to colonial Marines into Randy's personal project, while outsourcing aliens to a less experienced studio and he got so unapologetic about lying to Sega and players alike with the trailers and promises about the game
There's a lot of analogies between Diablo 1 & 2 and Borderlands 1 & 2. Both originals were amazing proof of concept games at the time, but people overlook them due to their sequels. Though I would say Borderlands 1 aged much much better than Diablo 1
Borderlands 1 and Saint Row 2 had that brand of humor that their sequels lost... The world is craAAaaAAazy, but the characters in it react normally to it, and THAT sells the humor ! as you said, Pandora is BLEAK ! It's not friday night as usual or a living breathing shooting gallery, it's a devastated world filled with an abandonned criminal workforce and the people forced to live alongside these guys. I think of it as the Warhammer Orks, sure, their attitude and antics are hilarious, but in-universe, when a green boyz enters the room, someone's gonna die, no question. Or the naked gun series, or Monty Pythons : if you want to SELL wacky humor, you cannot, under any circumstances, wink at the camera ! The wackiest it gets, the more deadpan you have to respond in-universe. And these various games that try to follow suit are constantly winking at how funny their own jokes are... That's why I never made it past the second boss in B2, That's why I never touched Saint Row 3. Also, my gun was the Brutal Masher as Mordecai, ammo-regenerating, tight-spread, enhanced-crit shotgun revolver i looted at lv 36 and only at 62-63 did I find it starting to lack DPS ;7
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I love all of the implied lore in the game. The whole thing, despite its space western vibe, is set in a ultra-capitalist hellscape where a few megacorporations are basically feudal lords fighting over planets and sucking them dry of all resources. The biggest questions that Borderlands invites you to ask is WHY the planet is covered in trash and bandits, why guns are ubiquitous but water is scarce, why talented mercenaries are hunting for treasure instead of working for someone. All of this becomes more explicit in later games but it was all there from the beginning.
Borderlands walked so borderlands 2 could run, a lot of Nostalgia here for me.
You can call Roland a 'human fighter' but I played him like a cleric. I went down his support tree and getting similar skills. I could shoot my friends to heal them, my turret had a healing aura if you stood close, and my turret would launch out packages that gave ammo and grenades to myself and friends. Yeah, it made it slower, but once I got the mod that increased everyone's magazine size by 78% (yes, friends included) and regenerated everyone's ammo, we never ran out of bullets and could shoot with reckless abandon.
Edit to add stupid funny story from the first time we played: after one of the first few quests, you get a class mod and we all had a good laugh at the name of the achievement. 'There are some who call me...Tim' achievement was a nice laugh for us all, not because of the Monty Python reference, but due to my name being Tim and us all now being Tim apparently.
Edit 2 for further stupidity: I drove my friends crazy when we got to certain towns as I'd hunt down my 'favorite' npc and make him repeat "Welcome to hell" over and over because apparently, they could hear the NPC speak when I did this.
Good point!
Yes! YES! I'm so glad other people like bothering the "Welcome to hell" guy
Roland with healing bullets and a massive firerate gun is hilarious 😂
That was my main in co op
Borderlands was easily the foundation of the way a "Looter Shooter" should be made. Basically on par with the tone Halo Combat Evolved set for FPS's. You gotta love the OG's :D
I see you playing as my man Mordecai. You, sir, have earned my respect.
All I'm saying is
The balancing of BL1
The Story of BL2
The gameplay of BL3
And then with the post legendary rarities?
The perfect game
Praying this is how Borderlands 4 is!
The vibe I get from Borderlands 1 is this Wild West post - gold rush journey that few games really explore. Its not the apocalypse, its not some golden age. Its just hardcore recession. Borderlands 2 picks up on that backstory a little bit in the caustic caverns where Tannis tells you about why there are so many psychos on Pandora in the first place and I really like how that side quest in BL2 recontextualized BL1 for me. Its just people left behind after the corporations couldn't squeeze out any more valuables out of it.
Its a somewhat timeless feeling in the setting of the world. Very beautiful, very simple yet effective. Storywise there really isn't much to say. Collect pieces of a MacGuffin , have a master mind steal the key item from you after doing the dirty work for them and now you chase them for revenge and then to get the promised loot. Its not much and clearly it didn't need it either given what it sparked later down the road in its own franchise.
Its worth playing, especially on PC with some mods that alter some of the quality of life experience.
Here to stop children from saying first
First
Not all heroes wear capes
But...but you didn't stop anything... 😂
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Best mechanic the first had was the actual weapon used by enemies drop upon being killed after. That alone made it fun to search for random legendaries or a really good purple
Borderlands was my life growing up. The gameplay, the lobbies were someone would give a modded invincibility shield/one-shot gun, those were the days ❤😭
I got a modded shield in one of mine. Ploughed through every play through
@@maxtopliss1552 I think I'd prefer the invincibility shield over a one-shot weapon tbh. One-shotting makes the game too quick lol
“Slam dunk of a movie” is a crazy statement
In my personal revisit of the entirety of the game series in order, I gained a newfound appreciation for BL1. Though I’m mostly doing one-and-done playthroughs in this revisit, there’s a part of me that while I’m currently playing 2 wants to go back and do a new run of 1. You can very obviously tell in the DLCs for 1 that they found their footing for the direction they wanted to go for 2, but the base game itself is a wholly unique experience unbound by very much. It gives that same feeling I get of wandering New Vegas with nothing but the Mr. New Vegas serenading me with oldies from time well past, only it’s Claptrap telling me there’s new missions at the New Haven Bounty Board. It’s a tad simpler there, like coming home from a long day at work
Prototype 1 and 2 are 75% off on Steam, if I could encourage you to explore one of the most iconic absolute power trips from 2009.
Zanny enjoyed spotted!!!! 😁(good to see another Roman Main).
Loved the zanny reference lol
0:39 slam dunk? More like fumble for a touchdown on the first play of the game, followed by 4 fumbles for a touchdown
I came to Borderlands VERY late, it was after 2015 when I started playing it. I had started the game before that but I just didn't 'get' it. I couldn't parse what was going on, didn't understand the idea of "playthrough 2" and more.
So I left it in the drawer and played other things. Eventually I decided to try the game again, finally beat Sledge and started to click with what was going on.
Now I've played 1, 2, 3 and pre-sequel. Each game has ridiculous levels of depth and re-playability (just check Joltzdude's videos to see that) and I have a blast whenever I load them up.
Anytime I hear “rock and stone” it activates me like a Russian sleeper agent
My friend had me play through this game years after we had played through a majority of 2 and Pre-Sequel and it was special. The best moment was when he got the Pestilent Defiler at level 19. It was the only weapon he used for the rest of the game. He fully invested into Plaguebearer Lilith and the entire game from that point on was him giving every enemy we came across "The Sick".
I'm glad I wasn't the only one when it came to the Legendaries in this game. The first I got was at like Level 7 or something ridiculous, it was a Fire Sniper Rifle that has X4 burn on it, somehow it remained the best weapon I had up until like Level 20. It truly felt Legendary.
I think I picked it up like a year after it came out. Just browsing the pre-owned section in my local video store. And yeah, I became addicted to Borederlands as a franchise and the looter shooter genre ever since.
The Lance Hideout (where you go after Krom) is probably one of the greatest places to farm loot. Multiple Badasses and red chests made it pretty fun for me before I got the Secret Armory of General Knoxx.
Quick edit: So I paused the video about nine minutes through because I gotta say that the Roland playthrough I had was insane on my old 360. I had a ton of ammo regeneration, but honestly? I didn't know jack about builds. I just got whatever looked good to me, skill wise. A perk that gives me 2.5% ammo regeneration while my turret is active? Uh yeah, sign me the hell up please. A purple rarity Torgue Steel Shotgun that does more damage than the legendary rocket launcher that I have? Sure, why not. My "grail gun" (to quote Zach Hazard) was the Atlas Gorgon, a Legendary Atlas revolver that shifted between each element either per shot or per reload, I don't remember, but that was the one legendary that I had never been able to get. By the end of it all, I had a heap of ammo regen from perks and my Support Gunner COM, and was regenerating ammo faster than I was using it.
BL1 nails that "Mad Max meets Trigun" vibe better than the later games.
3:54 That right there is a hybrid of a burger and a Dagwood. In fact, that's more Dagwood than most Dagwoods! And yes, the Dagwood sammich is named after the classic comic strip character (who was notorious for making comically huge sammiches with lots of layers just like Shaggy and Scooby).
4:55 That was "The Middle of Nowhere," right? That one nook tucked away in a cranny in Rust Commons East.
6:09 Trackballs are better. Change my mind. Gotta be the symmetrical kind for gaming, though.
8:41 Tina perceives Roland as a Lawful Good Paladin.
8:50 Plaguebearer build w/Maliwan Plague (wrongly called "Crux" in-game).
10:12 All throughout playthru-1, and throughout most of playthru-2, any piece of gear could potentially last nine levels before it was outmoded because of the way certain manufacturer's goods occur on specific level tiers. For example, S&S goes from Lv.13 to 22, then 31, 40, et cetera. That level tier brand system becomes void around Lv.47-50 or so. Then anything can be of any level regardless of manufacturer.
10:44 Like Dahl, a lot of S&S weapons are well-balanced. Their main weakness is slow reload, which makes sense because bigger mags are heavier. Apart from that, their machine guns will have slow fire rate with even-numbered body types, but will do just fine with odd-numbered body types. The one you have there has body2 (fire rate of 4.9).
Note:
11:10 I've always wished "safari rifles" were a regular weapon type. They'd be a sub-category of "sniper rifles" that always had iron sights and no scope, which is in keeping with how safari hunting was actually done. This was to keep peripheral vision open, allowing for an intuitive and adaptive style of hunting. Plus, it's just satisfying to score long-Sh0ts with Ir0n sights. Mordy, Zer0, Sir Hammerlock, and "Twainwright" Jakobs would all back me up on that. A consistent feature with "safari rifles" should be that they deal "massive damage" per Sh0t (and maybe also have ultra-high crit bonus). There's also such a thing as a "payload rifle" which in-game would be an explody sniper rifle (like the Torgue Cobra). IRL, it's more like a direct-fire grenade launcher. Imagine a cross between a safari rifle and a payload rifle!
14:52 Mad Max AND Trigun!
17:24 OG BL1 (or "Oscar Golf Bravo Lima One" as Axton would say) when it first came out in 2009. Being 29 at the time (same age as James Rolfe), I'd grown up on the Mad Max original trilogy.
Leveling up in the borderlands games is one of the best feelings in gaming for me.
Borderlands is peak gaming whether it's on console or on PC and Borderlands 1 still holds up to this day thanks to the art style and amazing game play mechanics, not to mention the slapstick comedy.
My favourite thing about borderlands one was the Crimson Lance they’re my favourite group of enemies to fight and when the DLC of General Knox came out I just love that even more
I...just don't have any words to express my appreciation for this game. It has been one of the best playthroughs of my life. I could boot it up with friends on a happy get together or just shoot the psychos into oblivion when I was feeling down. I hold this game in high regards for each of its shining aspects. I wish I could get the same feeling with the games nowadays.
I remember picking up a atlas multishot masher on roland at level 25, and it carried and still carried now that i'm on level 52, it's an absolute killing machine.
BL1 will always be my favorite. Especially now. There’s just something about the game’s simplicity and tone.
Borderlands was the first game I ever owned. I still don't know how my parents allowed me to get it at 6 years old. But they did and it is still the game I have the fondest memories of. This game was my intro to gaming outside of unity browser games and I think just that makes it one of the greatest games of all time for me.
Yeeeessss. I am so excited for you to be talking about the other BL games. I just started playing 1, 2, 3, and the pre-sequel after playing tales from the borderlands which was my introduction to this world and I cannot stop thinking about them. They are so much fun and now these games mean so much to me after ignoring them for years, but now playing them as an adult I think I can appreciate them more now then when I was a kid. I can really understand these characters and just feel like a badass being them in this awesome world. Anyway thank you for making this video and if you do make videos on 3, Tales from the Borderlands, and the pre-sequel, that will definitely be ONE OF THEM MOMEEEENNNNTTTTSSSS! Rest in peace Scooter.
Borderlands has great characters like gaige lilith moze TINA!!! CLAPTRAP!!!! And jack so many great characters Wonder if gaige and moze will end up being friends since both love robots and both are or was vault hunters or maybe moze tina gaige and a new tech or explosives expert makes a team to make some auto bombs or something idk just trying to think of some cool robots mixed with EXPOSIVES!!!! Type of things i love borderlands so much
And with that we have confirmation GW is a member of the Zan Clan.
I played this as my first FPS, I was 5. It was amazing.
WARFRAME mentioned in a EGA video from Gaming wins Abdolute W
15:50 Concord failed because the developers said it "wasn't made for gamers but the modern audience" and it died because of that. While there is a plethora of arena shooters out there, Concord died to its dev's hubris.
"So loud.. so angry.. so dead.."
-some drunk burd man
Was waiting for this one! Thanks for another great video!
Borderlands 4 better have a claptrap boss so i never have to suffer him again
PLEASE do road 96 sometime. Supremely underrated game
Was playing borderlands 3 as I found this video, would love a borderlands series
1:17 I feel so called out
It definitely is distinct from 2 and the other follow-ups. In some ways, it's actually better. Mechanically it's not as good, and it's a bit too brown and grey visually, but it's also not a technicolour explosion of the sequels, and all that colour and visual effects can be a bit much. In a way, it's a bit refreshing to come back to it after playing the rest.
Don't forget about the drop-in/out co-op. The video didn't really emphasize how neat that was as an option (even if I personally didn't use it too much). It's something that became more popular after this game came out too.
Lilith was my favourite to play, especially with the double anarchy (I still want them to bring that line of SMGs bag. Ultra close range bullet hose!
Borderlands 1 is my first & favored game in the franchise, I'll never stop playing Borderlands 1!
Playing a shotgun and combat rifle Lilith is fun. Her smg skills are broken but I save that for bosses who have just too spongy of a health bar to wanna deal with. Also I love the guns in this game. Their so much better and way better balanced then bl2.
Hey genuine question. Will you do a video on FF7 Rebirth?
A movie so bad it made people look back to the classics just to see if they were good
In the case of Borderlands. Yes, the original was good enough, and that's what matters
BL1 was the first game I got on steam, and will almost certainly be my favorite game of all time. I've completet the main story -DLC in one sitting multipletimes, I just love the atmosphere. I know about 50-75% of the quest by heart, but I dosent take away even a slither of the fun I have completing them. I could only drag myself through Diablo 3' story once, and then exclusively playing adventure/season. And while the story was awsome, It's quests and characters just never captured like BL did.
ROCK AND STONE! Sorry, had to do it when you said that 😂
Can't wait to hear what you have to say about Randy Shillford, I mean Pitchford
I love Borderlands 1 but I don't think Borderlands would have survived as a series without 2 being what it is.
Nuh uh everything outshined the underdome 😂
Gonna be honest.
My wife and I have the whole collection. Loved Borderlands 3.
The 1st feels so janky and ridiculous, so much that its not fun.
We got to the Mine Gate key and we got to level 13, did all the side quests we could find, and our weapons were very weak. It was not an enjoyable experience. Plus the intro cutscene didnt play, maybe because its the One X version we got? We honestly skipped it, we are going to start the Pre-Sequel then do 2.
EGA black myth wukong please!! And warframe too
The fact you watch zanny I love you
"Looten und Leveln" Trant
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I played the second one first and only tried one a few weeks ago and sadly it feels a bit "old" to me... I can see where the love came from like but for me it just feels like a prequal that I personally am missing things that I have got used to from 2 but hey that's me
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Played through both 1 and 2 this summer (3 is on the backburner while I decide what to delete from my drives), and I have to say that they're both brilliant. 1 has the simplicity and you can just roam the world in peace, without feeling that much pressure, while 2 has the more engrossing story and characters. Gunplay is great in both, the style is beautiful in its own way, and the feel of the world just... works.
The only thing I didn't like about 1 were the Eridian enemies towards the end. So. Damn. Annoying. Otherwise - both of those games are masterpieces, that can be enjoyed both solo and in co-op.
YES
Borderlands 1 is so damn good
I've always preferred the tone that BL1 has over the sequels. The latter half of BL2 kind of touches on it, taking itself a bit more seriously with dialogue and whatnot but I've always preferred the slightly grittier tones rather than the comedic ones.
My partner and I bonded over Boarderlands over our dating part of us getting to know one another. When Boarderlands 3 came out, we ordered everything including DLCs. We promised to only play together, as the ONLY TRUE DUO MOZE AND FL4K! We did it to completion. It was honestly our Friday night date night game. It was beautiful. And further proof GearBox is the only company that gives their players quality, variety, replayability, decent DLC content and ALL NOT FUCKING PRICE GOUGING AND SATURATING THE GAMES WITH FUCKING GAMBLING. Thats what fuckin lootboxes are. Gambling. Im looking at you Actiblizz, Bungie, EA!
*”I will pay you to kill yoursel-“* oh never mind, we’re not on the fun Borderlands game here.
Gearbox: * Rips a massive line of coke off a stripper's ass * What if Diablo but with guns and aliens?
I'm a Krieg main in 2. A Mordy main in 1. 1 and 2 I apparently love the hardest playable characters. In 3 I'm Zane. Not sure how he falls on the difficulty scale but he's fun.
Coincidentally went back to playing one a couple days ago and yes it's still awesome but I still like two better
Hey could make video about spec op the line
My only beef with this game it's outside the game itself, how gearbox funneled the funds Sega assigned to colonial Marines into Randy's personal project, while outsourcing aliens to a less experienced studio and he got so unapologetic about lying to Sega and players alike with the trailers and promises about the game
3rd video to ask for: Everything Great About: Soma
everything great about mafia PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAASE
There's a lot of analogies between Diablo 1 & 2 and Borderlands 1 & 2. Both originals were amazing proof of concept games at the time, but people overlook them due to their sequels. Though I would say Borderlands 1 aged much much better than Diablo 1
Feel like Division and D2 took a lot from this too
Hey gamingwins I’m back when u get done doing the borderlands games u should do persona 5 review I think u would really enjoy the game
Should do the tomb raiders next
Slam dunk of a movie?
Borderlands 1 and Saint Row 2 had that brand of humor that their sequels lost... The world is craAAaaAAazy, but the characters in it react normally to it, and THAT sells the humor ! as you said, Pandora is BLEAK ! It's not friday night as usual or a living breathing shooting gallery, it's a devastated world filled with an abandonned criminal workforce and the people forced to live alongside these guys.
I think of it as the Warhammer Orks, sure, their attitude and antics are hilarious, but in-universe, when a green boyz enters the room, someone's gonna die, no question. Or the naked gun series, or Monty Pythons : if you want to SELL wacky humor, you cannot, under any circumstances, wink at the camera ! The wackiest it gets, the more deadpan you have to respond in-universe. And these various games that try to follow suit are constantly winking at how funny their own jokes are... That's why I never made it past the second boss in B2, That's why I never touched Saint Row 3.
Also, my gun was the Brutal Masher as Mordecai, ammo-regenerating, tight-spread, enhanced-crit shotgun revolver i looted at lv 36 and only at 62-63 did I find it starting to lack DPS ;7
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?
ROCK AND STONE!
rock and stone
I love borderlands the movie was a slap in the face just like the halo TV show was to halo fans
Gaming wins, please make a video on Omori!
I just noticed you haven't done Kingdom Hearts yet. Is that ever gonna happen?
Did you say the movie was a slam dunk? Did we watch the same movie?
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The only bad thing about the Borderlands game series is Randy Pitchford....
Please do astro bot
Hold up did you actually give praise to the movie? 😂😂😂
if you wanna review another game that could be one of those 'started it all' titles, look no further than Maneater.
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Bro, we have to thank Borderlands for fortnite and Warzone like I mean really
Yes.
First! Loved this game since i was 11. Thanks you Gaming Wins!
Day 1 of sekiro viedo
Slam dunk of a movie was ok at best lol
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No views in zero seconds? Bro fell off.
Why are you playing ridiculous quacking sounds every time you say a curse word? You think your audience is 6 years old lmfao? Get real