Genuinely the best storytelling of all the Borderlands games and a great cast rivalling that of Borderlands The Pre-Sequal.
In a lot of ways this game is the opposite of the other Borderlands games. While the gameplay is nothing to write home about and I don't feel my choices mattered all that much, save for the final fight, the story, visuals, humor and characters make this game shine for me and kept me very much engaged (whereas with the mainline entries, sometimes the gameplay was all that kept me slogging through those stories).
I feel I should make a special note about the humor in this game. Borderlands is (in)famous for its crude and repetitive humor, and this game does away with it completely. Most of the jokes land and I found myself laughing out loud on several different occassions (especially in chapter 1 & 3).
There's so also so many little touches that make this game more fun. A lot of references from all over the series are put into this game, without taking up much space in the actual story, which are just a fun and welcome addition.
I think that's the best way to describe this game; its just so fun. Hell, this game has a little interaction between Gortys and Loaderbot which you can accidentally stumble upon where Gortys questions why a mystery person's design has a tie going from his neck into his pants, which made me look closer at Rhys' design for the first time and yup it really does have a tie going into his pants. That's such a cute and funny little touch while remaining totally in line with his character.
Honestly, this belongs up there with TellTales' best games (Walking Dead S1 & 2, The Wolf Among Us), I wish I could give this more than 4 stars but the (lack of) gameplay really does start to hinder the game after a while.
Well damn. Now I want a Borderlands game with the gameplay from 3 and the storytelling from Tales. We might actually get the masterpiece people claim Borderlands 2 is.
In a lot of ways this game is the opposite of the other Borderlands games. While the gameplay is nothing to write home about and I don't feel my choices mattered all that much, save for the final fight, the story, visuals, humor and characters make this game shine for me and kept me very much engaged (whereas with the mainline entries, sometimes the gameplay was all that kept me slogging through those stories).
I feel I should make a special note about the humor in this game. Borderlands is (in)famous for its crude and repetitive humor, and this game does away with it completely. Most of the jokes land and I found myself laughing out loud on several different occassions (especially in chapter 1 & 3).
There's so also so many little touches that make this game more fun. A lot of references from all over the series are put into this game, without taking up much space in the actual story, which are just a fun and welcome addition.
I think that's the best way to describe this game; its just so fun. Hell, this game has a little interaction between Gortys and Loaderbot which you can accidentally stumble upon where Gortys questions why a mystery person's design has a tie going from his neck into his pants, which made me look closer at Rhys' design for the first time and yup it really does have a tie going into his pants. That's such a cute and funny little touch while remaining totally in line with his character.
Honestly, this belongs up there with TellTales' best games (Walking Dead S1 & 2, The Wolf Among Us), I wish I could give this more than 4 stars but the (lack of) gameplay really does start to hinder the game after a while.
Well damn. Now I want a Borderlands game with the gameplay from 3 and the storytelling from Tales. We might actually get the masterpiece people claim Borderlands 2 is.