Of all the ways to complain about the Borderlands franchise, this is certainly the dumbest. My dude doesn’t care about the terrible writing, the stale, formulaic gameplay that has been virtually unchanged since 2008, or the fact that Randy Pritchford is a psychotic weirdo
There is so much to complain about with Borderlands and these dudes get mad over women existing in the far future. I hate that people always seem to "issue" with women in games. It's always "she isn't hot enough", "why is she brown", "why does she speak her mind", just really lame shit. Shit I thought we stopped being mad about in the 2000's.
I hate gamers so goddamn much.
There is so much to be complain about but they choose the existence of women (but Moxxi always gets a pass from these sorts of goobers for obvious reasons). I love Borderlands, generally and genuinely love this game. I have probably about ~1000 hours across all the titles. It's unironically my favorite "modern" franchise. I complain about it all the time. I will do so now. If you don't want to read all of that just skip to the end.
The writing is so goddamn awful. The vast majority of character's and worlds are strangely endearing in their own weird way but the only consistently good writing can be found in "Tales From The Borderlands". The only game not developed by Gearbox. There a few quests here and there that are well done, but "Tales From The Borderlands" is the only one that understand writing is more than "[sci-fi reference]" or "[meme]" or "[funny because insane]". Women aren't the problem.
The 2008 gameplay was getting stale in 2012, even Borderlands 3 didn't even really take the gameplay, the quest design, the inventory/itemization, the UI/UX, the sound design, audio mixing, and so much more into the modern age. Everything about Borderlands is stale at best or straight-up bad namely all the vehicular related content across every title. Considering that game is inspired by Mad Max and two of their most popular NPCs Ellie and her beloved brother Scooter are gearheads Gearbox would find a way to make the cars feel good. The only good thing about Borderlands is it's strong visual design, but it's core gameplay loop is very lackluster and five mainline entries into the series doesn't feel like it's learned anything sense BL2. Women aren't the problem.
Also Borderlands' over-reliance on Handsome Jack I think exemplifies my point. He's a solid but overrated villain in my opinion, much like Borderlands 2 overall. Gearbox struck gold with Jack and refused to iterate, evolve, or try anything new afterwards. Far too many villains are just Jack by proxy. Pretty Boy, Dragon Lord , Hugo Vasquez, Professor Nakayama, Aurelia Hammerlock, Shadowtrap, and even The Calypso Twins are all just Handsome Jack with different flavors. The only real original villain I can think of are Rose, Eleanor, Vallory, and Colonel Zarpadan and Hector.
I could probably complain more about Borderlands but I think this covers my point pretty well. Women existing in the Borderlands isn't the problem. The problem is the fact the game refuses to grow creatively. Even when they try to branch out it's so slight and noncommittal, utterly unwilling to move outside their own self-defined bounds. Every game is the same as all the others, since 2009 it's been the same-ish game . There are tons of ways that Borderlands could and evolve, but chooses not to. Hell, Borderlands is such a strong IP they could even try different types of game in the world of borderlands if they wanted.
Including women and queer folk will never be the issue with this game.
There is so much to complain about with Borderlands and these dudes get mad over women existing in the far future. I hate that people always seem to "issue" with women in games. It's always "she isn't hot enough", "why is she brown", "why does she speak her mind", just really lame shit. Shit I thought we stopped being mad about in the 2000's.
I hate gamers so goddamn much.
There is so much to be complain about but they choose the existence of women (but Moxxi always gets a pass from these sorts of goobers for obvious reasons). I love Borderlands, generally and genuinely love this game. I have probably about ~1000 hours across all the titles. It's unironically my favorite "modern" franchise. I complain about it all the time. I will do so now. If you don't want to read all of that just skip to the end.
The writing is so goddamn awful. The vast majority of character's and worlds are strangely endearing in their own weird way but the only consistently good writing can be found in "Tales From The Borderlands". The only game not developed by Gearbox. There a few quests here and there that are well done, but "Tales From The Borderlands" is the only one that understand writing is more than "[sci-fi reference]" or "[meme]" or "[funny because insane]". Women aren't the problem.
The 2008 gameplay was getting stale in 2012, even Borderlands 3 didn't even really take the gameplay, the quest design, the inventory/itemization, the UI/UX, the sound design, audio mixing, and so much more into the modern age. Everything about Borderlands is stale at best or straight-up bad namely all the vehicular related content across every title. Considering that game is inspired by Mad Max and two of their most popular NPCs Ellie and her beloved brother Scooter are gearheads Gearbox would find a way to make the cars feel good. The only good thing about Borderlands is it's strong visual design, but it's core gameplay loop is very lackluster and five mainline entries into the series doesn't feel like it's learned anything sense BL2. Women aren't the problem.
Also Borderlands' over-reliance on Handsome Jack I think exemplifies my point. He's a solid but overrated villain in my opinion, much like Borderlands 2 overall. Gearbox struck gold with Jack and refused to iterate, evolve, or try anything new afterwards. Far too many villains are just Jack by proxy. Pretty Boy, Dragon Lord , Hugo Vasquez, Professor Nakayama, Aurelia Hammerlock, Shadowtrap, and even The Calypso Twins are all just Handsome Jack with different flavors. The only real original villain I can think of are Rose, Eleanor, Vallory, and Colonel Zarpadan and Hector.
I could probably complain more about Borderlands but I think this covers my point pretty well. Women existing in the Borderlands isn't the problem. The problem is the fact the game refuses to grow creatively. Even when they try to branch out it's so slight and noncommittal, utterly unwilling to move outside their own self-defined bounds. Every game is the same as all the others, since 2009 it's been the same-ish game . There are tons of ways that Borderlands could and evolve, but chooses not to. Hell, Borderlands is such a strong IP they could even try different types of game in the world of borderlands if they wanted.
Including women and queer folk will never be the issue with this game.
Though I will always salute Borderlands for its willingness to let queer people just exist in the future (sometimes even let them be baddies without their queerness being the source of their E.V.I.L.™® ©) . That's always rad.
Also if the vault hunter named "Greg" has a good kit I'd play him. It would really depend on his active ability and personality.
their best villain is still general knoxx
Knoxx was great. His delivery was perfect. I totally forgot him for my good villain section