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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 173 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't just review bomb it

Report it to steam as SPYWARE, with the little flag icon on the product page

[–] CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 173 points 2 days ago

Doesn’t the screenshot you posted explain what’s going on?

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 112 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That. The content of the screenshot you posted. That is what's going on.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 95 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Pirates are winning over my empathy.

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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this because Embracer sold Borderlands to Take-Two last year?

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[–] Onyxonblack@lemm.ee 46 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I apparently love downvotes but here goes: All the Borderlands games (annoying childish cell-shaded skinner-box) and everything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit. The CEO is a garbage person, and thier dealings with Epic is Capitalist-Oink-Piggy shite! ""FUCK YOU 2K & GEARBOX, AND FUCK YOU BORDERLANDS!"

[–] red@sopuli.xyz 46 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Apart from the politics, the Borderlands games themselves are hardly utter shit for the most part.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Yep, I am jumping in with you on this one.

The cell-shaded art style? Not the problem, imo.

The problem is the just astoundingly terrible writing, immensely insufferable characters, and astonishingly brain dead gameplay.

Why have weapon balance ortactically interesting scenarios or any real sense of progression in gameplay when we can just procedurally generate guns and do everything we can to make everything into roughly the same level of bullet sponge with auto levelling?

They are the lowest common denominator of co-op shooter games, made for people who enjoy bombastic sensory overload and near zero prefrontal cortex brain activity while gaming.

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