An in-depth critique of everything in Borderlands 3.
Timestamps for individual sections:
Start - 0:00
Presentation, Gameplay, and Mission Design - 5:47
Vault Hunter and Class Design - 30:28
Story - 59:33
Conclusion - 1:35:22
Thanks for watching!
An in-depth critique of everything in Borderlands 3.
Timestamps for individual sections:
Start - 0:00
Presentation, Gameplay, and Mission Design - 5:47
Vault Hunter and Class Design - 30:28
Story - 59:33
Conclusion - 1:35:22
Thanks for watching!
i love how Lilith just casually kamikazes into elpis, committing genocide as a result, and somehow nobody thought that this plot point was stupid
she teleported elpis not destroy it
@@penguinbro1661And how was he supposed to know that 7 months ago lol
Lilith did the one thing I had been wanting her to do the entire time I played the game: go off herself
The part I didnt get at the end was why in the hell would Lilith hand the control of the raiders over to Ada a still learning overly emotional child whos recently experienced many traumas, especially when Tannis has basically been the brains of the operation for three games and seems the absolute obvious choice for a Leader
@lgd6619 Tannis is clinically insane, and almost entirely disassociated. After losing her mind searching for the vault, and being tortured by jack over the key, it's a surprise She even went with the gang in bl3 ava is a much better choice than tannis
Angel did at least know of Tannis back in borderlands 1....that time she betrayed you to atlas. So really it makes even less sense to me that she'd give her powers to Tannis.
Didn’t even think of that since Angel isn’t mentioned in BL1. Great catch!
@@MegaBiteGames She is, she's the girl who shows up minute zero and tells you to go help firestone and how/where to look for the vault. You meet her even before you meet cl4p-tp I think.
I mean Tannis was coerced and threatened into the betrayal and a then a core support character in 2. She’s definitely a good guy. Though i agree there was no point in giving Tannis her power and the entire Siren power inheritance thing is dumb.
Bruh, your idea to have the calypso twins siren power be mind control is a great idea. That would have been much more fitting and could have led to a much more interesting plot. They are clearly modeled after social media influencers, so it makes perfect sense that their power would come from their ability to influence minds.
also sirens can already clearly do that, due to mayas thoughtlock
Sorry I gotta hard disagree, the twins should have never existed, the pre-sequel sequel-baited us with the watchers talking about the impending Eridian war, there's zero reason for the story to not have been focused on that. Would have given reason to include all the bl2 VH'ers and maybe even Athena, Aurelia, Fiona, and Sasha.
@@alyssarichardson2544 I'm sorry to say but gearbox does not likle what other people did with the bl franchise and so they undermine and ignore it all the way. Though it would have been good to go of off the war stinger and I'd have liked if the presequals hook hadb een used.
@@ACEYGAMESThat's the reason why Gearbox destroyed the characters from Tales?
@@alyssarichardson2544agreed they're just millennial writing brainrot pandering "look our villains are Twitch streamers! Aren't we funny and in touch?". I swear millennials are the worst generation of writers maybe ever, it's uncanny considering they grew up during the golden age of cult classics. They grew up with diablo 2 but can't take their own writing seriously, it feels like they add cringe humor everywhere out of insecurity.
Troy setting up to betray Tyreen was foreshadowed through the entire main story, not just on Eden 6. The moment he shows fear in a compromised position during an early cutscene and his general resentment toward the dependency he holds on his sister only ever pointed in one direction. It makes so much sense to hear your closing remark on this. Thanks for the video.
Along with his constant interruption of tyreen whenever she states that she is claiming a power for herself like in the rampager boss room cutscene
@@RobonitrogenAh, look at me! I'm gonna do the thing!
It's literally foreshadowed in the first interaction with them on Pandora. Tyreen is about to kill Lilith after taking her powers, and Troy interrupts her and reminds her to give him some power. Then he tells her to "leave the scraps for the dogs" when she's about to kill Lilith again before leaving. Also any time Tyreen is looking away from him, he gets a sour look on his face, I knew immediately there was something off between them when you watch his face while she's talking about how Troy is basically a parasite that her father had to "cut off of her" when they were born.
This also happens in the dialogue before you rescue the Gunsmith and then Clay. The remarks are of jealousy and nonchalance.... Arrogance too against his own sister at the start of their journey, essentially @@Robonitrogen
"...just a graveyard of wasted potential." The best summary of Borderlands 3 writing I have heard in 4 years.
No. It's "not more Borderlands," that's part of the problem. It's an insult to everything we know and enjoy (in a story.) IF we can disregard Siren lore like in BL3, than *Brick should have been a siren.*
Troy was a siren out of a loop hole, and tbh I kinda liked it cause there is a reason that makes senes. It wasn’t unexplained and it made genuine sense why he was a siren.
It's incredible how someone with less than 100 subs can make such a good video
BrosBala we won’t be less than 100 subs for long 😎
The humor in this game felt like that steve buscemi meme where he's pretending to be teenager. "How do you do fellow kids?" Almost every aspect of the games writing feels like its trying too hard. Its as if they took the memorable parts of bl2 like the dark humor of handsome jack, the wacky zaney humor of tina, and the hilarious meme "shoot me in the head" guy and flanderized the entire series to fit that tone. It comes off as forced.
You said Tiny Tina's dlc was "The Only DLC Without Vehicles", I feel bad for The Zombie Island of Doctor Ned getting ignored in the corner lol
_Underdome_ DLC? Oh, right I forgot...nobody played that. I also think BL1 Claptrap DLC (not to be confused with TPS’ Claptrap DLC) also had no vehicles if you don’t count MINAC, the final boss, as you don’t control him.
@@a.grimes4202Do headhunters count? None of them have cars.
@@localidiot2777 I personally don't count them.
Even three years on and after many patches, a lot of your critique is still valid. Thank you for the effort in making this video!
Damn that review is on part with reviews from Joseph Anderson or whitelight, incredible work you've done
This in depth review deserves a lot of more plays, how is it under 1,000. Good one man. 👍
I cant believe there was actually a genuine good faith critique of BL3 from a borderlands fan when the game dropped and I never saw it. I SEARCHED for people who felt the same way as me cause the game had flaws on launch sure but it felt really fun to play in spite of it. Its kinda sad the internet bandwagoned so hard and buried what I think is the best game in one of my favorite franchises. All you could find on launch is overly negative anger when the game dropped seeming to come from people who expected something different from borderlands
That Rothfuss quote at the end is amazing. Great video, criminally underrated.
I recently got an OLED steam deck and replayed the entire borderlands franchise. 1 is obviously the most underbaked but the bones are still there and I love its approach to setting up the lore of the world. Pre sequel gets better every time I play it, 2 is still a classic, and 3 I find I grow more close to every time as well. The OLED screen really made everything pop and it was like I was playing it for the first time. For all of its flaws I still love 3. Excellent video btw can’t wait to rewatch it 20 times. Edit:I’m also a very big pre sequel enjoyer ❤️
shoutouts to you for liking TPS
3 years later this video still holds up! great work dude🎉
Its really good to hear someone make a critique from someone who loves borderlands too. Fantastic video, I subbed for sure. Look forward to your next critique!
Subbed I'm a huge fan of joseph anderson and you're easily right up there with him. This is in my opinion a sad example where the quality and the execution is solid, but the luck wasn't there and it didn't rise above the ocean of crap to get seen by enough people. If you enjoy doing this kind of stuff I'd strongly encourage you to keep going, I've seen it happen before with BCPOV and now he's pretty popular
i'm very glad they didn't make sirens a allegory on the gays because its not like that isn't being done to fucking death
Dude! How do you not have more views. So much time and effort went into this! Dx
An absolutely brilliant video man, I swear there are so many smaller channels that are such gems.
Dude great work. Keep it up man. Subbed and looking forward to the next in depth analysis/ critique.
Very comprehensive and concise summary of the weaknesses of this game! Watching this was a cathartic experience after 50 hours of that story. You made a lot of insightful points, thanks for posting!
zane was my favorite because i could strategize when i used my drone and where i put my clone,. For example, during the first traunt fight i took out my drone for when fodder appeared, and when he started launching the chasing projectiles i used the clone to dodge the balls, it felt tight to press f to dodge the energy balls., regain my bearings, and switch weapons depending on how far away i was from traunt. this was incredibly common and fun. also during regular fights, i would seek out the strongest one, and popping out my clone to distract the fodder while i kill the big guy, and if the big guy is charging an attack, like a malliwan heavy, i would dodge with the teleport. also the instant up with the clone was handy when there wasn't any fodder left.
I can tell you put a lot of work into this. Thanks for putting it together. I enjoyed having a lot of my own thoughts about the game validated and articulated by someone else. It was a great listen while doing some Arms Race. :)
Wow dude, I've been looking for an in-depth comprehensive Borderlands 3 video and I keep getting reffered to the same videos, finally after adjusting my search I came here and I almost didn't watch just because the view count was so low, but honestly this is high quality work!! Good stuff
You summed it up perfectly.
Most spot-on summation of the game I've yet to hear ANYWHERE--and this is from someone w 381 subs? When I scrolled down, I fully expected both the views & the subs to be in the millions, it's just that good. You're great at this man. Agree w nearly every point made, particularly the issues w the story/writing v what it was in the glory days of BL2. Fantastic work; I hope you keep pursuing this if you have the time & inclination.
I never wanted this video to end, I love your chill vibe I see you haven’t posted in a minute hope you come back. Imma check out more of your videos later
I've gotta say I think Zane is actually my favorite vault hunter in BL3. The insane combo of kill skills you can get going is super fun to run around with, and I felt were paired really well with the action skills he had available.
Apart from the bad writing, there is not much to criticize, but one point burns in my head: Why are there no more echoes, with interesting and sometimes important details? The big levels are great, there are also some nice spots, but why are there no more Vault Symbols (or other achievements), which were a great motivation to explore the levels very carefully? At this point, the game feels incredibly linear, you are not encouraged to explore the areas more closely because you immediately run into an invisible wall somewhere ... Somehow, passion is missing everywhere, otherwise the game is not bad, the gameplay is really much better. I also don't know why this wasn't communicated in more detail during development, that not only Mikey Neumann is no longer there as the creative head, not to mention Matthew Armstrong. Gearbox has apparently looked for four new authors for the third part, but nothing else is known about them. In the end, the game turned into a love-hate relationship for me: The add-ons are too much of a mess and the game regularly flies off the hard drive because Borderlands 1, 2 and even the pre-sequel simply offer the better narrative and great characters. The gameplay is actually better ...
Man... you made me excited to play through this game with the mind control story. Great video!
Story aside. bl1: the introduction of the idea bl2: truly breaking ground with the idea bl3: the perfection of the idea
The algorithm just recommended this video to me today and I really wish I’d found it sooner! I have mixed feelings about borderlands 3 but I think it took me 3 years to arrive at the same position you seemed to have been in from day 1. This video is has nuanced and insightful takes on a game that I think people have way more complicated feelings about than you’d expect for a borderlands game
amazing video still holds a lot of valid points 3 years later.
After getting back into BL3 I came across this video and I think it's really good. I wonder if you've had any time going back to it within last year to experience the new changes with some skill trees and Mayhem Mode and if they improve your opinions on the gameplay?
enjoyed it. thank you very much.
This was wonderful. Your channel is about to explode if you continue to release videos like this. I'm really surprised about the ~5.500 views as of now, it could easily have been 100.000 and I would not have been surprised. I found ACG before he blew up, and I predict the same for you.
damn mid way the video i was thinking how good your pacing and such is then i realized you only have 300 subs! this feels like 500k subs content bro such quality
bullet efficiency... the sniper vs assault was the perfect example of my problem with some of the weapons the difference between repeaters and revolvers made sense with the damage differences
Fantastic analysis, criminally under subbed... keep up the great work!
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Fantastic video. I appreciate how all of your elaboration was very cohesive and trailed cleanly into one another often. You gave a very fair shake to each aspect of the game and explained in reasonable detail your criticisms and where you though it excelled, which I respect a lot give how easy it is to rant on popular opinions and tell people the same thing they've already heard. I especially enjoyed how you make some suggestions on improving things (your story tweak works really well actually) but how restrained you were I'm giving enough to fully convery your ideas without purely shiting on what's there and without running on beyond reasonable critique. Banger video! 10/10
appreciate the thorough critique of my critique 😉 glad you liked it!
Thanks for the Video, really good quality
28:45 This is just my personal opinion on it but before mordecai went to pandora he had competed in a shooting competition with people from multiple planets, everyone used a sniper rifle but he won using just a revolver, the other participants scorned him and accused him of cheating which them got him banned from the tournament, later as an adult became a vault hunter, causing pandora to not only give him a new purpose, but it was the planet he found his new familty on, so with it being a hell hole, if it has alot of sentimental value to him, it would make sense he would have mixed emotions about the planet, why he hates it "sometimes" but that's just my take on that, great video by the way, I honestly wish more people watched this video
As much as i love all the humor and silly stories I really wanted them to focus more on the vaults and deeper lore... Good review dude, subbed.
randomly searched borderlands 3 critque. Really good video. Main suggestion would be to make some more insightful thoughts outside mechanics e.g. context around the game, over game comparison, and maybe some in depth research on the development of the game/ the company. Would round out the video and provide something unique to the audience compared to other critique channels.
I let the critics discourage me from playing this and I was little interested because BL2 had already felt like more borderlands….I picked it up for a sale a few days ago and I havent been able to put it down. One of my favorite looter shooters of all time.
This is such a good video, I don't know why it dosent have more views
In relation to referencing old stuff like the Office: yeah it's old but still relevant. It was the most streamed show on netflix just recently. So there rly isn't a problem to do that, and doing that would've actually make me laugh more than the cringe inducing sh*t from the Calypsos or Ava, or even the Chad dude. 😂
I love watching Critique video on my favorite game. not because of hate but its just fun and to learn more about the lore (like Zarpedon on TPS event) also i need video background while im farming for God roll light show! Great video
This video deserves about a million more views
Yooo I totally agree about the final boss fight in the pre sequel. Super underrated
Smashing video, really enjoyed it! Currently accompanying it with my second attempted playthrough of the Game and I think this is the fairest and most well explained critiques of Game I've personally seen. Hope you chip away at this critique thing as a hobby on the side or something. This easily matched the quality of other big namer's in the field.
The funny thing about the bl2 side quests was that more often than not the quests with blue weapons as opposed to purple weapon rewards were usually better because that’s how you’d get weapons with flavor text like the heartbreaker for example
Good news. The endgame has been fixed up A LOT.
Kill Killavolt is without question my favourite part of the game, and the only thing I will ever reinstall it for, because it was just so memorable to me. It's also important that Hyperion guns became my favourite while doing the quest, and I associated their amazing futuristic designs with the quest's amazing map, the fighting and the character of Moxxi :) For me, the entirety of BLands1 and stumbling upon this quest in BLands3 is the best the series has to offer, and no amount of empty depressing BL2 maps and can brainwash me out of this opinion.
dude i was really hoping to see your wonderlands review
Great video way to put in the work💯💯
This review is really good
Great content..thank you
good analysis, you should do a sequel video on all the new features and updates Borderlands 3 now has past release because I want to know your opinions on them
37:41 THANK YOU! You’re the only person I’ve seen talk about this and I’ve said it from the beginning that it’s not good. Most people don’t care or even say it’s good.
Thank u for your adoration of the pre sequal not enough fans appreciate how good that game was
so we are just not gonna point out how the destroyer went from whatever it was to a fucking tentacle monstor
There's a lot of gun specific specs. In fact once you get into the nuts and bolts of each spec you realize that this game is very in depth when you pay attention to what each skill does and how each gun work.
i like this video!
I absolutely love Borderlands 3. I even liked Ava and the Calypso Twins.
I went into bl3 completely blind just last year, I didn't even watch a trailer, I had no idea what to expect... but my first intuition was that Axton (the soldier) would have some sort of relationship with Lilith or something, at least be helping lead the crimson, I was really shocked when I found out he was dlc!
You are a contagiously positive human being
Okay, Vaughn. I preface this in saying I liked Vaughn in his Telltale depiction: I think Vaughn's Borderlands 3 depiction is shitty, it makes narrative sense why he is that way, and the latter does not necessarily validate the former. Hear me out. Pandora's "thing" is that it's an unforgiving hell hole that corrupts anyone who goes there. The planet is a (literal, vis a vis the Vault) Pandora's Box. In the same way opening the Vaults releases the evil within, just being on Pandora is like opening a box. We see it with the Dahl miners in Borderlands 2. We see it with the bandit-equivalents in the Pre-Sequel. Hell, Handsome Jack was at some point the good guy. The Pre-Sequel's whole narrative is a case study for how Pandora distills people with the best intentions into a caricature of their basest aspects. Vaughn liked how freedom felt in his Telltale appearance. Him in Borderlands 3 is the logical progression of Pandora making him dial that to eleven at the expense of everything else. Vaughn is the human pupal stage between offworlder and bandit that we haven't really seen until now, but have heard about in ECHOs. In 5-10 years, Vaughn will be Captain Flynt. That said, Gearbox gutted that character. I don't think "it makes sense" is a valid defense for Flanderization. I'd go so far as to say it's a crutch being used by Gearbox to defend the lowest passable standard of writing they can get away with. Borderlands doesn't really have a story. It has...how do you say it? Shit happens between gunfights. That does not automatically constitute a story. --Which is fine. Borderlands is a spectacle movement shooter. I'm absolutely fine with the lion's share of attention being put into making the gunplay, the reason I play the franchise, enjoyable. So...yeah. Not really sure how to cap this off. Borderlands' "narrative," for want of a better term, has never intentionally been more substance than Roland's death; any other narrative gratification is failing upward. This is the franchise with the screaming walk-slow gun, bonerfarts, and a character whose only defining trait is that it's funny to shit on someone trying to make you proud. BDL3's story was dogshit in exactly the way I expected going in because what Pandora is and what it does to people is not a new concept. The writing didn't get (much) worse mid-franchise, it just got a lot harder to ignore because you can't either skip it or shoot things while the exposition plays over your ECHO. Great video, by the way. This was a great way to decompress post-series and fill in context for the characters I and the person I played with didn't use.
The pre sequel really is awesome and I would love it if in Borderlands 4 they mix the play style of it with 3
Excellent critique
As others have noted, the Joseph Anderson vibes are fantastic. Excellent video.
Great video that deserves a lot more views!
Thank you 🙏🏻
Funny how the first dlc turned Zane from the worst vault hunter to the best because of 1 class mod.
Grog nozzle moment.
This what such a great insightful video. And I agree with pretty much everything you said. Its just such a fun game that is easy to love in spite of its flaws.
Not played this for month's, might have a blast later, playing Borderlands at the moment which is my favourite as this is where it all started
To the section about the characters. More specifically to the portion about their gameplay mechanics. One thing that has always disappointed me with all of the promotional material for a Borderlands game is the vault hunters are shown off using all of their action skills (or cap-stone skills if memory serves). But we obviously don’t get that. With 3 though, they took away a gameplay function in the d-pad and the ability to quick select a specific weapon we have equipped, so we could ping and otherwise use emojis in game. I have never once used an emoji in the game other than when I tried to swap weapons. So we essentially have three dead buttons on the controller. Personally, I think it would be a good move to let us unlock and use all of the action skills, like our characters are shown being able to do. Map alternative action skills and the like to and-pad button. Primary is still the RB/R1. It sounds good having 4 skill trees and in essence 4 different action skills for 3 out of 4 characters in Borderlands 3
I have almost 1000 hours in the game and I thought I have seen all of these vids on youtube already so this was a surprise when youtube put this on my recommendations 2 years after its release.. good job youtube, good job.. gonna watch this now..
So here is my story, prior to the release of borderlands 3, I have never owned or played a borderlands game when I was younger I only knew 2 things about the game and that's there was a highly pitched yellow robot, and the cover set featuring a man in a mask holding finger guns to his head, fast forward to my junior year to highschool I'm eating lunch with my 2 best friends watching them go nuts over the trailers for borderlands 3 just a few months from release, I asked them what the fuss was about and they dragged me over to the other side of the table and made me watch the trailer and they explained to me how the game works and so I was convinced, fast forward to the Christmas of that year and I got it l, I popped it into my Xbox and it instantly turned into my favorite video game along side of games such as Halo, and me being someone who has never played any of the other games or the telltale game and as far as the story goes I loved the fucking shit out of it, I always hated Ava but that was about it, fast forward to today I am now 20 with a job and money and I finally got around to purchasing the legendary collection that has the first 3 games, and all the dlc and I even picked up tales and at the point of me typing this comment I have finished the main story of each and now I have much different feelings about 3's story I don't hate it but I feel way too much has changed and it kinda ignores tales and the pre sequels endings entirely, like what happened to the war that was coming and needing all the vault hunters you can get as said by the watcher and what happened to Fiona and Sasha and why is Rhys and Vaughn Soo different like it actually saddens me, I still love borderlands 3 and the story isn't the worst but I feel it could have been Soo much better
i mean every Borderlands game has had 1 Vault hunter with Companions, It started with Mordecai/Bloodwing (god rest her soul) then bl2 got Gaige/Deathtrap, TPS had Wilhelm/ Saint & Wolf, of course 4LAK and his companions for BL3 and yeah thats the first one the companion was out full time and now we got Tiny TIna's Wonderlands and half the Classes in that game have a full time Companion (my first time running through i did Spore Warden multi classed with Clawbringer for 2 companions on the field at once). its cool to see them on the field full time imo.
They need a button to mute characters.
Is BL3 a bad game? Hardly. The problem is that after 4 main games and plenty of spin offs/dlc campaigns, you’d hope that there’d be more significant jumps in quality and BL3 just doesn’t show us that growth. Instead it improves heavily in some things but then bafflingly regresses in others. Tales from the borderlands and even parts of BL2 and the pre-sequel showed us that borderlands could be so much more than just jokes and gunplay. There’s just no excuse for the playable characters to still function how they did in 2009 on a narrative/flavor level or to have main villains that don’t leave that much of an impression or make a female supporting character that’s somehow more divisive than Tiny Tina
I think borderlands 3 has the most intense difficulty wall halfway through the campaign out of the entire franchise in the impending storm especially playing straight through without doing side quests
First vid of yours I've seen and you NAILED IT! Balex was the best character in BL3
Thank you and yes I agree!
I really don't see how anyone can find borderlands 2's weapon type specific skills good as it limits variety and build options, while in 3 you can choose whatever you want and build around whatever you want, rather than being locked out from most of the weapons on that character
Yo amazing analysis video! Also I think if you add a timestamp for 0:00 in the description, it would split the video timeline accordingly at the bottom (if that makes sense)
That worked, thanks for the suggestion!
Also yeah great video. Its amazing.
21:15 Brilliant suggestion. Wish their strategy for fun and not alienating players was attuned to urs!
it's especially disappointing when you realize just how easy it is to fix the player character's inaction during Maya's death scene. They could have EASILY made it so when you interact with the exit from the vault, your screen fades to black and the cutscene plays. Meaning that the player character was still in the vault while the cutscene played and entirely unaware of what was happening outside. It's such an insanely easy fix.
I'm playing The Pre-Sequel right now for the 7th time. I don't get why people hate it either. Sure, it doesn't have as much DLC content, but that doesn't make a game bad.
Really good review , this guy has it
It's like the writers only had Yes-Men, and threw all the ideas they brainstormed into the story with no second thought on explaining how the certain concepts fit into the world, or already established ideas. Like, they had to have gotten completely new writers for this game, because the writing wasn't this incompetent for 1 and 2
As someone who completed the main story and called it a day, BL3 was a horrendous experience. I finished the game recently and I swear to god at least 70% of the mission are "Talk to npc" "follow this npc" "listen to npc while you fight 3 minor enemies". Yes, previous Borderlands had this types of missions, but BL3 really takes it to a next level. For me the story wasn't a huge deal, since I don't really pay to much attention to this aspect in these games and I usually put the dialogue volume at very low, but my god, the missions are horrible. The IceT mission where you spend 15 minutes waiting for a npc to open doors to you while he speaks non stop while you do absolutely nothing is really the peak BL3 experience. The gunplay is better than ever, but what can you do with it when the bloody game refuses to give you enemies to fight and interact to
saw the title and immediately agreed
I am 4 years late to this video, but I love it. You are right in all of your points. Now, this game desperately needs a skip dialog option so I can jump back to the action instead of just sitting in sanctuary listening to Lilith for the 10th time. Replaying it is a bit painful because of this.
This was a wonderful and masterfully made video, well done! However I have some disagreements. First, I disagree with your opinion on the Calypso twins. The streaming thing, it just felt out of place. I feel like as this game ages, that aspect of the characters is going to age like milk. To me, it’s just too meta for Borderlands. It be like if we had a villain in BL4 that sold NFTs. It’s like the writers for this game played an hour of BL2, saw that Jack was an antagonistic douche, then assumed that’s the reason everybody liked him. Jack is a timeless villain because he was actually funny, charismatic, and had depth. He wasn’t a gimmick character who’s sole personality was “Hurr durr, I’m an intergalactic streamer!” I don’t know how you spent over an hour criticizing the story but then at the end come out and say not to blame the writers. Cut content for time may not be their fault, but the writing that’s present 1000% is! From the annoying characters, stupid and unfunny humor, to the nonsensical plot beats. It’s clear to me that the current Gearbox writing team just doesn’t have the chops that the older team did. Why GB didn’t retain Anthony Burch or at least grab the Telltale team is crazy to me, and it sucks for the BL universe. Don’t even get me started on the cut story content for this game that may have actually elevated it, *cough cough Maya’s funeral*
Its funny, if an IP changes too much, people complain. If they stay the same, people complain. I think people like to complain.