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cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote

it looks like borderlands except it doesn't involve randy pitchford so I am hype

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devtesla wrote

it looks nothing like borderlands lol why is everyone saying this

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toasthaste wrote

it has a sense of humor which i think is rare enough in shooty games that people don't know what else to compare it to

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devtesla wrote

ehh lots of shooters are/try to be funny.

There's senerio overlap with the whole edge of the galaxy, mega corp thing and the guns but that's about it. It's a dialog heavy RPG with a focus on doing things your own way vs daibo with guns, and the art is it's own thing. There's a whole lineage of immersive sims it's playing with that seems so removed to me lol

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cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote (edited )

yeah basically toasthaste is right. i have a thing for shootery games that take themselves seriously and that thing is that I don't really like them.

i finally got around to trying warframe the other day and it was all Halo and I was like, "well shit". It kind of doesn't matter how good the plot, if it's halo-y or gears-y or anything that looks tough and military and humorless, I'm out.

this world looks colorful and funny and interesting. that's the way it looks like borderlands

Edit: also the setting is almost identical. Edge world frontier town, lots of crazy guns, corporate exploitation is causing gentrify-y problems, frontiersmen vs corporation, life has very little value, both worlds have Scags (whatever TOW calls them)

I get the feeling that Borderlands 3 is going to be an online service mess because of pitchford. This looks like it could be the Borderlands 3 I wanted rather than the one I suspect I'm gonna get.