I assume it's like Borderlands 2 where everyone has to be self-aware, quipped, and almost nothing gets taken seriously or matters. "Ironic" humor millenials eat up as well as internet humor referenced.
Are people really going into games like Borderlands expecting a "serious" story? You can dislike the quippy humor, that's fine, but it's disingenuous to pretend like it was ever anything other than a goofy casual looter shooter.
I'm playing through BL3, and so far (which admittedly doesn't seem very far in, so the writing may get a lot worse from here) the writing isn't as bad as I was expecting. Not good, sure, but not as teeth-gnashingly horrible as I remember certain parts of BL2 being. There was even a joke during that antenna sidequest in the first area that struck me as being similar to something you'd hear in a Homestar Runner toon. Claptrap had a line about one of the antennas having a "rustic vibe. No wait, rusty vibe."
The main problem the writing seems to have is one of quantity, not quality. Some of the lines just keep going long after the point's been made. Like that Ava chick that everyone hates? Whoever wrote her lines just needed an editor hovering over their shoulder to trim the fat. They nail the "loser teen who tries too hard" vibe, but they nail it within two sentences and then she keeps talking for another five.
Lorelei is amusing, but I think that might be unintentional. I get the feeling the writers actually want you to take her seriously as a BADASS™ girlboss, but she comes across like a walking joke where the gimmick is forcing British slang into every sentence to be as obnoxiously British as possible and therefore coming off as an annoying loser. In another setting, that'd be the set-up and the punchline would be finding out she isn't actually British, she just pretends to be to seem cool.
Team Fortress 2
Fallout New Vegas
Ask them, not us. c**t.
Borderlands 2.
black souls
Unironically the favorite game of the person reading this, now get mad and give me (You)'s, Black folk
my favourite game is (You)'re favourite game. now we have to go back, together
wholesome post
YOU DARE
god of snoy
high on life
last of us 2
Half Life 2
I have no idea what "reddit" mean, can somebody list characteristics?
>I have no idea what "reddit" mean, can somebody list characteristics
Reddit is a gigapozzed goyslopmaxxed site that caters to beta ꜱoy guzzling homotroonoids and Black personisraelites
Oh, then just check Steam most played games, pretty obvious.
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I assume it's like Borderlands 2 where everyone has to be self-aware, quipped, and almost nothing gets taken seriously or matters. "Ironic" humor millenials eat up as well as internet humor referenced.
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The Borderlands series
The Stanley Parable
Any game made by Double Fine
Pretty much any game where I know the names of the lead director
Witcher 3, Rimworld, Factorio, Outer Worlds, Outer Wilds, Stardew Valley, Disco Elysium, Subnautica, Skyrim, Path of Exile, Project Zomboid, Kenshi
new tales from the borderlands is even more reddit than bl3
Borderlands. Nothing comes close.
And yet it's still the best looter shooter out there. Sad innit?
Are people really going into games like Borderlands expecting a "serious" story? You can dislike the quippy humor, that's fine, but it's disingenuous to pretend like it was ever anything other than a goofy casual looter shooter.
I'm playing through BL3, and so far (which admittedly doesn't seem very far in, so the writing may get a lot worse from here) the writing isn't as bad as I was expecting. Not good, sure, but not as teeth-gnashingly horrible as I remember certain parts of BL2 being. There was even a joke during that antenna sidequest in the first area that struck me as being similar to something you'd hear in a Homestar Runner toon. Claptrap had a line about one of the antennas having a "rustic vibe. No wait, rusty vibe."
The main problem the writing seems to have is one of quantity, not quality. Some of the lines just keep going long after the point's been made. Like that Ava chick that everyone hates? Whoever wrote her lines just needed an editor hovering over their shoulder to trim the fat. They nail the "loser teen who tries too hard" vibe, but they nail it within two sentences and then she keeps talking for another five.
Lorelei is amusing, but I think that might be unintentional. I get the feeling the writers actually want you to take her seriously as a BADASS™ girlboss, but she comes across like a walking joke where the gimmick is forcing British slang into every sentence to be as obnoxiously British as possible and therefore coming off as an annoying loser. In another setting, that'd be the set-up and the punchline would be finding out she isn't actually British, she just pretends to be to seem cool.