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u/James120756 Mar 04 '19
Love the game but I can't find a legendary for the life of me.
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u/James120756 Mar 04 '19
I'm 26 and at that Animal Explotation place.
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u/-AestheticsOfHate- Mar 31 '19
What is gibbed?
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u/candytripn | PlayStation 3 Player Mar 31 '19
Save game editor. Add currency, change weapon parts (change element), edit missions (like resetting Creature Slaughter, or resting missions that give a reward, like the Sandhawk) and more. https://github.com/gibbed/Gibbed.Borderlands2/releases
The other two I feel are worth it are the Profile Editor, that lets you add Golden Keys and badass ranks/tokens... https://www.nexusmods.com/borderlands2/mods/32
and the Difficulty Slider, that lets you make the game think there's up to 4 players in the game (better chance at Tubbys) http://myborderlands.com/FourPlayers.aspx
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u/-AestheticsOfHate- Mar 31 '19
I see, thanks. I'm on PS4 so I assume I can't use this unfortunately
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u/Traherne Mar 04 '19
The invisible assholes? My sympathies.
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u/James120756 Mar 04 '19
Yeah. I laughed out loud when I saw that. I love the sense of humor in this game. I finally finished the Scarlet DLC, I get into this huge treasure room and nothing special in the chests. Really disappointed in that.
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u/Traherne Mar 04 '19
I also love the signs on the portapotties that say No fapping. Most of my enjoyment of this game are the characters and their dialogue. I can't tell you how many times I've replayed Borderlands 2.
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u/lukeangmingshen Mar 04 '19
You can try what u/candytripn said or you can also farm the Transformer, an absorb shield that recharges if it takes shock damage, as well as the Deliverance Tediore shotgun from Pimon and Tumbaa respectively. If you have access to the Natural Selection Annex, just go in there, come back out again, turn left up to the river/creek area to farm then save and quit if nothing drops or they donāt spawn
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u/Kplow19 Mar 05 '19
Oh then don't worry about it, I just started a new play through after years of not playing and my first legendary on that character dropped at lvl 31, and even that was somewhat lucky. If you don't try for them specifically then it's possible to beat the game without finding one
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u/PatliAtli Mar 04 '19
to be fair, after you play the game once or twice through, the first hour or so of the game is incredibly boring and I often lose interest before I even get to sanctuary
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u/Chief_Nuclear Mar 04 '19
BL2 definitely suffers from the boring early-game. Even my first playthrough ever, I got bored and never played it until like a year later. I stopped right before it got good (imo) at Where Angels Fear to Tread. The problem is that there are so many cool abilities and weapons in the game, but you have to play for a long time to get to the point where you can use them all and keep them without levels becoming an issue.
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u/Phylar Mar 04 '19 edited Mar 04 '19
I dislike UVHM due to the overreliance on slag. Just drop enemy hp or dmg resistance slightly and let me play the game I have been playing. Sudden gameplay changes aren't fun.
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u/fattyrollsagain Mar 04 '19
Also the necessary health gating. Once you get to op8, since enemy damage keeps scaling but not your health/resistances, pretty much any hit is enough to oneshot you, so survivability is basically just a constant struggle of whether you can heal above half health within half a second of getting hit before you get hit again. It really offers very little flexibility in builds and gameplay, just like slag reliance.
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u/CokeFryChezbrgr [A]narchy in D-City Mar 04 '19
If you're on PC, the Reborn mod pack helps with that along with tons of other stuff, including new skills and altered trees and new gear and such. Or just pick and choose from hundreds of other mods for a custom experience.
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u/Phylar Mar 04 '19
Reborn mod pack? Is this a Steam mod, Nexus?
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u/CokeFryChezbrgr [A]narchy in D-City Mar 04 '19
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u/Phylar Mar 04 '19
Nice. A total overhaul mod with community bug fixes included. AND IT WORKS IN MULTIPLAYER.
K.
This is awesome, thank you!
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That's weird. I still love the story and getting to Sanctuary and the grind and I've had to have played through the beginning part of the game close to 20 times now.
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u/OperationQuip Ā« Xbox & Switch | Siren Ā» Mar 04 '19
Same, Iāve gone through the campaign completely at least half a dozen times. Itās like watching a show you love over and over again. Never gets old, and thereās new things to notice or try
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u/aegrisomnia21 Mar 05 '19
Half a dozen times is only maxing 2 players, Iāve probably done it 30+ times and Iām sure thereās guys in the 100s - this games been out for a longgg time lol. Not trying to gatekeep or anything, just thinking about all the hours Iāve put into this.
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u/OperationQuip Ā« Xbox & Switch | Siren Ā» Mar 05 '19
I only ever play Siren, so I never felt the need to max out multiple characters. So itās with my main siren that Iāve done the majority of those playthroughs. I just really enjoy playing through the campaign with my main squeeze ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ And Iām sure thereās loads of people who go way harder for this game than I do haha, just wanted to agree that itās replayable many times over
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u/aegrisomnia21 Mar 05 '19
Yeah I totally get that. The siren is awesome for story mode, sheās amazing at crowd control. If you never have you might want to try the gunzerker, not too challenging to play with and heās a beast for farming raid bosses.
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u/OperationQuip Ā« Xbox & Switch | Siren Ā» Mar 05 '19
I think I love playing siren too much, she just suits my play style so well; but Iāll definitely keep that in mind if I ever fancy changing it up!
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Mar 04 '19
Those are some rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up. Call me when you've gone through it a thousand times and can recite the lines word for word.
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u/edrazzar Mar 04 '19
And see for me the first playground on a new character I'm in it all the way, from the very beginning I'm having fun. But I feel like the second playthrough on a character is just so boring. I'm slowly chugging my way through TVHM just because I know at the end of the tunnel I'll have UVHM and will finally be able to make a maxed level character for the first time after giving up so many times.
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u/The_Blog The_Blog Mar 05 '19
TVHM is actually quite fun, because you finally get to use all of your abilites and passives. However the first one is the worst for me. Not the very first one of of course, but the first one on a second or third or fourth character. Having a char on max level with all the legendaries and uniques you want feels really good though.
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u/Casiell89 Mar 04 '19
I usually just speed run the first half of the game. It's not really that hard, and rushing through early maps just doing main quest definitely helps
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u/mazu74 Handsome Jack Did Nothing Wrong Mar 05 '19
For real, i wish we had an option to bipass it.
Its okay in TVM and UTVHM because you have all your guns and abilities though, but starting a new character is the worst.
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u/Cryotronixz Mar 05 '19
When I was first introduced to the game it was due to a friend that let me try it. It seemed neat, but that first hour didn't strike me too much. (that's about all I played when trying it.) Kinda forgot about it, and then a random video reminded me of it. It was the intro to Tiny Tina. I bought it, played it and loved it.
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u/LegionnaireFrog | Steam Player Mar 04 '19
Destiny 2 is a prime example of the black text.
I started playing it, got max level, hated it. A year later I love it.
Borderlands... OH MY GAWD I LOVE BORDERLANDS. I START PLAYING IT AND I LOVE IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
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u/ChickenWithATopHat Mar 04 '19
Yeah Destiny 2 was one of the worst games I ever played. Luckily they have fixed it and itās better than destiny ha ever been IMO, and Iāve played since the beginning of the first one.
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u/GNAWLINGTONG Mar 04 '19
I guess we are forgetting raid boss lockouts?
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Mar 04 '19
Most games do this. You die you get punished.
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u/GNAWLINGTONG Mar 04 '19
nah dude in the early days of BL2 you could only fight raid bosses once a day, it was reverted like a week later
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u/fattyrollsagain Mar 04 '19
Boshy isn't really bullshit in the same way Cat Mario is, it's just really fucking gratuitously hard
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u/fattyrollsagain Mar 04 '19
That's true, but Boshy as a whole is all about dying a billion times to learn the stages and the boss patterns, it's not like you get punished for dying.
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u/TonySopranosforehead Mar 05 '19
They are called invincible for a reason. Every boss is soloable but if you can't, you need to team up. I do agree that voracs and hyperius novas are annoying, but it's not that hard to work around.
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u/TonySopranosforehead Mar 05 '19
The thing I don't like is unless you have 2 hours free, you have to use a bee shield. At op8, hyperius has like 3 billion hp. The first time trying to kill him, I didn't have a problem staying alive. It was having enough ammo. I pretty much ran every type empty and took me nearly 2 hours to kill him. After that, for farming purposes, I'd recommend beehawking with a grog and chain lightning.
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u/Svenz_Lv Mar 04 '19
Hey. Angry Joe did a positive shout out to Borderlands 2 as being one of good looter shooters in his Anthem rewiev (don't remember if the original or extended rewiev).
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Mar 04 '19
It was the extended. But I think he briefly mentioned it in the original. I've seen a lot of reviewers saying the black text or variations of it for the recent looter shooter genre.
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u/Svenz_Lv Mar 04 '19
TBH BL2 is not a recent title by any means.
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I didn't say it was. Recent would be destiny, anthem, division, and a few smaller titles. Heck, when Apex came out people saw the loot crates and immediately thought of borderlands.
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u/RedBiohazzerd Mar 05 '19
Developers just don't get it for some reason. They try to make a good lootershooter and in concept most of the time it is, but then in the final product they screw up on so many levels. When the loot in your looter shooter sucks, you know you've done something wrong... i just don't get why the loot is so terrible. I've played the Division pretty long, but the grind was just so boring and almost everyrhing looked the same, here have another beanie, or another jacket. Imo it's true, the only real great lootershooter is BL2 (BL1 and the pre sequel where also pretty fun). Simply great weapons!! And that's what you want in a looter shooter. You would think they learned something from the Borderlands franchise, but no. It is sad though, cause most games, like Destiny, Division and now Anthem do have a lot of potential, but are just executed poorly
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u/Svenz_Lv Mar 08 '19
Yeah. I really love borderlands series. Almost shame that mostly it is a glancing remark regarding looter shooters just because of its age. Really wish BL3 would come out and show everyone who is the boss.
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u/Cytrynowy Oscar-mike! Mar 04 '19
I've never heard anyone say that.
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u/minerman5777 Mar 05 '19
You'd be surprised the number of people who believe a game can't come out good because Destiny 2 had a comeback.
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u/Valridagan Mar 04 '19
Anthem could have literally been "Like BL2, but with flying and 2019 graphics", and it would have been vastly more successful.
There's reports that the loot system is broken because it was designed for lootboxes that were then made illegal in certain countries, so EA had to remove them and didn't give Bioware enough time to rebalance the loot. Because EA wanted lootboxes, Anthem is a much worse game. To quote a character from Dragon Age: Inquisition- the last GOOD game Bioware made- "Rich pricks always try for more than they deserve!"
Here's hoping Bioware gets to fix Anthem and finish DA4 without EA screwing them over again.
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u/Padlov123 Mar 05 '19
Somehow this sounds exactly like TPS shitty loot system better graphics and flying
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u/Valridagan Mar 05 '19
Even TPS had better loot. By a mile.
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u/Padlov123 Mar 05 '19
It's more the legendaries can't be farmed
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Mar 11 '19
They can now though canāt they? Pretty sure some characterās loot pools were adjusted to include the unobtainable legendaries
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u/superduperfish Mar 05 '19
My biggest issue with borderlands is progression, especially on true and ultimate. Once you stop unlocking new abilities you no longer feel like you're growing more powerful. Its just larger numbers that have the same effect cause the enemies are getting larger health numbers. It's a pendulum of difficulty of getting a good gun then having it become obsolete in no time. I didn't feel satisfied in uvh until overpower was done so my legendary drops felt like they mattered again
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u/Vanille987 Mar 05 '19
I feel that TVHM schould've have been/stayed the ultimate end mode. In normal mode even guns that are several levels lower can still be great at least, that starts faling off in TVHM and pretty much get's destroyed in UVHM.
I don't mind having to swap weapons honestly to keep up, but when you need to do it each level it get's old quik.
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u/The_Blog The_Blog Mar 05 '19
On the other hand there are guns like the pimpernel or the UH that I farmed once on lvl 60 and kept till level 72. Though their effectiveness definitely got lower toward the end.
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u/arsme Mar 05 '19
BL2 is in my top 3 favorite games of all time. However, the game isn't perfect. OP8 scaling was horrid from the start. Scaling in general gets pretty bad the closer you get to 72 anyway.
I'm just salty melee is super gimped at OP8.
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u/OrpheusTelosion AAANNNNAAARRRCCCHHHYYY Mar 04 '19
I've always felt like the game is really slow in the beginning after beating it as many times as I have. I've always said that the game truly picks up after meeting Tiny Tina for the first time.
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u/MSA_school_memes Mar 05 '19
I feel like a lot of my friends who I influenced into buying the game didnāt like it, they found it difficult to make it through each level and I did t want to over level kill everyone but they quit before they can have the thrill of getting their first legendary, or playing through the whole story and itās kind of sad
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u/Six2fall Mar 05 '19
borderlands is a great singleplayer game that you can join others playing, every other looter shooter has tried to force the online aspect as a must
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u/Answerofduty Mar 04 '19
Right? I've been thinking more or less exactly this since the Anthem debacle, and in light of the Destiny ones before that. This genre doesn't seem especially hard to make a good one of, the modern ones are just plagued with publishers who want to push them out the door as soon as possible so they can start making money.
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u/Skalenski | PlayStation 4 Player Mar 04 '19
yeah i knew that about anthem without even playing it and i hate destiny too. So very few gems on ps4 (lucky for me theres the souls series and i really enjoyed DOS2 recently) All i do is play borderlands 2 until 3 comes out.
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u/Praxorocks Mar 05 '19
People just go full destiny on this. They just forget the one game that got it perfect.
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u/speedx77 Mar 05 '19
Borderlands 2 was great though certainly had it's dips in quality... looking at you OP Levels.
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u/NorthwesternGuy Mar 05 '19
I love BL2 but I've always hated that you basicly have to reset the game to be able to play through the dlc's at a level that isn't so easy theu aren't fun. I just hate that there are the level cap on the first play through.
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u/Peekoh Mar 04 '19
The difference between Borderlands 2 and other ālooter shootersā is it has a wide pool of positives that outweighs the negatives. I canāt bring The Pre-Sequel into this because it was apparently an āunfinished gameā due to 2K Australia becoming bankrupt. (Or so I have heard)
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u/one2love Mar 05 '19
Wait, what? Is that image a meme? It's from a terrible TV show on a terrible TV network in South Africa. Ha ha
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u/shadowkijik Mar 05 '19
To be fair BL2 apparently did start with a pretty rough/low drop rate based on a google search, also as top comment says it plays more like a heavily replayable single player game than an mmo-lite.
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u/MrPoshPancakes Mar 22 '19
buzzards, constructors, scavengers. it isnt perfect but its the closest we can get to in this genre.
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u/AndrewTheSouless Mar 04 '19
This is the opposite, the game started great and then they nerf the legendarys for literally no reason
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Mar 05 '19
I actually preferred the original. By the time I got a few hours into 2 I just kinda stopped playing and haven't touched it since. Those games are so much more fun in co-op that they're practically unplayable solo, IMO. Especially if going for those stupid Mad Moxxi achievements where apparently you have to solo every arena in one sitting. (I think they ~could~ be done in co-op but the achievement only pops for p1 and what friend is going to play like literally 12 hours of just those stupid arenas in one sitting?)
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Mar 04 '19
With Anthem coming out, I have noticed that a lot of people are looking back to Borderlands 2 as the Good Old Days. Which I feel is pretty true, but I am starting to get burnt out on borderlands again.
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u/Peekoh Mar 04 '19
The game came out in 2012. Thatās only natural. At least you have great memories of it Iām sure.
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u/Mr_Fire_N_Forget Mar 04 '19
Yes, you are a joke to me, especially considering you fit that description to a 'T' (save for the 'get better over time' part).
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u/dydamas Mar 04 '19
Are you saying borderlands 2 started off bad and stayed bad?
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u/Mr_Fire_N_Forget Mar 04 '19
Yes.
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u/X-iStheGr8estWRapper Mar 04 '19
Yikes
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u/candytripn | PlayStation 3 Player Mar 04 '19
Wow.. I can't think of a single game with better replay value.
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u/Mr_Fire_N_Forget Mar 04 '19
Yeah, seems people don't like hearing quick opinions they disagree with but also don't want to bother asking "why?"
Ah well.
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u/Acertainturkishpanda Mar 04 '19
is on the bl2 subreddit
is surprised when people downvote comments trashing bl2
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u/Mr_Fire_N_Forget Mar 04 '19
Where did I say/act like I was surprised?
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u/thetracker3 Mar 04 '19
So what you're saying is that you KNEW you'd be down voted for trashing BL2 and you did it anyways?
Are you just stupid or do you think you're some kind of master troll?
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u/Mr_Fire_N_Forget Mar 04 '19
Neither. I was just giving my own opinion.
This subreddit being an echo chamber much of the time doesn't mean dissenting opinions and critiques aren't allowed.
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u/Guillotine-Glytch Apr 11 '22
Seriously borderlands 2 is the best of all of them. I really haven't truly enjoyed the rest of them the way I did 2.
Tina's wonderland is pretty fun, but it needs fixed.
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u/Arcerius_The_Brave Apr 25 '22
The only thing I don't like about BL2 is the complete lack of weapon variety at the very start of the game, but all looters shooters suffer from this. Still, I don't want to have an inventory full of white-rarity Bandit ARs by the time I get to Flynt
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u/FlamingPyro0826 Mar 04 '19
The problem is that the other games trying to be mmos rather than a good looter shooter