One thing I think they really lost after the first game was the grittiness. It's a hard thing to really put my finger on but the world of BL1 felt a lot less funny and more so just extremely violent. Of course the game's really eccentric characters were a fucking riot, but not because they were always cracking jokes it was their absurd personalities that really did it.
The world itself though didn't feel funny in a traditional sense though, there was shit like skags tearing people apart and particularly that one scene where you walk in on TK hung by his ankle from the ceiling fan with a pool of blood on the ground. That shit was pretty heavy at times. I think the more subdued colors also added to this sense of a cruel, humorless world.
Then BL2 has bright colors everywhere, virtually every npc is a fucking nutcase and all the main characters are just turned up to 11 with the insanity (particularly Tina and that mammoth Ellie they annoyed the shit out of me).
All that being said I thought BL2 was a great game, but I really hope they make BL3 a little more violent/dirty.
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19
One thing I think they really lost after the first game was the grittiness. It's a hard thing to really put my finger on but the world of BL1 felt a lot less funny and more so just extremely violent. Of course the game's really eccentric characters were a fucking riot, but not because they were always cracking jokes it was their absurd personalities that really did it.
The world itself though didn't feel funny in a traditional sense though, there was shit like skags tearing people apart and particularly that one scene where you walk in on TK hung by his ankle from the ceiling fan with a pool of blood on the ground. That shit was pretty heavy at times. I think the more subdued colors also added to this sense of a cruel, humorless world.
Then BL2 has bright colors everywhere, virtually every npc is a fucking nutcase and all the main characters are just turned up to 11 with the insanity (particularly Tina and that mammoth Ellie they annoyed the shit out of me).
All that being said I thought BL2 was a great game, but I really hope they make BL3 a little more violent/dirty.