#Borderlands 2 dlcs from best to worst full
#Borderlands 2 dlcs from best to worst series

Everything is built around this aesthetic, to the point that there’s a narrator to the events of the game, explaining things as they go and occasionally breaking the fourth wall.

#Borderlands 2 dlcs from best to worst series

It’s sadly not as exciting as it could be, but it’s solid and feels like the best attempt at a horror-themed DLC in the series so far.īounty of Blood has the most curious premise of them all, as it works as a completely standalone wild west inspired story somewhere in the Borderlands universe. It’s weird fiction mixed with the snow levels of Borderlands 2 and also mixed with a love story. Guns, Love, and Tentacles mixes several really cool ideas, both stylistically and in terms of how the story and the gameplay evolves. While not bad or even completely boring, it’s simply not exciting.

It is very much “more of the same” and not of the greatest parts of the main game. It feels a bit like a redo of the Hyperion Hub of Heroism from Pre-Sequel, just with a casino flair and while it’s nice to see a return of more of the previous characters, this DLC isn’t particularly exciting. Moxxi’s Heist of the Handsome Jackpot‘s main weakness is its location. All of them have some cool ideas to them, but overall feel “more of the same”, which isn’t as nice when “the same” is simply not exciting. The DLCs, the ones that are in the Season Pass, aren’t helping much either, even if none of them are bad. If not for the gameplay improvements, this would’ve been as much of a sleepwalk as the story of the original title. Most importantly, perhaps, things just never feel fun or exciting, despite how grand they might be and despite how cool characters participating might be. Jokes, always a questionable part of the series (arguably Tales of Borderlands is the strongest in this regard), rarely land, though the overall tone and characterization is leagues beyond Pre-Sequel. The main villains are surprisingly meh, despite some cool ideas for them, that is even without comparing them to Handsome Jack’s disgusting charisma. Not as bland as the original game and its DLCs, not as boring and unfunny as the majority of Pre-Sequel, but nowhere near as intriguing as the second game. Somehow, despite giving even more personality to the characters, including the player characters (who have a voice and personality throughout the game, just like in Pre-Sequel), despite expanding the universe of the game by allowing you to visit different planets, despite having some really cool ideas and moments, everything is painfully bland. Granted, the game still takes far longer to go through than it should, especially given that the narrative is too weak to support the length, but at least the process of playing the game is enjoyable.īut yes, the story here is extremely forgettable. And it helps that now a lot of the maps are more interesting to explore and far more varied, that all of the most fun movement options from the previous entries were reintroduced, including the butt stomping and low gravity from Pre-Sequel (whenever applicable), that everything feels less grindy and boring to go through. The way guns and enemies behave was tweaked just enough for the game to feel like it could be a pretty okay shooter game, if you were to remove all of the loot focused action RPG parts. Yes, enemies still tend to be bullet-spongey, yes the boss encounters are still obnoxious rather than challenging, but it’s far less of a problem now. Heck, even the actual first person shooting, something that has always been weak in the series, has been turned into something rather nice. Everything that was weak, incredibly tedious or annoying has been redesigned to “simply work” and never get in the way.

#Borderlands 2 dlcs from best to worst full

Every system, every gameplay idea, every element about how quests get unlocked, how secondary stuff on maps works, how you automatically suck in all resource-type loot, how you have full body awareness and can mount obstacles. So many things about Borderlands 3 feel like what was in previous games, except finally done right. I wish that this fourth game in the main series would’ve been the baseline we had from the start. In many ways, I can’t help but wish Borderlands 3 was the first Borderlands game. Yet here I am, playing Borderlands 3 (and 4 big DLCs for it) without even expecting to like it much. I’m not a fan of loot focused action RPGs, I don’t often play coop or multiplayer and every single main game in the series has been at best “kinda nice”.

I’m still not quite sure why is that I’m attracted to the Borderlands series.