Every time I look away from this series for a second, things just get worse and worse. I never played a whole heap of MW3 '23 beyond the beta, but holy shit, at least they tried somewhat. Between this and THPS 3+4, I have no faith in Activision-Blizzard anymore, even as video game junk food.

Watched my friend play a bit of it, drunk off his ass, and this shit was so bad he sobered up real quick lmao

I would enjoy WD2 more if it were completely earnest, but Ubisoft isn't a studio that I can see doing that. Ultimately, it's an interesting franchise shackled by its vapid producers.

To each their own, but it's quite easily one of my least favorite games. Legion is worse by a fucking country mile and made me appreciate 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 stuff from WD1.

NVM I'M RELEASING IT EARLY

Rare Kestrel Rant over, thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

I'm tired of this series never reaching its full potential. If it wasn't for D2 content shitting the bed, Borderlands would have been taken out back and shot like Old Yeller. It exists because its genre is intensely vapid and directionless. BL just so happens to be one of the more bearable ones.

This series will never find a proper footing if:
1. The games keep coming out broken (FFS the last 3 games were like this)
2. If Gearbox doesn't actually learn from their OBJECTIVE mistakes
3. If the fans don't give Gearbox enough breathing room, and instead cry about deviation from the formula.

I guess I'm prattling about this bc I know Gearbox will listen to the loudest, most annoying voices and roll with it. Some of my favorite endgame content is from BL3, but because it wasn't EXACTLY like BL2's content, people bitched and moaned, and now we will never get anything like it ever again.

So to see BL4 finally go in the right direction, and then the fandom's first response is to go to optimize all the fun from the game, and then bitch at Gearbox when they aren't having anymore fun pumping hundreds of hours into an overdue play-through is mindboggling.

IK that fandoms aren't a monolith, but the community seems like a walking contradiction constantly, and it's burnt me out of the series TBH. I want a fun game that respects my time, and so far, none of these games have done that whatsoever.