The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

Just wandered into a fight between an Imperial Legionnaire and a Stormcloak. Being with the Legion myself I stepped in and helped my comrade. Afterwards he placed a bounty for murder on me and promptly tried to arrest me. 

As for the second death: I thought it was a really awesome scene, and I loved the entire ending sequence, honestly, and there were a lot of cool twists, epic fights, fun dungeons and the ending and last boss were really awesome. I also think the character could potentially come back, as it doesn't seem 100% clear they're dead, though it does seem fairly likely. The first death didn't effect me much, even though I thought it was a pretty cool scene, just because I never played that character before (I actually used both DLC characters in BL2.) The second one, if it's real, would hit me pretty hard, since that's the character I used for my second BL1 playthrough, when I did the DLC, but I'd be perfectly satisfied, honestly, because it was handled very well, imo.

I will say, though: I kinda hope if they bring back the character I played as in, future games, they end up doing their own thing and don't stay to help out the Crimson Raiders indefinitely. Otherwise, bad things will almost certainly happen to them........

And I definitely don't find Tannis annoying, but that's personal taste, I guess. I like pretty much all the returning characters, at least to some degree. Except maybe Crazy Earl, though that's mostly because he's voiced by Randy Pitchford, so I kinda can't like him, just for that. 

The main missing characters I can think of so far are: Any BL2 vault hunters (aside from the one that dies, of course, though I've heard Krieg shows up in a sidequest later on), Athena (who I really hope shows up later, or in DLC, because she really should be there) Mr. Torgue (aside from apparently showing up in some endgame thing) and Fiona (who feels weird to not be there, since Rhys and Vaughn are, so I hope she at least appears in a DLC.) Anyone else I can think of, either has shown up, or died in a previous game (Tales is considered canon, so.......) 

I am a bit disappointed they didn't fit in everyone in, but the game is huge already, so I can kinda get that it would be hard to cram everyone in. The fact most BL2 vault haunters got left behind, while the BL1 vault hunters became important to the plot, is the main thing that stings, though, along with Athena now showing up, so far.

Also, who do you find annoying? I personally find Claptrap more funny than annoying, but I can't think of many characters in the series I find annoying, in general. I know there's a couple new characters some find annoying, but even them, I generally like.

You make it sound like it's multiple characters, though, which if true, I hadn't known about a second character dying, yet, and knowing you, I think I know who else could die, so that one would piss me off, if true.

The game itself: I don't regret paying for both the game and season pass, but I do think it's a step down, at least from BL2. The actual gameplay loop is as fun as ever, the characters and their skill trees seem cool, and the new planets are great, plus I'm actually liking the plot so far, and the humor has been fun, as always. However, I always thought the boss fights were clearly designed for co-op, and balanced horribly for solo play, and that feeling is stronger than ever in this one, so it's driving me insane. That, and the new menu system is quite the mess, especially when trying to switch between menus. I am liking the game a lot overall, though.

Money is a factor, but I will actually be considering buying Borderlands 3 on Epic now for this day's work from Valve.

If anyone isn't clear on what I'm talking about, Valve released a Summer Sale Grand Prix game this year where users were able to pick their teams. Most users picked one team (out of a possible five), which resulted in that team winning the first two days of the sale. Three hundred users from the winning team get the top game from their wishlist for free. Places 2 and 3 also get their top game, but less users. I haven't personally won but being in this team, which was winning fair and square based on the rules Valve started the game with, I stood a good chance as the sale went on.

Today, day 3, in the last ten minutes, Valve openly nerfed the popular team so we went from leading our third race to coming in last, with some users reporting our icon visibly moving backwards in spite of the numbers still indicating that we should win. Valve rigged the game against us. 

Ergo Epic suddenly seems a little less the snake in the grass that they did as recently as yesterday.