What I think some people don't realize about Borderlands is that there's a huge, huge, crowd of people that love the writing in those games. I've had multiple people at work tell me they play them for the characters, there's plenty of fans caring about the fate of the Roland and whatever of the world, some people think Tiny Tina and Claptrap are the funniest shit, etc.
I hate the writing in this, I do like the gameplay just fine as a looty shooter that doesn't force online down my throat like Destiny, but Jeff's surprise at the fact that they're doubling down on "butt stallion", a joke that was already tired when it was written ten years ago, comes down to the fact that plenty of folks enjoys these tired jokes. It would be too easy for me to judge, humour is subjective and all, I've been in many conversations where people repeating jokes from these games is the height of hilarity, but I don't get it either.
Yeah... I'm sad to say I'm one of these people. I don't think it's laugh out loud hilarious all the time, but the majority of the games give me a pretty good sensible chuckle and I do think Tina is the standout character of the series.
Okay, but what about Doom 99 100 players attempt to get through as much as Doom as possible at the same time with quick kills causing more demons to spawn in the other player's levels
@garwalk: Niche was probably the wrong word to use. I meant most of the GB crew tend to not care for more esoteric games? I guess? Like when Patrick or Austin would say how amazing Dragon's Dogma was and everyone seemed to always look at them like they were crazy.
There's a sub genre of games I don't really know how to quantify other than saying games you have to "work to find the fun in them" that weirdos like myself really get super into like a Dragon's Dogma, Monster Hunter pre-World, Outwards, or hardcore modes in Bethesda games. Generally those kinds of experiences do bounce off a lot of the GB crew in past years.
And that's totally fine. This is how I expected them to react to Death Stranding, hell I might not like it as well, but I'm still excited cuz this one of those moments where all the negative criticisms I've heard about this sound like positives to me and how I like to play games.
I guess I just never expected Death Stranding to be a "fun" video game and that's exactly why I want to play it.
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