Well not quite a correction.
Side tangent time. This is interesting to put to words, because I’ve gone through something I didn’t enjoy. But I have for some time now, been trying to stay positive. There’s enough negativity on the internet that I’m just over it. I lose interest immediately when someone starts raging and I’d rather spend my time finding happy. I know that’s not the theme of most… well almost everything online nowadays. About the closest I’ve gone on the negative was with a few particular Legend of Zelda games in a recent video.
So I’m conflicted on if I even want to type into existence the thoughts I have that are clearly negative. I can easily tell myself “You didn’t like this thing, shut up and move on to the next thing that you maybe will like.”
But I also think about how the only real reason I’m doing this is to have some kind of record of what I was thinking and feeling while playing games that I’m not recording.
With all that being said, Borderlands 2 ramped up the difficulty quite hard in the Assault on Dragon Keep DLC and it made me honestly question if I would finish it.
I’m still not saying that it was designed entirely for co-op, like I did before. But I am sure I won’t be going through it again.
The main campaign was fine, certainly not easy. I would not define Borderlands as an easy game. But it was fun, overall an enjoyable experience. Afterwards I went straight into the DLC I was most excited about.
And then I pushed to the end to finish the main quest and while it was, IMO, the best story I’ve seen experienced in the Borderlands series… the gameplay had me tearing out the nonexistent hair on my head.
Worth it? Tough to say. It’s still too raw. But I did confirm I wasn’t the only one feeling this way, looked at some threads from back in the day and breathed a sigh of relief to feel like it wasn’t just me. (This is going against a new rule for myself I’m trying to follow, because inevitably you only get certain responses that are far from helpful and more just bragging how easy it was for someone else. That’s the farthest from what I need at that moment as you could get.)
Let’s just summarize with:
I had the best time with the story and worst time with the gameplay. If it (the DLC) wasn’t the entire reason I wanted to play the game in the first place, I probably would have set it aside and not pushed through to the end. The meta D&D playing was hilarious, characters are great. All of it simply fantastic. But god damn the difficulty. (And I was at the level according to what was suggested, 30+)
Maybe I’ll come back to it later and do all the other DLC and the tons of sidequests. I did so many throughout the main campaign to keep up with the levels, because difficult gameplay was a theme throughout the whole base game. But it wasn’t nearly as bad as I remembered it to be. If there was a death count, I wouldn’t be surprised if fully 50% of them came from the 10 hours of DLC compared to the 55 hours of base game.
But hey, this is just my thoughts. On a game from 12+ years ago that I finally gave another shot. I’m glad I did it, I will one day revisit it for the extras. And at some point try out Borderlands 3, since I got that with all the DLC for a sweet price. Also Borderlands 4 comes out in a few days, so in 2040 I’m sure I’ll be ready by then.
But it will be some time before I’m ready for that. Besides I’ve already made up my mind for what I’m looking forward to playing next, and although it surely is foolish to start another large game knowing I will be dropping it the second Pokemon Z-A comes out, I’m in the right mood and going for it.
It’s finally time to really play The Witcher 3.
(There wasn’t really a correction here, just a callback to the previous post and the incorrect belief that needed correcting, correctly.)