• glimse@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I see that complaint pretty often when borderlands gets brought up, though it’s not “this game sucks because of the humor”

    It’s usually people saying they loved the humor as a kid but now they find it kind of cringey and don’t have any interest in playing it.

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      9 days ago

      I’m not totally sure I agree, my wife and I just played through BL 2 and laughed most of the way. Just as we both seperately did a decade-ish prior. The humor itself didn’t age poorly, just BL3 and Presequal.

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        9 days ago

        To be clear, I’m not one of the people complaining. The game wouldn’t be different for me with or without the humor.

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        9 days ago

        Hey man, enjoy! I don’t feel strongly about the dialogue either way but it’s apparently polarizing for a lot of people.

        I’ve played most of the games in the series and enjoyed them so I’m neither a hater nor a stan