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Borderlands. It’s just peak Reddit brain writing tacked onto a looter shooter (yay, thousands of completely identical guns with varying amounts of + 5% crit dmg) and bullet sponge enemies.
I think it really was a product of the times. The looter shooter was fairly novel and you can see how that affect of banter w/e you wanna call it really aged badly in bl2 and 3
I agree that pairing Diablo with fps was novel, I just don’t think it was well executed. Honestly, the first one was fine especially in light of being a new combination of game elements.
I think I was letting my distaste for the cringe Reddit humor of the second one override actually kinda enjoying the first one when it was new.
I stand by the jab at the minuscule and meaningless differences they use to pad out the “loot variation” numbers though.
They even manage to make guns with wild differences and gimmicks in the legendary tier but then those are divided into "dumb gimmick that makes the gun suck" and "gun whos gimmick is that it shoots 10 shots at once and does more damage than god"
Yeah i enjoyed the novelty of the first one. As bad as the "humor" was they really ramped it up in 2
Scoped shotgun loaded w/ birdshot
I kinda liked the loot and shoots but the setting was drab and I could not suffer the dialogue.
Preach