ITT fun games that are literally unplayable because of the writing

ITT fun games that are literally unplayable because of the writing

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>borderlands
>fun

MGS

Subtitles off, player quips off, set character voice volume to 0.

That wasn't so hard, now was it?

I played the Presequel first and loved Jack. That bitch Lilith must die. I hope she dies in 3 for what she's done.

Doom.

>turn game sounds off
>listen to your own music
>skip dialogue sequences
>???
>profit

I always have turned down the voice volume but never took the subtitles off. Can you really play the game like this without getting lost?

Yeah, you have a mini-map after all.

>being so autistic this makes a game literally unplayable instead of simply not wanting to play it
>tfw OP is even more offensensitive than randyboy


I don't see why not. Objectives are always listed.

I tried playing this the other day. The writing is abysmal but quite frankly the gameplay is not much better. You're just aiming vaguely in the enemy's general direction and then it's just about stats. You either feel overpowered or underpowered.

I think it would've been more fun if I had played coop, but then again anything is fun in coop.

Even with the volume off, the game is still bullet sponges LMAO with you barely getting any good guns even though there were supposedly 63 BAJILLION different combos

Neat. I'm gonna try this the next time I get my hands on it.

>lets turn this white girl who is a siren, of which only six exist at any given time, into a dumb coal burning eridium-addicted slut haha

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I found the really shitty level scaling to be much bigger of a turn off than the UNSKIPPABLE cringe quip quest dialogs.

This is how I did it after the first playthrough, but it'd be better if you could just skip story bits altogether. There's too much time spent sitting around while characters talk for minutes on end about drama no one in their right mind gives a shit about. Did a single player of the first game ever wonder about the vault hunters or where they'd go from here or who they'd sleep with, or did they just want to grind for guns? It's amazing how many devs think this genre needs an overbearing plot.

writing is the only thing this game got going for it

It's Sup Forums that has pushed you into caring so much about Burch and the Borderlands writing. Normal people barely give a fuck in either this or 1. My main problem with 2 was that the robots were a boring as fuck main enemy.

I don't remember the writing in the 1st one very well, but in 2 they're trying *way too hard*. To the point that I can't even tell if is a good parody or an actual transcript of the game.

This is literally the one good joke in Borderlands

its called autism

From what I understand, that parody writing in the screenshot is actually how the game after 2 is written

Yeah it probably plays something like that while you run to your next waypoint. It barely ever holds you up with cutscenes so its not really a big issue. Most of the time you can't even hear it over the gunfire. Aside from Tiny Tina and the Claptrap being pretty cringe I can't possibly see how "Bad writing" is even relevant to a game where the writing plays such a small part. If Burch himself wasnt such a big meme on here with the whole cuck thing then the writing in Borderlands would probably never get mentioned at all.

I also found Jack pretty funny at times

>want to get Pre-Sequel solely because of brown cowboy (girl)
>realize it's the same game that took Mr. Torgue, threw his character out the window, and had him explain that the "friend zone" is a misogynistic lie
>don't want to get Pre-Sequel anymore

Claptrap is cringe? No you guys sucks

It's not critical, but it does serve to put off.

Jack, for example, gets more tolerable later on, but in the beginning of the game all you hear from the guy is him talking like a sixth grader. And that doesn't stop right away, but keeps going for awhile(hey vault hunter, have you gotten the point I'm calling you a butt stallion yet lolololol)

I like the game, but I don't blame fucking anybody for dropping it thinking the entire game was gonna be like that.

>Battleborn was inspired by Ghost in the Shell

??????????????

Oh yeah it's definitely not a deal breaker on its own for me, I just stopped playing attention 10 minutes in. The main problem I have with these games is that I find them terribly boring and repetitive. It's not even satisfying in a serious sam way because it's all stat based.

I'm still of the opinion that Gearbox hasn't make a single decent game overall, they just got lucky with borderlands because enough people fell for the skinner box and moderately innovative graphic design (which was actually stolen).

Borderlands 2 is unplayable because of the fucked up health and damage scaling not because of the writing.

You're missing nothing. Take a look at this if you're still not convinced.

youtube.com/watch?v=UpHHx4X6qV4

It wasn't even stolen, it's literally a default UE3 shader
Dungeon Defenders uses it and it's just a toggle option in the UE3 dev kit

If they moved to UE4 it might hurt the franchise because they have no idea how to implement it themselves

Uh you guys did play coop right?
Surely you didn't play Borderlands alone right?

This is correct. I would call it unplayable, but definitely a big minus.

Wouldn't say nothing. Claptrap DLC was surprisingly entertaining(and decently plotted at that.)

why the fuck do people put flat-out, no-nonsense, dead-serious statements on their personal worldview into games? Do they not understand that art is about subtlety and clever expression?

I was talking about this: vimeo.com/7432584

The "inspiration" behind Borderland's space cowboy theme.

>Mr Torgue's monologue about friend zones
>Springs mentioning at least 3 times that she's "not into guys"
>Introduce Meriff, he even gets his own intro cutscene, but kill in 3 minutes into reaching hub world
>anything that claptrap says
>"IM THE GOOD GUY. LETS KILL THE BAD GUYS. FUCK THE BAD GUYS. IM CLEARLY THE GOOD GUY."

ffs i just had to see the video title and I'm already triggered

I love FPSs and ARPG loot grinders and borderlands is the only series that combines them both but the writing just kills it for me. Its to the point that I just mute all dialogue and alt-tab when the game prevents you from progressing in order for the characters to finish their drivel

To an extent, I'm not even surprised

Even in Borderlands 2, I specifically recall one of the echo logs you pick up for Tannis at the Wildlife area featured BOTH a guy mentioning his husband and a girl mentioning her wife in the span of about ten seconds

As bad as the writing is in Borderlands 2 (haven't played TPS but it's Burch so probably trash), the main problem with BL2 is the exponential scaling. Playthrough 2 in solo is fucking cancer.

I know what you're talking about

TVHM is fine in 2. It's UVHM, aka Slag Hard or Fuck Off, that's cancerous.

>TVHM is fine in 2.
It's really not. Especially passed level 40.
>It's UVHM, aka Slag Hard or Fuck Off, that's cancerous.
If TV is as bad as it is then fuck me UV must be horrible.

I'm running through UVHM right now for completionist's sake. It's actually somehow more enjoyable than TVHM. That being said, I'm doing it as Maya and I don't think I'd want to do it as anyone else.

The real saving grace is that zones scale, so getting good gear isn't as much of a hassle, and by that I mean just farm a new Unkempt Harold every couple levels

I don't know what the hell you were doing, but once you start collecting equip to catch up, it's hardly any worse than normal mode. Post-40 should've been just fine for you, if you weren't playing with 25-30 gear the whole time.

But yes, UVHM's scaling is exacerbated by needing to slag so much shit constantly to overcome their sack of hp and irritating regen rates. Even captain flynt is tiresome as fuck to deal with solo because of it.

I never did UVHM because I finally managed to stop playing the game after the "last" Season pass DLC came out. Fucking 200 hours well spent.

UVHM is almost """fun""" if you're doing it with friends and have someone going support siren to slag and heal

The hardest part I've noticed is finding anyone else on this planet who wants to play Borderlands 2