Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

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  1. snaken
    Mar 23, 2023
    0
    Way too many female characters. On top of that, all male characters that are somehow still in the game are either old and impotent, self-deprecating, or evil. The only thing you do in this game is serve women and kill men. Don't hate me or my review for sharing objective observation -- hate the developers for releasing such games.

    I got this anti-men propaganda at 85% off and even    Way too many female characters. On top of that, all male characters that are somehow still in the game are either old and impotent, self-deprecating, or evil. The only thing you do in this game is serve women and kill men. Don't hate me or my review for sharing objective observation -- hate the developers for releasing such games.

    I got this anti-men propaganda at 85% off and even though I paid peanuts I still regret it. I know how I will be voting with my money in the future, 2K.    … Expand
  2. Shadowxxx
    Jan 10, 2023
    0
    Disgusting ugly trash Disgusting ugly trash Disgusting ugly trash Disgusting ugly trash Disgusting
  3. EptaEpt
    Sep 13, 2022
    1
    Sorry, but positive feedback is not available in your region. At least until your leadership changes the two-faced policy in their actions and statements.
  4. Bahska28
    Jul 14, 2022
    1
    Way to short, just when we thought it was getting good (the last boss) finally after hours of slow tedious missions and boring story it was over. The loot is uninteresting compared to Bl2 and 3 the zones are annoying at best and given the option to turn off the low gravity i would hands down.
    Felt like a bad dlc.
  5. MrLet53
    Nov 8, 2021
    0
    This game is really boring. You must play every optianal mission, because to silly level system. Hardcore enemies, useless a lot of guns, silly loot system. If you have a 20.000$ and you die, you lost 2.000$. If you have 200$ and you die, you lost 20$. This is stupid.

    Gameplay usually walk to mission owner, take mission, die a lot of times, finally did mission, walk to mission owner and    This game is really boring. You must play every optianal mission, because to silly level system. Hardcore enemies, useless a lot of guns, silly loot system. If you have a 20.000$ and you die, you lost 2.000$. If you have 200$ and you die, you lost 20$. This is stupid.

    Gameplay usually walk to mission owner, take mission, die a lot of times, finally did mission, walk to mission owner and claimed useless weapons.

    Armored enemies kill you one shot, you kill armored enemies when you have out of ammo. Normal enemies powerfull than bosses. This game is for co-op, no single. Thank you epic games for the gift. I don’t pay this game.    … Expand
  6. Letkinq93
    Jul 12, 2021
    0
    This game is so boring. Map is **** I can't go ı want to anywhere. Car using is a very difficult. Thank you Epic Games. I don't pay this game. All of this game is ****
  7. dotrem
    Jun 22, 2021
    4
    The game is unbelievable boring. Well honestly every BL game and every loot shooter is boring, but pre-sequel is definitly worst one.
    Slow motion, low gravity, oxigen leaking, pointless characters what screaming "Hey gamer loot at me, i'm big talking sht".

    Devs just put every annoying thing in this game and said "It's funny game!". Hell no.
  8. OldManGamerOMG
    Dec 4, 2020
    4
    The game itself is okay, the characters dialog is often funny, but the game play is tedious and very frustrating. Many of the quests that are timed or in difficult areas will require you to make numerous attempts to accomplish, while replaying the entire voice acting over again. What was sometimes funny becomes annoying after hearing it repeatedly. This, added with an an annoyingly slowThe game itself is okay, the characters dialog is often funny, but the game play is tedious and very frustrating. Many of the quests that are timed or in difficult areas will require you to make numerous attempts to accomplish, while replaying the entire voice acting over again. What was sometimes funny becomes annoying after hearing it repeatedly. This, added with an an annoyingly slow movement of your character, makes playing become a marathon of patience versus reward, where the reward is usually another quest to test your patience.

    The setting is low gravity, but the method to play in it is not enjoyable. This is a simulation of playing a jump puzzle while wearing shoes that are slathered in oil.

    I forgot to mention that I have been dealing with numerous bugs and issues as well. I have been required to reset my game numerous times, because quests break and will not progress. For instance, race the kid, where the timer will not begin, but upon resetting the game, it works. Another example, drilling for ice, for the nurse, where the third ice to loot does not appear, until I reset and load in, to find it there on the ice. Another example, where the items dropping from creatures are not visible, until I reload, and can then loot the items. This has happened with nearly a dozen quests, and has become very frustrating.

    I also should mention that I am someone who does every quest. While the main story quests do appear to be fine, more than half of the side quests have been buggy and completely lacking any enjoyment. You can also tell that one person is voice acting many of these side quests, making me wonder if they were an after thought. It would explain the numerous problems.

    I cannot recommend this game, as it has numerous bugs that require constant resetting the game for quest items to be looted, mobs to appear, and other issues. I also cannot recommend this game due to the poor mechanics in playing the game, where player control is very poor, while requiring precision in tasks. This is a shame, because it does have a good main story, and character dialog, but it is wasted on this game.    … Expand
  9. Valgeth
    Oct 3, 2020
    4
    Borderlands has always been a game that takes qualities of other games or movies and integrates them into it's own style, presequel however, is just copy and paste with no nuance, the low gravity is interesting but really idiotic in many places, you can fall to your death in an environment which should be zero gravity, utterly ridiculous. Everything good about this game is leftovers fromBorderlands has always been a game that takes qualities of other games or movies and integrates them into it's own style, presequel however, is just copy and paste with no nuance, the low gravity is interesting but really idiotic in many places, you can fall to your death in an environment which should be zero gravity, utterly ridiculous. Everything good about this game is leftovers from BL2 (which wasn't as good as BL1 tbh)… Expand
  10. exxdexx
    Jul 25, 2020
    2
    Bad level system, 99 percent of the weapons suck and also it's boring and I hate it
  11. Lexinskiy
    Jun 24, 2020
    2
    Считаем плюсы:
    1. Необычная графика
    2. Ну хоть какой-то сюжет 3. Неплохое оружие, включая фишки и внешний вид 4. Кооп Теперь минусы: 1. Всю игру хотелось поскорее её пройти ради галочки, и больше её никогда не трогать 2. Очень скучные, даже не рубилово, бои 3. Боссы - тот ещё запор, умираешь, закупаешься, даёшь урон, мы в этом цикле 4. Прикола игры я не выкупил от слова совсем, как шутер    Считаем плюсы:
    1. Необычная графика
    2. Ну хоть какой-то сюжет
    3. Неплохое оружие, включая фишки и внешний вид
    4. Кооп
    Теперь минусы:
    1. Всю игру хотелось поскорее её пройти ради галочки, и больше её никогда не трогать
    2. Очень скучные, даже не рубилово, бои
    3. Боссы - тот ещё запор, умираешь, закупаешься, даёшь урон, мы в этом цикле
    4. Прикола игры я не выкупил от слова совсем, как шутер не очень, есть элементы РПГ, но как-то это не очень мне зашло
    5. Сюжет не проходя предыдущие игры я понял со 2-3 главы
    6. Мне даже критику на эту игру, с каким-то непонятным отвратный чувством приходится писать, так что я всё    … Expand
  12. virgilivs
    Apr 28, 2020
    3
    This should have been a DLC for one of the previous installments. And it would have been bad at that, too.
  13. MakotoSengen
    Apr 21, 2019
    0
    Coop game with the worst coop I've ever played. All because of stupid level system making game in party a complete **** Using save editor is required otherwise you'll wear lowlevel gear till the end of the game. Inferior game design everywhere: how items should spawn, how skills should work, bad fast travel points, regular map backtracking, stupid weapon mechanics, stupid UI design, etc.Coop game with the worst coop I've ever played. All because of stupid level system making game in party a complete **** Using save editor is required otherwise you'll wear lowlevel gear till the end of the game. Inferior game design everywhere: how items should spawn, how skills should work, bad fast travel points, regular map backtracking, stupid weapon mechanics, stupid UI design, etc. Trash story with endless boring dialogues.… Expand
  14. Nyakuya
    Apr 5, 2019
    0
    2K made Borderlands 3 an Epic Store exclusive game, GO F* YOURSELF 2K!

    ---------------------------------------------------------- A diferencia de borderlands 1 y 2, este juego no crea todo desde 0 y reutiliza muchas cosas de borderlands 2. Si bien este juego agrega una o dos cosas nuevas, se siente más como una expansión de borderlands 2 que como un juego nuevo, (y como si fuera poco    2K made Borderlands 3 an Epic Store exclusive game, GO F* YOURSELF 2K!

    ----------------------------------------------------------

    A diferencia de borderlands 1 y 2, este juego no crea todo desde 0 y reutiliza muchas cosas de borderlands 2. Si bien este juego agrega una o dos cosas nuevas, se siente más como una expansión de borderlands 2 que como un juego nuevo, (y como si fuera poco te lo cobran 60 dolares, valor que sin duda está muy exagerado para lo que el juego ofrece).

    Más allá de lo anteriormente mencionado, este juego tiene un efecto "azul" en los gráficos que hace que sean molestos, pero esto no es lo más molesto, lo más molesto es el sonido que hace la gravedad 0, un sonido tan insoportable que aveces me hace dar fuerte dolor de cabeza (y no estoy de coña). La historia está muy buena y las misiones secundarias están al nivel de los anteriores juegos. Lo negativo que le veo son los HORRIBLEMENTE INSOPORTABLES sonidos de la gravedad 0, y que hayan reutilizado cosas de borderlands 2.    … Expand
  15. rickyrockfish
    Apr 3, 2019
    0
    screw loyal fanbase for a few extra dollars good job 2k games. store exclusives deals need to die a horrible death it is bad for the gaming industry.
  16. Kossak
    Apr 3, 2019
    0
    I do not support bribing for store exclusivities. Avoid at all costs. Thank you.
  17. ruzam
    Apr 3, 2019
    0
    Borderlands is, or rather was, essential part of my life, but now i just i feel betrayed. Good job 2K and epic
  18. stop9091
    Dec 16, 2017
    0
    Extremely poor sequel for a lot of reasons. On top of the poor game design, there is also many issues: crashes, accidental invisible walls, player getting stuck. Terrible.
  19. MeatBurger
    May 21, 2016
    4
    pro- the name [Borderlands]

    con- nothing new. rehashed EVERYTHING.
    stink of laziness
    could have been a DLC for Borderlands 2

    ps. i liked the Borderlands 2 Boss fights. because most of the fights was 1v1. but this **** pours annoying minions. they can't harm me but , that makes the boss a bit.........cheap.
  20. Nizzlecrunk
    Mar 15, 2016
    2
    The new visuals look great but the game, map, weapons and dialogue are exactly the same as the first Borderlands. The story is once again not intended for solo play, as per the loot also, and the gap in difficulty between normal AI and boss fights is ridiculous- the same replay until you run out of money rule still applies.
    This game is a good DLC at best, but a copy & paste game    The new visuals look great but the game, map, weapons and dialogue are exactly the same as the first Borderlands. The story is once again not intended for solo play, as per the loot also, and the gap in difficulty between normal AI and boss fights is ridiculous- the same replay until you run out of money rule still applies.
    This game is a good DLC at best, but a copy & paste game otherwise. Moon gravity is the biggest change.    … Expand
  21. Antonislak
    Dec 30, 2015
    0
    Bad, simply the game is bad comparing to the borderlands legacy and i will start with the whorst part which is constant glitches and crashes to this date on both on pc and ps4.
    Apart from the technical issues, i just hated the constant jumping challenges, i don't enjoy the gravity and the lack of oxygen makes me nervous to the point i can't chill and enjoy the scenery...
    Such an awesome    Bad, simply the game is bad comparing to the borderlands legacy and i will start with the whorst part which is constant glitches and crashes to this date on both on pc and ps4.
    Apart from the technical issues, i just hated the constant jumping challenges, i don't enjoy the gravity and the lack of oxygen makes me nervous to the point i can't chill and enjoy the scenery...
    Such an awesome story and i can't enjoy it it's a pity, totally hated it.    … Expand
  22. borderlandguy
    Aug 30, 2015
    0
    This game is just plain POOR...loved the first two, but this game is just a cash grab...I'm not even going to finish it...
    Save your money...!!
    Such a huge disappointment after playing the first two games.
    Just a quick slapped together game to cash in on the original popularity
  23. R0bb0b
    Mar 24, 2015
    3
    Bland. This is coming from someone who has spent almost 5000 hours in BL1 and 2. Both BL1 and 2 are time warps for me and still are. Any time I sit in front of either one, when I look away from my computer it is all of a sudden 3 hours later. TPS feels more like a chore than anything else and I was only able to endure up to level 13. I can't seem to play any longer than 30 minutes atBland. This is coming from someone who has spent almost 5000 hours in BL1 and 2. Both BL1 and 2 are time warps for me and still are. Any time I sit in front of either one, when I look away from my computer it is all of a sudden 3 hours later. TPS feels more like a chore than anything else and I was only able to endure up to level 13. I can't seem to play any longer than 30 minutes at a time without getting completely bored out of my mind.

    Cons:
    The character primary skills are not very flashy like they were in BL2 and really don't do anything that you wouldn't be able to do without them anyway. The other skills in the tree are merely numeric multipliers for the most part and provide nothing as far as game changers to look forward to. The scenery is bland. There is way too much space between points of interest. The buggy ends up in the lava more times that not, so it is very difficult to open up. The O2 mechanic feels like a hinderance giving you a time limit when searching for hidden chests. Jack is not funny at all, which is very disappointing. The old vault hunters feel very out of place. The enemies all seem the same and are clearly missing the variety I'm use to in BL2 or even BL1. There are no Goliaths, constructors, loaders, psychos, nomads or any of that and are all just guys that run around with helmets and shoot, very boring.

    Pros:
    Gunplay is good because it is a built in mechanic that they couldn't mess up really. The double jump mechanic is interesting.    … Expand
  24. RobinMuerkoeste
    Mar 18, 2015
    4
    Given that this game retailed at US$ 59.99 I cannot bring myself to give it more than a four, I would have enjoined a simple re-skinned Borderlands 1 or a incorporation of the Borderlands 1 characters and enemies as well as world much more. In short I could only recommend this game to someone who fiends for the Borderlands series and even then it is likely to leave you disappointed.

    To    Given that this game retailed at US$ 59.99 I cannot bring myself to give it more than a four, I would have enjoined a simple re-skinned Borderlands 1 or a incorporation of the Borderlands 1 characters and enemies as well as world much more. In short I could only recommend this game to someone who fiends for the Borderlands series and even then it is likely to leave you disappointed.

    To anyone considering purchasing this game. If you do not already own Borderlands 2 and its DLC or Borderlands 1 and its DLC grab that instead. It'll cost you less and you'll get double the game time out of it and at least twice the fun.

    If this game had retailed as a massive Borderlands 2 expansion and retailed for USD 19.99 pre-order or USD 29.99 post release I believe it would have been received much better and I would have then given it a 7.    … Expand
  25. Fuz
    Feb 2, 2015
    3
    I'll start saying that I'm a HUGE fan of Borderlands. I loved the first one and I loved the second one even more. And I loved the DLCs too. The gameplay, the characters, the writing have always been top notch, absolutely fantastic.
    But I was a bit skeptic about the pre-sequel... and I was right. It wasn't developed by Gearbox, and it shows.
    The worst flaw is the writing. It's subpar, not    I'll start saying that I'm a HUGE fan of Borderlands. I loved the first one and I loved the second one even more. And I loved the DLCs too. The gameplay, the characters, the writing have always been top notch, absolutely fantastic.
    But I was a bit skeptic about the pre-sequel... and I was right. It wasn't developed by Gearbox, and it shows.
    The worst flaw is the writing. It's subpar, not even close to the Borderlands standards. The writer tries too hard and he really doesn't get the humour right. The characters are dull, shallow and not interesting at all. They also talk in an australian accent that it's fun at start, but gets trite pretty fast. Also, resorting to old characters just for the sake of having them in this game too feels desperate and like a bad retcon. Feels more like a fanfic, actually., and I will consider this game as apocryphal on the matter of the story. Hope it's not canon, especially what they did to the old characters.
    The playable characters are quite good, but their skill trees are just bad designed and uninteresting and don't allow the deepness of customization that we had in Borderlands 2.
    Map design is pretty dull, and it's sometimes WAY overcomplicated to the point it gets pretty annoying to navigate the maps, and this gets exacerbated by a bad and tedious mission design and a few bad teleporters placement.
    The zero-g mechanic is fun at start, but it's a gimmick and it doesn't add much to the gunplay, on the contrary, it actually tends to remove tactic from it. The new laser weapons and new element also don't fit too well.
    It can be fun, but it feels like a big DLC and cash grab and it's really not Borderlands.    … Expand
  26. TheStallion
    Jan 31, 2015
    4
    Being a veteran BL fan (I put nearly 500 hours into BL2 alone), I can say that I was wholly disappointed with this title.

    First, the humor. It was dry, bland, and it felt like it was written by Australians, for Australians. Doesn't 2K Australia understand that people from all around the world are buying this game and might not get Aussie humor? The accents grated on my nerves a    Being a veteran BL fan (I put nearly 500 hours into BL2 alone), I can say that I was wholly disappointed with this title.

    First, the humor. It was dry, bland, and it felt like it was written by Australians, for Australians. Doesn't 2K Australia understand that people from all around the world are buying this game and might not get Aussie humor? The accents grated on my nerves a little bit, but it got better as you went along.

    The character depth just wasn't there, plus characters from BL 1 and 2 were reused with about 25% of their personalities we all know and love intact. The seemingly arbitrary homosexual references really pissed me off. Not that I have anything against LGBT people, but I find it very insulting that the writers had to shoehorn another gay character in there and wave it in my face. I mean, Springs, which I think was one of the few more charming characters, had several dialogue sequences in which the main subject being that she was a lesbian. Great, you're a woman that likes other women. So what? I couldn't care less. If a character's defining trait is their sexual orientation, then you're a horrible writer.

    The lack of extra content was astounding. I bought the season pass, thinking that the game would redeem itself with a DLC gem. I was mistaken. The first DLC that queued in my Steam download tab was another arena map. There was already an arena map in the main game and then you make a DLC that is just another one? Boring, absolutely boring.

    I didn't have a big problem with the maps, because what do you really expect? It was on a moon, you can't really get too creative with that.

    The length of the story is hard to gauge because I'm the type that completes all available side quests before moving on with the main story. I think it took me maybe 20 hours to complete the entire game and 90%+ of the side quests.

    Buy it on sale if you absolutely have to try it. I uninstalled it and haven't looked back.    … Expand
  27. titofdidi
    Jan 12, 2015
    0
    At the start a very good game, new heroes, new weapons, Jack(!!), a new playground but few hours later, the game started to be awful, the game become very ulgy, unplayable, just not fun, not Borderlands...

    For me Borderlands (1) is better than this one... This Pre-Sequel is just for me useless for the gameplay and for the story too... The game bad coded, weapons go through the    At the start a very good game, new heroes, new weapons, Jack(!!), a new playground but few hours later, the game started to be awful, the game become very ulgy, unplayable, just not fun, not Borderlands...

    For me Borderlands (1) is better than this one... This Pre-Sequel is just for me useless for the gameplay and for the story too...

    The game bad coded, weapons go through the ground, invisible walls, instakill trough the walls, ...

    I just want to forget this Borderlands and wait the Borderlands 3.

    I don't know who did this game but i hate you 2K Australia, just let the American create good games    … Expand
  28. epeternally
    Jan 8, 2015
    2
    When I first started playing this, I thought it was a pretty decent reskin of Borderlands 2 and a few hours in I gave it a seven. The more I've gotten into it, though, the worse it seems. In addition to feeling like DLC rather than a full new game, almost everything that it does is done poorly. The story, most notably, is horrid, especially when contrasted against the great writing ofWhen I first started playing this, I thought it was a pretty decent reskin of Borderlands 2 and a few hours in I gave it a seven. The more I've gotten into it, though, the worse it seems. In addition to feeling like DLC rather than a full new game, almost everything that it does is done poorly. The story, most notably, is horrid, especially when contrasted against the great writing of Borderlands 2. Instead of cleverness, wit, and endearing characters, we get blandness, incoherence, and a neverending stream of Australian stereotypes. The only good thing here is Moxxi's role in the story, and that gets overshadowed by just how bad the rest of the story is.

    The oxygen mechanics get old quickly and ultimately act to the game's detriment, gameplay feels less satisfying, fast travel stations are painfully infrequent, the level design is bland, the story makes no sense, the pacing is all wrong, so many cheap pit deaths, needlessly large amounts of empty space between everything, a confusing to navigate hub area, moonstone (eridium) chests are annoying since if you don't have forty moonstones you miss out on a large portion of that area's loot, enemy designs are uninteresting, the whole world looks very same-y, the vehicles aren't fun to drive. Outside of the same reasonably solid gunplay, if Borderlands 2 did it well, Borderlands The Pre-Sequel does it poorly. It's not the worst game I've ever played, but it's a sequel that does everything wrong. Unless you're a series die hard or it's $5 with DLC, this is one to avoid. Even for cheap, it's not even really worth your time if you aren't a Borderlands devotee.    … Expand
  29. DanielQuesnelJr
    Jan 6, 2015
    0
    Last time I ever play a game created by Australians. So many glitches, so many reasons to make me delete my character and to uninstall the game. Complete bullcrap of a game. I'm not even going to bother beating this game, wasted my money on the season pass expecting much more than what I payed for.
  30. lemans81
    Dec 28, 2014
    4
    I will keep this simple, if you love Borderlands 2 game play this is a success, if you can't imagine Borderlands 2 without the humor then this game is a complete failure. I loved Borderlands and Borderlands 2 is a top 3 game for me, the pre-sequel is a complete miss because of its lack of any humor for me.
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75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 55 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 55
  3. Negative: 0 out of 55
  1. CD-Action
    Dec 13, 2014
    75
    Derivative, but also colorful, absurd and fun. If you played one Borderlands game, you played them all. [Dec 2014, p.56]
  2. Digital Trends
    Nov 25, 2014
    50
    There isn’t a AAA game out there that doesn’t exist to make money, but Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel stumps for dollars in a brazenly insipid way. It’s a paint-by-numbers effort, almost from top to bottom.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Nov 25, 2014
    76
    2K delivered exactly what it promised: a derivative game which nevertheless deserves to be completed in single-player for the story. And then maybe one more play through with a friend or two, just to shoot stuff and kid around, before setting Pre-Sequel aside until DLCs come. Just as it always is with Borderlands. [Dec 2014, p.64]
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