• Snot Flickerman
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    2812 days ago

    So you can’t play with friends? Isn’t that like half of the fun of Bonerlands?

    • @Goretantath@lemmy.world
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      1612 days ago

      Tbh i never played the series with friends so i wouldnt know, was just fun collecting guns shooting things and hacking in super combos.

      • @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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        712 days ago

        I’ve pretty much only played BL2/BL3 with someone else. It’s so damn fun, especially the Arenas.

        But I guess not any more. 😮‍💨

      • @mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        212 days ago

        That’s a shame, because the series truly shines with multiplayer. It turns a grindy incremental loot game into a reason to hang out with friends.

        Probably a tenth of my friends list on Steam came from joining random public Borderlands games, and just hanging out with whoever happened to be playing.

    • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      712 days ago

      Can’t complain about the single player half of the fun at the price of free, though.

      The game is so old, it should run fine even in a VM.

    • @Binturong@lemmy.ca
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      12 days ago

      this is 50% factual in that coop is 100% the reason for the game franchise existing and succeeding. BL2 is pretty much the peak of the series too IMO, this is such a weird and dumb move by Gearbox, just trying to profit off useful hype for BL4, reminding people what it might be like in a timely manner is profit enough on release, but they wanna act like we don’t know what they’re doing. I can’t tell if this is to kneecap the fanbase’s expectation of good multiplayer ahead of time, or what. Let’s just say I’m skeptical they’re giving away a janky version of BL2 because they’re extremely confident their new release will do well, pretty revealing to me.