This post is part of my running series: My Steam Backlog (see all MySteamBacklog tagged posts).
With the lull in activity for New World I am back at it in my backlog of games on Steam. Today I booted up Borderlands 2 and an hour later uninstalled it. Here's my thoughts.
This was actually my second go around at Borderlands 2 and it didn't take long for me to remember why I stopped playing the first time around. For context, I loved the original Borderlands. It was a fast looter shooter and was
over before it overstayed it's welcome. Borderlands 2 on the other hand
bogs down as soon as you start. The looting and shooting is still
there but there is a good bit of waiting inbetween.
To go along with the waiting I also had some technical issues. Changing resolutions and windowed kept causing the game to not launch properly. Then while playing, no matter the settings, I kept getting stutters intermittently. Mouse sensitivity was all over the place and I was never able to figure out what was up between the game's settings and my mouse's DPI settings. I don't have issues in other games.
Throw in technical issues and an early reminder starting a new game that there is a bit of waiting and I was bored fairly quickly and moved the game to uninstalled. For the purposes of my Steam backlog though it is off the list! Glad I picked it up in a sale :)
Some screenshots:
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Oh... ah... pretty sky!
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I do like the intro screens but they are a bit too common to start the game out.
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| I do like the intro screens but they are a bit too common to start the game out. |
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Oh look a quest where... all I do is... wait?
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Oh look... another quest where all you do is... wait?
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| I do like the intro screens but they are a bit too common to start the game out. |
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By the background you can see I was in the middle of shootin' when this game tip popped up freezing the action.
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