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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9722978" data-attributes="member: 18">Been playing some Borderlands 3, which was very cheap recently (I guess because Borderlands 4 is coming out next month). It's definitely more annoyingly written than previous ones, albeit not quite as clumsily, but the actual combat gameplay is clearly a huge improvement, and it's genuinely good when you're fighting people, collecting and assessing loot, and so on. The guns are more interesting and the powers are better designed than previous Borderlands, too. It is kinda let down repeatedly by excessive self-indulgent bits where you have to stand around tapping your foot whilst an NPC talks nonsense though. Especially as it's often not very punchy and there often weird delays. It can be very funny, but there's just far too much "please stand here whilst unfunny influencer-themed stuff happens slowly".Also, I dunno who told them that the vehicle sections are good and necessary, but they are neither of those things - this is true in every Borderlands game! The strongest sections by far are when you're on foot and in combat for an extended period. I hope they've learned from that for Borderlands 4 - it does look like the improved the writing quite a bit from the trailers at least, and the vehicles they showed were at least a lot faster than BL3's slowpoke ones.</blockquote>