They're the neighborhood kid who catches a lizard and thinks it's really cool, and it *is* cool, except he puts it in a box and it dies. But they're also and bumbling and clueless. I mean, don't get me wrong: they're also lovable, brilliant, passionate, technically astounding, and outright visionary. There's only one possible answer: they are clueless. How the hell did they arrive at the conclusion that "We should have 87 bazillion guns, and you personally should be able to keep, like, twelve of them!" But Gearbox has been thinking over this whole endgame-farming thing for, oh, probably eight years or more. I mean, at least Ambassador de Sadesky had a somewhat plausible excuse. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of 87 Bazillion Guns is LOST, if you don't let people keep them! Why didn't you add more bank slots, EH? Strangelove were alive to play BL2 today, he'd have said:ĭr. As you know, the Premier loves surprises. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is LOST if you keep it a SECRET! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?Īmbassador de Sadesky: It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb:ĭr. Let me make this really simple and clear. But I don't waaaaant to! Why did they have to get this wrong? Why did I have to be so predictively correct? Argh! A week playing the game, another week on playthrough 2, a final week finishing all the optional side quests, and then boom - the farming is fundamentally broken, so let's go play something else. I mean, I knew I'd have this reaction, but I failed to predict how amazingly fast it would happen. And my reaction was, predictably, to think seriously about either creating a mule character or going back to play BL1. Three weeks after the release, I had my dreaded first "I really don't want to throw this gun away, but I have NO GODDAMN ROOM FOR IT, THANK YOU RANDY PITCHFORK" gun-discarding experience. I predicted, as you may recall, that (A) it'd be a great game ("duh"), (B) they'd screw up the token economy because they only partly understand it, and (C) as a direct result of B, players would gradually head back to Borderlands. My predictions from my previous post, "The Borderlands Gun Collectors Club", all came completely 100% true, with Hyperionesque accuracy, Jakobsian impact, Maliwaney inflammatoryness, Tedioric blasting and surprisingly, even Vladofish speed.
Well, never, unless, of course, I get to say it loudly, within hearing of a biggish stadium full of people.
I'm not the kind of person to say "I told you so." Noooo. If you're not into it, just don't read it! I'll write about stuff you like some other time. This is basically a review of, and a pros/cons rant about, Borderlands 2.
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