BORDERLANDS 2 (Zero Punctuation)

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[@defenem73]

Hey, I think found Yahtzee's Borderlands 3 review.

[@williamhawkins6504]

Nah

[@lukesteltenpool8878]

Yea

[@denmark1226]

This is the pre-sequel, dumbass. Couldn't you tell?

[@rockowlgamer631]

@@denmark1226 you couldn't tell it was sarcasm

[@JambleBramble]

I'll never understand why someone willingly listens to someone else's opinion and then get mad about it not being the same as theirs. Does that not defeat the purpose of listening to another opinion to begin with

[@jafoste91]

you should distribute that comment all over the internet

[@AngelCakes1997]

Some people like to get mad I guess

[@93lozfan]

No you're wrong i must know what everyone on the internet thinks about something that I genuinely like.

[@daltonslayton5713]

I'm mad at your opinion on others opinion on their opinion. Like that?

[@Taeryth]

Dalton Slayton dude scientist shud b u

[@TheBurntFish]

I can see Gearbox doing a mission for Borderlands 3 where you have to get back a shiny red balloon stolen from Yatt Z. Critic - and during the mission he never shuts up.

[@Mr_T_Badger]

Pity they didn’t, might have livened up BL3 enough to make me want to play it again.

[@angieknights8687]

@@Mr_T_Badger so replacing the 3 with an E describes the game

[@MsSomeone98]

When I first heard Wilhelm was gonna be a playable character for the Pre-Sequel, I said "What? That bin on legs that was poisoned?"

[@barrbrown12]

What people don't seem to remember about Yahtzee is that playing video games is his full-time job. Playing repetitive shooters is fun if you only get to do it a few times a week in one or two hour segment a few times a week. Yahtzee basically has to plow through hours of every game he plays in about three or four days. The reason he is so hard on games is not only because of his high standards, but also because something truly unique actually breaks up the monotony of playing shooter after shooter.

[@tommerker8063]

thats no reason to lie though. most of what he said about the game is just straight up lies and imagination

[@barrbrown12]

@@tommerker8063 I bought the game almost a decade ago when I was in high school to have something to play with a friend. I remember returning it after playing for less than an evening. Yahtzee has been wrong before, and I don't always agree with his opinion. However, in the case of Borderlands 2, I agree that it is a boring repetitive shooter with not much going on besides flashy colors and funny dialogue.

[@tommerker8063]

@@barrbrown12 hey man thats not the problem, i don't think any game/book/film is perfect, but it's one thing to state an opinion and another to lie about stuff.

[@tommerker8063]

​@That Other NCR Ranger how about the simple fact that boderlands 2 is more than an ice level. how about the fact tact that borderlands has more than 1 enemy type. he intentionaly makes the game sound boring because he didn't enjoy it. it's pretty easy to tell that ,while he didn't like it, he had to realy dig for scraps to justify his opinion and make the game sound blander than it actually is. if you consider this to be "telling the truth" then a truthfull review of age of empire is "there is only 1 map and all you do is train villagers"

[@tommerker8063]

@That Other NCR Ranger so you don't want me to answer your question? then why even ask?

[@holdenk380]

Zer0 Punctuation

[@valkaerie8715]

You scare me

[@Trollgaming1987]

@@valkaerie8715 your profile pic made me piss my pants and then i shit for 10 hours straight

[@valkaerie8715]

@@Trollgaming1987 oh shit

[@gregorycomey]

Zer zero Punctuation

[@LilGoopyGuy_]

Oh...

[@GlyntTheCat]

Despite his opinion being different to my own, I am entertained by what he thinks of this game.

[@Mancboy2000]

Isn't it always? For like, every game ever?

[@I_am_ENSanity]

I actually like Borderlands 2, mainly because playing as Krieg is hilarious but also because of Jack's witting and aggrivating commentary.

[@CenDrao]

Captain Rave Slendy it gives us the one thing that the market is missing.. Good couch coop

[@I_am_ENSanity]

Bob Rayson You're right! Nothing better than playing double Krieg with my good friend. It's absolutely hilarious!

[@numatruehome100]

Captain Rave Slendy my favorite characters are the El savador and hansome jack

[@I_am_ENSanity]

numaTruehome 100 Krieg and Jack for me! Also Moxxi but I'm a single guy so that was given!

[@I_am_ENSanity]

numaTruehome 100 And Mr. Torque!!!! His ads are hilarious!!!!

[@QuantumLoopNinja]

Meh, I quite enjoyed borderlands 2 but yahtzees right about the endless bandits. Whilst the enemy design is quite good and variable later on, all you fight for the first four bloody hours is bandits and bullymongs.

[@JMThought]

So true

[@yonokhanman654]

I've never met an enemy called "bullymong", could it be that you meant bonerfarts?

[@DarkTooniverse]

Yeah but you fight a lot of types of bandit and bullymong, vehicles, rakks, etc

[@thomasemil8909]

Many types of bandits that each require a different strategy that is not boring borderlands 2 is the greatest game of all time

[@Soridan]

@@thomasemil8909 "point and click on it until it dies" works for all of them.

[@ShineyRcus0103]

I'm being perfectly honest when I say Borderlands 2 just might be my favorite game. Ever.

[@thetocotaco]

It's definitely in my top 5.

[@V-Jes]

i do think it's good when u can find better and better weapons but it looses that in vaulthunter mode when u have done all dlc missions and i hate how they treat the prewius characters like dust

[@JohnnyNatrium]

mywlan2 Honestly, yes, the single biggest thing that holds this game back, and completely made it fall down before I could ever actually finish it, after many hours of fun, was that the quests just don't scale with your level. WHY DON'T THEY JUST IMPLEMENT THIS?? It literally is impossible to play even half of all the sidequests (and I want to do all of them) in a single playthrough, with them keeping up with your level. After reaching level 25 or so, the game's quests just hit their max level and all the challenge got taken out of it. I needed to mandatorily finish the main quest and then RESTART the whole campaign in True Vault Hunter mode, to basically continue to level up, but of course this means that I'll need to do all those damn sidequests that I spent so much time on (which I love for the actual plot and progression more than just saying "let's go back there for the 100th time to get some better loot now", IMO the loot is only good for using on a *new* experience, i.e. a new sidequest). Then of course the experience is changed in True Vault Hunter mode because the difficulty is ramped up just a bit too high for comfort on Single Player. It's still quite doable, but it's more agitating at times, whereas the original single player experience was perfect when the quest level was scaled to my own. But EVEN THEN, of course it's impossible to do all the sidequests, because for fuck's sake, the quests don't scale up with you, so after awhile you find yourself AGAIN being ahead of the game, making those sidequests obsolete. If I now want to go further than level 50, I need to restart the whole campaign *again*, except now it really IS impossible to enjoy because the difficulty is ramped up so incredibly far that it is designed purely for co-op play. I loved the single player experience, listening to Paul Simon whilst progressing through all of the game's sidequests and the stories, of course finding new loot too, was quite probably the best gaming experience that has come out over the past ten years. Why did this have to get stopped dead in its tracks, just because something simple like scaling the quests (at least making it an option) in the ORIGINAL campaign, is being declined? Why would they refuse to just include this? Why do they teasingly and cluelessly have to make it impossible to just finish all the quests (without counting mutually exclusive ones if any) in one single player game, without the quests just completely halting and staying below your level, effectively breaking the game? WHY GEARBOX, WHY???? Anyway sorry for that rant, this was the first time I actually publicly decided to voice the immense frustration I have with the completion of this game being abruptly, while I was right in the middle of enjoying the fuck out of it, taken away from me. They keep creating new DLC and content too, luring me into playing more, yet all that playing the DLC does, is get my level higher again, which makes all the main-game quests be too low a level again, even sooner. Ughhhhh. Someone hack this game and bring us a quest-level scaler, by God!

[@V-Jes]

Johnny Natrium i actually beated all side quests in my 1st playthrought except that level 50 boss after the campain

[@Ajayzz67]

poor birdy

[@thescouthere9183]

Y'know, I don't know WHY I like Borderlands 2. The gameplay DOES boil down to "Shoot bandits, fetch an item, compare gear, repeat", but it seems like so much more than that...

[@8789spartan]

The Scout Here It has good writing. Also the combat mechanics are pretty good and it has high replay-ability. Plus the co-op is nice and smooth, and that is something a lot of games have fucked up royally.

[@thescouthere9183]

Hm, you're right. =D

[@BIadelores]

+The Scout Here Because repetitive doesn't indicate whether it's bad or not. Every single game, in the whole world, is repetitive, to an extent or another.

[@ObiJuanKenobi3]

+Weekend Nachos well it has to be repetitive. Look at Bioshock, remember how much people hated those pipe puzzles to hack? How would you like it, if in Borderlands, you all of a sudden had to reason and choose proper dialogue in order to convince a bandit to give you the npc's missing sock or some shit, instead of just blowing his brains out with a gun that shoots acid? It would be jarring and not as fun as blowing his brains out, so people would criticize something they had asked for, variety.

[@thescouthere9183]

...well, isn't that what Tales of the Borderlands is?

[@ilyasasilgaly2744]

Anyone here played Borderlands 2 only solo and had so much fun?

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

Ilyas Asilgaly I had quite a lot of fun

[@MadBoyChes]

Ilyas Asilgaly me because I have no friends 😂

[@calvinbailey5354]

Nope. One of most boring games I've ever played.

[@ViNncentSmith]

yep. one the most thrilling games i've ever played.

[@NeoSaturos123]

That did make the boss fights seem disappointingly easy and the bosses themselves seem really weak though.

[@toshavarnley]

To answer the question about how the boss monster that wiped out the original four vault hunters but was killed easily by you, I'm pretty sure it's implied that Wilhem was used as bate to get the faulty core that would disable Sanctuary's shield. And the question on how can an entire planet be on Borderlands? I got the impression it meant Pandora is on the border of charted territory, so it's quite unlawful because of that.

[@Whackfear]

+Sam Mutch to make your point a bit more detailed, there was dialogue on the game saying that handsome jack poisoned wilhelm before his fight with the vaulthunter(s) in borderlands2. Unfortunately, as the lead writer said in a speedrun of this game (and probably on reddit or somewhere else), the dialogue was cut and he regrets it to this day. That's why wilhelm was such a chump.

[@ClonesDream]

+DoctorGeigner wait wot. the writer speedran the game? linko mc dinko me to the video so i can watch it thnx

[@ObiJuanKenobi3]

+DoctorGeigner I'm not sure, but I think that dialogue got patched in. I could have sworn I heard it on Handsome Collection. Don't quote me on this, it might just be placebo effect or something.

[@Whackfear]

ObiJuanKenobi3 i might actually go take a look at that. thanks mate.

[@cheaptoysandcheaptoysnotgr8627]

WHO CARES!?!?!?!?!?

[@Adammyers1995]

That Robins Willams joke sort of hurts now RIP

[@OddJob117]

It wasn't really insulting him though

[@Adammyers1995]

I know

[@Crowny132]

The reason that it is so easy for you to kill the giant bin on legs that killed team widdlebiscuit was because handsome jack poisoned the bin on legs so you would pick up the power core that angle could hack into. Its part of the story line that for some odd reason you clearly couldnt understand,

[@DILFDylF]

Yahtzee can be kind of thick sometimes.

[@KimonoBoxFox]

Mr. Big Snake Yahtzee can be impatient and tends to bitch about min/max gameplay. It's the whole MMO issue; he'd rather be immersed in a narrative than immersed in fiddling with a fancy car, and that's basically what the items and skills in Borderlands 2 amount to: parts to be twinked and fiddled with.The story is there, but by this point, are you really going to wait on Croshaw to pick up a multiplayer game for the story, let alone at all?

[@Crowny132]

Wrong, when you install the power core angle hacks your systems and jack tells you angle is working for him. Its pretty obvious.

[@Crowny132]

***** You dont need to know he was poisoned to know he was supposed to be easy. Why do you think they removed the fucking line. If you werent supposed to kill willhelm easily then jacks whole plan to attack sanctuary would be ruined.

[@alyxandergonzalez9824]

***** actually, angel the chick that talks to you in the beginning, does pretty much admit to betraying you and Jack rubs it in your face as sanctuary is being attacked by that big satellite thingy. It's kind've obvious, after I defeated Wilhelm I thought it www weird cause I should he dead, until I put his core into sanctuary and than boom betrayal from angel and bombardment from handsome jack, it didn't take a genius or a second play through to get that connected

[@motorcycleman115]

I've never seen a game that can be so much fun at some times and so boring at other times. It's like a yin-yang situation!

[@SinerAthin]

Borderlands 2 was a massive improvement over its predecessors, you can't really dispute that.

[@grimmSOL]

Personally, I thought it was a prime example of a sequel done correctly. My personal GOTY 2012, but that's just me... a person who thinks the only thing wrong with BL2 is the driving controls, heh.

[@SinerAthin]

grimmSOL Yeah, I wasn't thoroughly impressed by the vehicles either. The vehicle gameplay felt shallow and tacked on. But its predecessor didn't really have great vehicle play either so. Still, they expanded on all the things that made the first game good, and fixed some of the negatives :P

[@fsffda]

its easy to improve on garbage

[@fsffda]

007kingifrit all of your comments are defending games yahtzee atacks. fuck off troll

[@mjc0961]

Yes I can. Borderlands 2 only had one predecessor, and thus was not a huge improvement over its predecessors. It only had one, and thus cannot be an improvement over multiple. Also they put in more guns which was bad because it just meant more shit guns, they took out the good classes from the first game and replaced them with slightly worse versions, the main gameplay was not improved at all, and the story was boring. So there's all that too. So yeah, I'm going to say that Borderlands 2 was worse than its one single predecessor. ***** They're probably revered because of the games they are in. Handsome Jack and Vaas are the only characters worth anything in their respective games. Outside of the old characters from BL1, I can't even remember another BL2 character outside of Handsome Jack. And every other character in Far Cry 3 aside from Vaas was obnoxious and awful. Especially the main character, I don't know how they can claim he had development when he had none. I guess they count crying in the first mission but then being a cold blooded killing machine who enjoys killing from the second mission onward as development? I don't. They just flipped a switch and changed his character, but they didn't develop it. He wasn't slowly going nuts, he was already full-on nuts as soon as he woke up in black guy who was so unremarkable I can't remember his name's hut.

[@Spiran_SphereHunter]

I know it's rather pointless to say but willhelm was sacrafised by jack so that you wold take the fake core into sanctuary

[@alldayagain]

They do explain why that big robot that beat the last vault hunters was so easy, it was a part of Jack's Plan

[@Znijik]

Well I enjoyed it. Out of all the other first person shooters, this was the most fast paced (unless you just had an incredible sniper and always got criticals with it from the very safe distance of across the map) It does take awhile before you find a gun that's better than the one you have (about 10-15 levels, give or take). The quirkiness is what I fell in love with. I'm not some sort of angsty anti-hero, a tortured soul, or even someone who's fighting to survive. Borderlands 2 is purely about how you have a gun, they have guns, so go shoot them so that you can have all the guns.

[@taillessboo9599]

Why did I read that in Hank's voice?

[@eelshark12345]

I read it like that too lol.

[@imludwig]

eelshark12345 I Agree El Tiburon

[@truekurayami]

Madalin Grama I'm sorry but when you got up to the highest levels you were lucky to get kills with a sniper without modifiying the gun, character, or game data. the most OP gun, which is a rocket, still takes a few clips to clear an area without repeatedly dying

[@mbsb1376]

Madalin Grama Well, I had obtained a fuckin "Gunerang" (guess what it does?) pistol in a chest and I got stuck with it for a looooong time. Every character except Roland and Maya and possibly Moxxi are all nuts. MAD nuts, so there is nothing blacker than you except Handsome Jack

[@AnonYmous-wr7xr]

That Bandits nicked his anger bit cracked me up for a long while

[@Rokk_]

The whole thing about the robot boss being easy to kill while everyone's saying he is too powerful is actually part of Jack's plan. He poisoned Wilhelm so you'd pick up the infected power core and allow Angel to lower Sanctuary's shields.

[@terranark]

Was that before or after the mountain of fetch quests, fight this dude, drive and collect... Missions? Fair to say, after grinding it out this holiday, I 100% understand where he is coming from. The powers (if you can call them that" are so passive and linear. Diehard fans can argue over Gaige and Salvador damage in OP10 all they want, but for the first time gamer, this game is too much punishment to warrant a second playthrough and only have 1 of your skill trees vaguely complete

[@TheUltimoSniper]

I wonder if there is really a way to prevent "Start and Stop" in shoot and loot games. That was the major problem in BL2

[@ProfessorHeavyTF2]

From now on, I'm calling the game: "The Shooty Shooty Adventures of The Vault Hunter of The Planet Pandora (no not that one)"

[@SlamdogX]

The combat in Borderlands 2 is so fucking tedious it bored me to tears. Then you spend 15 minutes after clearing an area picking up all the new shit and making room for all the new weapons and dropping a weapon that you don't wanna drop.

[@BigALittleARon]

You can clean up after a battle fairly quickly. I just scan every weapon as they drop. Skip white weapons, or really, leave most stuff on the ground. Just grab the occasional thing that really stands out.

[@Kingfury4]

If it's not purple or orange, don't even acknowledge that it exists.

[@ExorArgus]

if take more then 2 seconds to decide if you want to use a weapon or not. 99% of the time its not worth it and 1% chance it has some sort of orange special thing you don't understand which is pretty good.

[@truekurayami]

Kingfury4 i didn't either tell the 4th campain dlc then they gave you the "sacraficial alter" that let you just fuck around with all the worthless loot

[@waynehuggins4596]

I love this guy, no matter how good a game is or no matter how much I may enjoy playing a game he has the ability to just take it and shitt on every single aspect about it. And the worst part is that the shit he says is actually true. You can't argue with this guy.

[@zarathustra7291]

Yes, very true. A shooter involves shooting things, and that's repetitive. Next he'll tell us that tennis, or chess, is repetitive. Real cutting edge stuff.

[@lavetissene339]

@@zarathustra7291 I think you're confusing 'Shooters' with Spunkgargleweewee

[@TTRPGSarvis]

"Because I enjoy this game, no one can ever dislike it!" - Most Commenters here. Am I the only person who can enjoy a game, and not mind if others don't?

[@lewisbeechey6167]

No I enjoyed this game though I can accept people don't like it even then Yahtzee might actually like it because his job is to make ever game either seem like the Shitfest it isn't or the Shitfest it is.

[@MagicGonads]

The difference is because it's a severe misrepresentation of the game, he most likely didn't play it all or experience co-op. Sure you can not like the gameplay because you find looting boring, but thats basically the only significant way in which the game could be boring.

[@Tobygamesiscool]

Am I the only one here who purposefully watches Yahtzee reviews knowing well that he will hate on a game I like but choosing to do so because it's amusing and I'm okay with liking shitty games sometimes?

[@elvisneedsboats7856]

Sarvis The Buck Well, you are obviously a furry, so your opinion doesn't matter.

[@Tobygamesiscool]

Also, by what train of logic is he a furry? Is it because his profile picture is a green deer? Are you saying everyone with an animal in their profile picture is a furry? Well, guess what? Humans are animals to, so I guess you're a furry as well.

[@duncanwallace7760]

Handsome Jack (B2 & Pre Sequel) is the best villain of any game or movie ever, according to me. Chopping down his statues with Clappy as he got more and more annoyed (pre-sequel) was one of the greatest & most satisfying gaming experiences I've had. I know ZeroSpunktuation doesn't like the games, but they are the best shooters I've ever played (yes ever better than Quake1). I do like Mr ZP's reviews though. In this case he's either just got different taste in games (although normally I agree with him) or he was put off by B1 complete lack of storyline and missed the awesome story which evolves through B2 and the Pre-sequel.

[@danielasilva69457]

God, thank you! I never got what was the deal with Wilhelm and the characters like "oh no, look. it's the android man. run. he's too powerful for you". Thanks for trying to make me care Gearbox, but i don't. It's so dumb lmao

[@bennilol2034]

Did you play the mission directly after that one ?

[@svensekovanic8439]

not a lot of things upset me... I mean everyone has their own opinion... but BLOODY calling call of duty 4 better than borderlands...I...I think I'm going to go to the corner and cry now

[@Hifuutorian]

Sven Sekovanic Call of Duty 4 is easily the best one. Meanwhile, Borderlands is a pile of shit that tries to be funny and quirky but succeeds at neither of those things.

[@TheCobrareaper]

Thing is, Borderlands 2 was never supposed to be a true sequel. TotalBiscuit nailed it: Gearbox wanted to play it safe, so they fixed most things that didn't work out in the first game and added more content. Messing with the formula that worked so well originally (besides the issues that were fixed in BL2) would have destroyed the series. This is the reason why CoD is still popular (no, I'm not a CoD fanboy; haven't played either of the newer games and was never a fan of arcade shooters). Most CoD fans like the same feel with new guns, new killstreaks, etc. Fucking with that would be stupid and would ruin the series. I have to respect IW, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer for keeping with the same formula for so long, because it's worked out. Don't like it? Don't play it. Same with Borderlands 2. If you didn't like the first one, don't play the second one because it's basically the same game with more variety, improved features, and an expanded story.

[@TheCobrareaper]

Only things I hate about the game are as follows: 1. Gearbox desperately wants you to play with others. Most of the bosses are very annoying when fighting solo, and the game likes to throw tons of enemies at you. I don't have any friends that play the game and don't want to play in pub matches because the loot system is horrible (greedy people will just take everything, leaving others with no loot). They better fix this in the next game. 2. Passive and active skills need revamping. Why don't we have more than one active skill? Kind of annoying that I have to use the same damn turret for the entire playthrough. Oh, and a lot of the passive skills in the skill trees are either really boring or aren't very effective. For instance, I'm really far down on one of the trees, and there's a skill that gives me more grenades. But it's really far down. Why not put that at the beginning? That's just a waste of a perk right there.

[@ExorArgus]

TheCobrareaper you only have one active skill id think because (other then the siren) you are basically a badass dude who's looking for treasures (which is siren is the one of the most powerful being in the universe [i guess they get around this being like "well they still haven't mastered their powers {which is still lazy}]) what kind of active skills are you looking for that aren't pretty much a roll or an animated finisher. also having more transfusion nades is amazing at all points in the game. Also the bosses (other then the bosses that are designed to be done with more then one person[which still aren't that hard if your prepared]) are all pretty easy even as done as the most awkward character (playthrough 1 melee zer0 alone).

[@HardMGaming]

I agree with almost all of the points here, but it is still a fun game for whatever reason. Maybe I'm just one of those weird people who really enjoys watching numbers get arbitrarily bigger the longer I play a game.

[@Nukestarmaster]

Have you ever played any idle games?

[@HistoryNerd1792]

If they get bigger the longer you play, then they're not arbitrary. They would be arbitrary if they were completely random, with no relationship to anything.

[@jackgebhardt2932]

It's a skinnerbox thing.

[@tonycampbell1424]

That's called "classical conditioning," and it implies you have brainpower somewhere between a dog and a rat.

[@aegis027]

The problem is that it's just too repetitive. The unique weapons were supposed to be a way to fix that, but there are some weapon combinations that you can just throw out the window, like Hyperion snipers and anything Torque makes that isn't a shotgun. Odds are, you will find one combination you like, say a Dahl AR, and spend the rest of the game sifting through terrible weapons, looking for one that is only slightly better than the one you are replacing. The incredibly slow progression through character upgrades, and the fact that the majority are passives that do almost bugger all, mean that this is a game that never really throws anything new at you after you reach sanctuary.

[@gibberconfirm166]

I just got this super-cheap on Steam and I'm almost done after 45 minutes. Something about it rubs me the wrong way. I like RPG stuff, I like energetic story, I like style, I like shooting things--I seriously just don't know. I was playing Fallout 1 (the "boringest"((?)) shooter sandbox ever) all day and it was far more engaging. It's hard to say. Somehow the RPG experience of clicking on rats to shoot them in Fallout 1 massively outperformed this.

[@MillRunner]

The game is just the same thing over and over. You and the enemies level up the same way so every enemy you fight will always be 1-3 levels higher than you, meaning the difficulty curve sucks. Plus the humor is too memetic.

[@emanuelv.5873]

***** Atleast they don't throw in excessively memetic humour. I don't see a lot of memes.

[@SonofTiamat]

It's almost like they wanted to make a shooter specifically for the neck-beards.

[@MillRunner]

And they succeeded with flying colors.

[@gittonsxv126]

2:04 interesting fact about that, the robot guy is really a man in a mech suit and jack, his boss, poisoned him to make sure you won so you would take his powercore which was rigged back to your base which you do and that causes the shields to go down and jack to nearly win.

[@cybersteel8]

He poisoned him? I thought Jack already knew we were badass enough to kill Wilhelm. Where did it say he poisoned him?

[@Saucyshire]

***** One of the team members involved in making the game said the lines to explain that were taken out because this and that. Either way he was suppose to be killed for the trap to take effect. Forgot to mention it was an unused echo saying jack poisoned him prior to the fight.

[@cybersteel8]

Sir Saucington von Awesomeshire Very interesting... cheers mate!

[@julius_skweezer]

Anything that's a shooter zero hates for the most part.

[@WinstonPoptart]

jcherep1997 Not Wolfenstein

[@ObiJuanKenobi3]

I don't really get how he thinks the game is boring. The characters are interesting, the sidequests are usually pretty fun, the sheer vast number of guns, with only a select few being meh, the areas are complex and fun to shoot in, the combat is intricate with you having to choose which shield class mod and grenade mod would best complement your guns and the enemies are just fun to kill. There are a lot of possible criticisms about this game (the drop rates are shit, some weapon manufacturers are useless *cough bandit cough* etc) but boring is not one I would ever in a million years think. I also don't get the argument "if you took away the quirky wallpaper it would be a barebones shooter," well no shit Sherlock! That's like saying "if you took away the charm and level design from Rayman: Legends it would be a barebones platformer,". Of course if you take away what separates a game from the crowd you'll get something barebones.

[@valdaycore7638]

+ObiJuanKenobi3 Plus his rant on the cars,i think the car parts were my favorite,because using them to fight was fun as fuck. One of my criticizems is that they dont do more with it,sometimes i just used to roam around the sand area where that fat fuck was and drive around shooting barrels at flying helicopters and ramming into enemy cars. I would really enjoy a boss fight with it.

[@valdaycore7638]

supermysticsonic2 Take your opinion,and shove it up your ass.

[@summit1434]

+Nonsensical Idiot You sound like that sort of person that has never actually had any experience with the Borderlands series whatsoever and you do realize that the game got 10/10 on Steam with over 90% thumbs up, 9/10 from IGN and 8,5 from Gamespot! There's so much more and the game really does have a lot to it. It has great replayability and will keep you engaged for hours

[@siniok3952]

at first borderlands was so much fun. but then i played on true vault hunter then i was bored and never wanted to play the game again

[@siniok3952]

***** no, i had bought most of the DLCs and was level 60 something. It just got repetitive

[@Number1TaxEvader]

SiniOk i mean, it is just the same thing, but enemies have more health

[@siniok3952]

Alexander Coryn exactly. It was repetitive. As you said "the same thing" but a bit harder.

[@mememarauder8738]

Yeah Tvhm and uvhm are more geared towards people such as myself that will do the same thing for 6 hours that gives us slightly better gear only to die over and over again until we bash our skulls into sand grains. I have 300+ hours in borderlands because for some bizarre reason the previously mentioned process is something I enjoy

[@DeadManSinging1]

Finally, someone who agrees with me on Borderlands. Or as I like to call it: "We tried to make a MMO but forgot the whole massively multiplayer bit"

[@tommerker8063]

ohh please, there is nothing against not liking the game, but his critique is straigth up lies

[@Azzanine9]

I found borderlands a little tiring to play with or without Co-op. It was fun for 30 mins then it became a chore. TBH I can't really explain why.

[@SigmaSyndicate]

If you found the audio logs for each playable character, you'll find that each has their own personal back-story for why they're on Pandora. Zer0 is on Pandora looking for challenging battles, Maya wants to find out about Sirens, Axton heard about the Vault and was lured by fame and fortune, and Salvador is a freedom fighter seeking to destory Hyperion. Jack lured them all to the train via radio, the same way he speaks to you throughout the game.

[@robotom6595]

2:22 those actually sound really really good...

[@ChillerCabra]

the borderlands series is my favorite, and I really love this review :D

[@KulZaze]

+Captain Holiday You must be really enjoying Mad Max game right about now, right? That game feels like a alternate version of Borderland the only variation being the emphasis is more on car & melee combat rather than Guns.........

[@ChillerCabra]

Kul Zaze I do in fact love the new mad max game. yes :)

[@maxayson9386]

+Captain Holiday Same, i been playing through Tales lately, and my love has just got more intense, good thing theres a film announced that will probably suck as its a film based off a game to stop me from doing things that are wrong and evil in the eyes of god and man to the game disk of bl3 when it hits

[@johnmarston2616]

While everything you said about this game is accurate... I still loved it.

[@tommerker8063]

almost nothing of what he said is accurate

[@crazy13alex]

@@tommerker8063 It is, though. Especially on the vehicles and guns.

[@KunLunKungFu]

Eh. Eh. Opinions. I personally love the fuck out of this game. The reason why it wasn't changed much from the original actually abides by the saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". This game takes a few leaps, and some of which are pretty big ones, such as *SPOILERS* killing off one of the four original (and possibly most loved) Vault Hunters, a bird that we grew stangely attached to, if you've stuck with the first one, and having and killing off one of -if not- the best villains in video game history. I mean, come on, Handsome Jack is the fuckin' greatest. Yes, the game can get tedious, but you know what they say...if you're bored then you are boring.

[@xX123Dorian123Xx]

You flew way hight with that "killing off one of if not the best villains in video game history." I understand that it's just an opinion but it can still be wrong. He's a good villain but one of the best...

[@tommerker8063]

opinions are one thing, lying to make the game appear more bland that is is another story

[@martinbooyens6013]

Think the case with Wilhelm is that handsome Jack poisoned him to make it more realistic that you could intercept the super power core

[@TXFDA]

I small thing to point out though, that's not a fault of the video or anything. But it was found that there's actually a REASON you can kill that one boss really easily, despite him supposedly being strong and beating the original 4 vault hunters. There was an unused bit of dialogue found in the files, where Jack supposedly poisoned the boss, so you could beat him easier, and get the item. They really should have added that into the game somewhere instead of leaving it unused.. I agree with the video. I love Borderlands, but if you dislike having to pick up tons of loot, and compare weapons all the time, and you don't like grinding, you're not gonna have fun with Borderlands. In my case, I enjoy that part, especially when I find a better item. And I can sell what I don't need. I DEFINITELY agree with the 5 locker thing. I hate that you have to open like, 4-5 lockers one at a time, instead of having them all open as a single box.

[@DILFDylF]

I thought it was pretty straightforward that Wilhelm took a dive, even having never heard of the unused dialogue. Maybe Yahtzee just stopped playing after Wilhelm's defeat because... he's a twat.

[@KimonoBoxFox]

Mr. Big Snake Wilhelm has some lines, if you listen, that kind of throw you off even if you weren't already suspicious of the convenience of winning. "My movement is impaired!" "Someone has made a mistake!" "This is literally impossible!" But really, it's not much of a mystery after you come to the point where you've been tricked. Wilhelm had to believe he was defending something, to put up a real fight, but he couldn't be allowed to defeat the Vault Hunter. Yahtzee apparently doesn't like games anything like Diablo... yet he'll defend shit like Shadow of the Colossus from an auteur developer, even though the controls and general design for that game were terrible. My personal insight would be, anything that's been done twice in the public memory, Yahtzee is going to pan with the usual overly-complex analogies because it's easy and funny, and that's that. It's just a shame this episode didn't really make me laugh.

[@KimonoBoxFox]

Captain Zeug Shadow of the Colossus was one gigantic fucking tech demo that combined the sparsest elements of Prince of Persia's gameplay, with the worst aspects of a Zelda boss fight--getting shunted by random flailings off the boss while trying to 'execute' (read, execute, not solve) the obvious puzzle solution (LOOKING AT YOU, GYORG). I can't understand why Croshaw slobbers over it. It's a game about frustratingly trying to drag your way up a flailing rock monster's ass so you can pose for a few seconds before attempting to stick it with a toothpick. On sixteen contiguous occasions, which you're made aware you must put yourself through at the outset of the game, no less. My favorite moment comes whenever you try to press X to jump, because that's what every other console game in god uses, only to half-attempt to call for your horse, before getting flattened by impending colossus. "AGRO---" *WHAM!* Because it felt like your character deserved it, for being so stupidly clumsy and dramatically picking himself up for five seconds after every stumble. This was the 'awake and screaming' (as in, at the TV) half of the game world. In keeping with the ever-popular concept of Dual World gameplay, there is also a half of the world that involves you being asleep on a drunk horse, not knowing which way the game wants you to go around the latest mountain or canyon to get to the actual game part of the game. So pair the concepts of knowing what to do and being unable to do it with knowing where to go and being unable to find the way there, and you have your 'exciting bosses' versus your 'rest of the game' portion. Also, remember how some of the better Zelda games like Majora had clever puzzles for approaching each dungeon, and exploration for side treasures that got you interested in the world and its characters (Couple's Mask, anyone?) Yeah. I'm talking about the lizards. Really, when your only padding between bad boss fights is trying to fish out these tiny little fucks from the world clipping, to make your central gameplay element (which is holding onto things--seriously) work the way it ought to from the beginning, you know your title is desperately bankrupt of good design concepts. And why do I have to stop to shoot them with an arrow--can't I just trample the fuckers like it's GTA and I've got a timed quest to complete in the midst of pedestrian traffic? Never mind the needlessly cruel grip gauge. The game doesn't even bother to explain to you: "Okay, there are going to be certain warning signs that you will be thrown off if you release a button at this particular time." It just says "Climb them and stick it in", then leaves you to the frustration of figuring its vague rules out. This leaving aside the fact that your character poses for thought between every attempt to stab. It's a painfully long game of waiting for your pansy emo bishounen to move to the place you know you have to be, but that the game doesn't want to let you go. At least when Link's games are busy being vapid, I can still hit B and immediately swing my goddamn sword to hit the glowy weak point. Shadow of the Colossus, ironically, just wants to hide in the shadow of its vomitously slow-moving spectacle, and hope you won't call it out for being a poser. It's like the Great and Powerful Oz--all sound and no fury. Pull away the curtain, and you have a repetitive unforgiving puzzle platformer, with an unlovable idiot protagonist. Even if for a second you were to give it a chance for its romanticism, Pandora's Tower executes the same story-concept a hundred times more eloquently in its gameplay, without making you feel like an impotent fop.

[@ka-sr9wn]

If you hold down the open button all of the lockers (As long as they are in a group) open and give you their crap. Same with picking up the loot in crates.

[@TXFDA]

Rami Alshoroogi Yeah but you still have to manually open a million lockers and crates one at a time.

[@agentg9910]

You get to run over things with your truck called "Bonerfarts". 10/10 Too bad that only happens in the "Name Game" mission... :/

[@OddJob117]

Protip, after he starts calling them bonerfarts, stop the quest and they'll stay like that

[@emanuelv.5873]

Oddjob X But then you can't kill them, because it ends the mission ;_;.

[@coryzilligen790]

Oddjob X ...I now know what I'll be doing every time I start a new game.

[@FranckyFox2468]

As much as i loved borderlands 2, its sad to know that the budget put into this game was actually from Sega for Alien colonial marines. Moral of the story: If its not borderlands, DON'T GIVE IT TO GEARBOX (Notable exemples: half-life and duke nukem)

[@distortedguitarist81]

they did okay with Half-Life, they did make Opposing Forces

[@FranckyFox2468]

distortedguitarist81 Oh, you mean the half-life expansion with badly designed puzzles and extremly buggy elevators that you have to use cheats to go through?

[@Kingfury4]

I don't get how Gearbox can make a great game like Borderlands 2 and go to making god awful games like those ones.

[@123maximumthehormone]

you cant fully blame gearbox for duke nukem cause they didnt get the game till later in 2010

[@Darkblitz777]

I'm glad they put the funding into Borderlands 2......................

[@MintMovies]

I think some viewers here missed the memo that said you can both enjoy a game Yahtzee critiques, and the show concurrently. No, really, it's okay!

[@OldsXCool]

Even though I don't agree that the vehicles in this game control like ass, (that award goes to Far Cry 2) that ass and steering wheel analogy was priceless!

[@Gboy86ify]

2:38 The internet has poisoned my mind so thoroughly that the first thing I thought when seeing this was "the bite of '87"

[@vodkice2416]

Did anyone hear him mention Robin Williams? R.I.P...

[@alexmarston1277]

Idiot, this fucking video was made 2 years before he died.

[@Crowny132]

Alex Marston He fucking knows that you pleb. He was mentioning that the name being brought up was sad, not that it was rude or out of order. Idiot.

[@alexmarston1277]

Crownys A Boss Don't type all your problems away kiddo!

[@vodkice2416]

Crownys A Boss Arse

[@alexmarston1277]

Crownys A Boss Nice job deleting your comment

[@connorforce01]

I was so happy when I finished the piss easy final mission/boss fight in borderlands 2. I thought "YES, I never have to play this game ever again".

[@connorforce01]

***** Yes, but I did buy it, well, I finished it for the gamer score.

[@connorforce01]

***** Also to say I finished Borderlands 2.

[@Komnen0s]

Why did you even get that far to begin with?

[@connorforce01]

I finish what I start.

[@connorforce01]

adam dahlstrom How so?

[@alexwright8585]

Why is it that no one in games can drive? Just say it handles shit. So much easier than learning.

[@alexwright8585]

***** Touche.

[@Greg-ku7rn]

I never had a problem with the driving controls. I mean they could be better but they were decent enough for a game that is like 0.0002% driving.

[@InfiniteDarkMass]

It's actually curious to come back to games that are now considered some of the best and see them reviewed just as blandly as the others nobody remembers the names of. This other view helps me wipe some of the rosy tint from my glasses and remember the obvious weak points.

[@IloveGorgeousGeorge]

I'm honestly not excited for 3 at all. The general consensus of the internet, however, is that it's going to be the return of Jesus Christ for the looter-shooter genre. I have my doubts. It barely looks updated at all. Graphics look the same, and now that I'm 29 years old, the "quirkiness" just seems like Tumblr /Hot Topic "randomness XD"

[@tommerker8063]

well it helps if the review is 90% lies

[@GreatDestructo]

I love Zero Punctuation but this is by far my favorite video, I can relate to every one of those criticisms

[@f0x313]

im watchin this while playing the pre sequel

[@duncanwallace7760]

pre sequel was my favourite of the three, put more hours into it that all the others combined.

[@pogsothoth]

I honestly didn’t have as much fun with borderlands as everyone else always praises it for

[@flynnprobett2008]

I cried when I saw BORDERLANDS 2 (Zero Punctuation) How could you...?

[@seph3910]

I can understand why you don't like borderlands 2, but saying that its just a wall paper over BL1 is just a f*cking lie. borderlands 2 has more content, more guns, better gun effects, more story, more dialogue, more humor, is longer, has a better final boos, has new and different enemies, and has far more DLC and replayability. Honestly, people who say it's just like BL1 have never gotten very far in the game at all, and at least not all the way through TVHM tina's DLC.

[@seph3910]

Bio Spec I'm still fine with you not liking BL2 though. there are a LOT of reasons to dislike it.

[@WilliamMc91]

Bio Spec The sequel is much harder than the first game

[@billyboreham4948]

MrTrekkie204 really i found it easier BL1 had the bone head mission in fyrestone and he always massacred me which required grinding but i never did any grinding in BL2

[@garrus_from_mass_effect7607]

Are you a critic? No? Oh well, this guy is.

[@seph3910]

NooneCares I actually do enjoy writing up game critiques in my spare time, so.... you don't have valid standing here. I could get far more in depth why the two games are different, so if you are unhappy with my comment then please, be less ambiguous.

[@aren6915]

In the cut echos in the game, the big robot guy (aka Wilhelm) was poisoned by Handsome Jack to manipulate you even further.

[@CyberpsychosDirge]

As much as I love borderlands 2, I totally understand and agree with his points

[@TimSenna]

I actually really liked this game, alot more varied than the first and some of the funniest dialogue you'll hear in an fps. But I do get where Yahtzee is coming from, it's a bit repetitive, though there is something weirdly addictive about searching for an improved version of your favourite gun even if it has +0.1% damage...

[@GamerSanctum]

***** Why? Is it because Yahtzee says something bad about it? Because that's what he always does.

[@TimSenna]

Madalin Grama Personally i find it depends on the character, if like me you were the siren , the elemental Maliwan SMGs are brilliant and some of the E-Tech weapons are hilarious. I think that's the stength of the game, if you're playing with 4 people there's enough variation to please everybody :)

[@battlebee7111]

Madalin Grama All of your points are opinions, opinions, opi-opi-pinions. *For me*, assault rifles in general are bad, and Jakobs sniper rifles and Torque shotguns are wonderful things.

[@truekurayami]

Madalin Grama you really got your ass handed to you in BL2 didn't you. I mean you talk about the assult rifles that take the longest to reload, go with the wrong time of pistol that gets the most use, think of the wrong character that gets the best use of a shotgun, trust me that is the mechromancer since she has a skill that lets bullets she misses with be able to ricochet back at enemies. Only half right about rockets since a couple of shields basicly let you have infinite ammo for them, but it sounds like you were at least able to get one of the few most useful SLAG weapons in the game, hell how the bullets fire on most non-energy themed weapons act like real fucking bullets in how they fire.

[@battlebee7111]

Madalin Grama Did you finish TVHM and UVHM? Because finishing Normal mode doesn't mean anything. Did you even kill a raid boss? Try doing *that* with a Jakobs.

[@MrFakelwr]

Played Borderlands. Boring as all hell, I was merely pushing myself through it so I could understand Borderlands 2 when it came out. Played Borderlands 2. In my opinon, an incredible game. Writing is great, gameplay is fun (if you are on a character you prefer, such as Kreig), and I love the art style. I may or may not have 300+ hours played for BL2.

[@NoobityBoobity]

+FakeLawyer Ditto. It's better if we forget about the first game as it's DLC was the only good part. Fell in love with Zer0. I have 420 hours on 2 and probably about 100 on the pre sequel. I was disappointed with the pre squel. It had so much potential and then it went limp at the last moment like Yahtzee with a blind date xD

[@ObiJuanKenobi3]

Borderlands was really just a tech demo for borderlands 2. Basically a test to see if the gun system could work in such a game.

[@NoobityBoobity]

Thank you :)

[@DesertTye]

+supermysticsonic2 these comments are from a year ago. at least be an asshole where it's relevant.

[@DesertTye]

supermysticsonic2 September 21, 2015

[@Pizzarugi]

The only reason I still enjoy playing the game is because I still love listening to Krieg the Psycho screaming his head off as he blasts/cuts his way through everything. No, seriously, STOP DYING AT ME!

[@Paladora]

I have to say that Borderlands 2 is probably my favorite game I've ever played. Yeah it's a lot of backtracking and copy and pasted enemies, but the characters just make it so damn fun to play over and over. My friends and I can go back and forth for hours quoting the psychos, Handsome Jack, ect. I especially love the fact that Jack claims to be the good guy and calls you a child-murderer, while immediately following up that sentence telling the story of how he scooped out a guy's eyeballs with a spoon. Top notch writing that can make me laugh even after the hundredth time I've heard it, if people weren't so critical and just wanted to enjoy a comedic shoot and loot, I highly recommend this game.

[@gamesmasher1489]

1:35 Jack tries to kill you but you survive so he tricks you into lowering Sanctuary's defences so he can kill all the vault hunters. It's not confusing. 2:07-2:40 Wilhelm nearly killed them because he is OP but when he was about to fight you Jack poisoned him so you can kill him so you can lower Sanctuary's defences. 2:46 You got a problem with main character intros? 2:57 The bandits ONLY stole the 2 bombs from Tiny Tina, and again ONLY Tina tells you to run into the bandit camp. So that plot was over exaggerated. 3:27 Then stop using whites. 3:32 Just no. 3:50 You don't have to. That's like me complaining because I have to say hello to everyone I pass. 4:10 You can if you're smart enough. People can beat the game in 2-3 hours! 4:30 How does moving where you point it make it drive like ass? Are you too used to auto-pilot games or something? 4:52 I'm guessing that gun was a Jakobs then. Just use a different company gun! Do some research on something before writing a review on it.

[@NiphanosTheLost]

The long-reload assault rifle with few shots was probably the quest item E-tech you got from Doc Mercy. You know, the one where you had to stock up on ammo four times before you completed the mission of killing a couple of guys with it?

[@gamesmasher1489]

Thrackerzod Ph'phlegeth but that has over 200 shots, well 100 because of the 2x ammo rate, so thats not a few shots. But yeah that mission just sucks

[@NiphanosTheLost]

gamesmacher Depends on what's rolled for you. I've had ones that are only 156 shots or so and it's a Bandit gun so it's so inaccurate that you might as well be tossing red-hot rocks in their general direction.

[@gamesmasher1489]

Thrackerzod Ph'phlegeth random RNG stuff I guess. Im sure that BlASSter normally has around 200-250 bullets

[@countdown4725]

*lowering *Sanctuary's *(does moving) *you *(too used) Learn some basic English before writing a comment

[@15bitGod]

the Vault hunters ar called "Kammerjäger" in german, which means "exterminator" translatet.

[@Rigel_6]

Aaand that's why localisations are the pure evil of gaming industry.

[@Dendarang]

Err... what? Kammerjäger means "room hunter". Kammer is room/chamber/vault and Jäger means hunter. Are you sure you speak German?

[@benpaul7923]

Kạm·mer·jä·ger, Kạm·mer·jä·ge·rin Substantiv [der] jmd., der beruflich Ungeziefer in Gebäuden vernichtet.

[@dinguswattle]

+Ben Paul the thing is that is the joke in the german version the word is the literal translation but also is a job and they made a pun out of it

[@benpaul7923]

Devin Wittke ik

[@kathytrobovic3157]

I'v put 150hrs in Borderlands 2 and still find it fun, but that just me.

[@s4tchm0j0n3s]

Me and a good friend sunk countless hours in to 1 and 2 on couch Coop and had tonnes of fun. Single player though I found it absolutely tedious.

[@KamiFails]

My friend links this to me this guy and he just takes a dump on my favorite games. Its a good way to start my day.

[@iforgotmyname2254]

i actually agree, i beat both border lands, co-op, and all it did was bore me to death and make me and my girl argue over who gets the better guns.

[@the-engneer]

Borderlands is a game that you love it or hate it

[@benhoward3004]

Holy crap, Borderlands 2 is SOOOOO much better than the first one! It's just the PERFECT example of how a sequel is supposed to improve!

[@brian3634]

I have to respectfully disagree; my reasons may sound weird but this is my opinion. 1. Borderlands 2 has too many guns in it. I know it is fun to pick up a minecraft flaming crossbow sniper rifle and blow the head off of an invisible lizard, but sometimes I just want to pick up a semi-regular assault rifle. When 90% of the guns in the game are strange the strangeness just gets bland and the game loses its excitement. 2. I feel as though the campaign wasn't to long, but it got dragged out. Your character was supposed to find a vault key in a train early on but then it turns out the train had "Wilhelm" in it. Then the vault key was supposed to be in a bunker or something so you travel to the bunker to get the vault key but then the bunker ends up being a giant weaponized flying metal pancake. Then you are supposed to get the vault key but Lilith gets captured and Roland dies. This kinda thing continues for a long time. 3. This is purely preference, but there is something about Borderlands 2 that made me not want to do any side missions. I don't know why, but doing side missions felt like a chore rather than a privilege. 4. Axton and Zero have very similar abilities to Lilith and Roland from the last game, and the Gunzerker's specialty is kind of just boring. The best/most interesting characters each cost 10 dollars, which seems ridiculous considering 2 characters in the game are almost the same as 2 from the last game. 5. The ending was kind of boring and I was hoping for a bit of twist or something that would make it more exciting. I don't mean any of this with any disrespect, just my respectful opinion.

[@kapiteinlulhaas7612]

Here's what Borderlands 2 says to me when i tell it i want to play solo: "you what?? errr.... well ok i guess but you wont be able to defeat this boss.. and this one.. and this mission is impossible to solo. oh and this and this and this content is locked for you then. Have fun.

[@spartan934]

Kapitein Lulhaas I played through the game 6 times solo, there werent any bosses that i wasnt able to beat, there wasnt any content that i wasnt allowed to access. mind giving some backup to these statements you're making?

[@benhoward3004]

It's just my opinion; I don't necassirly need FACT to reinforce it. It's all based on my preference. If you didn't like it, that's based on YOUR preference of entertainment and how YOU want to find some form of satisfaction. Just sayin'

[@kapiteinlulhaas7612]

spartan934 Certainly, while i haven't played for ages but i remember a 'raid' boss who would just obliterate me no matter what strategy or equipement i used. Read up on him and the dev's meant for him to be taken down by a team of 4 people. Oh and you could take him down by exploiting the bee in combi with some other equipement. Also the loot drops are borderline retarded when solo-ing.

[@Luxai]

Personally, I found the combat varied between the skill trees and 6 vault hunters, the game looked great, because I dig comic style, and the humor was spot on, plus the music was great too. I don't really know what more you'd want out of a game.

[@billymcdingle4063]

It's blantantly obvious in the game that Wilhelm was bait. Since as soon as you kill him you take the core and install it in the city shields, which Jack then takes away and orbital bombards you

[@dooter4941]

In bl1 jack used angel pretty much the tutorial character to manipulate team wittle biscuit to open the vault because he was too much of a wimp to open it himself. Then he manipulates you into grabbing a fake power core to blow up sanctuary and fails because sanctuary goes up in the air and while jack tries to destroy your own home he says that everything the 4 vault hunters (and you) have ever done was all part of his plan. How did he know exactly what to do you may ask? Well in borderlands the pre sequel at the end cutscene he pretty much sees into the whole future. That's why he manipulates vault hunters

[@notamanstudios4408]

I agree with quite a bit of what you said, but it's still my favorite game. I'm glad you don't sugar-coat.

[@tommerker8063]

dude, 90% of the review is just blatant lies. makes me seriously suspect that he did not play the game at all, but rather skimmed a wiki article about it and then just pulled the rest out of his ass

[@leovin00]

Borderlands is one of those games you either love or hate. While everything you said isn't far from the truth, I freaking loved it. Everything, the grinding, characters, the humor, the graphic style, the Easter Eggs and shameless jokes and references - loved it all. 'Tis a shame Gearbox doesn't know how to game studio

[@Kemonokami]

A pony made of diamonds?! Wow, that must be a real rarity!

[@Dice12K]

BL1 was hilariously broken by the end of it, according to a friend of mine anyway. Technically, they do have "Raid Bosses" in both games and dear lord are they difficult and kinda unique. >.>; BL1's Siren character had the power to be completely invincible for a while by "teleporting" and by the maximum level, while you're doing the invincible "teleporting," you'll be healing, so you'll never die with her. Do note: when she reappears, she does an explosion that damages nearby enemies. Take all that, and you have a character who can take on raid bosses on her own. xP BL2 balances it out. Also, if you're playing BL2 for the first time and you want a challenge but want still want to keep it fun, play Zer0. DO NOT GO SNIPER! His stealthing ability (in theory) used correctly does technically 1 hit kill any basic enemy in 1 melee hit (sniper = terrible unless you're a TAS bot or something, and it's not fun!), but you'll need to work to pull it off (it can be harder than sniping!) and have fun doing anything else. I certainly did... It was hard and I started losing interest, until I got the final skill in the melee tree which almost resets his ability if he actually kills an enemy while stealthing. xD

[@GeassX]

Besides that, there are a few cut lines from the game about how Jack poisoned Wilhelm to make him lose and there was a patch that actually made him a harder mini-boss.

[@mattandsharks]

I'm still playing this game.

[@ForgeBall]

Borderlands is a game you either love or hate, period.

[@barthslung]

Love your videos, even though with most, luke this one, I couldn't dosagree more... aside from the 600 fucking boxes to open to get $5 bucks each... that was some BS

[@TheoneandonlyDrops]

and the only having one quest goal active at a time :3

[@quaza2001]

Its like every looter shooter, its just shooting and looting for 30 hours its so boring

[@cholericraven3434]

"Team widdle-biscuit basically defeated Shub-niggurath" so fucking true.

[@BFedie518]

My main problem with the loot system is that very early on I got an explosive pistol and an explosive shotgun and nothing else I picks up even comes close to as good as them, not even the weapons received from turning in quests.

[@the_hoagie5463]

That's BL2 loot for ya. Love the game play, but certain characters *cough *cough Krieg *cough *cough Salvador, can be a pain to find good guns while leveling up, unless you have great RNG and find Jacob quad shotguns and get DPUHs.

[@BFedie518]

+The_Hoagie I play as Maya. Love phaselocking people.

[@6abial]

I actually loved this game

[@Carlos-ln8fd]

The "shoot and loot" thing was like a perfect description of the bioshock infinite gameplay

[@TXFDA]

It's weird. Most of what he said is right. The game's repetitive, the story isn't really there..again. Aside from "go find my vault because I'm the bad guy". The game slows to a crawl constantly when you have to spend 20 minutes in your inventory comparing guns. Constantly opening containers (like 4-5 lockers in a row, instead of one button press to open them all at once) is ridiculous. And the enemy variety can get a bit old, when 70% of the enemies are just the same few enemies, recolored slightly. But.,..Borderlands is somehow still one of my favorite game series. It's probably one of the games I've spent the most time on aside from Bethesda games. One of the few games I've actually bothered RE-PLAYING multiple times, to try new characters and skills and weapons, or just doing new game +. It's fun for me despite the game's obvious flaws.

[@brewserker3872]

If you've played this game enough, sorting out your inventory becomes no problem at all. You'll also realize that opening lockers is worthless.

[@CeeBeeChan]

The audio logs were actually what I was referring to. In the case of Axton, Jack called up Hyperion truth Network, and told Hunter Helquest to mention the vault, when he knew he'd be listening. So Jack definitely lured him. As for the others, sure, they had their own motives, but Jack was still watching them. He was actively looking for a group of Vault Hunters to bring to Pandora, so he could try to kill them in the first minute. And that's what makes no sense.

[@kilroy987]

I tried this game in 2014 or so, and I didn't 'get it'. I re-discovered the game for PSVR, and I saw a few videos showing off some characters and their dialog. I much appreciate the humor, characters, story and dialog in the game. They put together a really good game. The weak point for me is always having to figure out if a loot item is better than what I have, but I'm learning to not be too anal about that and just make sure I have a few weapons for the job and leave it at that.

[@LiarraSniffles_X3]

I used to like BL2, hadn't played the previous game but it was fun. I got bored playing by myself and quit halfway through, I eventually completed it with friends and my SO, and we had fun while it lasted. My biggest issue was the shitty guns; for a game all about "shoot and loot" the actual loot is 90% shit unless you are willing to farm bosses multiple times for one of the 9-12 actually good guns that anyone in the community uses.

[@tonberrydeath1118]

+Liarra “Heart” Sniffles That isn't true, the best guns are also the easiest to get. Secondly 100% of the loot is viable since you never played pass normal mode. People like you spread lies with nothing to validate your comment. If there's people killing raid bosses on the hardest difficulty with white guns on OP8. Then how are any guns shit in normal mode. You need think before saying a ignorant comment. Finally there's no excuse to have shitty guns since there's a program called Gibbed.

[@tonberrydeath1118]

+Liarra “Heart” Sniffle Here's all the weapons that are very good in normal mode that you play in. All white guns, all blue guns, all purples,all legendaries, all pearls, all uniques, and all green guns. Just like I said think before making a ignorant comment. Another thing what 9-12 best and overpowered guns are you talking about because you probably don't even know what they are.

[@LiarraSniffles_X3]

Jdx Omega So you're saying I need to play through the entire game multiple times or cheat to get 'good' guns. Most of the guns in BL2 are shit, not because they don't have the damage stat, but because they are gimmicky and weird, or only work with one specific build. That's the main reason why everyone loves Jakobs weapons so much, they are normal guns that (overall) aren't inaccurate as crap and can crit nicely. And finally, this is a game, and MY opinion on the game. It is not ignorant, I have played through BL2 multiple times (and on new game plus) with friends who have played even longer than I have, I am allowed to think what I like about the guns I used. Next time, you need to think before making an ignorant comment.

[@tonberrydeath1118]

Liarra Sniffles Unlike you I play at max level and I know what I'm talking about. I never said you not liking Borderlands 2 is ignorant. I said the fact you say 90% guns are shit isn't true. You don't even know what the best guns and you don't have to play the game over and over again to get them. When you said that statement your basically talking out of your ass.The weapons don't suck you do. Nothing I said was ignorant unlike you and your friends. Your also lying because you bought the game this year, and they increase the drop rates by a butt-load so think again.

[@LiarraSniffles_X3]

Jdx Omega At least I'm not a penis ;3

[@mememachine2190]

I love borderlands 1 and 2, but the levelling really pissed me off, putting a level cap on missions was utterly retarded and if you have DLC, it's a choice between playing the DlC and afterwards be super over levelled, or just enjoy the main game. Gearbox really fucked up with the levelling system

[@mememachine2190]

Rico theDemonSlayer yeah i know, even without DLC everything becomes trivial after doing the slaughterhouse side quests. But with DLC there is no way that you can't be over levelled

[@truekurayami]

Mike Hawk yes there is. its call never complete digistruct peak on UVHM

[@mememachine2190]

Akuma Imayaruk Unless you miss missions or choose not to do them, for me anyway, there is no time where i don't end up super over levelled

[@truekurayami]

No seriously there is 8 OP levels you can get that will make you over leveled. But in UVHM it levels to you anyway unless your not the highest level in the lobby

[@bingbrazeau674]

Everything Yahtzee said is quite true, but there is 1 trump card. You get to have a pony made of diamonds poop out weapons for you depending on how lucky you are. I rest my case.

[@netq254]

Well just wanted to say about the "Giant mecha robot that destroyed team widdle biscuit" the only reason the new widdle biscuits won is that Handsome jack poisoned the robot (Wilhelm) because he... well idk XD

[@merlindekoe]

It was so he could trick the vault hunters into depleting the shield for sanctuary

[@adrianshephard6321]

Still doesn't help that they were amping you up for the fight with Wilhelm, expecting it to be one hell of a fight, since he basically defeated the original vault hunters, only to come off as a simple shot to the face to take him down, which leaves a "Meh..." Feeling with throughout the rest of the game.

[@netq254]

Yes but Handsome Jack wanted ALL the vault hunters dead and to do this he had to posion Wilhelm to get the power core into sanctuary, lowering their defenses, and able to bomb all 8 vault hunters.

[@GeassX]

I don't even need to argue semantics here. Occam's Razor doesn't apply to plans, it only applies to a hypothesis and even then only suggests that the simpler one is more likely to be correct. Beyond that, there's some cut dialogue where Jack tells us that he guaranteed that the new vault hunters (read:new badasses) would kill Wilhelm by poisoning him before the fight. Thus allowing the new vault hunters to take the core without it being too easy and raising suspicion.

[@Grudgebearer47]

And just a day ago Steam presented me with a weekend deal of a free 2 days of playing either Dishonored or Borderlands 2 before you decide to purchase it at a discounted 75%. Needless to say I chose Dishonored over this and I haven't regretted it since. This video just confirmed the validity of my choice.

[@emanuelv.5873]

I hope you can understand that Yahtzee doesn't really look at the pros a whole lot... err, if you were looking for a really SERIOUS review, you've come to the wrong place. This was made to make people laugh, telling a few truths, though.

[@ethan277]

You are most wise.

[@Lyushcho]

Hank Madness Gonna have to disagree there.... I've played a fair ammount of the games he's reviewed, and every point he makes is valid. He focuses on the bad, yes, but that's his job, he's a critic after all.

[@emanuelv.5873]

Lyushcho Indeed.

[@champdude17]

Lyushcho Yeah his points are valid but he also purposely avoids the games good points. I would never buy or not buy a game based on his opinion but I feel like he might mislead some people who don't take these videos for what they are, an entertaining youtube video rather than a fair analysis of the game.

[@freecomkcf]

i loved the shit out of Borderlands 2 but it's videos like these coming from a guy more cynical than i am that every once in a while i need to pull my head out of my ass and actually look for flaws in shit i like.

[@charlieni645]

I pretty much agree with Yatzee. I spent 30 hours in the game for one story playthrough and every side quests, then never touch it again. The combat is fun but repetitive after all. I don't get the point of investing hunderds of hours for better gears. To me, they are all the same. Just some statistic differences.

[@Aba928]

And let's not forget that hyperion constantly revives you after you die during the game... even on the final level.

[@gittonsxv126]

i love borderlands 2, one of the best games ever...plus it is a shooter with no cover mechanics!