How Borderlands 2 REVOLUTIONIZED Looter Shooters - Remembering Borderlands (Chapter 2)

[@woos057]

Jack is literally one of the best antagonists in video game history. It's hard to beat him.

[@MichaelDoesStuff-]

Defeatless ok and?

[@MichaelDoesStuff-]

Defeatless he means as a villain lol

[@RainerOOF]

Michael Does stuff He talked about how Hard he is to kill

[@MichaelDoesStuff-]

Rainer no he didn’t, he meant it’s hard to beat him as a villain in, not a enemy

[@Shubdooba]

Jacks the only antagonist I really liked. He was funny and I almost felt bad for killing his daughter. Almost

[@TFASplbtttt]

When Jack was talking to my character, he was talking to ME. He addressed you very personally, getting under your skin, makes you hate, even loathe, him. Needs a remaster with the new engine.

[@TheMock5000]

@@tomikaze777 tbh, I'd prefer that than bl3, as far as the core game, main story goes.

[@mr.spoder4496]

What about a remake?

[@TFASplbtttt]

There is so much potential verticality in BL2, the newer engine would be awesome

[@manboy4720]

'now i'm going to show you just how much you have to lose'. god i love that quote.

[@thewateringwiz7118]

Yeah I’d replay the same story for the hundredth time (honestly I love it) with the Bl3 gun play. I’d even pay full price

[@Matthewsmith-2024]

"I wanna be clear about something. This isn't about the vault key anymore this is about me and you.." -Jack The shift in tone after Angel dies is just perfect and really adds depth to his character.

[@stolasthegreatprince4166]

To be honest, I never had any problem with replaying the game 3 or more times, because the story and the characters' charisma, especially Jack's, made it entertaining.

[@idontknowmyname1976]

I have replayed the game many and many times already. More than a month in the game

[@Mustang1984]

If only BL3 story was the same, I literally had trouble playing through on a second character, whereas BL2 I farmed every char to op8.

[@brandoncreek5709]

And you're always getting better stuff to farm.

[@duckhathap763]

I’ve replayed It 18 times maxing every character in a dif skill tree

[@Ekdrink]

I had no problem with it either. in bl3 I’ve only maxed one character. Bl2 made it fun while bl3 made it feel like a slog and a chore

[@MYKEYOFFLINE]

This game is one of the best games of the last decade

[@henryzhang9771]

Mikey Gaming This game was a 9.8/10 for me, but op10 kind of ruined it, right now it’s like 9.5/10.

[@bercl]

@@henryzhang9771 yeah, i didnt feel the last dlc at all, and i feel like they should have just left the game untouched. Tho ofc it was great seeing new content and it being free for a while

[@duckhathap763]

@@henryzhang9771 it’s a 9.85 for me

[@martel8936]

@@henryzhang9771 your bad at the game thats it

[@karlklein2263]

Krieg was such a poetic character its amazing. On the surface psychos just seem so simple. A crazy person who's gone insane. Then you play krieg and he's arguably one of the most complex characters to build properly. You cant just put points anywhere and be successful with krieg, you have to plan where your points will go in order to be effective. That deep complexity to what on the surface seems like such simple characters always resonated with me.

[@sleepfgc]

Have you played the krieg dlc in bl3?

[@fredtheunicorn3863]

Your point on slag doesn’t quite seem right, switching to a weapon in order to deal for damage makes sense (fire on flesh), why slag doesn’t work, is you had to switch to 2 weapons in order to kill one enemy, sometimes more than once, because slag wears off. So rather than switching to fire for flesh, you switch to slag, then fire, and if the slag wears off, then back to slag and then to fire again.

[@ThorsShadow]

Exactly this. Also, him using the word "crutch", when he should use "clutch" is...interesting.

[@raze_]

@@ThorsShadow the use of crutch is correct. It is possible to beat the game without ever using slag, but it makes things easier. Thus a crutch.

[@STALKER777LK]

It was almost as forced as the actual implementation of slag

[@STALKER777LK]

@@raze_ except end game

[@PsychoGoldVideos]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this.

[@Schmalik]

in the Presequel i loved some of the Origin stories around Handsome Jack. Espicially Felicity's. Seeing how Jack uses her more and more and her turning insane was absolutely terrifying.

[@Sam-vd1pp]

Ye you start to see the evil in Jack and that’s one of the first signs/steps that lead him down this dark path of betrayal and hatred like how moxxi kills Helios’s eye/the destroyers eye and how jack gets the vault symbol lodged into his face and uses a mask to hide it he’s a historical villain in gaming I’ll tell my kids about

[@Schmalik]

@@Sam-vd1pp true. I'd also say felicity, the helios eye and liliths betrayal were the three main trigger points for his transformation

[@Sam-vd1pp]

Schmalik1999 Absolutely

[@chewee4ever811]

Its almost like pre-sequel is the better game

[@kickasscowell5654]

@@chewee4ever811 almost, yeah.

[@xfaffy4283]

I can still play borderlands 2 to this day!

[@ZZ-hb1ho]

And it still looks absolutely beautiful as well.

[@jeannieh3661]

I do like 3 times a week

[@overdosingontomatoes8619]

same I still do lots of speedrunning on it and spend at least 5hrs a week just having fun with friends or solo

[@chewee4ever811]

I'd rather kill myself than play that shitty game

[@putz3268]

Oh pleaseeeee. Slag wasn't just a crutch, it's literally the oxygen you need to breathe.

[@chewee4ever811]

agreed. 3 and tps were way better becuase that shitty element wasn't in

[@Shakercupp]

Slag is a great addition to the game it makes it more interesting and use more strategy to kill

[@chewee4ever811]

@@Shakercupp it was pretty much the only strategy to kill things because its the only way to get past that stupid health regen

[@youmessedup7758]

@@chewee4ever811 dude just don’t play op10 then? Play op7 or something slag isn’t needed for early op levels obviously if you’re playing on the hardest hardest difficulty it’s gonna be super difficultttt

[@abdullahalzubaidy88]

100%, and using anyone other than Salvador is so annoying on UVHM

[@makovapi]

Dropped more than 1.5k hours into bl2 over the last 8 years and I still have no regrets. Still the best game I have ever played.

[@chewee4ever811]

you wasted your time.

[@MudYouAre]

@@chewee4ever811 nah , time was perfectly spent

[@chewee4ever811]

@@MudYouAre any time spent playing BL2 is better spent doing something else

[@youmessedup7758]

@@chewee4ever811 bro you okay? I think you need to play bl2.

[@chewee4ever811]

@@youmessedup7758 I did and I wasted my time with that pile of shit

[@sonicexer1856]

I'm so happy that borderlands the handsome edition was free for psplus, otherwise I maybe wouldn't have been subjected to this masterpiece of a game.

[@reterumstrict1091]

Yup that’s a bet

[@Gang-Amai]

Jack was so good because he was such a believable villain. Throughout the entire game and series he wasn't some almighty god or some super overpowered evil he was just a narcissistic CEO. He always seemed within reach since every vault haunter could and does mop the floor with him but his power comes from his position being able to drop loaders and other assets on you. Everytime he speaks to you he manages to get under your skin because you know he's not shit but he thinks he's a god and your a bandit

[@Z28KR]

When using Maya or Axel, one of the abilities in their trees allowed you to slag when using their abilities. Made it very easy to wipe out plenty of enemies... surprised no one talks about Maya's acid cloud... I could wipe out entire armies at chokepoints using that little ability.

[@austinispeoplegames6831]

Fun fact about UVHM a lot of people miss: Gearbox put in a faster weapon swap speed in UVHM to compensate for the dependence on slag. I don’t think this makes up for the overwhelming dependence on slag(especially for certain characters), but it’s cool that they made it a bit more convenient for us.

[@chewee4ever811]

uvhm never should've been implemented. glad it never came back in 3

[@rykerz105]

@@chewee4ever811 nah it’s the only reason I sunk so many hours in the game not for everyone and it’s a choice not a necessity

[@youmessedup7758]

@@chewee4ever811 dude mayhem 10 ever heard of itt?

[@stakefr0mjatefarmvods534]

The issue with slag was just how necessary it was to do damage at a high level, because of how beefy enemies were. It was pretty much impossible to use non-elemental weapons once you hit UVHM, which invalidated a whole manufacturer (although Jakobs is my favourite so I may be biased). Also there really wasn't a variety of slag weapons. It was Grognozzle or Slagga and that's about it in terms of viability. Even then, Grog is the superior choice because of its slag chance and lifesteal. It really is a case of 'why would I use anything else?'

[@Interrobang212]

I think seeing PSQ and Bl3 without slag is testament to how much of a mistake it was.

[@stakefr0mjatefarmvods534]

@@Interrobang212 to be fair, those games have much better scaling.

[@mariosmatzoros3553]

@@Interrobang212 Yeah but those games are easier than bo2.

[@dollin971]

@@mariosmatzoros3553 they had to be made easier because the borderlands community didn't want a challenge, Most of them where crying about slag when to me cryo is way worst

[@mariosmatzoros3553]

@@dollin971 Bl2's difficulty is not challenging, it's annoying. All you do in op8 uvhm is use a slag weapon which most likely is going to be the grog nozzle and then switch to another gun. Also the guns that people used in op8 were not a lot, it was basically the dpuh, sandhawk, the pimpernel, the norfleet,the interfacer,the lyuda and sometimes pearls like the Bekah.

[@thicboibigsmoke7220]

I actually really enjoyed TPS, the laser guns are fun to use, and nisha has interesting skills, along with the DLC VH’s

[@kronosleblu888]

TPS>>>> borderlands 3

[@dino3965]

@@kronosleblu888 pfffft lol

[@HumanitysGrace]

Nisha with interesting skills? Isnt that basically flak? But shes got aimbot lmao i think if anything athena and claptrap has got unique skills

[@alexdorian336]

@@dino3965He is right though, the story in BL is fanfic tier

[@dino3965]

@@alexdorian336 i enjoyed the pre-sequel but it had no endgame, nothing to do but fight gojira, the sentinel and the end boss from the dlc

[@Marluxiaify]

10:08, you just derailed your own thoughts about Slag. It's not that we needed the element to kill enemies in UVHM. It's that we needed it ALL THE TIME to do any reasonable damage outside of a min-maxed build (especially in the OP levels).

[@billyboleson2830]

The modding scene is now able to add new changes to the game. Which is great when you consider the games flaws

[@matthewlindsey5638]

I been playing a mod called bl2reborn. And it's badass. So much better.

[@drivanradosivic1357]

Krieg could get the Blood Euphoria skill and improve the Pull the Pin so it is like Wilhelm's Termination protocol skill(meaning grenade kill can revive you)

[@Mustang1984]

@@matthewlindsey5638 Yep, reborn and BL 2.5 are awesome. Wish I could find a way to get a standalone of Borderlands 2.5's skill trees and use them in Bl2 Reborn.

[@brandoncreek5709]

I'm not sure I understand the argument for slag. "Because you have different elements that work in different situations against specific types of enemies, it makes this element that you NEED to use on EVERY enemy okay." The point is that you're supposed to use different elements based on the situation, and slag is just mandatory (In most cases anyway), which is kind of lame. (Still a huge fan of BL2, one of my favorite games ever made.)

[@dopemanricky7196]

This is the first game I actually played over and over and over and over and over again.

[@TheGreatSatan_]

After 2500 hours in the game my only real complaint is the loot system. You could literally fight the same boss a hundred times and he would only drop that item you want one time

[@pluhb6922]

borderlands rng can be brutal despite how amazing everything else is

[@Macndcheese]

94 sham moment

[@nathanhendrickson790]

⁠@@Macndcheese more like any shame or any legendary. 20 bunker kills and only 1 sham and not even on a good one. In fact I looked it up I got the lowest percent sham you could possibly get. “But loot is more rewarding because of how rare good gear is” not when you get the worst variant of what you want after 20 attempts. Say what you want about bl3 but wether the gear I’m farming is good or bad at least I get it a lot faster. Maybe if I was still 16 and in high school again I’d be fine with it but I’m 27 years old I got shit to do and bl2 despite all of its ups is ultimately a game that does not value your time

[@Macndcheese]

@@nathanhendrickson790 i personally prefer that as opposed to having them handed out to you constantly it feels less earned than farming for it.

[@nathanhendrickson790]

@@Macndcheese yeah that rolling thunder is really rewarding. What about that madhouse? Or maybe the gub? Oh how about that Logan’s gun? Maybe the cradle? Yeah your right there’s nothing like getting junk such as wtf or gunerang. Really gets the dopamine flowing huh?

[@75190255508]

Rocket and grenade jumping has been around since the beginning of 3D FPS games like Quake and Half-Life.

[@BigN00b]

In 2013, I stumbled upon this game by complete accident. I used to be a Halo fan, and what drew me in was the semi-low gravity jumps followed by slow falling and no fall damage. What kept me playing was the story overall, and to this day I am a big fan of the series. Borderlands 2 is ten years old now, and my God, how I wish I could go back and experience it all for the first time again.

[@harbbe6701]

this right here is the best game ever made FOR ME! definitely made my childhood 100x better. im currently paying through BL3 and im loving it as much as I loved Borderlands 2 such a great series

[@chewee4ever811]

Damn. Guess your parents didn’t love you if you think of BL2 that way

[@harbbe6701]

@@chewee4ever811 your parents definitely didnt love you if you think of opinions that way

[@umbaupause]

It's so weird that Jack has been both the blessing and curse of Borderlands even until today. I'll be honest, I loved Jack, his character, his twisted motives, his gloating, and the fact he does lose it after Angel. And then Jack dies. And Gearbox seems to have this desperate need to pander to their rabid fanbase, by bringing him back but not quite. And again. And again. And we get really weird straw grasping like "Guys, Zane is actually Jack in disguise!!!" from the fanbase, where I'm just like. Let him die. But look at those comments, and at mine even. We are all talking about Jack. I could be talking about how the legendaries system overall was much better in BL1 for me, and farming was cool at first but kinda ruined the fun in the long run. Or how the endgame in BL2 is completely overblown, with slag becoming a mandatory part of the normal gameplay... But yet here I am. Thinking about the weird insert of a Jack themed quest in 3, where you are supposed to learn about Angel but half of it is... once again... Jack talking. Okay. Anyway Bunker farming for that juicy 94% is so much fun amirite guys?!

[@nikolausfonseca815]

this is the only game where I don't mind replaying the story over and over again it's weird cause usually I hate replaying campaigns

[@icecream-soup]

The sound design of this game has to be my absolute favourite thing about it. It's incredible. The voice acting is great, but it's the music that makes Borderlands 2 so amazing for me.

[@iggswanna1248]

i played borderlands 3 and i completely forgot all of it. cant remember many things about it. borderlands 2 tho is one of those games that stayed engraved in my melancholy hard drive forever. every level every character er is amazing

[@nathanhendrickson790]

Huh funny I can say the same about 2.

[@andrewyachovitz6749]

Borderlands Franchise will go down as one of my all time favorite games. This game is insanely fun and nostalgic with so many memorable moments and characters. AND ALL THE LOOT!!!!

[@ZatoichiBattousai]

Thing I hated most hearing from fellow BL2 Players "Why should I have to change weapons?!" Que me saying, "Why then, do we have 4 slots?"

[@iamreeecccee8213]

I have a total of 19 max level characters on borderlands 2 (4 on xbox 360, 6 on xbox one, 8 on pc and 1 on the switch), i love everyhthing about this game. It is the only game that I have more than 4000 hours on

[@TheY2AProblem]

My preferred way to run BL2 is to get to the first Fast Travel station, start up the DLCs first missions(in the case of the Digistruct DLC, finish the first mission), order the missions in order of difficulty, and complete them in that order. So when I start hitting the level 16+ missions through the base game, I don’t get to them until I complete the level 15 missions in the various DLCs. By the time I get back to the base game, I am somewhat over leveled.

[@micaiahwiersma6996]

I see a lot of people saying that Handsome Jack is one of the best villains in video game history. I do not disagree, but I do take issue with that statement. It's not because it's wrong, but because it's too small. I love storytelling in every form it takes, whether through games, books, movies, plays, poetry, etc. I have engaged with many stories and many villains, and I do not think I am wrong in stating that Handsome Jack isn't just one of the best villains in video game history, but one of the best villains of all time across all forms of storytelling. He is one of the rare perfect villains. He gets you to hate him from the the very first moment, and then continues to build that hatred over the course of the game to the point that, by the time of the final showdown, you don't just want to kill him, you HAVE to kill him. He manages to push you past that point of "This guy is a real dick, and I kinda want to kill him just to shut him up" to being in that strange space where every fiber of your very soul is demanding his blood. He sucks you in, and almost gets you to sympathize with him at times, only to turn around and use that sympathy as a weapon to rip your soul in two, and he laughs while doing it. A lot of modern stories try to portray a smug, arrogant, charismatic egomaniac for a villain; few do it well; even fewer get it perfect. Borderlands 2 and Handsome Jack did. He is just one of those timeless characters who, regardless of time period or social climate, will always be just as hateable as the day he was first brought to life. Perfect villains are rare, but Jack is one of them, and true fans of storytelling should do themselves a favor and experience this story for themselves if they haven't already.

[@iami3rian394]

While I agree that HJ is one of the "best" villains of all time, he's not nearly as close to the top of the list as you think he is, IMO. There are amazing characters out there like Darth Vader, Ric Flair, Mr. Freeze, Hannibal Lecter, Joker (arkham... Mark Hamill and animated series in particular), Kaiser Soze, Lex Luthor, Hans Gruber, Annie Wilkes, Cruella De Vil (best name BTW), Norman Bates, Freddy Krueger, Magneto, Grand Admiral Thrawn... I mean, the list goes on and on. Is HJ on the list? Of course. He's just nowhere near the top of that list. That's in no particular order btw, just off the top of my head, significantly better villains. I'm not even counting IRL "villains" either, as those wouldn't be fictional. Mr. McMahon, Loki, Voldemort, Michael Corleone, Dracula... There are even some I'd place higher from a pure "that is awesome" perspective, like Goldfinger or the T-800. Not amazing writing or character, just amazing villains. Dr. Doom falls into this category as well, though he's got quite a bit more character. Hell, Starscream fits in here, too, despite his character being "I'm evil and hate my evil boss" I'd even give a pass to an icon or two, like Bowser or Gannon. They're just too ingrained into our culture to be left off the list, despite lackluster writing. Even guys like Ebenezer Scrooge and the six fingered man make the cut here, along with El Guapo. Yeah, Handsome Jack is an amazing villain, but he's very far from the greatest of all time. Top 100 for sure, top fifty maybe, but he's not in the top twenty and nowhere near the top ten.

[@Attonitus]

@@iami3rian394 lmao Mr. Freeze, the chick from 100 dalmatians, freddy, and loki are all better than Handsome Jack no

[@iami3rian394]

@@Attonitus I'm sorry? You agreed then said no at the very end. Can't tell if stroke. In no universe are you telling me Victor fries is a worse villain though, in certainly weren't dropped THAT many times when you were little. P.s. I can like my own comment, too.

[@Attonitus]

@@iami3rian394 I meant no as in no way those characters are better than HJ In this universe I'm telling you HJ is better than freeze

[@shadowsofdawn3871]

The problem with Slag was that you had to hit the target with Slag then swap to the electric/fire/corrosion weapon to actually kill the target and often you had to rinse and repeat this over and over to kill one enemy. If it had stood on its own then it would have been fine but it didn't.

[@SLISKI_JOHNNY]

My only issue with BL2 is that it gated progression behind insanely difficult New Game Plus modes, one of which was paid DLC. Therefore, someone who doesn't play UVHM (like me) will never see top rarity items like pearls, seraph etc. It would also be nice to have real time level scaling for all DLCs as well as some sort of scaling for the main game (for instance enemies would scale to player level minus one or two, like AC Odyssey). Post-final boss scaling for normal mode (like TVHM has) would also be great. But yeah, this proves how much I like this game because I simply would like to have more freedom to enjoy all that content, without being restrained to certain level brackets

[@Moriningland]

BL3 dropped legendaries too often, BL2 dropped them too little. I use a loot mod to lightly increase the drop rate and it makes the game so much better

[@chewee4ever811]

atleast in 3, the legendaries were actually good and their gimmicks worked

[@8sr]

@ 2:30 I never noticed that the lava makes a vault symbol on the side of the volcano

[@I_Think_Its_Kaiden]

The problem with slag was that it was so necessary it doesn't matter if we only have to use element compared to three, it was the fact that it was so needed at all. Literally if Borderlands took out Slag, then it would be the greatest game ever made. Having something so annoying and yet making it litteraly the only option just ruins the endgame for me.

[@mi6boy]

Op 10 voracious was so horrendous u basically can't kill him on solo u are required to bring 4 people in the battlefield

[@Dampzombieslayer]

Well he is a raid boss

[@teratoma.]

"ign gave it a 9, that speaks volumes" no it doesnt lmao

[@kcollier2192]

I came up with a build that allowed me to solo DP with Krieg using elemental Infinitys and grenades- it was a blast. Son of Crawmerax was the best of the additional raid bosses but fighting Terramorphus never got old.

[@GARYHODGKINSON]

Late to the conversation here, but UVHM's difficulty was often overestimated by those that played every mission, and dlc to completion on each playthrough, because they would arrive on UVHM as a level 54-55 character, but the weapons and shields etc would have been capped at 50. Fighting enemies at level 56-57. when even your legendaries are 6 levels too low, it feels like you are hitting them with pea shooters. After those first couple of hours, it evens out, when you start finding level appropriate gear, but that first impression sticks with you.

[@hushex5150]

I love how the pre sequel has an amazing story but it’s the lack of Xp that ticks me off since farming xp and side quests were the main way to lvl up in the story

[@themonnamanshow]

I love Slag. A great concept. It’s a pure RPG move. Think about. Debuffs always help

[@excaliburofgachagames9241]

Borderlands 2 created one of the best things that I bring to every game. Challenge runs. Bandit only was the last run I did and it makes the game so much better and much more replayable. Gearbox should actually add play through modifiers to bl3 so you can have only certain gear drop. Like only cov for example.

[@chakasulu03]

Slot machines were actually pretty good for starting new alts. On your current high level character send your trash guns to your next alt. Have them sell those high level guns for tons of cash and blow it on the slots which at low level are super cheap since the prices scale with level. This will get you a lot of eridium for staring your new alt out when you finally get around to it.

[@fussytoy1924]

I loved bl2. But the end game scaling is bad. And the last update made the game impossible to play on op levels.

[@raddudeguy]

LOUDER. And every vault hunter uses the same 8 weapons. And no, the bee isnt a shield. Its a weapon.

[@Deejy1]

XandreTheKnight there are tonnes of viable endgame weapons. At least pre OP 10

[@fussytoy1924]

The last update brought a good dlc with a raid boss, but the op scaling is unplayable. It cost like millions to buy ammo and 2 raid bosses have like double hp.

[@MichaelDoesStuff-]

Fussy toy it’s not impossible lol, far from it in fact

[@fussytoy1924]

@@MichaelDoesStuff- I'm not going to spend $10,000,000 for ammo when the cap is $99,999,999. Plus theres alot of people using modded shit in the game. Its rare to find people that play legit.

[@Smokie1523]

Talk about passion... you can tell you have a passion for the game lol you can hear it in your voice. Just started, idky... im always late to the party, but lookin forward to having some of that fun you mentioned.

[@ZatoichiBattousai]

Love seeing those HYPERION CASTERS!

[@timcsmedic2162]

This video fills in a huge gap left by Supmatto being forced out. We must push on and fill the Lore in.I appreciate your hard work and feel likewise. The best thing about borderlands is the community.👍

[@timcsmedic2162]

And ps... Who disliked this video??? Really?? 🙄

[@therealmcx3488]

I’ll be honest this is the game I played first and is the reason I went back to play the first game when my friend showed me this game back in 2012 I had no idea it was gonna be one of my favorite games of all time

[@Nerdyy5]

Bro, the propaganda the game provides throughout the maps and the coolness of how geek the devs are is just freaking great!

[@impartialthrone2097]

Borderlands 1 is the only one in the series I've ever finished. The rest just don't hold my attention. But Borderlands has me coming back frequently to play through on new characters, through new game and new game plus, getting all the way to level 69 (hehe, that's the s3x number :3)

[@dawsonjones7530]

Amazing job with this!! Rare to see someone willing to talk critiques alongside the banger content.

[@trixyjinx6764]

what i love about borderlands 2.... Salvador flicks off enemies and cheats death

[@datginger0872]

It’s flip

[@benjaminmacpherson1336]

BD2 with BD3 gameplay would be pure eridium and they already have skill trees to improve and work with. For example I love playing as Krieg but late game you really only have melee to depend on making guns kinda useless.

[@aarongold7220]

I love that you can reach max level in BL2 just with the story content. There's enough content in the game to reach level 50-80 in a single playthrough. This isn't true on BL, BLTPS, or BL3. In all of those games you either have to reset the story an additional time, or grind xp somewhere. I mean you have enough content to get 50-72, and even when they raised the level cap by 8 with the fight for sanctuary DLC, you still could reach that level without touching that DLC. Hell I don't even have to touch captain scarlet so i can still get a level 80 sandhawk and pimpernil.

[@kzraps3237]

Mmm idk man I beat the game and I only got 38 levels

[@neugey]

Two things I love about BL2 that weren't mentioned - 1) the enemy variety was much better than BL1 and 2) in addition to Jack, BL2 had good supporting NPC's that were a complete hoot (Tiny Tina, Hammerlock, Ellie)

[@nathanhendrickson790]

None of the npcs besides brick and handsome jack made me laugh or even relate to or feel sorry for them. I feel more emotionally attached to lotus from warframe and she’s in my head even more and does a lot less shutting up than angel does.

[@aethertech]

Also, Borderlands 1 version of Slag was the Pestilent Defiler, Hellfire, and Volcano guns.

[@legendofswords]

If you took scaling from TPS or BL3 and applied it to Bl2 and fixed skill point scaling and applied the changes the mods made to skills you would make the perfect borderlands 2. Slag is totally a crutch as it removes a singular weapon slot for that purpose and most of the time that weapon will be a moxxi pistol (rubi or grog) or slagga. it also forces you into choosing skills that can give you slagging abilities on characters like Axton just to bring up their usability of the turret

[@90malldinn]

this is my favorite game of all time. i always end up going back to it with the many fun vault hunters, cool weapons, and amazing atmosphere. the characters were as animated as they could be and all had their unique quirks which makes it so fun to traverse through this version of pandora and also just the different kind of places you have like the highlands, the dust, three horns. it all makes it fun and addicting to grind for loot and max out your vault hunters (also i love slag personally, it added depth to the combat and strategy and i personally loved it and same with OP levels bc it added challenge but that is just preference + it is optional)

[@garbagegremlins4707]

To quote a tumblr user regarding jack: “the va really put his whole [censored for youtube] into it” and I really think that sums up daemon’s performance

[@danlemongton7534]

Ok when defending slag you mentioned that people switch to shock for shields, corrosive for armor, and whatever element works best against what their fighting, so having to use slag isn’t actually any different, but none of that statement is true. While the different elements do extra damage to certain enemy types, you don’t have to use them. I can still take down shields even with a fire or non elemental gun, it’ll just take a bit longer than with a shock gun. That’s not the case with slag on OP levels, you have to use it or you won’t succeed. No other element is like that. If they were then no one would ever use non-elemental weapons

[@Goremize]

Yeah, I am quite glad the other BL games did not have slag so the devs did not have to balance everything around it. There is a large reason as to why everyone uses the uncompleted quest from the DLC to have a higher chance at slagging gun that also heals you. They made slag a massive requirement in every fight in OP levels, there is no defending it.

[@kronosleblu888]

Only for borderlands 3 to take us backwards and disappoint!!!

[@BugsyFoga]

I actually really enjoyed borderlands 3

[@clutchcake7717]

@@BugsyFoga Gameplay is great, (unless we are talking about the COV badasses and their damn op rocket launchers that have yet to be nerfed) Fuck the BL3 story and its writers.

[@YNGSZRP]

How so?

[@clutchcake7717]

@@YNGSZRP Uhh. Garbage story with a forceful agenda trying to do things that the series has already done but BETTER in the background. Play or re-play the story and you'll see. Not to mention the writer on the story is the smae one who written the also very garbage Amazing Spider-man 2.

[@YNGSZRP]

@@clutchcake7717 for me there's a lot more than the story, but it's a badass game bro. Imma say play something else if you dont like it that much. No point in typing it all out tbh.

[@gameboy3800]

one complaint i have about borderlands 2 is that a lot of the guns feel like toys. borderlands1s guns werent the best looking or best handling but at least they sounded like guns or gave your enemies real impacts to the point of shooting limbs off corpses.

[@shiskeyoffles]

Haha.. and then on BL3 they run 😂😂

[@aamir6892]

And the story wasnt the best. It was ok. Not good. Ok. Bl2s story was carried by handsome Jack. Had the villain been even slightly different and the game would've crashed. The game was even more batshit crazy than bl3 at times. And M10 is far better balanced than op10

[@davidjoelsson4929]

I kind of like that when it comes to borderlands it makes the game more original

[@davidjoelsson4929]

@@aamir6892 well i loved borderlands 2 story played it so much over. I agree with the storying being carried by jack but it was fun by what i remember

[@barnburner1238]

I’m surprised he didn’t mention about the awful level grind to 72/80.

[@hhhfdsfs]

Just l use an xp mod on pc that tripes or doubles your xp gained.

[@katoka143]

didnt find it awful. farming tubbies and uranus was pretty fun and i got cool loot

[@ComatoseRat]

there is literally one thing I can complain about with borderlands 2: SLIDING

[@aethertech]

Wiping the bandits out is a good goal. But Jack could have just offered us a shit ton of money and some good guns and sent us to another planet. Problem solved. Jack did nothing wrong.

[@sandwichboy1268]

I like slag's existence, what I don't like is the reliance on it. If enemies on uvhm were balanced to require element matching OR slag I'd be happy. Instead it requires both Also playthrough 2+ should allow you to tackle missions in different orders

[@user-np6kq7uz6w]

If Handsome Jack and The Joker ever met, I think it’d be the best villain duo ever

[@revan552]

Borderlands is one of my favourite, if not my single favourite series of all time. Even during its lowest, it drops down to merely "meh" and going even that low is rare. I think I'm in the minority, but 1 is my favourite, despite 2 being an objective improvement in most ways. This series has brought me so much joy over the years Time to start another playthrough! 😁

[@henryzhang9771]

Agreed. Even though slag is op in early game, it changes our play style in endgame, which is pretty good.

[@werewolftheforsaken]

as some1 who grew up farming god wars dungeon in runescape, the boss farming has always been my fav thing in borderlands 2

[@charlesheinrichs7806]

Everything was good until uvhm. I had a mate I ran through the game with and one we started uvhm he started rage quitting and leaving me to fight everything on my own... It was years later after I made some new friends that I got into uvhm and builds and started doing the raid. I still hear that music in my head when I think of digistruct peak Also something that doesn't get mentioned is the online community, the borderlands community is the best and most helpful.

[@DAonYT]

I never got the slag hate either. Just play on OP1 or 2 if you can’t keep up

[@Blxckhxrt]

Right people that say op levels are impossible are just terrible at the game

[@BorderFreak]

All I need to say on the slag bit compared to the other element for the characters that couldn't hold 2 guns at once you had to swap to a slag gun just to swap back to your damage gun thats why people were so annoyed with it

[@Mustang1984]

Magic missile :)

[@waynetracy5652]

The best game of the series. And those DLC were amazing. It’s not far fetched to say that Tiny Tinas Assault on Dragons Keep was the best piece of content to come from the series to this day.

[@xxxsnippzzxxx9355]

I hope you see the new wonderlands content then lol

[@chewee4ever811]

borderlands 3 is better

[@awfulfalafelwafflerofl2800]

Is there anyone besides me who just doesn't care about "endgame" in pretty much every game? For me, it's all about the journey to the end.

[@jR0xas]

I don't really hate Slag itself the problem I have is the scaling, it's terrible in Bl2. If your weapon is five levels below in UVHM it's already unsuable, purple items or blue ones become completely unusable in UVHM and OP levels and Slag is needed to kill anything because the scaling is so bad. In OP levels there are lots of enemies that healthgate you in one hit and some raid bosses aren't really good. The scaling was way better in Bl1 but still, Bl2 is one of my favorite games because every other aspect of the game is great.

[@ItsVenti]

I never knew people hated slag I loved it

[@M3L0DY_dll]

I just enjoyed playthrough 3. The only thing I wish it did was throw us into sanctuary. I have gotten to 80 on several characters, and op 2-5 (I don't like doing op level) on a few of them.

[@patriotic-panda]

I love borderlands 2, one of my top 10 games of all time, everything about it was really really good. Borderlands 3 took that. And dropped it. Borderlands 3 is fun for a play through or two, but there’s almost 0 replayability and the guns in the game, central point of the entire series all felt really unrewarding and entirely un fun

[@patriotic-panda]

opjustin gaming mayhem really isn’t rewarding in any sense. It’s not fun to play at higher levels and ledgendaries drop having dropped at ridiculous rates made them a dime a dozen and not really much better than a rifle you would have found off the ground. I haven’t played since before mayhem 2.0, things may have gotten better since then, but I doubt it

[@patriotic-panda]

opjustin gaming mayhem really isn’t rewarding in any sense. It’s not fun to play at higher levels and ledgendaries drop having dropped at ridiculous rates made them a dime a dozen and not really much better than a rifle you would have found off the ground. I haven’t played since before mayhem 2.0, things may have gotten better since then, but I doubt it

[@Mustang1984]

@@patriotic-panda Yea that was my biggest problem with BL3. I played from the start when Chupacabrach was dropping every world drop and I had almost every item in the game within a month. It left me with no sense of the hunt. It's gotten better but still idk what it is, I just don't get that feeling like I did with BL 1 and especially 2.

[@atlys258]

What was that BL2 mod? Looks like it pulled back the insane UVHM/OP level scaling.

[@SoulshadeVr101]

I love it cause its different from most fps they changed it up from traditional call of duty style fps and I got so bored with all games feeling like call of duty and my favorite antagonists ever

[@Goremize]

Why is it though that we can't have a game as good as this game again? Its been YEARS. Why are all the best games so old now....

[@4Pickledonions]

BL3 is great on mute with music in the background

[@dee5298]

I would have been perfectly content with a fourth playthrough and maybe another ten levels.

[@chewee4ever811]

the less playthroughs of that shit game, the better

[@dee5298]

@@chewee4ever811 0 playthroughs is always an option.

[@chewee4ever811]

@@dee5298 agreed

[@Greenwood4727]

Gaige is my fav fav fav playable char and Tiny Tina is...epic i wished they would have done an entire game of bunkers and baddasses with tina being the dm i would buy a fantasy version

[@starlightSEGA]

Your wish came true

[@Greenwood4727]

@@starlightSEGA i know and am so so stoked

[@divadwerdna4624]

I got 500 hours in this game played it over and over again it’s so timeless to me

[@TheUndeadslayer221]

Handsome Jack is basically a comically evil version of a Saturday mourning cartoon. Narcissistic to the point of killing people for the most petty of reasons.

[@Kaiji...]

One MAJOR drawback for all 3 games is the leveling. If you do the DLC on the first playthrough (or even TVHM), you're then over-leveled for the rest of the game and story, which makes the games INCREDIBLY boring for me. Not only that, if you DO do it on the first playthrough, there's no point in anything you get, because you're gonna need to do it again at max level anyway.

[@bayalice]

before watching this video i never realised some people hated slag, I absolutely love it so I just assumed everyone else did based on how many videos on the grog nossle people made when dragon keep came out

[@jangyman]

My favourite BL2 quote: "Time for die!"

[@xtxnct]

The only thing I would say you missed is gemstone rarity.

[@nicholasconnolly4234]

My community leader in high school looked like handsome jack

[@supersaiyantravis6962]

Thank goodness someone else is willing to stick up for slag. I loved the combo heavy playstyle slag encouraged and was honestly both sad and confused as to why it didn't return in BL3.

[@PrinceSheogorath]

The Borderlands ain’t no place for no hero, ain’t no place for no better man.

[@deanchu1784]

I feel like a complete dumb dumb because I never once rocket jumped when I played BL2

[@tvph]

ahhhhhh borderlands 2 where the guns and locations had a certain charm and personality to them, unlike borderlands 3

[@darkchaozbringer785]

Pretty spot on aside from that bit about the slag. You're definitely on you're own with that one. You mentioned it as a positive, then immediately proceeded to list why it was shit. That said, I found that pretty odd, but still a good take overall lad.

[@Jack_80]

yeah, the entire point of having all those elements is to give you variety. slag removes that variety and forces you to use that one stupid element nobody likes. so glad they got rid of that in 3.