Tiny Tina's Wonderlands - Angry Review

[@Skreamworks]

No one tell Joe about the godawful, 10 minute, time-gated DLC that is being sold at full for $10.

[@ltsmithneko]

Less than 10 mins, it's about 7 mins n' 4 of actual gameplay~ (3mins of waiting)

[@bryanpesa6440]

The first thing i thought when i saw the thumbnail

[@jasontodd1226]

Wait what? What's the name of the DLC?

[@Skreamworks]

@@jasontodd1226 Coiled Captors

[@WcHDICE]

For real

[@frankmarano1118]

Whoever writes the "comedy" in borderlands.. needs to be taken behind the barn &.. be forced to listen to torgue "play his flute" 24/7 until they have a firm understanding that their humor is actual torture. Seriously the writers have no "cringe" detector whatsoever, its mildly concerning lol.

[@nathanklemp1454]

I agree, the lute bit got old quick. But for the most part, the humor in this game was good, I think. Definitely better than BL3.

[@mikehunt4265]

@@nathanklemp1454 bl3 doesn't really have a high bar though so that's not saying much

[@DGiovanni]

@@nathanklemp1454 So you agree but you also disagree? Wtf are you even saying?

[@awakeandwatching953]

is tiny tina voiced by the same woman who dose the small kid in bobs burgers?

[@SuperMandibleclaw]

@@awakeandwatching953 no

[@jiado6893]

The "Mountain of Testicular Torsion" and the "Putrid Pools of Pubes and Phlegm" sound like EXCELLENT locations in the Warp. Owned by Slaanesh and Nurgle respectively.

[@tomthestone1470]

Yeeep

[@Doc_The_Outlaw_XIV]

As a 40K fan and nerd myself, I approve

[@Yoroiful]

I swear Alex is channeling his best Nicholas Cage impression in this intro.

[@zgamer1154]

This is Alex's equivalent to Vampires Kiss

[@Cludensyo]

AJ: Alright we're rolling. Alex Cage it up Alex: 2:17

[@alexsilva28]

@@zgamer1154 You don't say?

[@zgamer1154]

@@alexsilva28 Gearbox: "Guys, here's a patch" Alex: "TOO LATE, TOO LATE, TOO LATE, TOO LATE"

[@kawonsuggs9595]

Who's excited for the Unbearable weight of massive talent?? Lol

[@ncneira]

I have noticed that as I get older, certain games that would have held my interest, no longer will. But, top notch games with well written stories, good gameplay, and great humor are still enjoyable. That said, with my age and taste in games, a 6/10 game isn't worth my time anymore and that's ok.

[@geejaybee]

I feel the same. This franchise had 2 amazing games and a good game based on adult themes with mostly adult humour. BL3 devolved into juvenile themes and humour and in that trajectory is now continued downwards into infantalism. I'll probably pick it up and play it in a year when it's about £10.

[@Maladjester]

I feel ya brother. I have a backlog of about 200 unplayed Steam games I picked up for a song during holiday sales. All "very positive" or higher. When I was a kid I dealt with the whole lineup of frustrating experiences because my allowance was small, I didn't have a car, and there was no internet. I had the time but not the choice. Now that I have the choice, I just don't have time for titles that aren't excellent. I hardly have time for titles that are.

[@ivanmira8340]

I just play the games I've played games other people may not like but I've enjoyed it just play or gives games you might like a shot then if you don't like it dosen't mean someone else might not we all different opinions

[@MsLenepigen]

Same. 10-15 years ago I would try just about any game. But then 5 years ago I started struggling a lot with gaming fatigue. I felt depressed because I couldn’t enjoy my favorite hobby anymore. But then occasionally I played something and the gaming fatigue completely vanished, like magic. I realized it was because if a game isn’t very well made and something truly special I just can’t be bothered. Not anymore.

[@MonkeyDLuffy-sv2pt]

@@MsLenepigen yeah I get you're problem is today games are made to be repetitive or micro transaction pit falls that's why I enjoy shorter story driven games more.

[@tacoface7047]

Holy god that intro skit was god tier, Alex's lines and faces were killing me

[@Fuzzhead392]

The balloon part had me dying😆😆

[@williamyoung9401]

Alex is the best dungeon master, lol.

[@Leeh187]

Cmon, it wasnt that good

[@Fuzzhead392]

@@Leeh187 you just don’t understand, only true intellectual beings living on a higher plane of existence can understand the intrigued nuisances of the the argument.

[@selah199]

@@Leeh187 actually it was perfect lol

[@lunarlunacy4209]

What the actual fuck. That intro has to be the best one yet. Alex’s face had me laughing my ass off.

[@alexsilva28]

Yeah that was one the better ones in a while. Hopefully Dungeon master Alex becomes a recurring character

[@kawonsuggs9595]

Lol Angry joe should've put his face on top

[@juliushall8499]

lmao he got that *EVERYBODY DIES* face

[@cuckoophendula8211]

Alex definitely already used the "balloon"

[@americafkyeah8695]

When it paused 😂😂

[@MinersLoveGames]

38:18 The fact that OJ was able to keep a straight face for the entire bit is worthy of every Oscar imaginable.

[@orangesoda4535]

I'm absolutely convinced that the director actually lets his 9 year old kid do his job.

[@paperclip9558]

Modern aaa game devs are really sucks at doing comedy. I'm pretty sure what you said is really what happening 🤣

[@colesonfox6544]

Randy Pitchford is basically a 9 year old so your right

[@danielgeronimo5538]

A 9 year old as the game master was way better in 2 tho

[@BilalKhan-tn2wq]

The Borderlands games has lost its identity when it comes to the writing department ever since BL3. Anthony Burch was honestly the secret formula as to why you loved all the characters from BL2.

[@Isnogood12]

There were some genuinely good moments of writing in Wonderlands. Maybe even, I dunno, 10 minutes of it? Rest was painfully cringe.

[@300IQPrower]

I didnt though. I loved 2 characters. Both of whom were DLC. Borderlands 1 (Allison Berryman is credited as the lead writer there) has aged far FAR better than 2 in writing and the only writing of Burch’s in the series i’d ever consider good is Pre-Sequel which from what I know he only oversaw to make sure it lined up with 2’s canon, but to his credit is also I think the best written game in the series and part of that is explicitly because if how it flushes out _his_ characters who he no doubt had full say in.

[@michaelknox3715]

@@300IQPrower Agreed. Borderlands 2's writing feels dated now.

[@gargamellenoir8460]

Thank you! I'm amazed as to how so little people can link his departure to the drop of quality. It's like the guy has a perception filter on him or something.

[@psychobillynumbnuts1]

Borderlands writing was always the worst part of these games. Completely Corny

[@cdonnelly5566]

This is one of my favorite intros ever, the face Alex keeps making is just perfect

[@brandonputnam1687]

This is definitely one of those games I'll wait and pick up later on sale when there's not much coming out.

[@JackieFrankieful]

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands was supposed to be BL3 Season 2 DLC pack, but DLC was going out of hand too big too many ideas, so devs rushed and made it standalone separate game, and they kept skeleton crew to work on promissed Season 2 for BL3, but crew as so small and lazy, thats why we got Director's Designer's cuts, just compare S1 to S2 you can see that proficiency dropped down hard. Well here's your answer.

[@NotThatJonesShow]

I just got the ultimate edition for the price of the base game at launch so if you're gonna get it nows probably the time if you haven't already

[@VitaKet]

@@NotThatJonesShow LoL not worth it, all the DLC is trash... It'll get even cheaper so why do you think "now is the time"? I'll pick it up when it's $15-$20 like Borderlands 3 was less than a year after it's release...

[@williamyoung9401]

Borderlands graphics? I'll pass...

[@elzorro.5923]

It's on sale now jaja

[@DarkSoulSama]

In Borderlands 2, I thought Tiny Tina was a tragic character, who was constantly joking because she was trying to cope with the trauma of having to survive in Pandora after her parents got murdered, and then she does it because she's in denial about "that other character" 's death. Her humour was supposed to be pathetic because she was desperate and wasn't thinking about what she was saying. There were moments when things got serious, and her mood switched. Now it seems like saying random stuff is something she does just because she's a mascot.

[@zachrohler1047]

I mean just think about the villains we had in borderlands 3. Their entire schtick is that they're annoying streamers. And yet ava was even more annoying than the stupid streamer cringe twins lmao

[@tobiwonkanogy2975]

it is a heartbreaking story for sure . the last thing her mom gave her was a grenade and that became a major part of her identity . no friends her age really , raised by a group of treasure hunting outlaws . that other character being her role model and then losing him . Her whole life is tragedy and yet she persists . This game ignores any of that

[@elitereptilian200]

@@zachrohler1047 well thats just because Ava is written perfectly as a rebellious know-it-all teenager.. like teenagers are irl..

[@melodyseverything6999]

@@elitereptilian200 - I never met such an obnoxious girl like Ava in real life honestly. They're not common at least in my own life, lol!

[@papxD]

Did you play the game?

[@Iguanoman]

OJ always finding new and creative ways to break the games

[@mariawhite7337]

Working theory is that OJ is actually an android or robot and he knows how to break the game.

[@m0zidesigner]

Need a compilation video of everytime OJ has broken a game. :)

[@PikaLink91]

If you've ever watched the lets play channel SuperGamingBros, a running joke was that this guy Elliot who was the youngest of the group, always unintentionally found ways to break the games they were playing due to sheer ignorance and incompetence. Loved that channel and its sometimes non-family friendly humor. Now they are on indefinite hiatus.

[@JorgeGarcia-gp5cf]

If OJ was a QA tester, he would quickly become a top tier tester with how he is able to break any game he plays. That trait is super ideal for that job.

[@The_dark_one18]

I kinda like the gun drop style. It’s very similar to how it was in borderlands 1 where one gun could last you a bunch of levels. It’s nice to not have to constantly swap guns out like borderlands 3

[@JBasilix]

Funnily enough I personally like the style of constantly switching out guns but in BL3 I often used the same guns over multiple sections of the game because of the ridiculous legendary drop rate. So pretty much the reverse of your experience.

[@Etechtroniks]

Absolutely bro. I love the fact u can typically get 5 Lvls b4 u have to change it out

[@mac1bc]

Lol everyone complained about all of the legendary drops in BL3. I enjoyed trying them out

[@JBasilix]

@@mac1bc The thing I don´t like about it is simply the overwhelming power they have. Get a legendary and you don´t need to switch weapons for half the game. So while they are great to use they also trivialize a huge part of the game and make looting a waste of time... which is kinda counter in a looter-shooter

[@JackieFrankieful]

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands was supposed to be BL3 Season 2 DLC pack, but DLC was going out of hand too big too many ideas, so devs rushed and made it standalone separate game, and they kept skeleton crew to work on promissed Season 2 for BL3, but crew as so small and lazy, thats why we got Director's Designer's cuts, just compare S1 to S2 you can see that proficiency dropped down hard. Well here's your answer.

[@mephilles360]

Making Alex really smile like this 😀 is rare. Great review you guys.👍🏻

[@alexsilva28]

New Twitch alert/emote hopefully

[@markgrehan3726]

Honestly, I was scared.

[@gringotico1759]

Automatic thumbs up just for that.

[@alexsilva28]

@@markgrehan3726 Like when Harley Queen got scared at Batman laughing

[@MrStopAsking]

Very unnerving

[@Stizzfoshizz]

When Joe is criticizing you for “crude and immature” jokes. You know you went too far lol

[@suryavanshiking8280]

At this point I’m starting to think that Borderlands 2 was a complete accident by Gearbox

[@JiskaStorm]

Kinda seems like it ay, I hate BL3 and The Pre Sequel, my worst gaming experiences I've had playing through those stories and gameplay, BL1 was really bland and I would say boring, I did enjoy Wonderlands, but I hated the loot luck and chamber system instead of dedicated drops, BL2 is great but with many flaws, late game balancing, lack luster DLCs, poor optimization, I never played Wonderlands again, after my character got deleted all of a sudden, I got a Platinum with that and was completely stacked with the build, collectibles and chaos levels.

[@Luupopi]

@@JiskaStorm There is no way you enjoy this type of game if you didn't like 1, Pre-Sequel and 3. You don't have to love them but saying they are your worst gaming experiences? Maybe you should've realized after playing the first one that this series isn't for you.

[@JiskaStorm]

@@Luupopi my opinion, and don't tell me what I like and don't like.

[@hamishwilson9787]

Honestly yeah I'm pretty sure it was

[@whodatninja439]

They got Anthony burch

[@sevenayashinedown1283]

Alex nailed it, when you're running 110% all the time, you get exhausted. There was no break from it whatsoever. And the loot wasn't fun, I never found anything that was awesome except for the glitched frost spell with +1000% spell damage.

[@sumireravenclaw8034]

Those weren't really glitched especially since at later levels that damage does nothing.

[@zymphad7377]

Why did you give Gearbox your money?

[@ZeSgtSchultz]

Maybe we play borderlands games differently, but I've found plenty of stuff I liked. Plenty of stuff I saved and kept an eye out for similar types later on.

[@Evilanious]

10:58 As somebody who enjoyed Borderlands 2 this is honestly just sad to see. In Borderlands 2 Handsome Jack was an ultrarich villain who was taunting you with his wealth and immature insults. So he would call you up explaining how he bought a living breathing diamond pony with all the money that he has that you don't, and that he would call it butt stallion in honor of you. Now that deliberately immature insult is placed into a different game devoid of context and the joke becomes that somebody said 'butt stallion'.

[@Jack_Rakan]

But you see, the joke is also that it's 'QUEEN butt stallion'. It's like an onion: it has layers and it makes you cry.

[@Thug_Nose]

I still laugh at his spoon story 😂 the lines and delivery were on a level that wonderlands wishes it can achieve

[@dogsbreakfast4952]

Go play call of duty. Some of us like the fun of borderlands

[@damienman25]

@@dogsbreakfast4952 sounds like he actually really enjoys borderlands too, and explained very clearly and fairly why he felt the fun of TTW didnt land as well.

[@whodatninja439]

For being such a fan of borderlands 2, Joe didn't even play the tiny Tina dlc.

[@Waxoffjohnson]

This is how I felt about the last game. The jokes turned my brain to melted cheese

[@AdamSmasherReal]

@@XX-121 more like 2008 internet humor

[@frisiandude7115]

This ones better IMO

[@Bodyorgasms]

It honestly felt like noise. Torg had some good lines. The rest of the dialogue is annoying sadly. It’s that cringe humor. Tiny Tina herself sounds annoying after a while like stfu.

[@hamzaahmad1345]

Make your own jokes at specific time. Like from movies. when an enemy is troubling you. you change your weapon and say: Say hello to YOUR new friend. OR You do realize this means war. OR Your Mother is here. OR Time to die. OR When i told you i will kill you last............. I lied. OR GAME OVER. DO not let some STUPID PRE written dialogue take off your mood. Say your own lines loud and clear........................................ UNLESS you are in a public and comments you make are like HAIL HITLER or NO russians, kill them all or Come , suck my >>>>>>

[@lbordois8236]

The humor was so poor in bl3 a lot of the bad jokes permanently stain my memory of the game

[@akmal94ibrahim]

This makes me want to watch an AJ and crew D&D session.

[@limbytes]

I second this motion

[@yellow242]

Yes please

[@CamoflagedTumbleweed]

Third. 🙂🥦🦖

[@austin.....]

Fourth

[@werewolfjedi38]

it's happened. go watch their board game stuff

[@midnightjay]

9:31 It's funny, back during bl2 the writers had reworked Handsome Jack for this same reason. The original writers knew a character you hear/see a lot that was always joking/trying to be funny would get old and annoying eventually (HJ was planned to be a antihero support character then went to main villain) but that insight is completely lost with the new writers (Bl3 and anything after). I plan to check this game out whenever it hits steam and on sale to see if I like it personally but it hasn't been the same after the end of the original TftB...

[@inorite4553]

So the lead writer is the brother of the actress who voices Tiny Tina. In fact, he wrote the character based around his sister and then got her an audition. However, for some reason Gearbox didn't retain the services of the lead writer and went in a different direction for BL3 and Wonderlands.....and it painfully shows that was a grave mistake.

[@Rollbrand370]

Plus, Sam Maggs was also one of the head writers. If you don't know who that is she's a woke activist who always puts political agendas then actual art in her work. Not to mention she worked on Call of Duty Vanguard. And everyone knows how awful that game was. She was almost involved in the Knights of the Old Republic remake but she left a few months back. Companies need to stop hiring people like her if they expect their games to succeed. Update: she also was the head writer for Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart. However, when she left the people under Maggs had to rewrite some things. That's why the game was good. But people still deserve credit for being involved in a project.

[@hazim9529]

@@Rollbrand370 Isn't she the one that said CoD has no 'iconic characters'? Lmao

[@mariobadia4553]

@@hazim9529 by that she means no strong black women soldiers

[@KaiKrimson56]

@@Rollbrand370 Is that why the "genders" in Wonderlands are This One and That One? I thought having Male, Female, and they/them or in the case of Black Ops Cold War, Classified would be enough for them. It's not a deal breaker, but it is kinda annoying.

[@tiltedtoken1450]

All the dice collected gives you 10% luck I believe. Do the shrine in the last world and it gives you 20%. I feel they put to much emphasis on the dice affecting the overall experience.

[@twistedmezelf]

Its a Lot more than that.

[@Nico78Not]

It's hilariously more than that : +35% Loot Luck. But it's not an additive, in fact, it's multiplicative. Meaning that since your Loot Luck is also increased with each Chaos level, you'd be wasting your time to farm without that bonus because it becomes exponential. They made collecting secondary objectives a requirement to get good loot...the main thing you want to drop in a looter shooter.

[@parkerbrown5565]

I loved how smart the humor was in 2. In these newer games it feels like it wants to insult your intelligence with crap humor. It sucks that it seems the series has degraded to mindless humor over smart creative jokes from BL2

[@YourCrazyDolphin]

"Humar"

[@gustavosanches3454]

About the jokes, it's sad to see that this game continued the downward trend from Borderlands 3, where it really looked like the writers were hipsters from 2010 trying really hard to make self aware jokes that just don't work anymore. And I'm pretty sure that's what happened since it really looks like every single joke is an attempt to emulate and exacerbate the funny parts of Borderlands 2 but without realizing what would work or not.

[@whispersmusic6173]

*Humor…

[@whispersmusic6173]

@@gustavosanches3454 The cringe humor actually began in Pre Sequel

[@YourCrazyDolphin]

@@whispersmusic6173 I'd say 3. Pre-Sequel actually had less humor than 2, and managed to maintain enough of that balance that it wasn't too ridiculous. It didn't always land as well as 2 but that's a really high standard to keep.

[@Rubhen925]

That face OJ makes after inhaling the 'balloon' at 38:18 says it all about this game 😂😂

[@soraceant]

I know a kid who made that exact mistake. Only his had actual man sauce in it.

[@americafkyeah8695]

@@soraceant all kinds of protein, all kiiiindz

[@bluemonday12]

Lmao, the pinata with garbage for the loot fuxkin a! Lmao!

[@KaiKrimson56]

Reminds me of a joke from an episode of Family Guy where Chris walks out of a bathroom with a condom, thinking it's a balloon, exceot he never figures out what it really is. To make it funnier, he gets from a restroom in a family-friendly pizza restraunt.

[@MetallicaKing48]

The ballon, for roosters. Because cock-a-diddle-doo motherfucker.

[@feloniuspunk7078]

Im 33 now.. Ive been playing video games my entire life. The whole Tiny Tina character is so 2012 to me.. You know? Its like, my generation’s Millennial humor back in 2012 and ive definitely outgrown it.. I dont outright hate it but BOY I CANNOT ROLL MY EYES HARD ENOUGH at tiny tina jokes

[@aleksandarmarkovic1013]

This Intro is one of the absolute best you guys have done yet. Absolutely genius and hilarious!! Great Job AJ Crew!!

[@marcbisson9351]

The intro was everything. Perfectly encapsulated the feel of the game and what to expect from the review. Brilliant, guys.

[@enternamehere142]

Ya know… as I get older not much makes me smile and laugh anymore. Your skits for some reason ALWAYS put a smile on my face. Thank you

[@michaelfeist1759]

Remember when games came out and actually worked. At bare minimum a game should work on release, otherwise it feels like a straight up scam.

[@Soulweaver0]

Feel like there a lack of QA during development of this game.

[@0neFamily]

I’ve always loved playing Borderlands for split screen co-op. One of the few games to still do that. So I was stoked that Tiny Tina would continue that trend. Unfortunately, the PS5 version of this game’s co-op was a buggy mess with the WORST UI and inventory system EVER! It constantly got in the way of having a fun fast paced experience that you look for in this game. Stupid shit that caused sorting through loot, which often sucked, take several times longer than necessary because after examining or comparing weapons/spells the fucking system would shoot you back to the top of the list! Requiring you to slowly scroll down through the 50+ items EVERY TIME! Tedious bullshit that cripples the central gameplay loop.

[@malibuhiegts]

They really need better menu ui' people, bl3 was similar, if Playing with my friend, opening my inventory would cause the other player to stutter, I could spam open/close my bag and it would be like stop frame for them lmao

[@0neFamily]

@@malibuhiegts Yes, but iirc BL3 didn't stop you from reading the full description of items/ weapons before picking them up, allowing you to better decide whether it was even worth touching. Also, the UI on BL3 didn't have the irritating issue of resetting you to the top of the menu if you examine items at the bottom of your inventory, causing you to constantly scroll back and forth when you need to check multiple items. Tiny Tina does those things, and others I didn't mention, on top of STILL stuttering like BL3 did. So no, this isn't me complaining about pre-existing problems. Hopefully last night's large update fixed these issues.

[@malibuhiegts]

@@0neFamily that UI reset would absolutely do my head in, thats something you'd expect on a made by one person bedroom game, or a half assed cash grab mobile game, these little things really go a long way, and bl is basically a run and gun inventory management, it needs more menu power than an ATM

[@0neFamily]

@@malibuhiegts The update fixed some of the problems. Importantly you can now see full item descriptions before picking stuff up. But the menu reset issue is still present. With that, the poor loot, and how boring the chaos chamber quickly becomes, Tiny Tina doesn't have the endgame replayability I've felt from previous games.

[@0neFamily]

@Veer Shanky Uh, no....? Maybe my post could be misconstrued, but just mentioned what system I was using for anyone curious. I appreciate it when someone gives me a heads up when a game I'm thinking about playing is broken. Kinda helps when they clarify which platform they're playing on. This wasn't a bash on the PS5, since that would make no sense...

[@authgaroftheplains]

I had the same issue with Borderlands3 with the loot drops. Since it uses the same game engine and loot system, I am not surprised to see it is no different. I often found that guns just didnt improve and used level 10 guns well into level 30 boss fights because the guns were not better.

[@0potion]

The pre sequel was the last one in the series that actually balanced its loot table. I don't know if it was laziness or incompetence but starting with 3 their loot table have been broken as heck. And honestly with some of the DLcs from borderlands two had this issue where the super awesome gun that you're supposed to get from the boss wouldn't have been worse than some random could you picked up on the way.

[@jmchhernandez1125]

im going to take heat for this and im sorry AJ and army but what about the classic format of angry reviews? I miss it a bit now. The discussion format is fine but i don't know.

[@Kekkai_]

Weird thing about the loot is during my playthrough I was getting legendries every couple levels and my buddy who I played with the whole way through only got 1-2. The loot was really messed up.

[@BrentCox2B]

Were you playing on the hardest difficulty?

[@Kekkai_]

@@BrentCox2B yes

[@BrentCox2B]

@@Kekkai_ Maybe your buddy was playing on medium. My gf was playing on medium and I was playing on the hardest and I got a lot more legendary drops than her.

[@Kekkai_]

@@BrentCox2B I’m pretty sure we checked. Regardless, I don’t think that would make sense since I’m host it’s going to just default to my difficulty, right?

[@BrentCox2B]

@@Kekkai_ No, each player plays on their own difficulty setting even when playing multiplayer.

[@douglasduda9826]

I think this game was a Testing ground going forward for BL games...like BL4. I always wanted to make my own vault hunter since BL1 when Marcus is explaining that Vault Hunters come from all walks of life and are all species...Also I thought in Bl3 where are there not melee weapons...well they tried it here. Also the spell system could be used in the future to allow the player to try different abilities in the future instead of being stuck with only 1 or 2 traditionally. Also the multi class system allows you Lots of choices...making ur VH or whatever it was called in WL actually somewhat unique vs another soldier or berserker or siren. Think what if they did bl3 with 3 trees per class and then you can choose a 2nd class...That Could be a thing.

[@brett84c]

I agree with all you've said but my guess is they'll never do 3 to 4 full skill trees with multi-classing because of how hard it is to balance, which is part of the reason BL3 was so hard to balance for a full year and why they were able to balance Wonderlands more easily with only 2 max trees (classes) per character. I do hope they can take the best from all the games. I still think Wonderlands could have been as good or better than BL2 if they just fixed the rest of the most requested fixes or changes that haven't been even grazed since launch (splitscreen UI issues) and just created solid DLCs, something they've almost always nailed since BL2. It's just sad and perplexing because the game was on the cusp of absolute greatness and they botched things again just like the first year of BL3, the main difference is they were supporting the crap out of BL3, post-launch, and pushing significant fixes nearly every week and Wonderlands is getting barely a fraction of that, and none of the patches are addressing the handful of issues people have been begging to be fixed since the game's launch. Just terrible form on Gearboxes part. I feel like they've burned up their good faith with the community and even if they make a turn-around in season 2, people are gonna be pissed and unlikely to jump back on the bandwagon. Just sad to see one of my favorite devs just not giving a shit and not making the effort I know they could be.

[@douglasduda9826]

@@brett84c WHAT I DON'T GET IN A PVE GAME...WHERE POWER FANTASY IS THE ENDGAM...WHO CARES IF YOU ARE OP...MAKE NEW CONTENT FOR THAT POWER LEVEL. IMO DON'T NERF EVERYTHING INTO THE GROUND. BRING THEM ALL UP TO ABOUT EVEN.

[@douglasduda9826]

@@brett84c Who cares ina PVE game...As long as the all CAN BLAST about evenly and are fun...I get it somethings are INHERENTLY broken then sure something must be done. But Nerfing stuff SHOULD be LAST resort...make other weaker things BETTER to bring it UP to be similar lvl of the other...and you can always ADD cool stuff to make enemies harder or NEW harder content. WHICH THEY DO IN BL.

[@smarfbag8714]

That intro was gold

[@vaisravana2092]

That laughing Alex face is gonna haunt me for days lmao. Thanks for that

[@cykablyat3680]

i remember when the humor was one of the great features of borderlands games ,not a hinderance to the story

[@donaldn5798]

I believe the writers have changed hands 2-3 times now with BLs

[@WafflezDay]

The writing we got in Borderlands 2 will never come back, because those writers are gone. They've been trying to replicate it by just going as over the top as possible and having voice actors just scream their lines, and they somehow don't realize that simply being loud and obnoxious is not necessarily what made BL 2 good.

[@donaldn5798]

@@WafflezDay Childish with no charm

[@airyshark324]

Idk I’ve been playin for 2 hr maybe one an it seems fine an funny some of the jokes or etc ion pay Attention to perks of a pothead an games r fun

[@phil_zupra_b5880]

I swear id love for the three to make a whole homemade movie. Their skits are always so damn funny.

[@gamakag]

That was the most huff on copium score ever! 😂 All negative talk, gets above average score?! If the game is draining to play, it’s objectively bad

[@sublimemime183]

Incel 😂

[@donamameng]

i agree at around 60% relatively bc bl3 would be around the same score too imo below 5 should be for broken/incomplete/flawed game designs, like bf 2042/anthem/culling 2

[@blueferal8626]

🤡

[@Lieutenantlongnuts]

They did the same thing with their horizon forbidden west review. I love watching these guys but the score is a little odd sometimes

[@sumireravenclaw8034]

Go look at the reviews for this game. There great. Not sure why Joes was so low.

[@brianthebroken]

I think this game does a lot for melee builds. I think it's the first in the series that just allows you to hold down the melee button.

[@puttputt524]

I really liked Wonderlands. I got into optimizing my character, but then the patch came out. Essentially, gearbox decides what builds are good and bad, and I have zero interest making a powerful character anymore. Honestly, ambi hextrous spellshot with buffmeister, concentrated magic barrage and frost dahlia smg got nerfed to hell, even though Fl4k in BL3 with monarch is way more broken.

[@BapiBoozle]

They need to stop nerfing in these games and start buffing the shit that is week. It's not a PVP game so i dont understand their want to make things less meta, rather than just making everything that is weaker slightly more fun to use to bring it up to a certain level.

[@imjustlag9060]

Shocked they didn’t talk about the dlc, it deserved a small 10 minute section.

[@LukeMartin-qi5uh]

So a playthrough?

[@devastatheseeker9967]

@@LukeMartin-qi5uh no that would be shorter

[@mrDeathtrooper]

I’m sure they will come as an angry rant, but I dont know.

[@sandro-of9fq]

They probably missed it. I hope angry rant is coming. Aj wouldn't let it pass.

[@Isnogood12]

The whole DLC is a small 10 minute section.

[@MrJuanrock89]

"You can run past everything, and that's kind of the mark of bad games" Souls games make a pretty solid case for it. Thanks for the review guys, I'll be waiting for a generous deal on this one.

[@starfoxcm]

Elden ring less so just because the distance between graces is far less than the souls games. Like ds1 was painful especially the bonfire before Quelaag’s fight.

[@GigaChadDuPlessis]

@@starfoxcm wtf?. Its easier than ever to just run past everything in elden ring. At least in previous soulsborne games there was a boss you had to fight to get to the next area. In elden ring you can literally just run to end game areas without fighting anything

[@nicknoriega5140]

…if you play a game to run past things then why even play at all? Lmao

[@solidsnakeshugecake]

@@GigaChadDuPlessis ikr you can skip a couple of rune bosses, and it doesn't matter who. You can get to lyendell without even killing godrick renalla radahn or rykard depending on who you choose to fight

[@Nico78Not]

@@starfoxcm You can literally rush past everything with Torrent. It's the reason why people miss so many quests/items in the first place.

[@OMSOFFICIALS]

I miss the old Style of Reviews but I love these Podcast style Reviews with Alex and OJ

[@JackieFrankieful]

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands was supposed to be BL3 Season 2 DLC pack, but DLC was going out of hand too big too many ideas, so devs rushed and made it standalone separate game, and they kept skeleton crew to work on promissed Season 2 for BL3, but crew as so small and lazy, thats why we got Director's Designer's cuts, just compare S1 to S2 you can see that proficiency dropped down hard. Well here's your answer.

[@Argojamal]

" get it right the first time" I love this statement I know a lot of people will say " this game is so good now after 2+ years of updates" but I'm sorry updates and dlc have made gaming companies lazy and willing to put out broken garbage day 1 because oh there's a day 1 update that'll fix it. If a game doesn't work day one regardless of your platform you should be mad and not everyone will want go back to something and they don't have to just because "it's fixed" first impressions are a big deal. And when games release broken and busted its a massive problem. I am going to by this game and play with a friend but I expected better from this developer. Also the opening was really funny good work guys

[@blakewhitlow]

depends on what the devs do like im willing to bet you SOOOOO many people would buy Outriders for the first time when there expansion comes out soon cuz u get the full game included plus all the QOL they did last year. same with CP2077 and there expansion coming in 2023.

[@sumireravenclaw8034]

what? This game was great at launch other than a few bugs and the whole Mp. hell, the jokes were great. far better than that shit fest that was BL3 I'm not sure what Joes smoking because the reviews and scores for this game are very good.

[@TheSpawnfan]

@@sumireravenclaw8034 I'll have to take your word for it, never buying another Borderlands on launch again after 3

[@randfarris6064]

Elden ring had problems to and it got nothing but the best scores though it really did deserve it its just what games have become can't Meer deadline release and patch day one and later how many dam day one patches have there been and patch 1.05 in the 1st 2 weeks

[@discipleofdeath2517]

Not gonna lie I treat the epic exclusive games as letting people beta test it for a year before I potentially buy it.

[@joelraynor15]

Love your guy's reviews and I definitely agree that the humor is becoming a bit over the top, even though Torgue will always have a special place in my heart I feel like they shouldve kept the classic censor bleeps. I did come up with a solution to the looping music, I turned the music all the way down and just turned on my own music. This may sound weird but listening to Eurobeat actually kicks ass when you're running the Chaos chamber.

[@TG-ge1oh]

The humor is probably suffering due to a decline in the script quality. There's no subtlety anymore. Everything is loud and obnoxious because that is assumed to be funny. It's something I keep feeling about the Netflix show Final Space. Loud and random ramblings are only funny when one person does it, sometimes. Not when a bunch of people are constantly doing it.

[@Savantir]

You need to do an angry rant or something about the DLC they released recently. It's $10 for 10 minutes of gameplay and a complete slap in the face for people who have the season pass.

[@adamfrazer5150]

The meta-thread skits are getting tighter and tighter - three cheers to the lads for their continued support of gamers and the content we pay for. 😎👍

[@MazeMaker4Life]

Whilst game related content is becoming more and more like extended discussions rather than fully fledged reviews - with all the tv and movie crap shoved in between.

[@malcolmgreen6927]

@MazeMaker4Life yah he's been doing that a lot lately. I mean I'm fine with extended discussions but I do wish he would go back his classic review style.

[@BlaiseArath]

Both those Torgue Lute solo got a chuckle from me. Maybe I'm biased cause Torgue is one of my favorite characters and that seemed very on point for what he'd do, since one of his schticks in previous games has been "Guitar solos". IDK, didn't really seem bad, if anything that felt the most like the Borderlands humor I enjoyed from game 2.

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

Honestly, I had to stop playing Borderlands games... and any looter shooter under the Sun because it was getting tedious and boring. It doesn't matter what universes they're set in, the characters they present, the worlds they create, in the end it all just feels the same. And frankly, after all the debacles with Gearbox and Randy and all the stupid controversies in between, I'm just done with them in general. Come back with a proper new Duke Nukem game and maybe we'll talk.

[@jeffreyhafner9214]

I don't know if this happened to other people but when I completed a chaos chamber to level up my chaos I literally had to restart the game because it would bug out when I started another chaos trial. It would revert the chaos level back to the one I just completed. Needless to say it got very very old very very quickly.

[@kingj7018]

a psycho smile Alex was something I always wanted to watch even though I knew it would give me nightmares for a month

[@Hot_Soupp]

I'm glad to hear someone else talking about the disappointing loot. I enjoyed the game quite a lot as just another "mindless fun looter-shooter, with fun builds to play with" that I could play with friends for a few hours at a time in the evenings. I never needed it to be anything more than that. But after doing Chaos Chamber runs for a bit I've put the game down, solely because the loot still doesn't feel rewarding at all. I never feel excited when I sort through the ~60 items I get during and after a run. At BEST its just occasionally: "Uh I guess I'll equip this thing... It's maybe a tiny bit better... I think?.. maybe?", but the VAST majority of the time it's just useless shit that I don't want at all. It's never cool, exciting powerful new gear to play with that fits my build. Really disappointing.

[@thee_morpheus]

Yeah I'm not a fan of the Chaos Chambers in general, juice isnt worth the squeeze. Bosses are cheap and the loot sucks overall.

[@mrdisaster5880]

Honestly they should take a page from elden ring or even their old games the loot used to be so rewarding.

[@patrickthewolf840]

Borderlands has been the same shit since 2 came out and only went downhill from there, Gearbox really should try something new because this was getting old and boring years ago.

[@bobbyevans8136]

If you're not using vending machines, you're doing it wrong.

[@zymphad7377]

Why did you give Gearbox your money?

[@C1umsyJester]

I remember when borderlands 2 came out and that’s one of my favourite games of all time. Since then I haven’t really picked up any of the borderlands game

[@LeMuzi]

Same...the tiny Tina dlc in B2 was the best I've ever played

[@C1umsyJester]

@@LeMuzi so true I loved that. Also the OP levelling end game I thought was a really good way to do the end game, all the dlcs felt great maybe apart from one. Can’t remember it’s name tho. It wasn’t perfect, but it was one of my favourite games of all time

[@bungifish2227]

@@C1umsyJester wonderlands is way better than the tiny DLC in BL2, go try game out don't trust this review imo.

[@C1umsyJester]

@@bungifish2227 one of the reasons I love bl2 was the dialogue. Bad dialogue kills a borderlands game, a lot goes into it

[@votedada]

SMART MAN

[@DemonVido]

Makes me sad to see the quality of the borderlands franchise go down over time BL 1&2 were some of the most fun I had with a franchise back in the day

[@scarecrow7x]

The worst thing is the game is completely unbalanced. You get to end game, start running chaos chambers and all of a sudden your class and loot doesn't matter. You basically need to find some class/gun meta and run that

[@JeannieLove]

Yep! I was lucky that I had got a Buffmeister and they didn't hotfix it out in the first few weeks the game was out. But I hated that I had to set Spellshot and use its Ambihextrous ability and converting spell buffs to gun damage to be able to do enough damage to beat the bosses that regenerate shields constantly. The spells I found most useful for me was the ice barrage spells where you hold to cast repeatedly. But I wanted to be a Brr-zerker + Clawbringer. My best gun and the only gun worth using was the ice smg.

[@scarecrow7x]

@@JeannieLove yeah same. I was running that, now currently running the pixie pistol builds which seems to be the only way I can win fights at the moment 😅

[@thee_morpheus]

They need some serious buffs for the snipers, ARs and rocket launchers. I got legendary versions that do barely any damage. chaos or not, these don’t feel legendary at all

[@tmerchead1]

Thats been a problem since BL2 Ultimate Vault Hunter patch

[@scarecrow7x]

@@tmerchead1 Oh yeah, also ahh the old gunzerker glitch back then with infinity pistol or the explosive rifle (i forget the name) man was that busted

[@adamfrazer5150]

This game is hard........on my ears ! Toughest boss ever ? Tiny Tina's VOCAL CHORDS.

[@Darkgun231]

I was disappointed with this game too. I wanted a Borderlands style RPG, with rapid fire spells instead of guns, crazy melee weapons with fun effects, and quirky and weird enemies. We got none of that. It was just a slightly longer remake of the Border Lands 2 DLC of the same name (which, in my opinion, was far, far better).

[@jaylu2414]

For all the people complaining about how long it takes for them to get these reviews out, maybe if the developer would put out a full game without all the bugs crashes. I actually respect Angry Joe more for only doing a review once he has played the entire game, no matter how long it takes. It makes for a more honest review and I feel better informed as to wether I should purchase the game or not. Most of my game purchases are purposefully delayed until I hear the review from this channel. Thanks Joes and Alex, keep doing what you do.

[@kenterminateddq5311]

I wish AngryJoe stick to actual reviews and not boring discussions. Sorry, I miss legitmately "angry reviews".

[@REALzackychan]

Facts

[@e1iteyoshi998]

I mean to be fair i'd say it's a 7.5-8/10 once you remove the bugs in the game.

[@allthatishere]

@@kenterminateddq5311 Why do you make it sound like he doesn't do those anymore??

[@selloutsanders5774]

Yeah and honestly people shouldn't buy games when it first comes out anyway. Save your money y'know?

[@anthonymcmillan1139]

I feel the same way, that it’s almost a good/great game but there’s some more work needed. I remember comparing a purple Blackpowder assault rifle to a purple Blackpowder sniper that was like 5 levels higher and the sniper’s damage was 50 points better. Another problem was when you fight enemies at a higher level than you and they drop gear at your level. I also don’t understand why you have to end the game to equip another ring. I don’t get why you can’t just have all of the item slots available at the start. This last patch was a step in the right direction overall but they nerfed the powerful gear instead of elevating the weaker gear. The weapon classes don’t have enough distinction between each other so there’s not a lot of reason to use a weapon that isn’t a pistol, SMG or assault rifle. Great video, probably the best intro I’ve seen so far ✊🏾

[@douglasduda9826]

True, If you did not know in bl1 and 2 Snipers had Huge crit dmg numbers...I MEAN ITS A SNIPER.

[@bloedekuh]

Update: 2 years later, the bugs are still not fixed. Don't buy this game even if it's 95% off.

[@HIPPIESxRxUS]

I love how you were able to blow up the ocean in this game like it was a quest of his in BL2 it made my kinda hyped hell yeah I wanna blow that shit up

[@danir9028]

That was such a gem 😊 torgue's dream come true lol

[@thineubaut]

I look forward to playing this in two years when the GotY edition is %50 off

[@isaakhyde8327]

Love how silly Alex gets in this one for the skits. If you watched just this vid you'd never guess at the "Alex hates everything" inside joke.

[@mcfry13]

The game definitely has flaws, but I really liked the side missions/stories, the main campaign, villain, and jokes this time around compared to BL3. They did a really good job fixing a lot of things people hated. 2 is still the gold standard, but this is a good step in the right direction.

[@jacobshmit229]

He'll no lol. This is leagues below b3 for me. I had such a dogshit experience with this one

[@poprdog]

@@jacobshmit229 did you even play 3. That was fucking trash. The villains made me want to dig my eyes out

[@TheSMSpider]

@@jacobshmit229 naa 3 was trash.

[@garretth8224]

Those are jokes?

[@vircentti]

No this is a step in the wrong direction. Shit jokes shit loot SWJ writing 3 is league's better

[@superbatman3762]

Welcome to the next Angry Sit-in Show

[@stevo948]

Seeing Joe get pissed at the cringe humour was legit hilarious

[@I_am_ENSanity]

Never preorder, never buy day 1, and never purchase microtransactions. PS: Never buy anything on the Epic Games store.

[@flelllilx]

Yea funny the game is complete when its on sale half or 75% off. Its weird that people say we need to support devs by paying full price but its complete on a deep sale. We in a weird market.

[@I_am_ENSanity]

@@flelllilx Yup, just wait a year then get GOTY edition for 50% off. It's not like there aren't 100's of other games you could play while you wait. Especially with stuff like Game Pass.

[@thefaceless8796]

Although I haven't played all that long yet I can attest that I have had a bad taste in my mouth with the loot I've been getting. Have not gotten anything that I was super pumped about yet. Granted I'm only level 15 but still I feel like they need to throw you a freakin bone through your whole play through.

[@emanuelemanuel7038]

You better be finding those dice if you want the luck!

[@Sythine]

The skit was actually too good for what I've come to usually expect 😂 that was really well done

[@ghostofgotem3081]

I feel like Joe is hiding in a box this man has been making content back to back rest up you deserve it 😂

[@kawonsuggs9595]

"There ain't no rest for the wicked, money dont grow on trees. I got bills to pay I got mouths to feed.. ok I'll stop lol

[@testoftimegaming5219]

I'm not saying he needs to make more or anything but he's not making that much stuff lol

[@DGiovanni]

He plays video games and then talks in front of a camera for an hour. Quit acting like it’s a hard job.

[@awakeandwatching953]

@@DGiovanni its not hard per say but they put in a lot of effort even for these more informal chat reviews, looks like they have a process nailed between the 3 of them.... he put a lot of work in during the early years to get to the place he is now so he deserves props for that...

[@DGiovanni]

@@awakeandwatching953 The guy put his work in for sure, but to use the workload as an excuse not to make videos is BS. This entire video could have easily been made in a day or two. The only time consuming aspect is playing the game.

[@tonytime916]

I watch the reviews for the intros/skits, pure gold.

[@brazen_categories9755]

I think i drew the long stick on this game. The game progression was smooth, got neat loot, and was able to use lower level spells and guns in some higher level areas (I love me some magic barrage). Its likely because i was naturally curious and wanted to try and find the lucky dice in each area, havent found them all because holy SHIT some are hard to find, but i guess getting like, 5 or 6 dice in each area increased my luck a fair bit. Im a pretty lenient gamer, so some aspects that people may find unforgivable, I would find a bit annoying, but I’ll live, like the dialogue and the constant immature and repeated jokes, the main villain, the overall progression of the story and the game, i was just able to get used to it a little less than half way in. Some may not like it, but i find the chaos runs really fun, I’m always able to change up my run however I want, and so far it hasn’t gotten boring for me. The enemies are cool, the weapons are baller (but Wonderlands PLEASE just drop me ONE legendary ring with spell damage) and I LOVE the spells. I think the one thing that actually annoyed me was the character creation. Dont get me wrong, I still love the character creation, its what i always wanted in a borderlands game, but most of the selections more or less…neutral. Yeah, there are a few that make you look somewhat masculine, and some somewhat feminine, but I had to Finnic with the settings for a bit until I actually had something genuinely masculine or feminine. And the hairstyles really dont help with the neutrality, none of them are entirely good for one gender or the other, so none of them look….bad, but none of them look entirely good either. Overall, I am having a pretty decent time still. Just got into the myth rank and gonna progress as far as i can there, and likely start another character with completely different classes

[@Odinarcade00]

Yeah I’m with you. Angry joe is pretty entertaining but honestly I like most of the games he shits one most notably ghost recon. Either way I haven’t started this yet and it’s loaded up and ready to go so I’m hoping I’ll enjoy it seeing as by now the bugs should be fixed

[@adamfrazer5150]

But GUYS ! One question we're dying to know : Will Pitchford be releasing a companion book with all his unused jokes, the ones not funny enough to be worthy of being crammed down our ear canals 😐 when Randy, when ?!

[@0001captainawesome]

11:00 Ironic because "Butt Stallion" is one of everyone's favorite jokes in Borderlands uttered by Jack. Delivery seemed horrible here though. Here it was just a member berry here that compounded with so many bad jokes. Butt Stallion was also a living weapon that you can equip in that game also. It shot rainbow colored lasers out of it's ass and was one of the strongest weapons.

[@taigaaisaka6305]

People liked the "Butt Stallion" joke back then because it was the first time, it was original, it was also Jacks introduction, showing you how much of an a** he was. Here is like the 4th time they make that joke, and this time without any real meaning, its just "Here it is again, Butt Stallion, please laugh!". Time also has passed, 2012 humor is not the same as today's. Hell, people who played BL2 are now 10 years older. Gearbox seems to believe their fans are still stuck in the "Like a boss" and "Trollface" kind of style of humor. They've basically become the "How do you do fellow kids?" meme.

[@sickandafraid]

@@taigaaisaka6305 yea, but bl2 can actually still be funny sometimes because the jokes feel natural and not forced in, or seem forceful. I was less annoyed with the jokes in bl2 than in bl3 and somewhat Tiny Tina’s. (That spoon story from Handsome Jack is still pretty funny and also an example of Handsome Jack’s voice actors amazing acting)

[@sickandafraid]

@@taigaaisaka6305 also face mcshooty is my god and amazing

[@psychobillynumbnuts1]

No. It just shows how awful borderlands jokes has age. It was bad then too

[@White_Tiger93]

It's just something that Anthony Burch pride for, more often that people seem to hate him but admire his work in Borderlands 2. I just wish Gearbox would go back to where they're were before all of this shit, maybe hiring Pierre Sherotte as a lead writer because he did amazing work for Tales from the Borderlands series. Wonderlands and Borderlands 3 will always be remember as bad storytelling but fun gunplay action loot nonentheless aside from inclusive woke LGBT bullshit humor.

[@AngryArgonian]

I didn't have any of these bugs/glitches on the PS4 version. Also, I found myself chuckling a lot at the cringe. Some of the jokes didn't land with me, but I enjoyed most of them.

[@brolafdanaross9787]

I love that I have no interest in Tiny Tina, nor a review on this subject, but yet was excited for this video when I saw Alex's face in the thumbnail. His addition to the show has been such a pleasure

[@Muninnnr]

The "comedy" writing of the Borderlands series has always had issues with tone and comedy, but it's an issue that's gotten worse over time. Wacky comedy needs straight-men (be they characters or the world itself) to ground the comedy, otherwise it's just random stupidity. BL1 had some wacky characters, but the world itself was grounded in some solid dystopian themes which made the wackiness of the character make more sense. They were regular people who had gone mad because they lived/were trapped on a planet with vicious wild life, a crazy turn cycle which led to odd climates and a daily light cycle which made sleep deprivation almost inevitable. BL2 cranked up the wackiness, but it also made the world more hostile and with a main villain like Handsome Jack being both silly and genuinely menacing with some real depth it all still came together. The DLC's really leaned harder into the whack though, but even then the Tiny Tina DLC had some of the best writing in the series and showed how you could take a character like Tiny Tina and show a more emotional and real side to all the insanity. BL:PS once again made the character more wacky (and Australian!) but it didn't balance them with anything else, giving us such wonderfully deep characters as "The lesbian mechanic who is a lesbian and who would really love to have all the lesbian sex with all the women". BL3 just has bad writing in general, but even though it in theory has some straight-men in the form of Lilith and others the bad "comedy" writing infested everything. So in this instance the existence of straight-men didn't really mater. And now we have Tiny Tina's Wonderland, which is all whack all the time. The closest thing to a straight-man this game has is the psycho we put in a straight-jacket and tossed off a cliff. Insanity, ho! Still better than BL3 though.

[@KnZ1940]

Hey you forgot Tales! That shit has the perfect amount of comedy and serious parts and is getting a sequel!

[@wearsjorge55]

BL3 writing was just soooo... off.. and I can't put my finger on one specific thing but several very small things but together made the game a real borefest for me personally

[@sleepykitty8918]

@@wearsjorge55 Gameplay was good. But that ending. "She's the Firehawk!" I felt like trashing the game disc many times throughout but the fun gameplay helped. The end was too much and I had to go take a shower then a relaxing bath to wash away the disappointing

[@AgraeLpl]

@@wearsjorge55 maybe completly shitty characters? Old characters act like morons or total asshats. And concentration on Ava - she was worst of them all.

[@Haterator]

@@sleepykitty8918 This. And they tried so hard to put in pop culture shyte, like KZbinrs recording themselves all the time, because that's how Influencers are , right? You know and recognize that, right? It's funny, right? No, because there was no self irony to that, you took that shyte serious and overplayed it. That's why it's annoying.

[@TitoTheHeavy]

You're always bringing the best quality reviews and Takes Joe. If I was a video game developer and you made a review on my game I'd crap myself because Angry Joe reviewed my game! What an honor! 😎👍

[@HahnKirby]

The reason that loot was more rare in this game was because people were complaining nonstop about constantly getting legendaries in BL3. People said that legendaries didn't feel special anymore, so Gearbox implemented the loot luck system so that way you had to be at a higher level/chaos level for a better chance at getting good stuff. By the sound of it Joe made it to the chaos chamber and quit, so no wonder he didn't get a lot of good gear. Chaos levels affect loot luck more than the loot dice, so you want to get high to max chaos level if you want a lot of legendaries.

[@thee_morpheus]

BL3 too many, WL too few, BL2 got it just right

[@HahnKirby]

@@thee_morpheus In the one month I've played WL I've gotten way more legendaries than I have in BL2. The one thing I want in WL though is dedicated drops for all the legendaries, I hate farming random legendaries for the one item I want.

[@sumireravenclaw8034]

BL2 legendary was terrible. when you could farm a single boss for 4 hours and get 1 legendary. that's not "Just right"

[@Herky2012]

The absolute best intros come from lack luster or bad games.

[@Erilis000]

2:23 that was one of the funniest opening sketches, love AJS

[@shindalah1794]

I agree with a lot of the points being made and I always love these review. My experience with the game was definitely different as I had no technical issues, the humor 75% of the time landed / at least got a chuckle out of me and I got a new weapon set about every other level or so which felt fine (idk if its due to playing on higher difficulty or just luck). Overall, its not a perfect game, definitely wouldn't recommend anyone pick it up for full price; maybe wait until its 40USD, but it's a decent enough romp through the borderlands-esque world.

[@ricksgamemisc10]

I agree. My feeling for the game seemed to be better than theirs. Much like @shindalah, I enjoyed most of the humor and my loot was not AS bad as theirs ... though maybe not what I was hoping for hehe. On PS5 I also experienced those lag spikes, which were caused by Gearbox's crappy Shift service constantly connecting and reconnecting and trying to reconnect and .... yeah. All smooth after they got that sorted out. And to be fair, I had enough other games to play that if I'd get those spikes, I'd just leave and play something else. Perhaps not the best thing to say lol. But true. Once sorted (a couple weeks in), I was able to enjoy it.

[@dogsbreakfast4952]

Seems like they need to start playing games on console they are always having issues

[@chs_ambs8356]

I agree one hundred percent. For me it's a step back from the humor in BL3's DLC, but still very entertaining and there are some laugh out loud moments. I love the game and so do my coworkers. Also, not one bug or technical issue that I can think of- and I fired it up about half an hour after it launched.

[@AlienYogurtPot123]

I did put the Voice volume slider all the way down at one point, and play with no dialogue. It was such a great feeling lol. Finally a break from the cringe.

[@Phanbot01]

Welcome to the state of AAA gaming! Pay full price for game that's less than complete, the full game requires purchasing dlc and season passes.

[@aioli4869]

Playing through on PS5 on splitscreen with my partner and have enjoyed the game thoroughly. But holy crap is it easy to become overpowered. We melt literally everything on the hardest difficulty.

[@tylerm5862]

Console actually ran fairly smooth. A couple crashes here and there though, more than there should be for sure.

[@teendazegirl]

Joe fake laughing at the butt stallion intro had me in tears

[@BlazingOwnager]

I have some friends and we wet out to play Borderlands in order. By the end of 2's DLC we decided we cannot stand most of the central characters and just wanted to die. Most of the problems in this game are present throughout the whole series.

[@psychobillynumbnuts1]

Thank you. The humor was always awful

[@lalchock]

Butt Stallion was first introduced on the Southern Shelf by Jack, during the mission Best Minion Ever. In an ECHO message to the Vault Hunters, Jack mentioned that he bought a pony made out of diamonds, then messages again to say that he was trying to come up with a name for the pony he just bought. He was going to call it "Piss-For-Brains" in honor of the Vault Hunters, but changed it to "Butt Stallion." He later clarified that the diamond pony he bought was not a statue, but a real pony made out of diamonds.

[@Majin_Koolaid]

I just left a very similar comment, I think that they're a bit too jaded

[@joeslickback]

(Seeing Dungeon Master Alex smile) It's ok, I didn't need to sleep today

[@rickmon101]

I miss the old style review with more sketches. Now all the reviews feel the same as the movie reviews. Just not excited as I used to be for his game reviews

[@StanleyOpar]

Exactly, I stopped watching after the skit

[@eastbrecht]

When you follow a channel over a long time and it just keeps getting better.

[@thatboynelly]

What did he mean when he said that this is the THIRD tiny tina game if you look at it a certain way? It's not even the second. The "first" was a DLC campaign for Borderlands 2. Can't figure out where he's drawing this supposed "third" game from. Is there another Tiny Tina DLC I'm unaware of or something?

[@TaniaRavenYT]

I prefer the older style reviews Joe. If you can in the future.

[@slagcity]

Which one do you prefer?

[@ttprophet]

"Fun for the first 6 hours" - AJ on a borderlands game. me: yup that sums up a borderlands game.

[@Sinthoras_96]

Yep totally agree. I only played the first two games and I have 0 interest in the franchise anymore

[@Vertigou]

"crude, unfunny, immature jokes" fuck me i'm sold.

[@warrengaiennie1011]

This series is reliant upon your personal sense of humor. If your on the same wavelength it’s gold otherwise it’s a miss. Fortunately my friend and I were in tears laughing so I guess I’m saying “your mileage will vary”

[@eftheusempire]

Your sense of humor is irrelevant when the jokes are literally constant. And if you laugh at each one you just dont have a smart brain.

[@jnrincorperated]

I agree with this, especially the Smurf quest we were all dying in laughter. I loved wonderlands my only real issues are how bad the launch was playing with friends

[@Fygee]

Same here. I laughed way more in this game than I did with BL3. The humor, for Borderlands, was on point. Not everyone's cup of tea, and the things that annoyed AJ and crew amused the hell out of me, especially Torgue. I'm guessing that AJ and crew are just burnt out on it, which is fair.

[@13nohead]

Ugh. Kids make me sad these days. Even when i was 10 this wouldn't be funny to me. Enjoy though

[@Fygee]

@@13nohead I'm 40, so there's that. Sometimes loud, obnoxious humor is fun. But again, it all depends on taste.