Please fire Anthony Burch. If only these games had good writing, they would be so much better.
[QUOTE=The Pretender;47014583]Please fire Anthony Burch. If only these games had good writing, they would be so much better.[/QUOTE]
Even with good writing, that's arguable. Borderlands has always been that game that's in your face screaming obnoxiously, Burch didn't help but he didn't really hurt it that much either.
I wish it was a smarter franchise at times with its humour but it really really really isn't.
I wish they knew how to balance things in a way that was fun.
[QUOTE=The Pretender;47014583]Please fire Anthony Burch. If only these games had good writing, they would be so much better.[/QUOTE]
Firing Anthony Burch would completely ruin his life.
Not that I have a problem with that, he's a huge cunt.
[QUOTE=TheRealRudy;47014785]His sister is way cooler anyway.[/QUOTE]
She is completely cool.
Cant wit for the new Dank Meme's in BL3 :^)
[QUOTE=The Pretender;47014583]Please fire Anthony Burch. If only these games had good writing, they would be so much better.[/QUOTE]
Imagine playing Borderlands for the story.
I thought Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel were hilarious tbh.
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I don't know what constitutes objectively good writing, if there even is such a thing, but Borderlands is one of the few shooters to elicit an actual emotional response from me that isn't rage so good for them.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;47015875]I thought Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel were hilarious tbh.
[editline]26th January 2015[/editline]
I don't know what constitutes objectively good writing, if there even is such a thing, but Borderlands is one of the few shooters to elicit an actual emotional response from me that isn't rage so good for them.[/QUOTE]
I completely agree. They're amusing games and that'll do me fine. 'Tales from the Borderlands' is pretty good, but until I play a few more episodes I can't decide if it is actually well written or the fact that it just shouldn't have worked but did caught me off guard.
I volunteer to write the next game, I couldn't be any worse than Burch after all.
[editline]26th January 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=Raidyr;47015875]I thought Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel were hilarious tbh.
[editline]26th January 2015[/editline]
I don't know what constitutes objectively good writing, if there even is such a thing, but Borderlands is one of the few shooters to elicit an actual emotional response from me that isn't rage so good for them.[/QUOTE]
If you watch enough movies and read enough books you start to pick up on some of the cheap writing tropes and fumbles that plague the industry, and maybe it's a writing snob thing but it's really frustrating to see so many poorly written games being praised for their stories lately (Bioshock Infinite comes to mind, being a fucking trainwreck that tries desperately to save its incomplete themes and inconsistent characters with pseudo science and plot twists). Even ignoring the memes (and they were pretty sparse anyway), I found BL2's writing pretty cringeworthy sometimes, like something a nerdy middle schooler would think was funny.
[QUOTE=Qwerty Bastard;47016749]I found BL2's writing pretty cringeworthy sometimes, like something a nerdy middle schooler would think was funny.[/QUOTE]
No, it's more like something a kid with Aspergers or ADHD would find funny.
[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;47016819]No, it's more like something a kid with Aspergers or ADHD would find funny.[/QUOTE]
It wasn't THAT horrible to be honest, but the mediocre writing combined with Burch's shitty personality just puts a sour note on everything. Every "emotional" moment in the game feels disengenuous or manipulative, like the whole thing with Handsom Jack's daughter. It flew in the face of his personality and most importantly his motivations, and the worst part is Burch got away with it, and now people actually think Jack is a complex, sympathetic character that follows through on the premise that was built up for him (that he's deluded into thinking he's a hero, a resultingly surface-level detail that is hamfisted into his dialogue).
I don't know, I'm just a little pissed that people support this crap. Not just that it's acceptable but that it's praised.
[QUOTE=kenji;47014805]Cant wit for the new Dank Meme's in BL3 :^)[/QUOTE]
Nobody gives a fuck.
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Can we make shitposting about memes in Borderlands threads a bannable offense
it doesn't contribute anything and all that happens is people immediately start drama about it or commence telling them to fuck off
[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;47014770]Firing Anthony Burch would completely ruin his life.
Not that I have a problem with that, he's a huge cunt.[/QUOTE]
How could you ruin his life any more than it already is? I mean at this point, just not being him is a valid solution to depression, I haven't felt this good in years.
gearbox is a hiring a professional memeteur
just hire 9gag
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