Borderlands 3

J. Marston · 27-03-2019 6:08pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

Anyone tried the key in BL2 or prequel?

5 keys and a Salvador skin in BL2.

Jordan 199 · 28-03-2019 6:48pm

TitianGerm wrote: »

6pm tomorrow is it?

6PM Today. https://borderlands.com/en-US/

Mr E · 28-03-2019 7:04pm

No Battle Royale.... good start.

Vicxas · 28-03-2019 7:10pm

28-03-2019 8:02pm

Doesn't look like it's gotten a visual upgrade based on that, looks more or less the same as 2 did visually.

EoinMcLovin · 28-03-2019 8:04pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o5g_PGkiA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiJjmdEvl9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKL_sP23Clk

super_furry · 28-03-2019 8:13pm

That PAX presentation was up there with Mr Caffeine for the all-time sh1tshows.

28-03-2019 8:13pm

5 years Randy, I don't believe you.

No release date either.

Also what the hell happened the initial showing of the trailer. PAX fail

wotzgoingon · 28-03-2019 8:16pm

Any release date?

J. Marston · 28-03-2019 8:19pm

Awesome. Loads of old characters and the TFTB crew, including Rhys with a dodgy moustache. Didn't see Fiona though.

TitianGerm · 28-03-2019 8:22pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Doesn't look like it's gotten a visual upgrade based on that, looks more or less the same as 2 did visually.

He did say 4K there when the clip **** the bed but it's cell shaded graphics so it can only look so good.

Randy looked seriously annoyed when the trailer stuttered though :pac:

Dcully · 28-03-2019 8:22pm

Visually looks the same but fcuk it its more borderlands which is great.

J. Marston · 28-03-2019 8:28pm

I always liked the cell-shaded look anyway. Gave the games its own aesthetic. You could show me two screenshots from Destiny and Anthem and I'd probably have a hard time telling them apart.

super_furry · 28-03-2019 8:30pm

I'm actually really disappointed the rumoured Borderlands 2 for the Switch package doesn't seem to exist.

Venom · 28-03-2019 8:49pm

Fred The Red wrote: »

5 years Randy, I don't believe you.

No release date either.

Also what the hell happened the initial showing of the trailer. PAX fail

No mention of platforms either! Guessing the want to hold off the backlash from the Epic store for as long as possible.

Falthyron · 28-03-2019 8:53pm

Venom wrote: »

No mention of platforms either! Guessing the want to hold off the backlash from the Epic store for as long as possible.

The Borderlands Game of the Year trailer has Steam, PS4 and Xbox One as listed platforms. That might be indicative of their intended platforms for Borderlands 3.

pixelburp · 28-03-2019 8:56pm

Wonder if Anthony Burch is still involved; his writing definitely informed a lot of the distinctive humour.

Game certainly doesn't look like it had much of a visual upgrade - but that's fine with me, better chance of being able to playing the damn thing

TitianGerm · 28-03-2019 8:58pm

Venom wrote: »

No mention of platforms either! Guessing the want to hold off the backlash from the Epic store for as long as possible.

Randy said he'd have more details soon. Is E3 the next big show? It'll be released on PC, Xbox and PS4.

Jordan 199 · 28-03-2019 9:00pm

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Any release date?

None yet.

wotzgoingon · 28-03-2019 9:02pm

Jordan 199 wrote: »

None yet.

Hopefully towards the end of this year(September/October) and not some time next year.

28-03-2019 9:06pm

pixelburp wrote: »

Wonder if Anthony Burch is still involved; his writing definitely informed a lot of the distinctive humour.

Game certainly doesn't look like it had much of a visual upgrade - but that's fine with me, better chance of being able to playing the damn thing

He left Gearbox 3 or 4 years back, no word if he's back or involved with the new game.

Zero-Cool · 28-03-2019 9:11pm

I loved BL 1 but couldn't finish BL 2, played 3 times and gave up around the same bit as it got fairly grindy going around the map collecting things. I see the handsome collection is 15 quid in Argos, tempted to give it another go but dunno why I loved the 1st but not the 2nd.

wotzgoingon · 28-03-2019 9:14pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

I loved BL 1 but couldn't finish BL 2, played 3 times and gave up around the same bit as it got fairly grindy going around the map collecting things. I see the handsome collection is 15 quid in Argos, tempted to give it another go but dunno why I loved the 1st but not the 2nd.

I loved both played them on PC but got them for free on Xbox but cannot be bothered to play them again even though I loved playing them the first time. It's more to do with knowing how long I would have to play them for and the fun factor of playing a new game is gone also.

Penn · 28-03-2019 9:18pm

Awesome trailer. Looks like just pure and utter "More Borderlands" which is exactly what I want. The reddit leak from a few pages back seems to have been bang on the money too.

I get that some are saying it looks like the previous games, but I thought some of the level design they showed in the trailer, especially some of the more exotic-looking areas looked fantastic. I think due to the celshading, that's where the improvement in graphics will really be noticed.

dreamers75 · 28-03-2019 9:19pm

Out this fiscal year so before April 2020

Looks like more borderlands which isnt a bad thing.

28-03-2019 9:40pm

€29.99 for the Remaster of the first game. Bit steep?

TitianGerm · 28-03-2019 9:44pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

€29.99 for the Remaster of the first game. Bit steep?

On PC? According to this you get it free if you have the original on Steam.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/borderlands-goty-edition-free-for-owners-of-original-game-on-steam-released-03042019-3205386

28-03-2019 10:28pm

TitianGerm wrote: »

On PC? According to this you get it free if you have the original on Steam.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/borderlands-goty-edition-free-for-owners-of-original-game-on-steam-released-03042019-3205386

Only checked consoles, think I might actually have it on steam from a sale at some point.

J. Marston · 29-03-2019 1:37am

Golden keys are definitely gonna be a microtransaction, aren't they?

dreamers75 · 29-03-2019 1:41am

The obvious Epic store issue is hanging over for some players (me included). I have all the games and all the DLC on steam.

Borderlands is/was the perfect Steam game, "oh my buddy is playing" JOIN GAME.

Personally I think gearbox is above needing a gauranteed 20m or whatever epic offer because they know they have 10m Steam players for b2.

But I could be wrong and Epic will nail this and everyone will rejoice.....but noone can JOIN GAME.

I get devs accepting cash cos it covers everything and ensures the game is a success regardless of anyone buying it....I have to think Gearbox is above that and negiotied a better deal for B3 in the current climate.

Jordan 199 · 29-03-2019 4:38am

More info about the game will be revealed on the 3rd of April.

Mr E · 29-03-2019 10:09am

dreamers75 wrote: »

The obvious Epic store issue is hanging over for some players (me included). I have all the games and all the DLC on steam.

I think they will do a timed exclusivity deal with the Epic store for launch, and add to Steam a few weeks/months later. A lot of steam users will go "ah feck it" and just grab it on Epic.

Icyseanfitz · 29-03-2019 10:39am

I don't really understand the utter hatred of epics launcher, I mean it's not the first company to have its own launcher. Might be a bit of an inconvenience but screw it I already have uplay, origins, Windows store and steam, what more is epics launcher.
Good that Steam's getting a bit of real competition as well in my opinion, monopolies are never good for consumers.

Penn · 29-03-2019 10:46am

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

I don't really understand the utter hatred of epics launcher, I mean it's not the first company to have its own launcher. Might be a bit of an inconvenience but screw it I already have uplay, origins, Windows store and steam, what more is epics launcher.
Good that Steam's getting a bit of real competition as well in my opinion, monopolies are never good for consumers.

From what I gather (and I say this as a non-PC gamer who doesn't even have Steam), the issue people have with Epic is just how they're throwing money to get fairly big-name exclusives, but then their launcher is missing a lot of the basic functionalities people have come to expect from Steam, and is splitting the base too much.

At least with the likes of Uplay, Origins etc, it's their own games on those platforms. Epic are just buying games which in many cases were already announced or even available for preorder on Steam.

Competition is definitely good and healthy in the long for consumers, but Epic aren't really going about it in the best of ways seemingly (again, spoken as someone who uses neither and is basically just summarising a Jim Sterling video. Still though, thank God for me).

Icyseanfitz · 29-03-2019 10:56am

Penn wrote: »

From what I gather (and I say this as a non-PC gamer who doesn't even have Steam), the issue people have with Epic is just how they're throwing money to get fairly big-name exclusives, but then their launcher is missing a lot of the basic functionalities people have come to expect from Steam, and is splitting the base too much.

At least with the likes of Uplay, Origins etc, it's their own games on those platforms. Epic are just buying games which in many cases were already announced or even available for preorder on Steam.

Competition is definitely good and healthy in the long for consumers, but Epic aren't really going about it in the best of ways seemingly (again, spoken as someone who uses neither and is basically just summarising a Jim Sterling video. Still though, thank God for me).

I get that buying exclusivity is a bit dodge but console's have done it forever. And yeah announcing it for a platform and pulling it is ****y enough but at least you don't have to buy other hardware to just play that game. All it takes is a launcher download.

To be fair the only feature I really use on Steam is the friends tab, I use discord for chat with my group. It is nice and tidy having everything in one library though but I'm not going to get super upset about that.

At least epic still develop their own games

maybe this will give valve the kick up the arse it needs to start developing games and innovating again.

Dave_The_Sheep · 29-03-2019 11:01am

There's competition, which is both Steam and Epic having the game available to sell on their platform, and people can choose whichever has the best price. This competition is good for consumers, as prices would normally go down as they try to outbid one another.

And then there's Epic bribing people so that they have exclusive access and can have the game at whatever price they like. This is not good for consumers, because the price realistically remains the same as Epic can charge what they want. Then there's the spyware rumours, the general lack of functionality of the client, etc that's been mentioned all over the place.

Icyseanfitz · 29-03-2019 11:30am

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

There's competition, which is both Steam and Epic having the game available to sell on their platform, and people can choose whichever has the best price. This competition is good for consumers, as prices would normally go down as they try to outbid one another.

And then there's Epic bribing people so that they have exclusive access and can have the game at whatever price they like. This is not good for consumers, because the price realistically remains the same as Epic can charge what they want. Then there's the spyware rumours, the general lack of functionality of the client, etc that's been mentioned all over the place.

Out of interest are grey market sellers (g2play) selling epic store game codes? I guess I'm used of seeing console's behave this way, ie paying for exclusivity. I see pc as the platform and these differing launchers as storefronts.
As for spyware spying on people, that's happening with everything at this stage, just the way the online world is now imo.

Potential-Monke · 29-03-2019 11:53am

Can we not have another thread derailed by the Epic/Steam crap? Seriously, someone create a thread specifically for that (I would, but I've no interest in the argument).

Anyway, as everyone else is saying, it's more Borderlands so it's going to be good. I liked the look of the futuristic city, and the 'worlds', seems to be way bigger than the first 2. I do want to go back and play through the first 2 again, but I fear I'd burn out my Borderlands excitements if I did.

Penn · 29-03-2019 12:24pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Can we not have another thread derailed by the Epic/Steam crap? Seriously, someone create a thread specifically for that (I would, but I've no interest in the argument).

Anyway, as everyone else is saying, it's more Borderlands so it's going to be good. I liked the look of the futuristic city, and the 'worlds', seems to be way bigger than the first 2. I do want to go back and play through the first 2 again, but I fear I'd burn out my Borderlands excitements if I did.

Yeah I bought BL2 VR but haven't been able to bring myself to play it, as I played through the original too many times I think that even though I wanted to play it, I know I just won't be able to start all over again.

Never really played BL1 though (think I played maybe an hour of it when I got it on PS+ way back when), but like you said, I was really into playing BL at the time so probably felt myself get burned out on it too quickly when I did try it. Think we're getting more BL3 info next week. Depending on whether they give a release date or when it is, I might chance giving it a run-through.

DirtyBollox · 29-03-2019 12:29pm

Penn wrote: »

Yeah I bought BL2 VR but haven't been able to bring myself to play it, as I played through the original too many times I think that even though I wanted to play it, I know I just won't be able to start all over again.

Dont have VR but when i heard BL2 was coming on VR i was highly tempted, then i found out there was no co-op at all for it. So i didnt bother. That and i have it for the ps3 and ps4 already...

Skerries · 29-03-2019 7:36pm

Jollyballs · 30-03-2019 5:47pm

For someone that hasn't played 1 or 2, is 3 a good place to start? Always loved the look but just never got into them. Spec wise how wooden can the pc be?

gimli2112 · 30-03-2019 6:18pm

Well no-one's played 3 yet. 1 or 2 are both excellent and standalone and hopefully 3 well be more of the same. I didn't like the pre-sequel which came after. It was all right but not as good as the other two.

J. Marston · 30-03-2019 6:23pm

Well 3 is bringing back what looks the almost the entire cast of characters so I'm sure there will be a lot of callbacks that will go over your head but I started at 2 and really enjoyed it.

dreamers75 · 02-04-2019 3:54pm

Looking like Epic store with Cross play.

gizmo · 02-04-2019 4:05pm

Probably worth putting this here for when the **** starts flying...

https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/1112833886113992706

TitianGerm · 02-04-2019 4:29pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

Looking like Epic store with Cross play.

Cross play between Xbox, PC and PlayStation?

dreamers75 · 02-04-2019 4:52pm

TitianGerm wrote: »

Cross play between Xbox, PC and PlayStation?

Yes, rumouringly.

Being honest if that was on the table with Epic store functioning as a launcher I would buy it there.

If neither of those were on the epic store at launch will wait for Steam.

TitianGerm · 02-04-2019 5:03pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

Yes, rumouringly.

Being honest if that was on the table with Epic store functioning as a launcher I would buy it there.

If neither of those were on the epic store at launch will wait for Steam.

Sorry I meant Xbox and PS4 together. I'll be buying day one wherever it's on sale on PC, couldn't care less whether it's Epic, Steam or out of a box of cornflakes.

dreamers75 · 02-04-2019 5:11pm

TitianGerm wrote: »

Sorry I meant Xbox and PS4 together. I'll be buying day one wherever it's on sale on PC, couldn't care less whether it's Epic, Steam or out of a box of cornflakes.

Would imagine PC to both but with Sony who knows.

If you cant join freinds via the launcher thats pointless for me.

Borderlands 3

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