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Borderlands 4 Review: I don't think I want to play this.
General | Posted 3 months agoHere are some random thoughts in no particular order:
- Usually I try to complete a game before talking about it, but because the game is draining my will to live, I'm probably going to have to make an exception.
- Did not have the crashing or the other issues people review bombed the game for. Still don't like it, though.
- Have played all characters and tried almost all powers. It seems like there are ones that are blatantly the best, as usual. I find myself spending all my money respeccing because the game doesn't like it if you try to multitask.
- Have played every borderlands title and completed most of them, so I can compare what we've got here to what we used to have, and wonder why stuff is missing.
- Somehow they made inventory worse. You have to hold a key to drop a gun one at a time in a game with 500 billion guns. It adds up. I was playing with a friend and had to stop to empty my backpack FOUR TIMES in the middle of a gunfight. Now I just don't pick up any guns that aren't purple. Can I at least get a loot filter? I would think you would know how to do inventory by now, but...
- Unless I'm losing my mind, they only recently added tap to mark as junk, but there is still no tap to drop, meaning the fastest way to get rid of loot is to vend it after having used tap to mark as junk, as in, dropping items is many times slower to the point of you not wanting to do it.
- No meaningful additions to the progression, skill tree is mostly the same as it always is, grappling is not an interesting change, neither is the larger map.
- The game does not do much to justify the larger than normal price tag. The game does not do much to sell me on playing it over one of the other ones I can go and play for free. For context, I have given this game a chance for...35 hours.
- Despite the larger than normal price tag, you will still find skin packs and other things nobody should care about. It truly is a AAAA game.
- Usually I try to complete a game before talking about it, but because the game is draining my will to live, I'm probably going to have to make an exception.
- Did not have the crashing or the other issues people review bombed the game for. Still don't like it, though.
- Have played all characters and tried almost all powers. It seems like there are ones that are blatantly the best, as usual. I find myself spending all my money respeccing because the game doesn't like it if you try to multitask.
- Have played every borderlands title and completed most of them, so I can compare what we've got here to what we used to have, and wonder why stuff is missing.
- Somehow they made inventory worse. You have to hold a key to drop a gun one at a time in a game with 500 billion guns. It adds up. I was playing with a friend and had to stop to empty my backpack FOUR TIMES in the middle of a gunfight. Now I just don't pick up any guns that aren't purple. Can I at least get a loot filter? I would think you would know how to do inventory by now, but...
- Unless I'm losing my mind, they only recently added tap to mark as junk, but there is still no tap to drop, meaning the fastest way to get rid of loot is to vend it after having used tap to mark as junk, as in, dropping items is many times slower to the point of you not wanting to do it.
- No meaningful additions to the progression, skill tree is mostly the same as it always is, grappling is not an interesting change, neither is the larger map.
- The game does not do much to justify the larger than normal price tag. The game does not do much to sell me on playing it over one of the other ones I can go and play for free. For context, I have given this game a chance for...35 hours.
- Despite the larger than normal price tag, you will still find skin packs and other things nobody should care about. It truly is a AAAA game.
I don't know what to do.
General | Posted 4 months agoI've been somewhere I don't want to be for over two years. And working a job I don't want to work for over six. My aging father routinely takes advantage of me, harasses me, and coerces me, and I tolerate it because there is no way for me to get a job that pays as much on my own. Even with that higher pay, I can barely make ends meet, and now that job is probably going away. Job hunting isn't going well. If I can't find a decent job, I'll have to move back to washington and become even more of my father's slave anyway. But again, can't afford rent there, so if something happened to him I'd be on the street.
Twelve years ago, someone I was in a relationship with for 15 years disappeared. This broke me - I've been dead ever since. I've tried to keep going, even when I lost friends, when my art got stolen, when artists fucked me over, when this website fucked me over, when my own parents fucked me over. I think you get the idea. I have nothing. Nothing to look forward to. Nothing meaningful to do. I spent the last 6 years trying to at least learn enough 2d/3d art to make up for the fact that I couldn't reliably commission art anymore. That didn't work out either. Tried college, too. Waste of time. Didn't learn anything. Don't have the money to finish. Doesn't matter.
I don't really know why I'm writing this. I'm just taking wild swings in the dark at this point. It doesn't seem like any help is coming. If I can barely get out of bed, how am I supposed to be, for example, a receptionist? That would be if I even got a job, which right now isn't happening despite daily applications and searches. And don't get me started on the AI induced job loss we're already in the midst of. I could just get replaced.
I just...Don't know what to do. There's nothing left. Therapy didn't help. Medication didn't help. Moving to get away from my dad didn't help. Nothing helps. Nothing improves. Why bother? It doesn't get better. I've tried so hard to move forward. It meant nothing. I don't have the energy to fight anymore, and I'm running out of time.
Twelve years ago, someone I was in a relationship with for 15 years disappeared. This broke me - I've been dead ever since. I've tried to keep going, even when I lost friends, when my art got stolen, when artists fucked me over, when this website fucked me over, when my own parents fucked me over. I think you get the idea. I have nothing. Nothing to look forward to. Nothing meaningful to do. I spent the last 6 years trying to at least learn enough 2d/3d art to make up for the fact that I couldn't reliably commission art anymore. That didn't work out either. Tried college, too. Waste of time. Didn't learn anything. Don't have the money to finish. Doesn't matter.
I don't really know why I'm writing this. I'm just taking wild swings in the dark at this point. It doesn't seem like any help is coming. If I can barely get out of bed, how am I supposed to be, for example, a receptionist? That would be if I even got a job, which right now isn't happening despite daily applications and searches. And don't get me started on the AI induced job loss we're already in the midst of. I could just get replaced.
I just...Don't know what to do. There's nothing left. Therapy didn't help. Medication didn't help. Moving to get away from my dad didn't help. Nothing helps. Nothing improves. Why bother? It doesn't get better. I've tried so hard to move forward. It meant nothing. I don't have the energy to fight anymore, and I'm running out of time.
Posting art again
General | Posted 4 months agoI disappeared for over three years. I'm lonely and withering away. So I'll probably make a SFW / NSFW account split or something. Don't know how long this'll last before someone makes me regret showing up again!
