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Borderlands 3 Needs to be a Shared World Shooter - Michael Bitton - MMORPG.com
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Borderlands 3 Needs to be a Shared World Shooter - Michael Bitton - MMORPG.com
MMO-lite, loot shooter, shared-world shooter, I don’t really care what you want to label it, but Borderlands 3 needs to follow in the footsteps of games like Destiny and The Division. I spent most of my time in both imagining how much better the whole thing would be if the game I was playing was actually a Borderlands title.
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But that's the hard part, it seems like. Doing it in a way that is fun, profitable and not following downward trends in today's MMOs.
So far, in my eyes, Destiny 2 is nailing it.
I don't want borderlands to be like destiny.
Guess it got cancelled though.
http://www.pcgamer.com/borderlands-online-is-no-longer-in-development-and-the-studio-is-closed/
Different strokes and all I guess.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
There's a few demo videos of it still on Youtube.
What it does need is personal loot.. cos the free for all loot in multiplayer is absolutely game breaking.
There is NO miracle patch.
95% of what you see in beta won't change by launch.
Hope is not a stategy.
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For your sake, I hope this is just a poor attempt at trolling.
I literally just fired up Borderlands 2 again after a long lay off and was still in awe at the attention to detail they had to the world, the characters, easter eggs and humor.
Single/Small group play is the centerpiece of the game but I would love to see a spin off title that focused more on the shared community experience in some areas, w/ dynamic events, large boss mechanics. At the least they should increase the max size of groups, and make it open world with way less loading screens.
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Making Borderlands 3 a shared world shooter would be a mistake. They'd definitely lose me as a customer.
I thought they fixed the narrative disparity well from BL2. YOu can join someone who is ahead in the narrative, and it counts as completed out of order even, and if you go back to your game and catch up it gives you the option to skip to the next unfinished mission or do them over. 99.9999999% of games need to do something better with level disparity though. Ok, slight exaggeration, it's only about 99.9993467%
borderlands is a coop game, which i wanna play with my friends, not with randoms.
they piss me off enough on ranked matches in EVERY other game already.
"look at me! i r different! i play def chars on offense! whoohoooo!"
yea, bite me, mr different
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
Think about it, level up and go to a different world, different settings and creatures to kill, more vaults to open and more loot to drop and drool over. Throw in an AH like system on each world tailored for that worlds levels only, no taking high level stuff to low level worlds. world level leveling so people cannot blow thru with a high level friend in a low level area. Then there is the endless possibilities with end game raiding on worlds tailored just for those at level cap.
But alas, like most MMOs.....someone will figure a way to screw it up.
I have a hard enough time fighting to get loot from my loot hoarding friends don't need to do it with random people in the world lol.
Maybe if they did the cities like a giant HUB for players to hang out show off there rad gear they found or got and put together parties that way then maybe that could work out but a huge open world with people free running that would cause so much irritation. From Kill stealing to loot stealing, chest stealing, constant people hitting you wanting to duel.
If a BL3 does come out which I really hope it freaking does. Full character customization would be great to have instead of picking the class already attached to someone I don't really want to be, like all of the Pre-squeal. Instead you make your guy/gal the way you want them and free form a class would be hella dope lol.