Borderlands 2 Game Of The Year Edition Pc
Valda Atkeson
The Enhanced edition of Borderlands updates a 10-year-old game, making it look a little sparklier but also bringing in some nice quality-of-life features from Borderlands 2. Is that enough to make it worth 30 hours of your life in 2019? Especially if you played the original version way back when, and the superior Borderlands 2 is sitting right there?
That's exacerbated in the Enhanced edition because a new character will start the game with two of the six new legendary weapons for free. (They're the orange-rarity guns with "Gearbox" as manufacturer.)
It feels like the loot drops have been cranked up even more, but it's still your level that's most important. In Borderlands 2 you rotate weapons in and out like they're golf clubs, but in the first game if a particular quest is kicking your ass it's probably because you need to go back and finish all the sidequests in your log, not because you need to get a new nine-iron.
Leveling up is important, but it isn't quite as fun as it is in the sequels. Each character has three skill trees, as they do in all these games, but the options within them are more limited. There are fewer potential crazy builds to find by tinkering with the options. Borderlands 2 felt more like Diablo 2 in that sense, with skills that meant two players could have totally different experiences with the same class.
The quality-of-life improvements sand down Borderlands' rough spots with industrial intensity. The quest markers and minimap (which can be set to either auto-rotate or remain static, with north always upward) make the twisty areas less frustrating, and conveniences like automatically picking up money and being able to buy max ammo with a single click are welcome.
There's one change I don't love, and that's the inventory. Unequipped items are no longer a list of names, but full-size images. It makes for a lot more scrolling, as if you have to flick through a catalogue every time you want a different rocket launcher.
(On the subject of co-op I've had no problems with it, either hosting or joining other games. I've seen plenty of complaints from others, but mostly on PS4. If it's not performing great for you, try making sure everyone's got the same framerate cap. Oh, and turn on push-to-talk. Teamspeak is set to always-on by default, which is wrong and bad.)
Pandora seems more like a frontier, where an NPC you like will die without it being a big emotional moment. They just hang him upside-down from a ceiling fan, like a grisly child's toy over a crib. Meanwhile, the fact that most quest dialogue is text means that you're not being barraged with jokes nearly as often.
The sense of humor is a big part of the appeal of Borderlands 2 for me, but I appreciate the difference. They can feel like very similar games when you're opening the same crates and shooting psychos and pressing F to set off abilities, especially now that several features of Borderlands 2 have been backdoored into the first game, but that sense of Pandora as a wild place, untamed and dangerous, has been worth remembering.
I just wish I didn't have to spend so many hours shooting skags. If you're new to the series Borderlands 2 is still the place to start, and then after that you should play Tales from the Borderlands. But after that, try Borderlands Enhanced.
Of course, if you played it back when it was new and have a hankering for the Classic Coke version of Borderlands, definitely play the Enhanced edition rather than the one just labelled Borderlands GOTY in your Steam library. And crank the FOV as high as it goes when you do.
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