Apologies that this is not a pure gaming question, but I'd really like to hear people's opinion on the Borderlands movie trailer and especially from people who have played the games. That's why I'm asking here, I hope that's ok.

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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Randy Pitchford is a piece of shit and forced out the original Claptrap VA. Jack Black is great and I really respect him because he likes games, seems to treat fans well, and seems to care about the communities he participates in. He should not be voicing Claptrap just like Chris Pratt shouldn’t have been the voice of Mario (aside from Chris Pratt also being a piece of shit which I don’t think Jack Black is).

It just felt weird and off the whole time. Maybe I’m conditioned to be sick of the quips we saw in the preview because of the flood of super hero movies we’ve had. Maybe if I went back and replayed Borderlands I’d respond the same way. It wasn’t violent enough, it didn’t have enough explosions and bullets, the characters weren’t the models and that was jarring. It’s not cell-shaded. I got so fucking annoyed at the trite “it’s in my mouth” scene that I just don’t have a good feeling.

I’m hoping it will be a fun, mindless action movie. I’m reserving judgement other than Randy Pitchford being a piece of shit until it actually comes out.

[–] fathog@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Randy is such a piece of shit it’s wild

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

His commentary about why they had to nuke all the fun shit in BL3 is equally piece of shit of material. I don’t want to dig through his Twitter to find stuff. Shit was wild. I dislike a bunch of folks in the gaming industry for poor decisions. Randy’s one of very few I will always go out of my way to highlight how much of a piece of shit he is.

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nuke all the fun shit? Tell me more

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

People weren’t playing the game Gearbox wanted them to play the game so there were constant nerfs that fucked up everything in the meta.

This looks like a decent video about it; ~~I have not watched it all the way~~ it’s really good and covers all the junk that drove me away from BL3 as well as stuff from Wonderlands I didn’t know about.