Has Borderlands run out of ammo, or can the franchise still fight for its life?
Borderlands as a franchise. I was in on the ground floor for the first game and enjoyed it despited its limitations, and Borderlands 2 was comfortably one of my most-played Xbox 360 games, having looted with friends and strangers alike for countless hours back in the day. But since then, it just feels like Gearbox and the other teams who have been pulled in to help out on the series have failed to recapture what made the early days of the series so special, so exciting, so unique.
Even going into Full Sequel Mode, the franchise dropped the ball again with 2019's Borderlands 3. Like everything that has come after B2, this felt very much like a game going through the motions to try and replicate its prior success. Handsome Jack was always going to be a hard act to follow, but new antagonists the Calypso twins proved just straight-up unlikeable, completely missing Jack's occasional relatability to just have us face off against a pair of odious self-serving pricks.
Most recently, we had New Tales From The Borderlands, which just sort of came out of nowhere with minimal hype and launched quietly late last year. Telltale's original format would basically serve as a bottomless well for an anthology series set in any universe, but New Tales really feels like it squanders its potential with just the second attempt.
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