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Subject: Re: The Borderlands movie is as bad as everyone expected
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 08:56:29 -0400
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Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> looked up from reading
the entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the
signs say:

>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It also amuses me that Gearbox announced "Borderlands 4" yesterday,
>> doubtlessly expecting that the excitement about the movie would help
>> to hype up the game. Maybe they should have looked at the daily rushes
>> before scheduling the game's release date.
>
>Well, it makes sense to announce games in a game conference, like
>GamesCon. But I think they'll hope to forget the movie as quickly as
>possible. Funny, I checked my local theatre. For the upcoming four
>showings of Borderlands the movie I see 104/104 seats available. And not
>showing it on Friday or Saturday either.
>
>BTW, I'm not having high hopes for Borderlands 4. The gameplay in
>Borderlands 3 was already so streamlined and at least one of the
>characters so over-powered, it makes me wonder what the next one will be
>like. "Just hold this button and watch the game play itself"? It's hard
>to imagine anything but suckiness. Still, I'm probably going to play it
>and probably sooner rather than later too.

Which one was overpowered?

I hate melee in games like this so I never played the chunky Siren on
offer in Bl3, despite Sirens being my favorite in the previous games.

Xocyll