BL1 is actually my favorite. I liked the dryer humor and bleak setting. I also appreciate that you can do endgame content without ridiculous amounts of farming.
I love the hell out of BL1. Put in tons of hours on the xbox360 version then dove into the pc version after they enhanced it into something that didnt make me puke my guts out like the original pc version
i remember first time i played bl1 i died like 50 times at bonehead fight because i didnt understand how lvls worked and was under lvld first game i ever played with a lvling system
This is my favorite one. I love the atmosphere of the wasteland, the weapons, the loot system. In Borderlands 2, you fight a ton of robots in futuristic falicies and there's drones flying, explosions everywhere, constant dialogue which never seems to end. Borderlands 1 is so relaxing and immersive in comparison. The most unpopular opinion ever, but I prefer Borderlands 1 over 2
that’s a great point, I love both of the games for different reasons but this is something I never thought of. BL1 is way more in tune with that trash planet, waste land esthetic that none of the other games properly executed. But I completely understand why others enjoy 1 to the second, I’ve got some friends who also like it more! Which is awesome because even though I like 2 a bit more. Both are undoubtedly in my top 5 of all time
I was always hoping they would go back to this barebones wasteland vibe. I was hoping for it to get darker, but still have those lowkey funny moments. Also the loot system of using what's on hand, depending on your luck.
That is a super unpopular opinion. But Handsom Jack isn’t terrorizing Pandora yet 🤷♂️ the serious factor is non existent. You’re just kinda lookin for the Vault, and Atlas just so happens to be as well. It’s not a fight for survival as much as it’s a treasure hunt. The stress and fight for survival is a constant in Borderlands 2. Which makes the constant chatter and story telling that much more meaningful. Some of the Dialogue is absolutely genius. The Quietness of BL1 can get lonely. But it really is a relaxing adventure. You gotta make your self keep going because the game isn’t going to push you to do it, like in BL2. Imma start a Mordecai file when I get home tonight. It’s been long over due, and it’s gunna be relaxing for sure.
That sounds fun. I’m loving BL2 but I do find that tiring as you progress the story. The first few chapters are awesome bouncing between different raider types but once you meet the Loader bots they seem to gradually take over everything. They’re fun but too undiverse, still feel they would have done better doing cybernetics moreso than bots. Fighting crazier looking tech psychos cyberpunk style would have been cool and still fit the setting, kind of like with the engineer enemies (with the laser and arms not one-shot McGee and his crew of piss colored ruffians lol)
I never thought about the Mad Max feel to it, that makes me love BL1 even more. At least there they didn't try to make piss wash gully into a lousy drawn out Kevin Hart joke at that point
I actually avoided it for the longest time because many people said it was dated and would always rave about 2 and 3 being better. Part 3 I actually didn't like, couldn't stand the writing and the environments are bigger than they needed to be. Part 2 is definitely better especially on the Series X, 60 FPS and graphics still hold up well. However, I thought the story and characters were extremely overrated and the game was far too grindy. The Pre-Sequel had interesting concepts but was also rather bland. Just picked up the remaster of the first game and so far I'm about 10 hours in. So far I like it the most but it's definitely a slow burner. Some things I like better so far is the writing doesn't seem as immature, there's actually more gore, the world feels grittier, the environments are bigger, guns are better, and I think the HUD is definitely better. I can't fully judge it yet because I'm lucky if I've seen 10% of everything and haven't even begun the DLC. I don't think it feels dated, graphics are still good and you can set the controls however you want. People act like games have evolved so much over the past decade and in reality they haven't, in many ways they have even gone backwards.
BL1 is still the game I go back to the most. Something about the weapon design just feels...well like you said, meaner. Plus it's so much more fun to break imo
the paradox of borderlands people say that borderlands is boring, empty, monotone, repetitive yes every other borderlands game doesn't stop, constantly bombards you with pointless talking, has so many biomes and to get better gear you have to farm a boss for 5 hours which itself gets boring and repetitive and quick
I don’t think it’s boring at all, it’s personally my second favorite game in the franchise, grinded my new brick that I had left at level 35 a couple months back all the way to where you see him in this game. Maxed him just over 24 hours ago, I’ve been playing even more of this game than I have bl2 lately. If I get burnt of one game I just switch to another of the first 3 releases. 1, 2, and TPS. Bl1 is always so much fun to get back into tho man, been loving it
dude if poeople think that about be boring and more then people is stupide every game is just like that every game is repetitive like call of duty alway the same thing or game like that bordeland is not really boring is fun
Aside from the part about the story, this is a banger of a video. But even that comes down to personal preference. I miss when the game was free of a huge galaxywide plot. When being a vault hunter just meant you were an unfortunate idiot bound to die looking for a myth, rather than a "badass" who is idolized by everyone. Being a vault hunter just meant another word for Pandora's next top corpse. I also prefer the weapons in 1. Yes, it's hard to tell a Vladof from an Atlas, it was hard to tell a tediore from an Atlas, and all in all the gunplay was.... simple at its best. BUT like.... BL 1's weapons were charming to me. Much like you though, that's probably nostalgia talking. Though I am fueled by Nostalgia so...
something i really like about the Craw fight, is the worms/crabs for second winds are mis-colored on purpose to make you really think about which element to pull out against the 3. my monkey brain always thinks green enemy = corrosive or whatever color the enemy is. less mindless mowing down enemies is always interesting
I went back to play BL1 after having started in BL2 and played a boatload of BL3, just to see how things started. BL1 is comparative barebones compared to 2/3, but man, it still holds up. My preferred style is 100% completion onelife themed runs. I LOVE that I can do this without EVER using a legendary. Once you learn this game all of the quests/sidequests, you can reliably onelife the entire game as long as you are cautious and stay ON OR OVERLEVELED haha. My favorite thing about this game is the gear. A good blue or purple can last forever, and I swear, finding a really sick blue or purple in BL1 feels better than finding any legendary in 2/3.
Playing it for the first time recently, I love that there's no standing around waiting for dialogue to finish, my only gripe is I'll catch up with side missions Do a story mission that's literally just talking to 1 person And then I get 40 more side missions
Haha yeah, they definitely didn’t know how to introduce Side missions properly until the second game. There are just certain sections of bl1 that give you way to many side missions at once
I agree. Bd 1 hits you very quickly with, "slow down son. Let's take it easy and take it one step at a time." It's a unique game, and is much more basic and straightforward. It also established our fun characters, and I like looking at elpis before it got wrecked in the pfe sequel, and knowing in the pre sequel that the gaping hole on pandora is from our battle with the destroyer. A classic and awesome game. Which says a helluva lot about bd 2 which surpassed it
Fantastic game, on and off my favorite Borderlands, tied with 2. The loot system is fair, combat is fun and ruthless, the vibes are impeccable, all of the vault hunters are solid as hell, the balance is perfect, and wonder of wonders, the humor isn't annoyingly forced! P.S. We gotta play this one co-op some time.
Love to see a new Borderlands game that cuts as near to the bone as BL1 and that doesn't overly cosset players. I loved playing Underdome with my ex, though-ah, good times
Under dome isn’t even that bad. I just wish there was check points and save states in the middle or so. So you wouldn’t have to slog through 5-6 hours of gameplay
I wish they kept the specific weapon type experience that gave you perks with each type the more you used them. I loved my Vitriolic Crux shotgun. I used it so much, it ended up like a corrosive Skull Masher sniper with a bigger mag and full auto. They should bring it back along with the weapon type experience perks.
i mean yeah it can be neat but at the same time its pretty obvious why they removed proficiency, it makes you have to grind it you want to use 4 or more weapon types and if you dont start the game using something youre screwed later in the game
@@edenengland1883 Gonna be honest chief, I didn't even remember that weapon proficiency was a thing and I used more than 2 or 3 weapon types the whole game and even got to play endgame content just fine. I don't even know realistically how you could screw yourself in endgame when it was designed to be so accessible.
@@NepgearafYeah that reasoning is MAYBE a problem if someone tries to rush through the game, which almost every mechanic deters you from doing. I always thought it was because it was going to be harder to balance when the newer games had way more diverse legendaries, but after seeing the unbalanced mess BL2 was, I think they definitely should have kept it.
And also important note IF YOU WANT TO JOIN A BL1 ONLINE SESSION DO NOT JOIN A GAME WITH THE MISSION "keep your insides in" IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR PROGRESS! Make sure you have a character for that specific type of lobby or else you'll be stuck to play with people who has this bug or literally people who just started to play it, in PC there's a fix for that but NOT for consoles
I remember getting this as a kid in 09 also only about 11 years old the cover had me so intrigued i bought the goty version not too long ago replaying it it's like I was a kid again it's beautiful tbh
The memory leak is a Borderlands 1 Enhanced issue. The original game did not suffer from this. Gearbox should have fixed it (& they never will) but apparently putting more invisible walls, outside Bonehead's area & Scorched Snake Canyon that prevents taking a shortcut (to name a couple), was more of a priority.
Bl1 was the game me and a buddy would drink red bulls to and stay up until 6am in our youth. The sound of an SMG critical hit on a zombie in dr neda dlc followed by Lilith laughing and saying "I'm getting pretty good at this" is forever etched into my brain. Just recently grinded out a game on bl1 enhanced edition, made one attempt at moxxis underdome, died to the crimson lance boss on round 3, haven't touched it sine
The nostalgia definitely plays a factor in how I feel about Borderlands 1, I have fond memories of playing this game with my friend Peyton and later my younger brother, but even after that, I played through this game several times single player, and still loved it. There’s just something about the atmosphere and vibe of Borderlands 1 that I love.
Borderlands 1 was always my favorite bc of the challenge it has and how guns stay good longer than any other game in the series! Keep up the great content man!!
One thing I do want to point out with BL1 DLC is that it really does add more flavour and gives that identity what BLD 2 would become. I love the DLC’s in the first game for that.
You made a slight typo but I know what you mean haha. That’s a big gap between games! I can only imagine what it felt like playing BL1 for the first time coming from Og NES
My favourite thing about borderlands 1 is that combat rifles are very solid,i can find more reliable high mag rifles here compared to the later games; here i can find MGs with 60 or 80+ rounds or so and combined with Roland's skills it's just glorious
The good thing about this game is that it doesn't have a main goal. Well... you know the story about the Vault, but... no one talks much about the Vault, it is considered fiction and we just have to wander around Pandora and find out its cruel history, stretched over generations.
Man I had 1 game to choose back in 2011 and I do not regret it one damn bit. Borderlands was a masterpiece. The dialog, story, gameplay, and pretty much any other aspect. Maps looked amazing. Hell sometimes I would start it up just to look at the sky. I'd hop on a chair in game, crouch, and enjoy the view with some jive tunes. Masterpiece
5:27 I think BL1 is the only game where you can use a Green rarity weapon (or even white) or a low level weapon at max level and still play fine (I had a green rarity shotgun with 2 pellets that melted any enemy faster than the hellfire, volcano, orion, cobra, pestilent defiler)
Honestly out of all the borderlands games, I can always go back to this one to do a new run. I do love bl3 and I will do the end game, but when I just wanna do a new run, I go back to Borderlands 1. I think the journey and loot progression in this game is flawless, you feel your character getting stronger and it really does feel like loot matter so much. During a Roland run, I got a Havoc Valdof AR Epic rarity level 19 and that gun lasted me until level 30 until I finally got a new upgrade. I am legit stashing that gun as a trophy for it carrying me so much through the game. I don't have those same feelings in other borderlands game, especially 3 when epics are worthless and one buffed weapon that was not consider for a new playthrough can most likely carry you to the end of the playthrough. I really miss when loot was balanced and actually mattered, instead of it being hyper focused on uniques, and this is coming from someone who loves Borderlands 3.
I like bl3. But sometimes it’s just way too much and over the top. Can’t even see what’s going on half the time. I just miss bullets being bullets. Not a thousand different lights flashing across the screen. Good times man.
This is why even playing BL2 I purposely avoided doing ANY gun research beforehand. When I first played with my friends it was so boring because we would stay in the first section until the got the “perfect” weapon then they would just wipe everything. Going in with minimal knowledge I just take the guns as they come and have only started going back and optimizing now that enemies are finally starting to require mixups. Heck I was disappointed when I finally looked up a zero build and they were all snipers while I had a weapon of each type for different elements and uses so I could always have ammo and diversity
Also, i remember that i only got one early legendary during my numerous playthroughs. A caustic x2 Saviour at level 13 that i just used constantly until the damage just dropped off severely around level 20. I've never had that luck again during any of my subsequent playthroughs, level 20 and above is the only time i've had legendaries drop since in BL1
I actually ended up replaying this game recently. I'd been playing a lot of BL2 and BL3 and was feeling a little burnt out on them, so I figured I'd do a run through of the first game. If nothing else, I wanted to see if it held up to how I remembered it, given the last time I'd played was back when it first released in 2008. Honestly, it ended up being a lot better than I recall. Not that I remember it being bad, but comparing it against later entries, I had this impression that it was just a lot more bland. Boring skill trees, slow gameplay, a good foundation for the later games, but only okay on its own. That was not the case for me, or at least not entirely. There's less variety, yeah, but it wasn't the content wasteland I was envisioning in my head. BL1 is rock solid. The one thing I found that I really loved about the game was how grounded it felt. The tone is so much more bleak. The side quests a lot more down to earth. The irreverent humor that's become such a defining trait of the series is there (more so in the DLCs), but it almost feels like there's this grim edge to it, not the over the top silliness you get in sequels. Almost like the characters you meet make jokes because if they don't laugh, they'll cry or go insane. One thing that took my completely by surprise was just how fucking quiet it is. Playing BL2 and BL3, there is always someone yelling at you from the top corner of your screen. Allies, antagonists, the environment, just constant yap yap yapping from fucking everyone. BL1 by comparison is dead fucking silent. You might get some chatter at the start/end of a story mission, but otherwise everyone shuts the hell up. It was so jarring, in fact, that I was curious about how much dialogue there actually was in the game. Conveniently enough, the game saves logs whenever someone does say something, so I tallied em up. The answer? After completing the story and all the side missions in the base game (No DLCs yet), there were less the 90 logs. And 15 of them were from the 3 side missions you get from Tannis to go collect her old echo logs. I can't say whether I think that's better that later games, but I do think it contributed to the overall atmosphere of BL1. It instills this loneliness that makes everything feel more desolate. And after typing all that out, I'm not sure I have a point. But the game is good so if you've never played it before, give it a go. Was definitely worth the time for me.
This perfectly describes why the first game is so good. It has the fun mayhem of a ruined world... but it also has a lot of the lonely silences, stretches of desolate land, people on the verge of cracking. The sequels felt like they were set in a neon circus dimension in comparison.
For me BL1 is always the #1 from BL franchise. It was THE game and i have so much good memories about completing this game over and over again with my friend, with xbox aaand splitscreen. I also bought BL2 as soon it was released and i finished it first time three years ago... so it wasn't "my cup of tea". Now i gave it another chance and gotta admit i think im able to finish this tea after all, but still.. BL1 is now and always will be my #1 (except underdome, which can suck some skagsacks).
I know the history of BL1 very well, use to even have a gaming mag that showcased early BL1 with a more realistic style and fit for 3 players. As for BL1 itself, I put god knows how many hours into the game to literally do everything, even seen Pearl 1.0 which looked like Common at the time. Even though Moxxie's Underdome can be a drag, it does reward a Skill Point at the end and you can do that twice, once each play through. Even though I have played all Vault Hunters, my go to ones the most are either Mordecai or Roland.
Atmosphere. A half-dead world occupied by former criminals, most of which became bandits. Rarely, a decent person is met. Scooter, T.K. Baha, etc. Giving you the feeling that the best of them are just trying to make good out of a bad situation. That combination of a unfair and uncaring world combined with people just trying to scrape by just felt more real. Felt like something meaningful and tangible.
I remember my older cousins letting me play this with them when it was brand new and i loved it so much, and then i wasnt able to play it again for many years and it slipped from my mind, and i shit you not, i rented that game same as you after so long and remembered why i loved it so much and then i went and bought all of them and its legit my favorite series ever
I remember when I first got a PS3 Borderlands was the only game I had for a year until a friend introduced me to Fallout New Vegas. I’ll always have a special part in my heart for it. Also in regards to borderlands 2, I think it’s more fun as far as things to do but it does lack in areas like needing to listen to dialog to progress at times. Other than that, if I had to rank the games borderlands 1 and borderlands 2 would come down to a coin flip for number 1.
Hell yeah, for me. It just depends on my mood or if I’m getting tired of one or the other. Both games have different things to love about them and it keeps things fresh even though we’re playing a decade+ old games
3:27 it’s actually the easiest. If you strafe none of the enemies can hit you… they may have updated it but that’s how it worked on 360 back in the day. Just walk around and you were invincible.
I kinda miss drifters. They were a terrifying enemy, hard to hit, and only ever seen in the General Knoxx dlc. Maybe they only worked in the wide-open spaces of those maps, but they worked!
I still come back to BL1 GOTY after all this time just to experience, like you said, the Wasteland feel and what Legendaries can i find as well as still finding sneaky red chests after all these years
The End of BL1 still stucks with me, the non-apologetic FU after the Boss Fight... No Heaven is still one of my favorite songs. On that note. Today is the first day I reached LVL80 on any BL2 Character even though I have been playing forever, I never got over LVL66 before something took me away.
I've known borderlands for a long time but never played it until like a few years ago, this was the first borderlands I played, and it was on my switch
Been playing Borderlands since 2009, still my most played of the franchise and while 2 is slicker and came with the greatest antagonist of all time, I still prefer the original. More so today now that it's in 4k on PlayStation.
All you need in this game is just a double anarchy SMG or any common gun to shred through guys like butter and will carry you better than some legendaries in terms of stats, and they do the job as intended on being a bullet dispenser's actual purpose
Funny, I remember my friend hyping this game for months before it launched, and I remember that I couldn't care less. When the game finally hit the store shelves I remember being at a local game store trying to find something new to play... I couldn't find anything that looked interesting to me and when the store was closing in I just panic grabbed BL1. Turned out to be one of my favorite games of the generation and funnily enough my friend never got it in the end.
As someone who has 100% this game on multiple consoles I’ve only been able to max shotgun weapon proficiency on 1 characters after 100+ hours. Love this game
BL1 is a lot more cut throat and that's what I love about it. You either have a good build or you don't, it's cut and dry. In regards to Craw though you are right he's difficult, honestly I consider it a rite of passage to any VH rookie to beat Crawmerax once legitimately. No ledge, no glitch guns. You, and your wit. That separates the rookies who are here for the moment from the hunter who are determined for that dub, and the satisfaction of looking at the gun in their hands and saying "*I* EARNED that!"
I dont even get how you can think 1 is not the best one after playing them all recently its so much better. People liking the 2nd game more reminds me of GTA 5 and Black Ops 2, people think those games are the best in their series but its actually the game before it with GTA 4 and BO1. BL2 is just BL1 with better technology but its story and gameplay dont feel like you are on the borderlands of the universe like 1 does.
I got into this franchise because my cousin showed me this game when it was new. When we were growing up he was the one that had fallout 3, new vegas, morrowind, etc. but they were all single player so when we hung out we usually still resorted to playing sega or SNES since that’s what my grandparents had for us. But when he showed me a game that hit that FPS nerve, and it had levels that immediately think of the years I’d sunk into Pokemon, AND it was split-screen co-op? I was immediately enamored with the concept. After the night I spent with him playing the game I immediately went home and got my own copy. I must have put 1k hours in on my ps3 before I switched to PC. I don’t love what the franchise has become. I still play 3 because I appreciate the convenience of life mechanics that have been added, I much prefer guardian rank to badass rank, tying it to xp gain was always the right move just like weapon proficiency in 1. This last part is just my opinion. I know badass rank tried to take the challenges from 1 up a level, but it feels like I’m puttering around pandora just to get 1/10th of a % increase on my reload speed before I spend another four hours doing it again. Just not a system I care for.
Bl2 is my favorite of the series but I agree with a lot of your points in the video. I especially like your point about guns like the Harold dropping too early and easy in bl2, compared to bl2. I think playing with the base guns is important and that was one of the worst parts of bl3. I disagree about the difficulty but maybe it's because I mainly played Lilith and she kinda made the game largely easy mode.
I can remember this coming out when I was still a freshman in college and playing the absolute hell out of it. To this day I still havent beaten Crawmerax haha
Borderlands 1 is still my favourite. The guns feel powerful and you can just read the quest log. I hate having to listen to the npcs yap on in the newer ones.
I played Borderlands 1 when my dad got the Game of the Year Edition on Xbox and I played all of the game and DLCs and got a Roland character to 64 which has some hacked items from a guy who came into my Lobby when was a never-ending firing assault rifle and many unbreakable Shields and I still have the character today
5:00 that's what I've always thought. Use some meme builds check for pumba when doing the exploitation preserve loot midget farm on your next Salvador run spec into some accuracy and offhand a high crit sniper it's not going to get you past bunker but it is fun
Imma have to try out this game again. I honestly didn't find BL1 very difficult at any particular point in the game. I personally felt that BL2 is more difficult when it comes to build diversity in endgame. It's the lack of modern QOL and memory leak bug that keep me away from it. Other than that I'll play BL1. I played BL1 over BL2 back in the day.
played the heck out of 2 and the pre sequel, did about half the story with a few characters in bl3. what version of BL 1 do is preferred for PC, the OG or the remastered one?
Remastered. The og has no FOV Slider, no mini map, it’s missing heads that they added in the remaster, as well as some gearbox guns , and a chest to spend keys on
BL1 is my favorite of the series due to the loot and the combat. It has also a more gruesome atmosphere. BL2 has the richer looking maps and better story but the guns are so awful with hardly a straight shooting gun. BL2.5 and BL3 somewhat corrected that but it is never so good as in BL1.
I REALLY wish they would go back to the feel of the first game. Are the new ones overall better, probably, but like you said. The first one hits different
BL 1 is by far the easiest game in the series, in my opinion. You level up SOOOOO fast because EVERYTHING gives you progress towards some challenge milestone, which gives you more XP per stage. Plus if you use the same types of weapons a lot, your proficiency increases and you gain passives. The gameplay loop is simple, satisfying, and most importantly, not a chore to get through, so I got a great replay value out of it.
My favorite is, and probably will always be, Bl2, but after my most recent playthrough of 1 I now have a much much more positive impression of it and probably would put it as my second best of the franchise, and it will take a lot for Gearbox to change that
Also, I subscribed to you you make great content and you speak your mind kind of like Mac used to do before he got to nose deep in this borderlands war he’s got going on 😂
Also each character had weapon types they specialized with. Roland was A.R.'s and shotguns, Lilith was smg's and elements, Mordecai was sniper and pistols and Brick was launchers, explosives and melee. That was a cool. BL is to me, what BL2 is to the people that skipped the original. I know the story and villain don't hold a candle to 2, but the settings, the aesthetic, the gameplay loop, and the loot farming was all so unique. They need to go back to their roots. Keep all the quality of life upgrades, I do love a lot of stuff about 3, but the story and villains were a huge downgrade.
@@0fficalHellfire Ya, my Roland had shotguns and smasher pistols grouping up like lasers, I was hooked on his ammo regen and getting tactical with the turret drawing agro. It was such a unique game back then and because the gameplay and all the mechanics and interactions were so fun and unique, I really didn't even care about the story. My nostalgia is definitely for the original, and it's like a cult classic before 2 blew up and went a little too mainstream. Once you start drawing in all the casuals that don't even finish the game, the corporate bullshit starts and they will suck the soul and creativity right out of the franchise like Troy did Maya.
I think the Borderlands franchise should’ve just kept the Gritty type of feel & tone to it, along with keeping more of the Mad Max but in Space. But also keeping Pandora more of the Wasteland Desert & Canyons rather then having multiple environments like in Borderlands 2. They should’ve saved them for different Planets and even Moon Elpis.
I went back and started playing it again tonight. It had so many things going for it. It's such a shame that this franchise was ruined by woke ideology.
I have not played BL1 in a long time but i do remember when i got the game. I went to the electronics store and bought a PS3 and Borderlands at the same time becouse i wanted a game to play and looked over the games they had and borderlands was the one game that i got stuck with and it was a good choice!
All weapon types felt good, elements and status effects felt good, game stayed hard all the way through, truly impactful items weapons dropped completely randomly (which I liked), and freedom of builds were so much more varied. Every installment after BL1 made me long for the gameplay and balance of the first game
Have played more BL1 than should admit. I find it fun now to do every single thing you can do first playthru. Build character as much as possible. Race thru 2nd playthru then once beat a 2nd all the missions are now hard
BL1 is actually my favorite. I liked the dryer humor and bleak setting.
I also appreciate that you can do endgame content without ridiculous amounts of farming.
I agree. I can’t get this vibe from any other game on the market
Same. Bl1 is just a legendary game.
I love the hell out of BL1. Put in tons of hours on the xbox360 version then dove into the pc version after they enhanced it into something that didnt make me puke my guts out like the original pc version
The weapons just sucked so bad 😢
yeah me to i play so much bordeland 1 that any other bordeland and to i love the halloween dlc to
i remember first time i played bl1 i died like 50 times at bonehead fight because i didnt understand how lvls worked and was under lvld first game i ever played with a lvling system
That’s how it be haha, I think just about everybody got there ass beat by bone head there first time
I can feel your pain bro
I remember that, I tried beating Bonehead around level 7 with crappy level 4 gear and died so much that I started a new game
Faxxxx!!!!. I thought the game was bad because of this
I just played him for the first time and tried to kill him at lvl 7 XD
This is my favorite one. I love the atmosphere of the wasteland, the weapons, the loot system. In Borderlands 2, you fight a ton of robots in futuristic falicies and there's drones flying, explosions everywhere, constant dialogue which never seems to end. Borderlands 1 is so relaxing and immersive in comparison. The most unpopular opinion ever, but I prefer Borderlands 1 over 2
that’s a great point, I love both of the games for different reasons but this is something I never thought of. BL1 is way more in tune with that trash planet, waste land esthetic that none of the other games properly executed. But I completely understand why others enjoy 1 to the second, I’ve got some friends who also like it more! Which is awesome because even though I like 2 a bit more. Both are undoubtedly in my top 5 of all time
Fax man th3se new games nowadays just don't get their rarity system correct and the way you move in game
I was always hoping they would go back to this barebones wasteland vibe. I was hoping for it to get darker, but still have those lowkey funny moments. Also the loot system of using what's on hand, depending on your luck.
That is a super unpopular opinion. But Handsom Jack isn’t terrorizing Pandora yet 🤷♂️ the serious factor is non existent. You’re just kinda lookin for the Vault, and Atlas just so happens to be as well. It’s not a fight for survival as much as it’s a treasure hunt. The stress and fight for survival is a constant in Borderlands 2. Which makes the constant chatter and story telling that much more meaningful. Some of the Dialogue is absolutely genius. The Quietness of BL1 can get lonely. But it really is a relaxing adventure. You gotta make your self keep going because the game isn’t going to push you to do it, like in BL2. Imma start a Mordecai file when I get home tonight. It’s been long over due, and it’s gunna be relaxing for sure.
That sounds fun. I’m loving BL2 but I do find that tiring as you progress the story. The first few chapters are awesome bouncing between different raider types but once you meet the Loader bots they seem to gradually take over everything. They’re fun but too undiverse, still feel they would have done better doing cybernetics moreso than bots. Fighting crazier looking tech psychos cyberpunk style would have been cool and still fit the setting, kind of like with the engineer enemies (with the laser and arms not one-shot McGee and his crew of piss colored ruffians lol)
I still play BL1 in 2024, its my favorite BL game from entire franchise! The Mad Max feel, the music, the atmosphere there's nothing like it!
I never thought about the Mad Max feel to it, that makes me love BL1 even more. At least there they didn't try to make piss wash gully into a lousy drawn out Kevin Hart joke at that point
I love it too and it’s my favorite as well. God bless us elite members of society
I actually avoided it for the longest time because many people said it was dated and would always rave about 2 and 3 being better. Part 3 I actually didn't like, couldn't stand the writing and the environments are bigger than they needed to be. Part 2 is definitely better especially on the Series X, 60 FPS and graphics still hold up well. However, I thought the story and characters were extremely overrated and the game was far too grindy. The Pre-Sequel had interesting concepts but was also rather bland.
Just picked up the remaster of the first game and so far I'm about 10 hours in. So far I like it the most but it's definitely a slow burner. Some things I like better so far is the writing doesn't seem as immature, there's actually more gore, the world feels grittier, the environments are bigger, guns are better, and I think the HUD is definitely better.
I can't fully judge it yet because I'm lucky if I've seen 10% of everything and haven't even begun the DLC. I don't think it feels dated, graphics are still good and you can set the controls however you want. People act like games have evolved so much over the past decade and in reality they haven't, in many ways they have even gone backwards.
@@Particle_Ghost i just started again and love it
I revisit it every couple of years. It'll always hold a special place in my heart
Whish there was a FOV slider for older versions on this game, it’s so good
BL1 is still the game I go back to the most. Something about the weapon design just feels...well like you said, meaner. Plus it's so much more fun to break imo
I love how when you shoot people with explosive weapons in this game, they fucking break apart into chunks. Makes them seem even stronger.
the paradox of borderlands
people say that borderlands is boring, empty, monotone, repetitive
yes every other borderlands game doesn't stop, constantly bombards you with pointless talking, has so many biomes and to get better gear you have to farm a boss for 5 hours
which itself gets boring and repetitive and quick
I don’t think it’s boring at all, it’s personally my second favorite game in the franchise, grinded my new brick that I had left at level 35 a couple months back all the way to where you see him in this game. Maxed him just over 24 hours ago, I’ve been playing even more of this game than I have bl2 lately.
If I get burnt of one game I just switch to another of the first 3 releases. 1, 2, and TPS. Bl1 is always so much fun to get back into tho man, been loving it
dude if poeople think that about be boring and more then people is stupide every game is just like that every game is repetitive like call of duty alway the same thing or game like that bordeland is not really boring is fun
Aside from the part about the story, this is a banger of a video. But even that comes down to personal preference.
I miss when the game was free of a huge galaxywide plot. When being a vault hunter just meant you were an unfortunate idiot bound to die looking for a myth, rather than a "badass" who is idolized by everyone. Being a vault hunter just meant another word for Pandora's next top corpse.
I also prefer the weapons in 1. Yes, it's hard to tell a Vladof from an Atlas, it was hard to tell a tediore from an Atlas, and all in all the gunplay was.... simple at its best. BUT like.... BL 1's weapons were charming to me. Much like you though, that's probably nostalgia talking. Though I am fueled by Nostalgia so...
I've been playing a lot of B1 lately, and it's probably the one I enjoy the most; from a gameplay/atmosphere perspective.
something i really like about the Craw fight, is the worms/crabs for second winds are mis-colored on purpose to make you really think about which element to pull out against the 3. my monkey brain always thinks green enemy = corrosive or whatever color the enemy is. less mindless mowing down enemies is always interesting
agreed. I finally learn the colors after like 1000 tries 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
thanks the Pandora Gods for that ledge 😁😁😁😁
I went back to play BL1 after having started in BL2 and played a boatload of BL3, just to see how things started.
BL1 is comparative barebones compared to 2/3, but man, it still holds up. My preferred style is 100% completion onelife themed runs. I LOVE that I can do this without EVER using a legendary.
Once you learn this game all of the quests/sidequests, you can reliably onelife the entire game as long as you are cautious and stay ON OR OVERLEVELED haha.
My favorite thing about this game is the gear. A good blue or purple can last forever, and I swear, finding a really sick blue or purple in BL1 feels better than finding any legendary in 2/3.
Playing borderlands as mordie and bloodwing💜
Just started today with him. Love this game
Playing it for the first time recently, I love that there's no standing around waiting for dialogue to finish, my only gripe is I'll catch up with side missions
Do a story mission that's literally just talking to 1 person
And then I get 40 more side missions
Haha yeah, they definitely didn’t know how to introduce Side missions properly until the second game. There are just certain sections of bl1 that give you way to many side missions at once
@0fficalHellfire Yeah, it's rough at times, but with how fun gun play is and how quiet and calm the game can be, it's pretty nice casually
I agree. Bd 1 hits you very quickly with, "slow down son. Let's take it easy and take it one step at a time." It's a unique game, and is much more basic and straightforward. It also established our fun characters, and I like looking at elpis before it got wrecked in the pfe sequel, and knowing in the pre sequel that the gaping hole on pandora is from our battle with the destroyer. A classic and awesome game. Which says a helluva lot about bd 2 which surpassed it
I thought I was tripping or something until I realized you really are playing cranberries in the background😂
Fantastic game, on and off my favorite Borderlands, tied with 2.
The loot system is fair, combat is fun and ruthless, the vibes are impeccable, all of the vault hunters are solid as hell, the balance is perfect, and wonder of wonders, the humor isn't annoyingly forced!
P.S. We gotta play this one co-op some time.
Love to see a new Borderlands game that cuts as near to the bone as BL1 and that doesn't overly cosset players. I loved playing Underdome with my ex, though-ah, good times
Under dome isn’t even that bad. I just wish there was check points and save states in the middle or so. So you wouldn’t have to slog through 5-6 hours of gameplay
Just play 1, 2 pre-sequel and 3. Haven’t touched Wonderlands but 1, 2 and pre-sequel have soooooo much content.
I wish they kept the specific weapon type experience that gave you perks with each type the more you used them. I loved my Vitriolic Crux shotgun. I used it so much, it ended up like a corrosive Skull Masher sniper with a bigger mag and full auto. They should bring it back along with the weapon type experience perks.
Weapon proficiencies, yeah I prefer them.
i mean yeah it can be neat but at the same time its pretty obvious why they removed proficiency, it makes you have to grind it you want to use 4 or more weapon types and if you dont start the game using something youre screwed later in the game
@@edenengland1883 Gonna be honest chief, I didn't even remember that weapon proficiency was a thing and I used more than 2 or 3 weapon types the whole game and even got to play endgame content just fine. I don't even know realistically how you could screw yourself in endgame when it was designed to be so accessible.
@@NepgearafYeah that reasoning is MAYBE a problem if someone tries to rush through the game, which almost every mechanic deters you from doing. I always thought it was because it was going to be harder to balance when the newer games had way more diverse legendaries, but after seeing the unbalanced mess BL2 was, I think they definitely should have kept it.
I remember the first time I killed Craw on Mordy.. I have never felt so many different emotions in my life
BL1 is hands down my all time favorite. Really wish the next game would go back to the basics
And also important note IF YOU WANT TO JOIN A BL1 ONLINE SESSION DO NOT JOIN A GAME WITH THE MISSION "keep your insides in" IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR PROGRESS! Make sure you have a character for that specific type of lobby or else you'll be stuck to play with people who has this bug or literally people who just started to play it, in PC there's a fix for that but NOT for consoles
I remember getting this as a kid in 09 also only about 11 years old the cover had me so intrigued i bought the goty version not too long ago replaying it it's like I was a kid again it's beautiful tbh
The game that single-handedly kicked off cage the elephants huge career
The memory leak is a Borderlands 1 Enhanced issue. The original game did not suffer from this. Gearbox should have fixed it (& they never will) but apparently putting more invisible walls, outside Bonehead's area & Scorched Snake Canyon that prevents taking a shortcut (to name a couple), was more of a priority.
I remember playing this game and couldn't wait till BL2 to come out boy I feel old lmao
you feel old??
I remember playing this game before any of the dlcs came out, and not even one mention of a sequel yet.
Bl1 was the game me and a buddy would drink red bulls to and stay up until 6am in our youth. The sound of an SMG critical hit on a zombie in dr neda dlc followed by Lilith laughing and saying "I'm getting pretty good at this" is forever etched into my brain. Just recently grinded out a game on bl1 enhanced edition, made one attempt at moxxis underdome, died to the crimson lance boss on round 3, haven't touched it sine
The nostalgia definitely plays a factor in how I feel about Borderlands 1, I have fond memories of playing this game with my friend Peyton and later my younger brother, but even after that, I played through this game several times single player, and still loved it. There’s just something about the atmosphere and vibe of Borderlands 1 that I love.
Got my 100% base game completion recently with brick, i forgot how fun he was to use.
He’s a freaking beast bro, blaster master Brick is a top 5 build for me of all time
@@0fficalHellfire absolutely!
Borderlands 1 was always my favorite bc of the challenge it has and how guns stay good longer than any other game in the series! Keep up the great content man!!
One thing I do want to point out with BL1 DLC is that it really does add more flavour and gives that identity what BLD 2 would become. I love the DLC’s in the first game for that.
My first video game since the first Nintendo. No regrets. For the last 4 years I've rushed home to play either Bl2 or BL2.
You made a slight typo but I know what you mean haha. That’s a big gap between games! I can only imagine what it felt like playing BL1 for the first time coming from Og NES
@@0fficalHellfireYou really know what outro music hits
:) Gotta end it with a banger. Always
best borderlands channel on the platform
My favourite thing about borderlands 1 is that combat rifles are very solid,i can find more reliable high mag rifles here compared to the later games; here i can find MGs with 60 or 80+ rounds or so and combined with Roland's skills it's just glorious
The good thing about this game is that it doesn't have a main goal. Well... you know the story about the Vault, but... no one talks much about the Vault, it is considered fiction and we just have to wander around Pandora and find out its cruel history, stretched over generations.
I really like the UI when it tells you've picked up something, or when the stores have new inventory
Man I had 1 game to choose back in 2011 and I do not regret it one damn bit. Borderlands was a masterpiece. The dialog, story, gameplay, and pretty much any other aspect. Maps looked amazing. Hell sometimes I would start it up just to look at the sky. I'd hop on a chair in game, crouch, and enjoy the view with some jive tunes.
Masterpiece
another good video hellfire keep it up
5:27 I think BL1 is the only game where you can use a Green rarity weapon (or even white) or a low level weapon at max level and still play fine (I had a green rarity shotgun with 2 pellets that melted any enemy faster than the hellfire, volcano, orion, cobra, pestilent defiler)
Honestly out of all the borderlands games, I can always go back to this one to do a new run. I do love bl3 and I will do the end game, but when I just wanna do a new run, I go back to Borderlands 1. I think the journey and loot progression in this game is flawless, you feel your character getting stronger and it really does feel like loot matter so much. During a Roland run, I got a Havoc Valdof AR Epic rarity level 19 and that gun lasted me until level 30 until I finally got a new upgrade. I am legit stashing that gun as a trophy for it carrying me so much through the game. I don't have those same feelings in other borderlands game, especially 3 when epics are worthless and one buffed weapon that was not consider for a new playthrough can most likely carry you to the end of the playthrough.
I really miss when loot was balanced and actually mattered, instead of it being hyper focused on uniques, and this is coming from someone who loves Borderlands 3.
Is that background music an electronic version "Zombie" by The Cranberries? LOL
I like bl3. But sometimes it’s just way too much and over the top. Can’t even see what’s going on half the time. I just miss bullets being bullets. Not a thousand different lights flashing across the screen. Good times man.
You don't like it cus bullets is not bullets that the dumbest thing I ever heard and I'm not even a big fan of bl3
@@AnnBoyeare u blind? he said thousand lights flashing through the screen
This is why even playing BL2 I purposely avoided doing ANY gun research beforehand. When I first played with my friends it was so boring because we would stay in the first section until the got the “perfect” weapon then they would just wipe everything. Going in with minimal knowledge I just take the guns as they come and have only started going back and optimizing now that enemies are finally starting to require mixups. Heck I was disappointed when I finally looked up a zero build and they were all snipers while I had a weapon of each type for different elements and uses so I could always have ammo and diversity
my biggest issue with bl1 is purely just not moving during your ffyl
Also, i remember that i only got one early legendary during my numerous playthroughs. A caustic x2 Saviour at level 13 that i just used constantly until the damage just dropped off severely around level 20. I've never had that luck again during any of my subsequent playthroughs, level 20 and above is the only time i've had legendaries drop since in BL1
I actually ended up replaying this game recently. I'd been playing a lot of BL2 and BL3 and was feeling a little burnt out on them, so I figured I'd do a run through of the first game. If nothing else, I wanted to see if it held up to how I remembered it, given the last time I'd played was back when it first released in 2008.
Honestly, it ended up being a lot better than I recall. Not that I remember it being bad, but comparing it against later entries, I had this impression that it was just a lot more bland. Boring skill trees, slow gameplay, a good foundation for the later games, but only okay on its own. That was not the case for me, or at least not entirely. There's less variety, yeah, but it wasn't the content wasteland I was envisioning in my head. BL1 is rock solid.
The one thing I found that I really loved about the game was how grounded it felt. The tone is so much more bleak. The side quests a lot more down to earth. The irreverent humor that's become such a defining trait of the series is there (more so in the DLCs), but it almost feels like there's this grim edge to it, not the over the top silliness you get in sequels. Almost like the characters you meet make jokes because if they don't laugh, they'll cry or go insane.
One thing that took my completely by surprise was just how fucking quiet it is. Playing BL2 and BL3, there is always someone yelling at you from the top corner of your screen. Allies, antagonists, the environment, just constant yap yap yapping from fucking everyone. BL1 by comparison is dead fucking silent. You might get some chatter at the start/end of a story mission, but otherwise everyone shuts the hell up.
It was so jarring, in fact, that I was curious about how much dialogue there actually was in the game. Conveniently enough, the game saves logs whenever someone does say something, so I tallied em up.
The answer? After completing the story and all the side missions in the base game (No DLCs yet), there were less the 90 logs. And 15 of them were from the 3 side missions you get from Tannis to go collect her old echo logs. I can't say whether I think that's better that later games, but I do think it contributed to the overall atmosphere of BL1. It instills this loneliness that makes everything feel more desolate.
And after typing all that out, I'm not sure I have a point. But the game is good so if you've never played it before, give it a go. Was definitely worth the time for me.
This perfectly describes why the first game is so good. It has the fun mayhem of a ruined world... but it also has a lot of the lonely silences, stretches of desolate land, people on the verge of cracking.
The sequels felt like they were set in a neon circus dimension in comparison.
For me BL1 is always the #1 from BL franchise. It was THE game and i have so much good memories about completing this game over and over again with my friend, with xbox aaand splitscreen. I also bought BL2 as soon it was released and i finished it first time three years ago... so it wasn't "my cup of tea". Now i gave it another chance and gotta admit i think im able to finish this tea after all, but still.. BL1 is now and always will be my #1 (except underdome, which can suck some skagsacks).
I respect that, I wish there was another game that felt like BL1🥲
I know the history of BL1 very well, use to even have a gaming mag that showcased early BL1 with a more realistic style and fit for 3 players. As for BL1 itself, I put god knows how many hours into the game to literally do everything, even seen Pearl 1.0 which looked like Common at the time. Even though Moxxie's Underdome can be a drag, it does reward a Skill Point at the end and you can do that twice, once each play through.
Even though I have played all Vault Hunters, my go to ones the most are either Mordecai or Roland.
Atmosphere. A half-dead world occupied by former criminals, most of which became bandits. Rarely, a decent person is met. Scooter, T.K. Baha, etc. Giving you the feeling that the best of them are just trying to make good out of a bad situation. That combination of a unfair and uncaring world combined with people just trying to scrape by just felt more real. Felt like something meaningful and tangible.
I remember my older cousins letting me play this with them when it was brand new and i loved it so much, and then i wasnt able to play it again for many years and it slipped from my mind, and i shit you not, i rented that game same as you after so long and remembered why i loved it so much and then i went and bought all of them and its legit my favorite series ever
I remember when I first got a PS3 Borderlands was the only game I had for a year until a friend introduced me to Fallout New Vegas. I’ll always have a special part in my heart for it. Also in regards to borderlands 2, I think it’s more fun as far as things to do but it does lack in areas like needing to listen to dialog to progress at times. Other than that, if I had to rank the games borderlands 1 and borderlands 2 would come down to a coin flip for number 1.
Hell yeah, for me. It just depends on my mood or if I’m getting tired of one or the other. Both games have different things to love about them and it keeps things fresh even though we’re playing a decade+ old games
3:27 it’s actually the easiest. If you strafe none of the enemies can hit you… they may have updated it but that’s how it worked on 360 back in the day. Just walk around and you were invincible.
My wife and I just completed Krom's Canyon. I agree. we frequently go through all three (not the PS), and your points are all right on.
I kinda miss drifters. They were a terrifying enemy, hard to hit, and only ever seen in the General Knoxx dlc. Maybe they only worked in the wide-open spaces of those maps, but they worked!
They're in the bl2 hammerlock dlc as well.
I still come back to BL1 GOTY after all this time just to experience, like you said, the Wasteland feel and what Legendaries can i find as well as still finding sneaky red chests after all these years
The End of BL1 still stucks with me,
the non-apologetic FU after the Boss Fight...
No Heaven is still one of my favorite songs.
On that note. Today is the first day I reached LVL80 on any BL2 Character even though I have been playing forever, I never got over LVL66 before something took me away.
Ayeee congrats on your first maxed out character in bl2!
@@0fficalHellfire Thank you. It's a Salvador. First Time I actually played him
I've known borderlands for a long time but never played it until like a few years ago, this was the first borderlands I played, and it was on my switch
Been playing Borderlands since 2009, still my most played of the franchise and while 2 is slicker and came with the greatest antagonist of all time, I still prefer the original. More so today now that it's in 4k on PlayStation.
All you need in this game is just a double anarchy SMG or any common gun to shred through guys like butter and will carry you better than some legendaries in terms of stats, and they do the job as intended on being a bullet dispenser's actual purpose
Bl1 was the only entry in the series where I beat the main story line with all the vault hunters. It's my favorite in the series
Man, I've still got my pc disc. This game felt very fresh with friends back in 2009.
Funny, I remember my friend hyping this game for months before it launched, and I remember that I couldn't care less. When the game finally hit the store shelves I remember being at a local game store trying to find something new to play... I couldn't find anything that looked interesting to me and when the store was closing in I just panic grabbed BL1. Turned out to be one of my favorite games of the generation and funnily enough my friend never got it in the end.
I like the faint Zombie track in the background. Nice touch
As someone who has 100% this game on multiple consoles I’ve only been able to max shotgun weapon proficiency on 1 characters after 100+ hours. Love this game
BL1 is a lot more cut throat and that's what I love about it. You either have a good build or you don't, it's cut and dry. In regards to Craw though you are right he's difficult, honestly I consider it a rite of passage to any VH rookie to beat Crawmerax once legitimately. No ledge, no glitch guns. You, and your wit. That separates the rookies who are here for the moment from the hunter who are determined for that dub, and the satisfaction of looking at the gun in their hands and saying "*I* EARNED that!"
Bl1 is my second favourite bl game. It also has two of my favourite dlcs being Dr. Ned's zombie Island and General Knoxx's armoury :)
I dont even get how you can think 1 is not the best one after playing them all recently its so much better. People liking the 2nd game more reminds me of GTA 5 and Black Ops 2, people think those games are the best in their series but its actually the game before it with GTA 4 and BO1. BL2 is just BL1 with better technology but its story and gameplay dont feel like you are on the borderlands of the universe like 1 does.
That desolate planet was made better with family and friends playing with us n experiencing everything on Pandora as a team. I miss old couch co-op :(
I got into this franchise because my cousin showed me this game when it was new. When we were growing up he was the one that had fallout 3, new vegas, morrowind, etc. but they were all single player so when we hung out we usually still resorted to playing sega or SNES since that’s what my grandparents had for us.
But when he showed me a game that hit that FPS nerve, and it had levels that immediately think of the years I’d sunk into Pokemon, AND it was split-screen co-op? I was immediately enamored with the concept. After the night I spent with him playing the game I immediately went home and got my own copy. I must have put 1k hours in on my ps3 before I switched to PC.
I don’t love what the franchise has become. I still play 3 because I appreciate the convenience of life mechanics that have been added, I much prefer guardian rank to badass rank, tying it to xp gain was always the right move just like weapon proficiency in 1. This last part is just my opinion. I know badass rank tried to take the challenges from 1 up a level, but it feels like I’m puttering around pandora just to get 1/10th of a % increase on my reload speed before I spend another four hours doing it again. Just not a system I care for.
Bl2 is my favorite of the series but I agree with a lot of your points in the video.
I especially like your point about guns like the Harold dropping too early and easy in bl2, compared to bl2. I think playing with the base guns is important and that was one of the worst parts of bl3.
I disagree about the difficulty but maybe it's because I mainly played Lilith and she kinda made the game largely easy mode.
I can remember this coming out when I was still a freshman in college and playing the absolute hell out of it. To this day I still havent beaten Crawmerax haha
The atmosphere is what makes this game unique. I hope bdl 4 becomes more grim, grounded, and gory.
I just started my 5362722661th play through with a friend that’s never played. We’re having a blast and plan on beating the whole franchise
Borderlands 1 is still my favourite. The guns feel powerful and you can just read the quest log. I hate having to listen to the npcs yap on in the newer ones.
The company who makes the games; Gearbox probably thinks there fans can’t read 😅
Another thing with the weapons, they have 'weight '. running with a shotty feels different to a pistol. Also they feel more 'real'
Great video dude really entertaining
I played Borderlands 1 when my dad got the Game of the Year Edition on Xbox and I played all of the game and DLCs and got a Roland character to 64 which has some hacked items from a guy who came into my Lobby when was a never-ending firing assault rifle and many unbreakable Shields and I still have the character today
5:00 that's what I've always thought. Use some meme builds check for pumba when doing the exploitation preserve loot midget farm on your next Salvador run spec into some accuracy and offhand a high crit sniper it's not going to get you past bunker but it is fun
Just finished my original Roland to lvl 69. It’s still fantastic in 2024.
Underdome is good because it teaches you how to play peak BL1 and you get an extra skill point for completing it
when i got BL2 i woke up on a saturday at 530 am it was dark and when i put the controller down it was dark again
Miss those days ;(
4:37 those assassins in T-Bone Junction omg
Imma have to try out this game again. I honestly didn't find BL1 very difficult at any particular point in the game. I personally felt that BL2 is more difficult when it comes to build diversity in endgame. It's the lack of modern QOL and memory leak bug that keep me away from it. Other than that I'll play BL1. I played BL1 over BL2 back in the day.
played the heck out of 2 and the pre sequel, did about half the story with a few characters in bl3. what version of BL 1 do is preferred for PC, the OG or the remastered one?
Remastered. The og has no FOV Slider, no mini map, it’s missing heads that they added in the remaster, as well as some gearbox guns , and a chest to spend keys on
@@0fficalHellfire ty, sir
No problem at all :)
BL1 is my favorite of the series due to the loot and the combat. It has also a more gruesome atmosphere. BL2 has the richer looking maps and better story but the guns are so awful with hardly a straight shooting gun. BL2.5 and BL3 somewhat corrected that but it is never so good as in BL1.
I REALLY wish they would go back to the feel of the first game. Are the new ones overall better, probably, but like you said. The first one hits different
BL 1 is by far the easiest game in the series, in my opinion. You level up SOOOOO fast because EVERYTHING gives you progress towards some challenge milestone, which gives you more XP per stage. Plus if you use the same types of weapons a lot, your proficiency increases and you gain passives.
The gameplay loop is simple, satisfying, and most importantly, not a chore to get through, so I got a great replay value out of it.
My favorite is, and probably will always be, Bl2, but after my most recent playthrough of 1 I now have a much much more positive impression of it and probably would put it as my second best of the franchise, and it will take a lot for Gearbox to change that
Also, I subscribed to you you make great content and you speak your mind kind of like Mac used to do before he got to nose deep in this borderlands war he’s got going on 😂
Also each character had weapon types they specialized with. Roland was A.R.'s and shotguns, Lilith was smg's and elements, Mordecai was sniper and pistols and Brick was launchers, explosives and melee. That was a cool. BL is to me, what BL2 is to the people that skipped the original. I know the story and villain don't hold a candle to 2, but the settings, the aesthetic, the gameplay loop, and the loot farming was all so unique. They need to go back to their roots. Keep all the quality of life upgrades, I do love a lot of stuff about 3, but the story and villains were a huge downgrade.
I’d like to add that brick makes AMAZING use out of shotguns as well :) you’re very on point though with your comment
@@0fficalHellfire Ya, my Roland had shotguns and smasher pistols grouping up like lasers, I was hooked on his ammo regen and getting tactical with the turret drawing agro. It was such a unique game back then and because the gameplay and all the mechanics and interactions were so fun and unique, I really didn't even care about the story. My nostalgia is definitely for the original, and it's like a cult classic before 2 blew up and went a little too mainstream. Once you start drawing in all the casuals that don't even finish the game, the corporate bullshit starts and they will suck the soul and creativity right out of the franchise like Troy did Maya.
I think the Borderlands franchise should’ve just kept the Gritty type of feel & tone to it, along with keeping more of the Mad Max but in Space.
But also keeping Pandora more of the Wasteland Desert & Canyons rather then having multiple environments like in Borderlands 2.
They should’ve saved them for different Planets and even Moon Elpis.
I SO LOOOOVE the shock graphics and sounds omg
I went back and started playing it again tonight. It had so many things going for it. It's such a shame that this franchise was ruined by woke ideology.
I have not played BL1 in a long time but i do remember when i got the game. I went to the electronics store and bought a PS3 and Borderlands at the same time becouse i wanted a game to play and looked over the games they had and borderlands was the one game that i got stuck with and it was a good choice!
I have the opposite issue, where it's hard to LEAVE Bl1 😅
This game just has what I like in looter shooters that the others don't have.
All weapon types felt good, elements and status effects felt good, game stayed hard all the way through, truly impactful items weapons dropped completely randomly (which I liked), and freedom of builds were so much more varied.
Every installment after BL1 made me long for the gameplay and balance of the first game
doing a replay with Mordecai now that my semester is over, a lovely and simple game
Have played more BL1 than should admit. I find it fun now to do every single thing you can do first playthru. Build character as much as possible. Race thru 2nd playthru then once beat a 2nd all the missions are now hard
Let’s go, I love borderlands 1
"Modern", you hit it there m8.
I just started a new play through the other day with Lilith. I'll do Mordecai next I just know it.