Would recommend, BUT

This ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. I don’t know what possessed me to want to 100% this. Well, I embarked on a journey with my friends and it took so ridiculously long to get all the achievements.
Please do to ask me about anything story related, despite putting 186 hours into this game, I know literally nothing about that. What I do, however, know about is all the damn glitches in this game and I will need to rant about them *right now*.
Some of these glitches are minor and wouldn’t bother you much unless you try to get 100%. Others are a bigger problem. For example, we were playing one of the DLCs when we couldn’t go on. We tried a bunch of stuff, nothing worked, so we figured we’re missing something and took to Google. Turns out this is a known game breaking glitch. We literally couldn’t complete the DLC. We had to wait for another friend who hadn’t done this yet to start the DLC and then we could load in. Otherwise, we would have been ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Many of the achievements are extremely buggy. For example, there is one for discovering each location. Well, I had all maps at 100% and the game told me I had everything discovered, yet no achievement. Since the game doesn’t give you a convenient list or *anything* that might help you in this case to figure out what you are missing, I had to go traipsing across all maps and all areas to find the one damn pixel I apparently hadn’t stood on. Similarly, there is an achievement that triggers after you complete all side missions. I triggered for me but not for my friend even though we played the entire game together. Oh, and another thing that pissed me off majorly – one of the DLCs has you in this weird game mode where you have no abilities, and you grab a few random starting weapons and battle your way through. So, along your run you pick up items and at certain spots on the map you can extract 3 of those items if you want to preserve them after your run. One achievement is for extracting 100 items. Grinded through that, didn’t get the achievement, but my friend did. Turns out, the extraction (although you do this separately for each player) only tracks for the person who hosts the game. Mind you, this is the only time this was the case in the game, so it’s not like this is something you can know in advance. In fact, that DLC in general was really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying.
Speaking of annoying, there are several characters in this game that were just grinding my gears. Tiny Tina for example. Or Ava with her eyebrows that look like she drew them on with a sharpie.
The game was very grindy at times, very frustrating (how many times can one person say “hold on a sec, my inventory is full”?), especially with glitch after glitch. You know, if this had been a new release I would feel more forgiving about these glitches as I would expect future updates to patch them out. But apparently all of these were known problems that just never got fixed. And that is not okay. By the way, let’s talk about RNG for a moment. There is an achievement for beating the Debt Collector. This is an enemy that spawns in randomly. I cannot even tell you how many times (for sure over 100) we kept going back there hoping that thing would spawn. I get that RNG is RNG but ♥♥♥♥ me that really puts a damper on things.
All of these negative points aside, I enjoyed the game overall despite it making me mad as ♥♥♥♥. It’s a lot of fun to play with friends. I like the style and the variety in weapons. I enjoy the different ways to tweak your build. I think my favorite thing in the whole game was the unicorn grenade that chucks out rainbows and unicorns after you throw it (btw, RNG ♥♥♥♥♥♥ me here again. I got that at the beginning of the game, soon couldn’t use it anymore because of the low level and then just never saw another one for the entire rest of the game). I like that there are so many customizable options for your outfit and especially for the weapon skins. I know that this is probably of the least concern to most people but it allowed me to make the game look more appealing which definitely bumped up my enthusiasm for playing.
All that being said, I think had I started playing this alone, I would have binned it off at some point. While the game is fun and I enjoy all the mechanics of it, there are just too many game breaking elements that will cause you nothing but frustration. Some of the DLCs (yes, of course you don’t have to play them) are very much an afterthought and not particularly fun to play. With friends this is a nice game to pass some shooty-looty time. So, if you decide to embark on a BL3 journey, I can guarantee you will have fun but also that you will end up super pissed off. There really is no excuse for this many game breaking things to never have been patched. Keep that in mind when deciding whether to spend your money on this. I would definitely recommend only getting this when it’s on sale…

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 7/10

Higher = Great gameplay aka quite lot of fun.



⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 6/10

Higher = Great audio also to make it clear its the just the sound design overall but not inclining any music or atmospheric tracks.



⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 8/10


Higher = Great soundtrack this for all kinda of music within the game.


⭐⭐ 2/10

Higher = Great story



⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 7/10

Lower = Hard difficulty in this game.



🔲 What that was tiny. (under 1 hour - 1 hour)
🔲 Short. (2-5 hours)
🔲 Decent. (6-15 hours)
✅ Long. (16-48 hours)
🔲 Super long. (49-280)
🔲 Here's my keys, Philosophy, A freak like me, Just needs infinity.


🔲 Smooth just the way everyone likes it.
🔲 Minor bugs or problems but, nothing too bad that ruins the game as a whole, so overall still playable.
✅ Ok now its getting to be quite problematic, find it hard to pretend its not happening, can get annoying.
🔲 Wow getting to the point of un playable with all too much problems.
🔲 Such a broken mess, it's so un playable


£59.99

🔲 Worth the set price.
🔲 Small % off would do, aka around 5-30% range.
✅ Medium % off would do, aka around 40-65% range.
🔲 Large % off would do, aka 70% or higher off other wise you've just wasted your cash on this game.


The loot, the thing they have always got down pretty well, this title they went even bigger then BL2 kinda loot. Now you have guns that can have different modes from how it fires to as a example did you always wanted a sniper that can be turned into a shotgun? No!? Well get living! This stuff is some interesting and fun to play around with stuff here, there are even much better relics and nades. There really is some fun to be had with the gameplay, feels like the best one yet for combat gameplay for sure.

Also here come some negative but they did screw up the legendary drops, for real the feeling of excitement getting one of these kinda of loot has been taken away, since now you can literally gain these pretty easy. By time i even got to level 19 i was practically swimming in legendarys to the point i would mainly use the legendary stuff hardly using any other gear. I asked around to why it was so common cause i didn't want to believe they did this on purpose maybe a glitch or a bug going on, but nope it was on purpose after all.


The boss battles all the way up to the end were hella fun, as they were so creatively made, they really do feel apart from one another. It seems gearbox has only gotten better and better with their boss fights in these games, BL4 might improve the boss fights even more!! But yeah from BL1 just not moving boss to BL2 to now what we have in 3 they really have kept improving their boss fights got to give credit where due.


The story was the biggest let down it really is as bad as i've heard near launch and to this day by others, its so bad in fact some moments the story just forgets the vault hunters are there like really you just suddenly do not exist till the cutscene is over, its that laughable bad. In fact the main story doesn't really feel like your in it more your along for the ride for Ava (the annoying moany brat you'll likely hate too) Lilith(Still sort of cool one in the story but mainly put on stand by through out, shame) Tannis (the one that made me go am totally over the story of the game now i couldn't care much anymore since it ruined Tannis backstory in BL1 all for the some wow factor twist) Yep its basically their story not yours.

I like to also add at least some DLCs do redeem the main game bad story likely cause the DLC's had a whole different writer for them. The DLCs are at least far better written and interesting, wish the main story was at least like these DLC's, even the Ava's podcast one was at least slightly made me like Ava bit, tho not fully redeemed and still would like to see them already axed off in the next game. So at least they got some better writers in after the backlash but just for the content addons.


You know what i feel BL3 can be summed up as it took 2 steps forwards only to take 1 step back is the best way to sum it up as a whole i feel.


⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

5/10


feel free to check out what i had to say/rate the BL2 or even Pre squeal links here: BL 2 : https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/profiles/76561198075438847/recommended/49520/ BL pre sequal: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/profiles/76561198075438847/recommended/261640/

it has the best game play and gunplay but the worst story and writing of the series so its ehhh idk how to rate its a overall good game but bad at the same time idk