Recent reviews by EZ D

If I was on my death bed and the make-a-wish people came, I'd wish valve to release Left 4 Dead part 3 :/

I have nearly 600 hours in this game and I would not recommend it to others. I've thought about reviewing it several times but I haven't until now because it's impossible to do so without blasting it for its' bad points, and I feel bad for doing that because it does have some really good points as well.

+ THE GOOD +
The combat mechanics are excellent, and the gunplay specifically is f__king phenomenal. Huge variety, procedurally generated, cool legendaries. Maybe the best gunplay I've seen in a game.
There are some interesting character build options with synergies between skills, gear etc. Again no complaints with the mechanical side of things.
There are, to be fair, a few good characters. Mr Torgue is great. Mancubus, Maurice and Pain/Terror are at least pretty good.
Most of the voice acting is very good. In fact it's generally excellent, just let down by the writing.
There's a pretty good variety of enemies.
Mayhem mode is a great idea and it's well implemented.
The Guns, Love and Tentacles DLC is pretty good in its' entirety. Much closer to BL2 than the rest of the game.

+ THE WRITING +
I feel bad for how harsh this is going to be but many aspects of the writing; particularly the story but also other stuff, are the worst I've seen in a game. It's banal, it's trite, it's lame and stupid and overly aggrandising... it's the special kind of bad that needs its' own section just to cover everything.
Borderlands has always been a bit kitsch but BL3 is almost nothing but, and constant in-your-face kitsch is, of course, obnoxious AF. How did nobody at Gearbox see that? Plus because it's deliberately kitsch it almost gives the impression the game was badly written on purpose. That's an achievement.
Most characters seem to be on the spectrum for some reason (I support equality but seriously 60% of people don't have ASDs in real life) while others are just pieces of wood. The mission dialogues usually consist of the spectrum circus doing brainfarts for several minutes then the piece of wood does the thing to move the story along, which is usually a line that could be replaced with "I'm sorry Mario, but the Princess is in another castle." It's a good thing the Eridians split the vault keys into pieces because otherwise they'd be real short on missions.
Half the characters feel the need to constantly tell you how f__king awesome and important you are, and how much everyone needs you. A spaceship full of sycophants. That's fun.
Occasionally you'll hear a line of dialogue that was so badly written you can tell the voice actor couldn't even work out what they were supposed to be saying.
I laughed at two jokes the entire game.

+ THE REST OF THE BAD +
After giving people the option to buy the "season pass" on release, they have released a second "season pass" with not much content and a few OP weapons so players feel like they need to buy it to have the best gear. I can respect the hustle of a shiny turd salesman, but they're still selling turds.
The 4 DLCs that were part of season pass 1 followed a similar path. DLC 3 and 4 were increasingly rushed and of poor quality, with DLC 4 released in under 3 months from DLC 3. No wonder it was such a trashfire. Then again they never stipulated whether the season pass DLCs you'd get would be any good, just that you'd get 4 of them. Then 2K can get Gearbox to turn out a fifth trash DLC 2.5 months later so they can start charging people who had already paid for the game and the season pass. So that's what they did. Probably not a practice we should be supporting.
There are a lot of boring fetch quests. There are a few good ones as well but they're few and far between.
The music is bad, except for the Revenge of the Cartels special event. That's only available for one month of the year though.
The atmosphere / world building is pretty absent. Planets feel like stages rather than worlds to be explored.
The AI is below par even for a game you don't expect to have good AI.

So basically the gunplay is the best thing ever, the writing is the worst thing ever, and 2K likes to rip their customers off as much as they can get away with. If you could get the full game (aka the "Ultimate Edition") for about $40US then I would say do it, but otherwise it's just too much money for a game with so many bad points.

Very good game. Sadly it helps you remain a virgin :/

Destroys more friendships then UNO

If you ask me this actually isn't a free game every match costs a piece of ur sanity until you are left with nothing but regret.

Game has been completely ruined and it has nothing to do with the bugs etc, tbh it looks and plays great it is a decent successor to cs-go once you iron out the kinks.. However, the cheaters... premier matchmaking... faceit...

You decided to break all of it, the entire game. Vac live is non existent people can kill you from spawn, through walls, whilst bhopping... cheaters can do things they couldn't do in CSGO..... Fine at least we could play faceit on the 128 tick servers you once assured us we would get. Oh look nope, you hardcode subtick.. even though 128 was proven to be working better. Oh well lets go play csgo oh no we cant do that either...

Then there is the false bans (I was one of them, the one you caused with your own update. It was promptly removed and i am grateful but no compensation, not a word to the community just silence...

Ok well lets set that all aside and move on... oh we can't because then there is the exploits, I have never in my life wondered if was safe to play a game...

You are forcing your player base to play an unpolished game against cheaters, without any active client sided anticheat, serverside plugins, fog of war. You don't punish people for boosting with cheaters or even cheating them selves, you allow them to flex and brag publicly on your leader boards. There are more cheaters than pros now...

and this was supposed to be game that levels the playing field, we would all get a fair chance to compete. Counter Strike is for everyone... Counter Strike is dying and you guys shot it.

I love counter strike, it was the first game I played at my uncles internet cafe as a little kid, I lost entire summers to this. You guys as a Dev team and company have lost respect for your player base and your own game. You throw us in the bin and at the same time you flex an incoming ''major''.

You might need to climb off your high horses, play your own game with us, talk to the community a little. Actually respond to feedback. Counter Strike has one of the most dedicated communities and I am sure if you paid even a fraction of it back to us that investment would pay off ten fold for you guys.