Polygon over de Borderlands 3 trailer.
Borderlands 3’s debut trailer may have made you happy if you just wanted new Borderlandscontent and, if that’s the case, I’m happy that you’re happy.
I’m not happy.
A good sequel happens when a development team takes all the things that defined the previous game, whatever those things were, and finds ways to bring at least a few of them to the next level. There might be a jump in visual quality and an introduction of new faces while existing characters go through some sort of change, and ideally, the mechanics themselves should evolve in some way. “More” isn’t a good excuse for a sequel; the best sequels are defined by a more complex word: “better.”
And I don’t see anything in the Borderlands 3 trailer that makes me think it’s going to be better than Borderlands 2.
Part of my skepticism comes from the tepid trailer, but I also can’t remove myself from the meta-context of Borderlands 3. Gearbox Software released Borderlands 2 in 2012, and it was followed by expansions, spinoff games, a VR port, an adventure game, and compilations. Fans have been sold or at least offered an extensive amount of content that isn’t a numbered sequel, and that trend will continue: Gearbox also announced during Thursday’s panel at PAX East a remaster of the original Borderlands, as well as free 4K texture packs for Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel.
That level of support for older games isn’t a bad thing, but it’s been going on for six years. I was so excited to see what Gearbox could do, both in terms of visuals and mechanics, to update the Borderlands series for 2019. Borderlands 3 would have to do something to push the series into the future, right
The first trailer looks like a rehash of what we’ve already seen and played, and that’s a terrible thing for a series that has already been chopped up and resold to us in so many ways.
I want Borderlands 3 to be good, but for it to be good, it needs at least one or two new ideas. If you had told me that this trailer was a fan edit that used scenes from existing games, I likely would have believed you.
https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/28/18285523/borderlands-3-trailer-reaction
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Laatst bewerkt: 28 mrt 2019