• dil@piefed.zip
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    2 days ago

    3 was extra short, didnt feel like replaying it, just played it last year, didn’t feel like buying 4 and I can afford it + have free time. It just doesn’t look appealing, will def buy when it inevitably goes on sale for like 10-20$

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        22 hours ago

        From what I recall of the only time I played it, it has a lot of going back and forth and large empty spaces which artificially extends the duration of the main story.

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          22 hours ago

          I can’t say that was my experience when I played it last year, and you can see my recorded play times for the series below in this thread. In fact, I’d say I spent less time traversing empty spaces due to the game’s more relaxed rules on fast travel.

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          1 day ago

          Their How Long to Beat times are all a tight spread. Having just played through them all in the past year, I can tell you that the only thing that makes 2 longer than the rest is that it has more DLC.

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            1 day ago

            Borderlands was in essence an open world game. Two was so connected you could walk from the very beginning to the very end without any use of vehicles if you so chose. Borderlands 3 was the equivalent of Final Fantasy X.

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              If you say so. I can tell you I’ve been tracking my times pretty judiciously in the past year. For each of those Borderlands games, my times were:

              • Borderlands 1: 23h17m
              • Borderlands 2: 35h15m
              • Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel: 22h21m
              • Borderlands 3: 35h25m
              • Borderlands 4: 28h26m

              So I guess Borderlands 2 wasn’t longer, like I may have remembered it. In each case for the above, I basically just did enough side missions to keep pace with the recommended level of the next main story mission, which amounted to a few hours per game. All of those times include the DLC except for Borderlands 4, and the DLC is also very similarly sized and paced across games.