Quote Originally Posted by Pheesh View Post
I love Borderlands 2 so much. One of the most legitimately hilarious games I've ever played and it improved on the original in basically every way. I've heard mixed things about the Pre-Sequel so I've yet to play that, but I'll have to get around to it at some point.

Too many games on my 'to play' list as it is though.
The Pre-sequel definitely isn't as good as Borderlands 2. For a start, it isn't as long. Completing all the story and DLC campaigns for Borderlands 2 had me clock out at about level 43. In the Pre-sequel, that was about level 33-ish. The campaign isn't as long, but what is there is very good and fleshes out Handsome Jack much more. It's worth playing after Borderlands 2 because you connect the dots about the origins of some things that are very commonplace in the previous game. It also a small 'present-time' story that meshes well with the announced third game, which is in development.

The main characters you can control can also now speak to people, which makes them far more relatable. It was funny hearing the difference my Athena would say to an NPC quest-giver as opposed to Nisha, Carny's character. The classes (that I saw) were fun as well, we chose well and I went defensive and Carny went with the gun-toting Nisha. It balanced out nicely. Low gravity and oxygen are interesting gameplay additions.

Having said that, it definitely is a smaller game, but I got it for £4 (seriously) at my local CEX electronics store so if you get it cheap you still get plenty of bang for your buck. Definitely worth playing with others, that's like half the fun of these games.

The Pre-sequel was published by 2K Australia, not 2K, so maybe they couldn't devote full resources to it. I know they have Battleborn (a game I've not even heard of) so that might have drawn away time on The Pre-sequel.