Borderlands Game of the Year Reviews

Easily one of the better balanced Borderlands games and it's just before they started putting in a lot of groan-worthy jokes, references, and stale memes. It feels somewhat primitive, but at least most of the loot I find actually feels like I could feasibly use it.

New EULA on Gearbox/Take Two Interactive titles is invasive. Stay away from their titles while this is in effect. Steam should crack down on this anti-consumer behavior. They now collect your: bank account info, credit card number(s), RL name, postal and email address, phone number, age/gender, purchase history, web browser history, and audio/photos. This is retroactive on titles you already purchased. This wasn't here when you bought it years ago. There is no protection for you if this company gets hacked liked every other enshittifying thing that collects your data. And they will, of course, have data breaches.

PLEASE AVOID THIS GAME AT ALL COSTS!!! This is coming from a person who 100%d this game. - Is this a bad game? Nope, absolutely not it was phenomenal. This is OG Borderlands full DLC packaged game and it is as good as it gets. At this point you are wondering if I am insane or not, here is why you should avoid this game at all costs: In case you missed the review explaining why 2K is a spyware company and injecting viruses and other means of malware into your kernel and steal your private information. Here we go detailed explanation I copied from the original reviewer why you should definitely avoid this game at all costs and any other products of 2K: Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware. Important Info in Terms of Service: • Mods are a bannable offense • Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable • Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area • You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers • Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC Collected Data Types: • Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address • Protected Characteristics: Age and gender • Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information • Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address • Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications • Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls) • Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest • Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting) • Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality So; after all this you might be asking why I got this in the first place; well I got this on a summer/winter sale sometime in 2020 or 2021. It has been sitting in my library alongside with many other games collecting dust and increasing my evergrowing backlog. Back then they weren't this evil so I didn't mind supporting them. Look, I play my games on an isolated PC where I don't have any private info stored. PC is just for playing steam games and that is it. So those woke freaks CANNOT reach my wife's or/and my daughter's videos & pictures and sell them to a data broker in China, India, Russia and Iran or even worse DHS. If you value yourself and your privacy DO NOT EVER buy anything from 2K and any other demonic woke corporations like 2K such as Microsoft, Activision, Bethesda, CDPR etc. There's a good saying on the internet starts with "If buying isn't owning..." you might consider doing the rest. These demons should go bankrupt after all the illegal activity they have done. Their CEO was busted in a medieval themed restaurant with a USB full of illegal data on him. Think about it! There is a remastered version of the game as well and since I already own it and it is non-refundable, I will play that one as well and revise another review but as long as this malware spy company continuous their hideous actions I will keep warning people.

This game now has spyware. Also, use of any mod is now a bannable offense.

I played it originally on console over a decade ago now, I wanted to go back into it because I know BL4 will suck and I wanted to play an actually good game to remind me how good the series can be. Whenever I launch the game all of the audio on my PC will break, like nothing will play audio including stuff outside of the game like audio from youtube or spotify. I have spent over an hour trying to figure out why its doing this but have not figured anything out. On top of audio issues the new EULA fucking blows, people will try to downplay it, those people are idiots, randy himself has shown his true colors, by saying "true fans" will pay $80 for BL4, not even trying to hide how he feels about the player base. This franchise is dead, from bl1 enhanced still having memory leak issues to this day, to them giving up on tinas, to the movie being horrid, and BL4 probably having the same issues as 3. Go play destiny or something, at least bungie puts on a facade of caring for their game and its fans.

Great game, if you love borderlands games you will probably like it, but it is held back by a few flaws: side missions feel forced instead of optional, the car combat sucks and the main story is boring. This is also probably the best way to experience borderlands 1 and is far better than the enhanced edition due to the drop rates not being over the roof, making the loot grind harder and the memory leak glitch is non existent. You can also add most of the features from enhanced using mods or configuring the .ini files.

Borderlands is an awesome game but the latest update added spyware, so do NOT buy/install it

Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware. Important Info in Terms of Service: • Mods are a bannable offense • Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable • Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area • You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers • Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC Collected Data Types: • Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address • Protected Characteristics: Age and gender • Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information • Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address • Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications • Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls) • Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest • Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting) • Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.

2 forms of anti-pirate software being mandatory and forced upon consumers, is beyond absurd and should be illegal. Do not buy any Gearbox games.

Don't buy this game bros. They spy on you, harvest your data and sell it. They also ban you for mods and shit. Not worth it. This is why piracy still exists.