Recent reviews by The Changeling

Possibly the greatest RPG/FPS of all time, this game does not disappoint. Having paid the full price for the game and its DLC, I can tell you it's worth every penny.


Where to begin?
The Humor:
Top notch humor in the form of a wise-ass/narcissitic/completely-devoid-of-morals antagonist.
Handsome Jack is possibly my favorite antagonist in the entirety of my video game career. While he is a complete douche, he provides humor in the form of his self deluded descriptions of his expliots and his own general unscrupulousness (sic. scooping out a person's eyeballs with a spoon, telling a women that her face looks like she headbutteed a belt sander, naming living horses made of diamond affectionately after your apparent lack of intellect, etc.). Tannis, the anti-social and completely insane archiologist also offers a source of humor. Character one-liners are also very well contrived, and the Psycho is an outright riot (although meme humor is not for everyone).


The Gameplay:
A co-op game at its heart, BL2 combines the best aspects of Shooter and RPG genres (skill trees, perks, class mods). With hordes of enemies, and literally quadrillions of guns, the fun never ends. With extreme replayability, BL2 allows for the completion of three playthroughs. Be warned though, gameplay can get rather repetitive.

THE LOOT!:
Note the exclamation. BL2's most satisfying aspect is perhaps the loot system. With many different levels of quality, loot progresses from the common White, to the super-rare Pearlescent. With multiple ranks in between (Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare, Seraph, and Legendary), it is assured that you will never pick up the exact same gun twice. With great rewards given by quests, playthrough progression is very natural, and excellent quality weapons are not needed to progress. Although it does help. Not only does better loot mean an easier playthrough, it also helps you secure bragging rights among your friends, and wows from random pubs you can let play with you. Of course, this leads us to the next aspect of the game, and perhaps one of the most controversial.

Duping/Gibbing:
Often, if you bother to look on a forum, you will run across the words "dupe," and "gibb." These two words are abreviations for the most common form of "cheating" in BL2. Duping is the act of (as one might guess) duplicating in game items, such as heads, skins, weapons and class mods by tossing them out from ones inventory and promptly quitting the game. The game will reload itself with the players full inventory. Since there is not anti-cheat program, BL2 is essentially what you make of it. Want to hack the crap out your game by altering your save files (I.e. Gibbing)? Go right ahead. Want to add an item with 20 million dmg per shot with a 20 rounds per second fire rate and infinite ammo? Go ahead. Just don't do it in co-op.

Freakin' epic.
Get this for your grandma, because why the ♥♥♥♥ not.