yeah basically toasthaste is right. i have a thing for shootery games that take themselves seriously and that thing is that I don't really like them.

i finally got around to trying warframe the other day and it was all Halo and I was like, "well shit". It kind of doesn't matter how good the plot, if it's halo-y or gears-y or anything that looks tough and military and humorless, I'm out.

this world looks colorful and funny and interesting. that's the way it looks like borderlands

Edit: also the setting is almost identical. Edge world frontier town, lots of crazy guns, corporate exploitation is causing gentrify-y problems, frontiersmen vs corporation, life has very little value, both worlds have Scags (whatever TOW calls them)

I get the feeling that Borderlands 3 is going to be an online service mess because of pitchford. This looks like it could be the Borderlands 3 I wanted rather than the one I suspect I'm gonna get.