Tried that game someone kept pushing. Wasn’t expecting much.
A new player’s rough initiation into Borderlands 2 is sparking a lively exchange in the games community on boop. Choosing the gunner class led to an immediate, overwhelming ambush right outside the starting hub, with a shield collapsing in two hits and a quick death before any weapon swap could happen.
Despite the sting, the experience didn’t feel unfair. The thread explores how a game’s early difficulty can build respect rather than frustration when enemy scaling and damage logic feel transparent. Members are sharing their own stories of brutal first hours that somehow turned into long-term obsessions, and what that says about game design that trusts players to adapt.
First hour I picked the gunner class and immediately got mobbed by a pack of psychos outside the starting hub. My shield dropped in two hits and I died before I could even swap weapons.
It stung, but it didn’t feel cheap. Enemy numbers ramped fast and the damage numbers made sense.
Borderlands 2 kept me tapping the reload key like it would save me, and it only sort of did.
same night, longer notes
https://dfaceme.com/game/borderlands-2
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