Jack is literally one of the best antagonists in video game history. It's hard to beat him.

When Jack was talking to my character, he was talking to ME. He addressed you very personally, getting under your skin, makes you hate, even loathe, him. Needs a remaster with the new engine.

"I wanna be clear about something. This isn't about the vault key anymore this is about me and you.." -Jack The shift in tone after Angel dies is just perfect and really adds depth to his character.

To be honest, I never had any problem with replaying the game 3 or more times, because the story and the characters' charisma, especially Jack's, made it entertaining.

This game is one of the best games of the last decade

Krieg was such a poetic character its amazing. On the surface psychos just seem so simple. A crazy person who's gone insane. Then you play krieg and he's arguably one of the most complex characters to build properly. You cant just put points anywhere and be successful with krieg, you have to plan where your points will go in order to be effective. That deep complexity to what on the surface seems like such simple characters always resonated with me.

in the Presequel i loved some of the Origin stories around Handsome Jack. Espicially Felicity's. Seeing how Jack uses her more and more and her turning insane was absolutely terrifying.

Oh pleaseeeee. Slag wasn't just a crutch, it's literally the oxygen you need to breathe.

Your point on slag doesn’t quite seem right, switching to a weapon in order to deal for damage makes sense (fire on flesh), why slag doesn’t work, is you had to switch to 2 weapons in order to kill one enemy, sometimes more than once, because slag wears off. So rather than switching to fire for flesh, you switch to slag, then fire, and if the slag wears off, then back to slag and then to fire again.

I can still play borderlands 2 to this day!

Dropped more than 1.5k hours into bl2 over the last 8 years and I still have no regrets. Still the best game I have ever played.

I'm so happy that borderlands the handsome edition was free for psplus, otherwise I maybe wouldn't have been subjected to this masterpiece of a game.

Fun fact about UVHM a lot of people miss: Gearbox put in a faster weapon swap speed in UVHM to compensate for the dependence on slag. I don’t think this makes up for the overwhelming dependence on slag(especially for certain characters), but it’s cool that they made it a bit more convenient for us.

Jack was so good because he was such a believable villain. Throughout the entire game and series he wasn't some almighty god or some super overpowered evil he was just a narcissistic CEO. He always seemed within reach since every vault haunter could and does mop the floor with him but his power comes from his position being able to drop loaders and other assets on you. Everytime he speaks to you he manages to get under your skin because you know he's not shit but he thinks he's a god and your a bandit

When using Maya or Axel, one of the abilities in their trees allowed you to slag when using their abilities. Made it very easy to wipe out plenty of enemies... surprised no one talks about Maya's acid cloud... I could wipe out entire armies at chokepoints using that little ability.

The issue with slag was just how necessary it was to do damage at a high level, because of how beefy enemies were. It was pretty much impossible to use non-elemental weapons once you hit UVHM, which invalidated a whole manufacturer (although Jakobs is my favourite so I may be biased). Also there really wasn't a variety of slag weapons. It was Grognozzle or Slagga and that's about it in terms of viability. Even then, Grog is the superior choice because of its slag chance and lifesteal. It really is a case of 'why would I use anything else?'

I actually really enjoyed TPS, the laser guns are fun to use, and nisha has interesting skills, along with the DLC VH’s

The modding scene is now able to add new changes to the game. Which is great when you consider the games flaws

It's so weird that Jack has been both the blessing and curse of Borderlands even until today. I'll be honest, I loved Jack, his character, his twisted motives, his gloating, and the fact he does lose it after Angel. And then Jack dies. And Gearbox seems to have this desperate need to pander to their rabid fanbase, by bringing him back but not quite. And again. And again. And we get really weird straw grasping like "Guys, Zane is actually Jack in disguise!!!" from the fanbase, where I'm just like. Let him die. But look at those comments, and at mine even. We are all talking about Jack. I could be talking about how the legendaries system overall was much better in BL1 for me, and farming was cool at first but kinda ruined the fun in the long run. Or how the endgame in BL2 is completely overblown, with slag becoming a mandatory part of the normal gameplay... But yet here I am. Thinking about the weird insert of a Jack themed quest in 3, where you are supposed to learn about Angel but half of it is... once again... Jack talking. Okay. Anyway Bunker farming for that juicy 94% is so much fun amirite guys?!

Rocket and grenade jumping has been around since the beginning of 3D FPS games like Quake and Half-Life.

After 2500 hours in the game my only real complaint is the loot system. You could literally fight the same boss a hundred times and he would only drop that item you want one time

This is the first game I actually played over and over and over and over and over again.

10:08, you just derailed your own thoughts about Slag. It's not that we needed the element to kill enemies in UVHM. It's that we needed it ALL THE TIME to do any reasonable damage outside of a min-maxed build (especially in the OP levels).

this right here is the best game ever made FOR ME! definitely made my childhood 100x better. im currently paying through BL3 and im loving it as much as I loved Borderlands 2 such a great series

i played borderlands 3 and i completely forgot all of it. cant remember many things about it. borderlands 2 tho is one of those games that stayed engraved in my melancholy hard drive forever. every level every character er is amazing

BL3 dropped legendaries too often, BL2 dropped them too little. I use a loot mod to lightly increase the drop rate and it makes the game so much better

I have a total of 19 max level characters on borderlands 2 (4 on xbox 360, 6 on xbox one, 8 on pc and 1 on the switch), i love everyhthing about this game. It is the only game that I have more than 4000 hours on

In 2013, I stumbled upon this game by complete accident. I used to be a Halo fan, and what drew me in was the semi-low gravity jumps followed by slow falling and no fall damage. What kept me playing was the story overall, and to this day I am a big fan of the series. Borderlands 2 is ten years old now, and my God, how I wish I could go back and experience it all for the first time again.

My preferred way to run BL2 is to get to the first Fast Travel station, start up the DLCs first missions(in the case of the Digistruct DLC, finish the first mission), order the missions in order of difficulty, and complete them in that order. So when I start hitting the level 16+ missions through the base game, I don’t get to them until I complete the level 15 missions in the various DLCs. By the time I get back to the base game, I am somewhat over leveled.

Borderlands Franchise will go down as one of my all time favorite games. This game is insanely fun and nostalgic with so many memorable moments and characters. AND ALL THE LOOT!!!!

I see a lot of people saying that Handsome Jack is one of the best villains in video game history. I do not disagree, but I do take issue with that statement. It's not because it's wrong, but because it's too small. I love storytelling in every form it takes, whether through games, books, movies, plays, poetry, etc. I have engaged with many stories and many villains, and I do not think I am wrong in stating that Handsome Jack isn't just one of the best villains in video game history, but one of the best villains of all time across all forms of storytelling. He is one of the rare perfect villains. He gets you to hate him from the the very first moment, and then continues to build that hatred over the course of the game to the point that, by the time of the final showdown, you don't just want to kill him, you HAVE to kill him. He manages to push you past that point of "This guy is a real dick, and I kinda want to kill him just to shut him up" to being in that strange space where every fiber of your very soul is demanding his blood. He sucks you in, and almost gets you to sympathize with him at times, only to turn around and use that sympathy as a weapon to rip your soul in two, and he laughs while doing it. A lot of modern stories try to portray a smug, arrogant, charismatic egomaniac for a villain; few do it well; even fewer get it perfect. Borderlands 2 and Handsome Jack did. He is just one of those timeless characters who, regardless of time period or social climate, will always be just as hateable as the day he was first brought to life. Perfect villains are rare, but Jack is one of them, and true fans of storytelling should do themselves a favor and experience this story for themselves if they haven't already.

Thing I hated most hearing from fellow BL2 Players "Why should I have to change weapons?!" Que me saying, "Why then, do we have 4 slots?"

Borderlands 2 created one of the best things that I bring to every game. Challenge runs. Bandit only was the last run I did and it makes the game so much better and much more replayable. Gearbox should actually add play through modifiers to bl3 so you can have only certain gear drop. Like only cov for example.

this is the only game where I don't mind replaying the story over and over again it's weird cause usually I hate replaying campaigns

@ 2:30 I never noticed that the lava makes a vault symbol on the side of the volcano

Op 10 voracious was so horrendous u basically can't kill him on solo u are required to bring 4 people in the battlefield

The sound design of this game has to be my absolute favourite thing about it. It's incredible. The voice acting is great, but it's the music that makes Borderlands 2 so amazing for me.

Slot machines were actually pretty good for starting new alts. On your current high level character send your trash guns to your next alt. Have them sell those high level guns for tons of cash and blow it on the slots which at low level are super cheap since the prices scale with level. This will get you a lot of eridium for staring your new alt out when you finally get around to it.

I love that you can reach max level in BL2 just with the story content. There's enough content in the game to reach level 50-80 in a single playthrough. This isn't true on BL, BLTPS, or BL3. In all of those games you either have to reset the story an additional time, or grind xp somewhere. I mean you have enough content to get 50-72, and even when they raised the level cap by 8 with the fight for sanctuary DLC, you still could reach that level without touching that DLC. Hell I don't even have to touch captain scarlet so i can still get a level 80 sandhawk and pimpernil.

BD2 with BD3 gameplay would be pure eridium and they already have skill trees to improve and work with. For example I love playing as Krieg but late game you really only have melee to depend on making guns kinda useless.

I love Slag. A great concept. It’s a pure RPG move. Think about. Debuffs always help

If you took scaling from TPS or BL3 and applied it to Bl2 and fixed skill point scaling and applied the changes the mods made to skills you would make the perfect borderlands 2. Slag is totally a crutch as it removes a singular weapon slot for that purpose and most of the time that weapon will be a moxxi pistol (rubi or grog) or slagga. it also forces you into choosing skills that can give you slagging abilities on characters like Axton just to bring up their usability of the turret

I came up with a build that allowed me to solo DP with Krieg using elemental Infinitys and grenades- it was a blast. Son of Crawmerax was the best of the additional raid bosses but fighting Terramorphus never got old.

As a casual player, my main complaints right now is the wonky collision on some things. Objects that look like you can drive over wind up stopping you like you drove into a brick wall

This video fills in a huge gap left by Supmatto being forced out. We must push on and fill the Lore in.I appreciate your hard work and feel likewise. The best thing about borderlands is the community.👍

Borderlands is one of my favourite, if not my single favourite series of all time. Even during its lowest, it drops down to merely "meh" and going even that low is rare. I think I'm in the minority, but 1 is my favourite, despite 2 being an objective improvement in most ways. This series has brought me so much joy over the years Time to start another playthrough! 😁

Late to the conversation here, but UVHM's difficulty was often overestimated by those that played every mission, and dlc to completion on each playthrough, because they would arrive on UVHM as a level 54-55 character, but the weapons and shields etc would have been capped at 50. Fighting enemies at level 56-57. when even your legendaries are 6 levels too low, it feels like you are hitting them with pea shooters. After those first couple of hours, it evens out, when you start finding level appropriate gear, but that first impression sticks with you.

one complaint i have about borderlands 2 is that a lot of the guns feel like toys. borderlands1s guns werent the best looking or best handling but at least they sounded like guns or gave your enemies real impacts to the point of shooting limbs off corpses.

I loved bl2. But the end game scaling is bad. And the last update made the game impossible to play on op levels.

Bro, the propaganda the game provides throughout the maps and the coolness of how geek the devs are is just freaking great!

Also, Borderlands 1 version of Slag was the Pestilent Defiler, Hellfire, and Volcano guns.

I love how the pre sequel has an amazing story but it’s the lack of Xp that ticks me off since farming xp and side quests were the main way to lvl up in the story

Love seeing those HYPERION CASTERS!

Everything was good until uvhm. I had a mate I ran through the game with and one we started uvhm he started rage quitting and leaving me to fight everything on my own... It was years later after I made some new friends that I got into uvhm and builds and started doing the raid. I still hear that music in my head when I think of digistruct peak Also something that doesn't get mentioned is the online community, the borderlands community is the best and most helpful.

I’m surprised he didn’t mention about the awful level grind to 72/80.

The problem with Slag was that you had to hit the target with Slag then swap to the electric/fire/corrosion weapon to actually kill the target and often you had to rinse and repeat this over and over to kill one enemy. If it had stood on its own then it would have been fine but it didn't.

I’ll be honest this is the game I played first and is the reason I went back to play the first game when my friend showed me this game back in 2012 I had no idea it was gonna be one of my favorite games of all time

Gaige is my fav fav fav playable char and Tiny Tina is...epic i wished they would have done an entire game of bunkers and baddasses with tina being the dm i would buy a fantasy version

Only for borderlands 3 to take us backwards and disappoint!!!

Two things I love about BL2 that weren't mentioned - 1) the enemy variety was much better than BL1 and 2) in addition to Jack, BL2 had good supporting NPC's that were a complete hoot (Tiny Tina, Hammerlock, Ellie)

I never got the slag hate either. Just play on OP1 or 2 if you can’t keep up

I'm not sure I understand the argument for slag. "Because you have different elements that work in different situations against specific types of enemies, it makes this element that you NEED to use on EVERY enemy okay." The point is that you're supposed to use different elements based on the situation, and slag is just mandatory (In most cases anyway), which is kind of lame. (Still a huge fan of BL2, one of my favorite games ever made.)

To quote a tumblr user regarding jack: “the va really put his whole [censored for youtube] into it” and I really think that sums up daemon’s performance

this is my favorite game of all time. i always end up going back to it with the many fun vault hunters, cool weapons, and amazing atmosphere. the characters were as animated as they could be and all had their unique quirks which makes it so fun to traverse through this version of pandora and also just the different kind of places you have like the highlands, the dust, three horns. it all makes it fun and addicting to grind for loot and max out your vault hunters (also i love slag personally, it added depth to the combat and strategy and i personally loved it and same with OP levels bc it added challenge but that is just preference + it is optional)

I love borderlands 2, one of my top 10 games of all time, everything about it was really really good. Borderlands 3 took that. And dropped it. Borderlands 3 is fun for a play through or two, but there’s almost 0 replayability and the guns in the game, central point of the entire series all felt really unrewarding and entirely un fun

All I need to say on the slag bit compared to the other element for the characters that couldn't hold 2 guns at once you had to swap to a slag gun just to swap back to your damage gun thats why people were so annoyed with it

Agreed. Even though slag is op in early game, it changes our play style in endgame, which is pretty good.

"ign gave it a 9, that speaks volumes" no it doesnt lmao

Bl2 is awesome! But personally Bl3 is just so much better in terms of visuals and gameplay and loot. But damn the story and comedy was great in BL2!

My favourite BL2 quote: "Time for die!"

My only issue with BL2 is that it gated progression behind insanely difficult New Game Plus modes, one of which was paid DLC. Therefore, someone who doesn't play UVHM (like me) will never see top rarity items like pearls, seraph etc. It would also be nice to have real time level scaling for all DLCs as well as some sort of scaling for the main game (for instance enemies would scale to player level minus one or two, like AC Odyssey). Post-final boss scaling for normal mode (like TVHM has) would also be great. But yeah, this proves how much I like this game because I simply would like to have more freedom to enjoy all that content, without being restrained to certain level brackets

I agree. I love this freaking game. And now it's standard for all looter shooters for me.

The problem with slag was that it was so necessary it doesn't matter if we only have to use element compared to three, it was the fact that it was so needed at all. Literally if Borderlands took out Slag, then it would be the greatest game ever made. Having something so annoying and yet making it litteraly the only option just ruins the endgame for me.

as some1 who grew up farming god wars dungeon in runescape, the boss farming has always been my fav thing in borderlands 2

The wife and I are huge Borderlands fans. I'm ashamed to admit that we just recently went back to (since launch) and finished 3, along with all the DLC. While waiting for the Krieg DLC to drop we started the series over on Xbox One with Borderlands GotY. We're almost done the main campaign with that.

One MAJOR drawback for all 3 games is the leveling. If you do the DLC on the first playthrough (or even TVHM), you're then over-leveled for the rest of the game and story, which makes the games INCREDIBLY boring for me. Not only that, if you DO do it on the first playthrough, there's no point in anything you get, because you're gonna need to do it again at max level anyway.

I love it cause its different from most fps they changed it up from traditional call of duty style fps and I got so bored with all games feeling like call of duty and my favorite antagonists ever

The best game of the series. And those DLC were amazing. It’s not far fetched to say that Tiny Tinas Assault on Dragons Keep was the best piece of content to come from the series to this day.

I've said it before but, elements in games REALLY need an overhaul. Make each truly unique. Make electricity bounce to nearby enemies and deal more damage the closer or many enemies are. Fire spreads, and enemies catch fire as well along with burns that makes them drop their weapons and unable to handle them, also deals more the closer they are to each other as it only raises the heat. Water spreads over an area where it hits and weakens enemies armor but heals allies more, plus the classic static plus water combo of course "John Romero's lightning in Quake" I don't like straight out weaknesses to elements but rather that the element's properties are what gives it an advantage against certain enemies. Otherwise it's simply the same point and shoot game but tedious back and forth rock paper scissors. If you want to see this at it's worst play Spiral Knights. Grind grind and grind for ONE weapon to become better, with one element. Then see how it shreds one enemy type, while the rest feel like hitting a train with a feather. Slag should be in a different element system. For example a weapon with air element might make enemies lighter, which makes any pull ability much more effective since they pretty much don't have any friction. Allowing for a fun combo. Slag if implemented right in such a game, could be useful or essential. My best guess for a pure damage boost element would be one scaling with weakness. Giving more damage the bigger the gap is from the enemy's health and your gun. Or make your effects last longer and boost them. Like an element made for supports and utility based characters to allow them to be deadly, while at the same time being a minor boost to already huge DPS cannons. Would love to see this implemented in an MMO.

I would have been perfectly content with a fourth playthrough and maybe another ten levels.

I love tiny tina she funny

My biggest beef with BL2 (apart from the repetitive story, that unfortunately made plot-holes glaringly obvious) was the need for identical gear on every character to be playable in UVM/OP10. The Unkempt Harrold and Grog Nozzle pistols, Norfleet rocket launcher, Bee and Sham shields, and a handful of grenade mods were ALL you needed to be successful. There were a few niche combos for specific characters, like the Love Thumper or Flame of the Firehawk shields for Krieg, or the Pimpernel/Flakker & Nukem duelwield glitch for Salvador, but as an individual who sunk *WELL* over 1,000 combined hours with seven+ characters, it always annoyed me that not every gun type was treated equal (especially assault riffles: less ammo, slower fire rate, EVEN *less* damage that most SMG's! They fell from grace hard when compared to their potency from BL1). All this to say, the biggest shame in BL2 was the lack of making more loot feel special (or at least desirable for specific classes). I thoroughly enjoyed most of my BL2 experiences, which is why I even bring up these negatives. Truly a remarkable game, *especially* in the lower levels of gameplay. Nearly everything was viable, from loot combo's to class features. I only ever wanted the higher levels so I could unlock more class features in their respective skill trees. That should have been considered once hitting lvl 50, then use Eridium to buy skill points once you maxed out everything from Crazy Earl. But I digress, I'm rambling now. Apologies! For anyone who hasn't played it, it's worth at least one playthrough per character. And would 100% recommend doing it with a group of friends. For anyone who made it to the end of this, you have more stamina than listening to Grandma Flexington. You deserve a reward! 🍪 Just what Tina would have wanted.

Talk about passion... you can tell you have a passion for the game lol you can hear it in your voice. Just started, idky... im always late to the party, but lookin forward to having some of that fun you mentioned.

Thank goodness someone else is willing to stick up for slag. I loved the combo heavy playstyle slag encouraged and was honestly both sad and confused as to why it didn't return in BL3.

ahhhhhh borderlands 2 where the guns and locations had a certain charm and personality to them, unlike borderlands 3

I like slag's existence, what I don't like is the reliance on it. If enemies on uvhm were balanced to require element matching OR slag I'd be happy. Instead it requires both Also playthrough 2+ should allow you to tackle missions in different orders

I played it with my ex gf on Xbox full clear - all achievements, she played a mechro and I Axton. She always equipped all slots with slag weapons and I take 4 different elements, and together, in this como we totally rocked da game.

Borderlands 1 is the only one in the series I've ever finished. The rest just don't hold my attention. But Borderlands has me coming back frequently to play through on new characters, through new game and new game plus, getting all the way to level 69 (hehe, that's the s3x number :3)

Borderlands 2 is friggin awesome. Everything about it kicked ass! I played it at launch, and I love playing it on my Nintendo Switch. It’s perfect. 😄

I’m extremely happy with the way they took eridium not making it a way where you could buy it with rl money this kinda shows how lucky we are to have 2k and Gearbox as developers compared to money hungry companies like Activision and EA however Activision may be turning over a new leaf not too sure

TPS Endgame scaling was a little better. But not much. Also gave us the best DLC in the series before DLC3 in BL3 (Claptastic Voyage > Dragon Keep.)

The Borderlands ain’t no place for no hero, ain’t no place for no better man.

I still play this game Today.

I've played Borderlands 2 as every character at every level multiple times. I can't even tell you the exact number of times I've beaten the game. And I NEVER get bored with it!!! I will agree that the combat doesn't feel balanced in the very beginning (until your badass rank is astronomical... then it's a cinch), at the OP levels, and (for me) as Zer0 and Gaige on UVHM. But the balancing complaints about Borderlands 2 are **nothing** compared to the balancing complaints I have about Borderlands 3. All of that aside, it's easily my favorite shooter and my absolute favorite thing to do is to spend hours upon hours farming Vermivorous! I also love to play as Axton and pretend that he's talking to/about me when he's talking to/about his turret! 😍 Is my girl showing? I think my girl is showing... 😆

cant believe last of us 2 was put higher on the list than bl2

what i love about borderlands 2.... Salvador flicks off enemies and cheats death

Biggest problems: Balancing was atrocious and the end game scaling didnt help Slag was not good from the start, the idea was uninspired and flawed, end game just made things worse, forcing slag use in a game about variety? Baffles me. Also... Slag being "better" which it wasnt you still needed the other elements was just stupid design wise End game was messy, terrible scaling and limited builds a lot Salvador, although interesting AS idea, the vh design was boring and uninspired, his lore was basic and gameplay was stale but also broken, since there was no risk and too much reward, he also made the community really spoiled hahah which hurts the franchise till this day. (I know he was the stepping stone for new players but that does not excuse how broken he ended up being. Raid bosses... Yeah we love SOME, but most were either bad or messy: Vermivorous was an amazing idea but the implementation was a bumpy ride. Dexiduous... Do I even? Master gee... Terrible. Pyro pete was the definition of meh. Handerax was a test for them to make bosses more interesting, they succeded in bl3 but still... His fight was clunky and limited players because of how the battle happened. Voracidous was cool BUT so overtuned... made a lot of builds literally impossible to use and op levels just made things worse. Farming, although it was rewarding the lack of balance didn't help, how time consuming it was ... bl3 did a 180 on that and plp hate it but we need to understand that times changed and content also did.

before watching this video i never realised some people hated slag, I absolutely love it so I just assumed everyone else did based on how many videos on the grog nossle people made when dragon keep came out

Amazing job with this!! Rare to see someone willing to talk critiques alongside the banger content.

Imagine in order to get to the End-game having to do the story 3 times + the side quests for XP to lvlup, well in other words having to kill Doc Mercy 3 times and killing 75 bandits with his fuckin shitty bandit assault rifle (but watch out, in his hands this gun will one shot you, when you grab it, it is a nerf gun)