I've tried Borderlands a couple of times but could never get into it. I can appreciate Sunset Overdrive's humor in that it mocks itself, and video games in general. One good example is during the mission that requires you to scale a tall building. Near the top I fell but instead of starting over at the bottom you start just slightly behind where you were when falling, The character makes some comment about being glad not having to start from the bottom - which echoed my feelings exactly.

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Of course, YMMV, so if the "humor" that wishes that it had an ounce of Borderlands' charm doesn't bother you, I'm sure it might be mindless fun.

I didn't find the humor in Sunset Overdriver particularly good, but I definitely didn't find it as appalling as you did. It was pretty "meh" but it didn't drive me away, and even made me kinda half-smile once or twice. It's definitely no Borderlands, you're right, but I've also seen plenty of people criticize Borderlands for its childish, meme-ridden humor, too. It's all down to taste, in that respect.

That said, I thought the gameplay was actually quite good, in a sort of throwback way. It's very arcadey, sort of old-school 3D platforming, Ratchet and Clank-ish mindless fun. I only played for about three hours because Dark Souls and Enter the Gungeon rule my gaming time right now, but I'll probably play it some more when I find the time.

It's a good free Game with Gold--it's not something I'd have been particularly happy paying $60 for.

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For good or bad. Personally, I didn't care for it, though I appreciated the option to turn off the foul langage. You don't see that very often in games anymore. It just *BEEP*s out any language so you can still tell what they were going to say which is actually a bit more funny if you ask me.

Brütal Legend also had this option. With the very self-aware, tongue-in-cheek silliness of both of these games, I was a bit disappointed when enabling the profanity filter didn't result in some monkey fighting snakes level dubbing over all of the swearing.

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For good or bad. Personally, I didn't care for it, though I appreciated the option to turn off the foul langage. You don't see that very often in games anymore. It just *BEEP*s out any language so you can still tell what they were going to say which is actually a bit more funny if you ask me.

One of the things that did annoy me was that they threw swear words around everywhere just for the sake of being "edgy"; they never felt organic. Honestly, it really would have been funnier to hear them bleeped out. Battleborn did this by default, and it actually did get a chuckle out of me in the midst of combat.