In my ridiculous excitement for Borderlands 3, which will probably not come out for 10 months anyway, I did a search on the Borderlands series threads for something to do and came upon the old post
It was fun the last time, and thought a new installment would be worth a try.
For me it is Kassandra (Assassins Creed : Odyssey) vs the Captain(Far Cry: New Dawn).
Very tough call. Supernatural blood fueled blade badass vs uber-competent post-apocalyptic guerrilla. As they are my plays, both try stealth for a bit, then get impatient, or just screw the pooch at it and end up going hard, heavy and savage.
I want to say Kass, I like her so much more, but the guns and richochet saws are gonna take this on, honestly.
Mine is weirdly similar to yours: Alexios from Assassin’ Creed: Odyssey versus Wei Shen from Sleeping Dogs. Surprisingly, my money’s on Wei Shen: while he lacks Alex’s supernatural argumentations, Wei’s kung-fu is stronger, and can take a truly horrific amount of punishment and keep on ticking.
Oooh, this one’s hard. The Baroness of the Stolen Lands (a monk/kineticist, ridiculously min-maxed and bogarting all the best gear as a matter of national policy) vs. Kazuma Kiryu. On the one hand, she can go toe to toe with elder dragons and splatter them in a couple rounds without even getting hit once. On the other hand, Kiryu routinely breaks the bones of anybody even looking in his general direction and can keep on trucking with only mild leisure suit damage after being hit with lead pipes. By guys on speeding motorcycles.
It probably comes down to whether or not The Baroness is allowed any pre-fight buffing time, much of which is handed out by the rest of her dream team of overpowered, min-maxed localized natural disasters.
Salvador the Gunzerker vs Jack Carver from the original Far Cry. Hmm… toe-to-toe, Salvador, but if Jack has a sniper rifle then Jack can engage at a distance and it’s a question of who spots the other first.
Vampires clash! Alyssa the Brujah Clan vampire from *Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, *versus Stalker-of-Secrets the Argonian Volkihar Clan Vampire Lord from Skyrim.
I’ve got to give it to Stalker-of Secrets, she’s a stealth-focused character who as a matter of course uses weapons enchanted with Fiery Soul Trap, and VtM vampires don’t like fire at all. Alyssa on the other hand is a Brujah melee specialist; in a straight up fight I expect she’d smear Stalker, but she won’t see her until it’s too late.
I just started playing Borderlands 2 for the first time, late last night, given a Steam sale. I’m playing the bomb mech girl or something. She’s the most recent.
The second most recent depends on whether you consider iPhone games to count. If you do, I play a lot of Holes, a game about some sort of extradimensional holes that slide along the ground and eat stuff. They’re invulnerable, and they’d swallow bomb mech girl no problem, and win.
But if you don’t count iPhone games, I’ve just finished Subnautica. Bomb mech girl would be shooting at my back as I frantically ran away (or waved my kitchen knife at her). She’d win, no contest.
The Shinobi called Wolf, armed with a legendary sword and a prosthetic left hand capable of transforming into a wide variety of deadly weapons… versus… New York Mets relief pitcher Edwin Diaz. This feels fair.
Mine’s kind of a blowout. On the one hand, I’ve got an accomplished farmer, fisher, and woodsman, who everyone gives gifts to whenever they say his name due to a Bobby Tables bug. To his credit, he does have a Galaxy Sword.
But on the other, I’ve got an invisible assassin who formed a sword directly out of warped spacetime using his mind.
Given that ol’ [74][337][749] has no way of even detecting Zeratul (other than suddenly feeling 100 HP lower), I think this one pretty clearly goes to the Dark Templar.
The courier from New Vegas eats a bunch of jet, rocket, slasher, psycho, med-x…and half a dozen other things…then activates VATS and using the marksman carbine, picks off my entire community of jackass survivors from State of Decay 2 before they even realize aa fight started.
Both have plenty of experience in post-apocalyptic ravaged worlds trying to survive but Artyom’s [Metro Exodus] salvaged body armor, pneumatic BB gun and homemade submachine gun just aren’t going to be a match for the Agent’s [Division 2] World Tier 1 military weaponry, armor-repair drone and guided mines. The best Artyom could hope for is a surprise hit but, if the Agent can soak a True Son’s elite sniper hit without getting one-shotted, Artyom won’t get far before he’s spotted and melted by gadgets while the Agent repairs his armor.
Yer Stardew Valley guy is gonna suffer, but eventually Zeratul will tell him about their familial relationship, and in the end will save Farmer Chronos from Raszagal’s wrath via heroic self-sacrifice.
I feel badly for Arthur Morgan from Red Dead 2, because I genuinely like him, but Mother of Shaun in my current Fallout 4 game has weapons and armor that would make quick work of him. RIP, Arthur.
In my case I’ve got Chet the Ventrue Clan vampire from Bloodlines vs. Adam Jensen from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
Sure, the Bloodlines guy is a badass, but he can’t hold a candle to a cybered-up combat monkey (even if I’m building Adam mostly for sneaky takedowns). Besides, Adam heals faster. Plus, Adam can cloak with a lot of spare batteries. So even in a battle of the sneaky, Adam has the advantages.
On one hand, I have Princeton Tigers basketball head coach Darth Sensitive, who has great recruiting Charisma and mediocre teaching abilities and made the Sweet 16 in his second year of head coaching in College Hoops 2K8.
And on the other hand, I have one of the SWAT team guys from Doorkickers, armed with a submachine gun and flashbangs. Probably won’t be close.
In one corner, I have Morgan Yu, amnesiac super-scientist who has used super-science to acquire peak human skills in a dozen disciplines, including combat and athletic skills. She’s armed with everything from a sturdy wrench to a sci-fi beam that makes giant aliens explode. She can sprint on a marble floor while remaining stealthy…and still isn’t as sneaky as her most common foe, which can literally hide in plain sight in the middle of a brightly lit room. (And this is the version of her that doesn’t have psychic powers.)
In the other corner, I have
…who can nevertheless get his ass handed to him by a chicken. A quite large chicken, I’ll grant, but still a chicken.
Sure, Wolf is sneaky…but Morgan shoots everything, whether it moves or not, on the assumption that it is an enemy in disguise. Wolf has a grappling hook to parkour with; Morgan has a jetpack and a gun that shoots platforms to jump on. Wolf has shurikens; Morgan has recycler grenades, which create their own gravity well and turn everything that falls into them into neat bundles of crafting material. Worst of all for Wolf, Morgan can carry an unlimited number of healing items.
Basically, Wolf’s best hope is that Morgan eventually gets sick from killing him too many times.
