Summary
- Borderlands excels at endgame activity with new missions, raids, and replayable content to challenge Vault Hunters.
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel lacked endgame content, leaving players with repetitive missions post-credits.
- Borderlands 3 offers abundant slaughter maps and takedowns with stellar gunplay, despite a lack of raid bosses.
Endgame is extremely important to the Borderlands series. As an RPG, players don’t want to roll credits and start all over again with their incredibly overpowered builds and assortment of hard-earned loot. Luckily for them, Borderlands excels at endgame activity, providing new missions, raids, and replayable content to further challenge the Vault Hunters who seek it.
Every Borderlands game has had a notable endgame, but which of them provides players with the most bang for their buck? Endgame content is important in these RPGs, and those new and old to the Borderlands franchise can enjoy the offerings of these games once the final boss has been bested.
5 Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Repeating Content From Side Missions, And Not Much Else
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is the black sheep of the Borderlands series. A poorly received spin-off, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel lacked the content that other Borderlands titles received, and it’s a real shame, as the base game and the one DLC pack that was released, were some of the series’ best, but that didn’t save the title from growing a decent endgame.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel basically had no endgame content, and most of the content to enjoy post-credits were things players have already experienced or replayed. It’s a shame to see Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel seem somewhat uninteresting after the campaign.
4 Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
Chaos Chambers Dominate A Repeating Endgame
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
- Released
- March 25, 2022
- Developer(s)
- Gearbox Software
- Platform(s)
- PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, PC
- Genre(s)
- Action RPG, FPS
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands may provide the Borderlands series with some much-needed fantasy, but it also overindulges in a loot pool, creating a bloated source of weaponry that most players will never be able to acquire. Whilst the stories told in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands are some of the franchise’s best, the endgame is where the content lacks, as it's extremely grindy with repetitive farming content thanks to the controversial chaos chambers.
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Chaos chambers are really all there is to do for Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, and the endgame here is mostly lacking. Whilst it’s the most recent entry in the series, it’s definitely intended to be a shorter spin-off that most fans will put down once it ends.
3 Borderlands
An Endgame Reliant On DLCs With Great Potential For Challenge
Borderlands
- Released
- October 20, 2009
- Developer(s)
- Gearbox Software
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC
- Genre(s)
- Action RPG, FPS
As the first game in the series, Borderlands impressed in more than a few ways, but its endgame seemed fairly limited upon release. Not only was the final boss a bit of a disappointment, but the content involved once the credits rolled was lacking, until the DLCs came around, and the Armory of General Knoxx really helped to elevate Borderlands’ endgame and proved a whole new world outside the main story.
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Borderlands didn’t have the most evolved endgame of the series, but it did introduce mechanics that would help other entries run forward. The inclusion of its first raid boss and the plethora of loot that could be farmed made Borderlands a worthy title even after raiding the Vault.
2 Borderlands 3
An Abundance Of Slaughter Maps And Takedowns Aided By Stellar Gunplay
Borderlands 3
- Released
- September 13, 2019
- Developer(s)
- Gearbox Software
- Platform(s)
- Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
Borderlands’ best and most addicting gameplay belongs to Borderlands 3, and the modern revisions to the series’ gunplay really help to make the endgame content even better than previous entries. With great DLC stories and content, Borderlands 3 excels at providing fun content after the main story has been completed, but there are some issues.
The lack of raid bosses compared to Borderlands 2 is a shame, but the abundance of loot earned, and the replayable grindy content of slaughter maps, proving grounds, and takedowns, helps to make Borderlands 3 a fun experience throughout and after the rolling credits. It’s mainly just a shame that Borderlands 3 doesn’t have the most versatile builds with a lack of DLC Vault Hunters.
1 Borderlands 2
Incredible DLCs And Raids To Make Players And Enemies OP
Upon the defeat of the Warrior and Handsome Jack, players of Borderlands 2 still have an entire game’s worth of endgame to get through. Borderlands 2 features an abundance of raid bosses that can be repeatedly fought when paying Eridium. With DLC content like new stories and Headhunters, Borderlands 2 had seemingly endless bosses and extra playthroughs.
Borderlands 2 was all about becoming overpowered, and the OP10 content allowed for incredibly strong builds to compete against absurdly powerful enemies. There was an immense challenge and addicting loop of gameplay and crafting in Borderlands 2, which helped the title to remain as iconic as it is.
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