Borderlands 4

Lousy performance, nearly €200 in DLC costs, boring—reminds me of EA and Ubisoft. Gearbox and Borderlands are done.

Out of all the Borderlands series this is the absolute worst. The story sucks and takes forever to finish. The Characters are pathetic and even on Normal Mode there's so many enemies shooting at you that you get knocked down so often you might as well not even try to get back up. At least in the other three the enemies missed when shooting at you enough so you could focus and think what to do but here every shot hits you and you can't figure out which way is up! Shame on you Gearbox. Putting virtue signaling over quality. Just because someone has an alternate way of living doesn't mean they are good at programming or character design. PUKE all the way around.

Unoptimised slop.

"premium game" my a55 claptrap stuck on elevator no dialog until you reset the game on my to retrieve a book, it stuck inside the wall climbing also, I'm very noticed it they "changed" enemy name to not offend certain people like midget to ripper if you pay this full price, my condolences

5 hours of grind for a specific weapon with a half decent roll. 10 hours for a specific firmware per piece, another 20 hours for a good weapon roll because you don't realize that every aspect of the weapon has RNG even the base damage. Another 15 hours just to get a jakobs roll on it. 8 hours for a repkit of your liking. 15 hours to plow through a dlc just to get one weapon from the final boss. 6 hours to get a shield with amp. My friend: spends 2 hours leveling C4SH from 50 to 60, spends maybe 20 minutes getting parts and then one shots a boss with 10 million HP But yeah lets nerf vex every patch. 2k really deserves all the hate they get. Forgot to mention how streamers have 2 fully flushed out builds a week all with exact perfect rolls. Every single streamer clickbaits and shows off how their cheated build kills bosses

This doesn't even feel like a Borderlands game anymore. The character and story are the most boring thing I have ever seen, the humor is completely gone, every character is either annoying or uninteresting, every area looks pretty much the same with so many re-used assets, no more music that fits the area, no iconic soundtrack, DLC's are just another assets dump with a new hat, end-game content is just laughable, empty exploration for chests with useless weapons, weapons are a downgrade from BL3 and worst offence of all, it's just boring to play. R.I.P Borderlands

how is this steamdeck verified when it runs at 20fps? what a joke...

Gave it a shot knowing it was bad and.. well I regret it. I wanted to finish it but I have zero desire to do so whatsoever. I'll get there soon... Borderlands 4 is a frustrating game, especially if you grew up on the first two entries. A main critique of Borderlands 3 was the poor writing. Which has been kind of improved here but not really. Certainly not for the price point. The dialogue has a tendency to sound like that "Quirky" dialogue popularized by newer age Marvel films and Netflix shows. Some of the dialogue has a tendency to sound so unnatural that its harder to listen to. It is not nearly as bad as 3 but we shouldn't be aiming for that. The change to the open world approach is odd to me. It's quite jarring. I guess my main issue with it is that it seems as though it was implemented to show off graphics in Unreal Engine 5 rather than actually tightening up the gameplay. Environments are cool when you first enter them but then get extremely tedious. It all looks the same. They also got rid of the radar and replaced it with a compass which was never asked for. They are very obviously trying to "modernize" Borderlands here and the whole thing just feels tasteless. They have added some movement stuff..because it can't be a new game without some sort of "Movement". There's a double jump, a dash, a ground pound and a BLATANTLY copied climbing mechanic from Apex Legends. I guess the changes are whatever. Shooting things, on the other hand, feels fantastic. Gunplay is tight as ever. However, even that can't really hold the game up. Every section so far for the main story so far is just you fighting waves and waves and waves of like 30 guys for 15 minutes at a time. There is very little weight or merit to the situations at hand. The main antagonist is quite cool, but you sort of "just want to get this done / get out of here" a LOT in this game. The dopamine hit from the first two entries in particular is gone. I'm not sure if it's a me thing or what, but the game feels sterile to me. It really does feel like they are attempting to cram as much crap happening on your screen as possible rather than creating calculated fights based on the plot like the second game. The customization with skill trees is cool as per usual and the Vault Hunters have cool abilities. But the issue here is that the gameplay is so dull that it's tougher to want to get through the whole tree. I'm not one to complain about performance in a review but honestly it falls apart for Borderlands 4 here. The game is playable on my hardware. However, getting 120 frames on a BORDERLANDS game with BORDERLANDS graphics is purely laughable. I don't even know how this can happen. It is mind boggling how poor development and optimization can be for mainstream FPS titles. Skip it until it is on a HEAVY discount. Or just go get Borderlands 2 and all of its DLC for like $10 on the next sale and have a better game. This is so painfully sub par. Flaccid, if you will.

I´m having loads of fun with this game. But man that game is buggy, quest don´t trigger correctly, bosses are missing during the missions, items you are supposed to collect or shot don´t spawn. Until now those bugs could be fixed by restarting the game. But restarting the game every hour gets anoying real quick. Fix your f..ing game!!!