Borderlands 4

After playing for 178 hours I think I can write some thoughts about the game. Generally it's very fun to play and gameplay-wise I like it. Movement is great, guns are good and it's nice to see some QoL features added like Big Encore Machines and saving collectibles from other save files. But there are a few moments that I think were poorly implemented I have a laptop below minimum requirements and it runs the game on the very minimum FHD settings, which is surprisingly nice. I've played it on a high end PC and it doesn't look that good even on badass settings at 4K resolution. I would say it's like a Borderlands 3 with better lighting. All the UE5 nanites and stuff isn't required for this game. People like the Borderlands games for gameplay and/or story. And yeah... story. We all remember that abomination of BL3 main story line and I would say they did better in this one, but still it's not good. Most of the story is lackluster. It's like: to kill the big guy you need to kill 3 other, then rekill one of them and here you are at the top of the tower. The ending is a bit weird because you just get some useless thing and then one character says "I think we got what we came for". The End. At least they didn't make the villain that obnoxious, but he appears for a few dialogues and then he's like: "Oh, you're here... let's fight". He can control people with bolts, but it seems like he's not in the mood for it) Also the world. I don't like the idea of the open world. It feels empty and useless. All locations look almost the same. The fauna consists of literally 4 animals: kratches (like rakks), manglers (like skaggs, but they are cats), creeps (like ratches or varkids) and wildhorns, which are the only one not copy-pasted from previous games. Mobs also include rippers (like bandits) and the order (like hyperion in bl2 with a few new enemies). You will see order and ripper mobs throughout the whole game, including all bounty packs. Most of the bosses are actually chunkier versions of normal mobs and are very boring. Vehicles are generic, but not bad. They just look different, but feel absolutely the same. I think implementing vehicles from BL3 with summoning them from any place would be a better idea. The last thing I want to complain about is legendaries and pearls. I love that we finally get pearls after all these years, but the first pearl I got was a world drop at level 11... And it's not my luck it's just how it is in this game. I've got like 50 world drop pearls in one playthrough. Legendaries are also common here. Not like in BL3, but still common. I would like to decrease the world drop chance of legendaries and pearls to make it feel more special. Also dedicated drop chances are broken. As far as I know the chance of dropping a dedicated legendary is 23% on UVH 7 and the chance for a dedicated pearl is 0.95%. Maybe I'm bad at math, but getting a pearl every 5-8 kills is not 0.95% (it's from Origo). Also some dedicated legendaries drop more often than others. I farmed Origo a lot and I noticed that Watts 4 Dinner drops are less common than Bottled Lightning or Kaoson. Class mod drops are also weird, because the chance of dropping a class mod not for your character on UVH 7 is 1,435% * 4 = 5,74% and for your character is 17,25%, but you get almost the same amount of both!!! One time I got three legendaries from a boss and all of them were world drops! That's it! The problems that I described are not huge problems. I still think this is a great game and I want people to remember it as such. It is possible for Borderlands 4 to be even a greater game in the future, but looking at the current set of DLC's it is hard to see that future

I bought the game. I then realised the other half of the game is locked behind DLC. Borderlands 4 is the epitome of publisher greed.

good old borderlands, still have alot of bugs but manageable

If you're not on reddit 24/7 you will enjoy the game, classic borderlands 2 humor with b3 gameplay and wonderlands builds. The open world can be hit or miss tho. People just have a hate boner for anything that isn't borderlands 2 (the only thing that stands the test of time is handsome jack, everything else falls short compared to the new games)

I feel like they have learnt the worse lessons from bl3, over corrected the annoying bad guys from bl3 to the point they have become completely forgettable in bl4, the guns have lost any kind uniqueness that made them stand out from each other. The cosmetic are so so bad and boring that collecting them is pointless, because at no point during my time play have I wanted to equip them after unlocking them. And the main point, the playable VHs are all such nothingburger characters, it seems like that they are all rejected characters from the previous games and they just dropped them in bl4 and made no effort whatsoever to give them any appel. Oh and tried to play this again 6-7 months after launch and its the same resource heavy game that it was on launch. So sad to see that this was once one of my favourite franchises in gaming.

Every year waters down Borderlands more and more until it's an unrecognizable husk. This game was substantially worse than Borderlands 3 and that speaks volumes.

If you played any of the previous versions you won't be surprised. If you're new to the franchise go start with one.