Borderlands 4

I have tried to play every inch of this game to find some amount of good. In the end I failed because the developers failed at this game. Gearbox deserves to lay off their president

3 was better

While playing this game I was constantly reminded of something, but just couldn't put my finger on it until a few minutes ago. It reminds me of Redfall - the huge disappointment from Arkane Austin. That one too is a looter shooter with an open world map and I think while a lot more polished, BL4 has some of the exact same issues as that game. A large boring map with repetitive combat situations, not just the enemies, the situations themselves are exactly the same, just because the environment is not carefully designed with every single battle in mind like it was in the previous games. I remembered almost every detail in every map in BL2 even after playing through it just once back in the day. This one? I doubt you'd remember much of the map even if you spent 5000 hours in it. Endless samey looking fields, with the same looking huts and factories randomly splattered around the map. It all looks the same, every encounter is an exact repetition of the previous one... And then there's the constant travelling from one side of the huge map to the other, I can't bring myself to spend any more time in this game, it feels like I'm doing a job instead of playing a game. The story and dialogues are just mediocre. Even when I make the effort to try and listen and understand what's going on, the stuff they are saying is so bland that my brain automatically filters it like it's meaningless noise. Bought the main game at 65% off, but I wouldn't recommend this unless you can get it at 80%+ off with all DLCs included.

Runs like ♥♥♥♥

The hardware requirements necessary to run this at an acceptable FPS is beyond imagination. An absolute mess of high end requirements to support a game that looks and feels like it should run on a low-end graphics card.

I just cant recommend it. I didn't want to write this review until I understood more of the story but I just... cant get this game. no design choice made makes sense. Open world, cool, level design is now nonexistent, soft locks are out there and you will likely find one. Grenades recharge, interesting... but now we cant upgrade an SDU for more. While on the topic of SDUs, where's rocket launchers? Oh, now they're special weapons that replace your grenades, and to top it off you're screwed out of them for over a minute so, hope you didn't need more than that magazine. Did I mention LMGs make it in there too? so no more funny big guns at all unless they're "ordinance" Its a chore to play, and after 3 proving story writing wasn't there expertise I don't have much faith for it here. at least, its certainly not what I bought it for. but, in this economy ill play it through, too expensive not to. if you're looking at this as your first Borderlands, Play 2, the moding scene is great too.

The performance of this game is absolutely terrible. 4090 mobile, 4k and the all settings on the lowest, it only gets up to 20 fps brute force rendering

Received this game as a gift and I'm only going to play it because of that. Otherwise there's no good reason for me to play borderlands. The art style gives me a headache. The people who created the game don't care about the consumer. To be completely frank, this games requirements to me personally feel like they're asking too much for a game that looks barely any better than the first game. Visually speaking, I have more fun loading up Avatar frontiers of Pandora just to look at the main menu.