Borderlands 4

i dont often write steam reviews bur this game is so miserable. i like to think i am quite forgiving for these things but this is not fun.

“At least it’s not cold, I hate ice. I hate… ice. So much. I wish there were no ice. It doesn’t make anybody safer. It’s just a hazard.” Ill take my games and products without the political commentary and activist developers. Gunplay serviceable but meh, story meh almost as bad as 3 and the cast of characters uninspiring none feel like your invested in them they all are detached and moot.

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.

roblox is more engaging

Runs like ♥♥♥♥

Woke.