Borderlands 4

3 was better

1: good 2: good 3: bad 4: bad

imagine having to unlock ultimate vault hunter mode by having to play 21 pointless post game missions with difficulty modifiers. Borderlands 2 is still king, this game was cheeks.

El mejor borderlands en gunplay/clases jugables/apartado técnico y el peor en lore/historia/personajes npcs.

I nervously purchased this at a steep discount off of GMG after reading lots of negative reviews. To my surprise, it didn't turn out nearly as bad as I expected. Is it poorly optimized? Yes, but I've had much worse experiences with other titles and no one had any complaints about those. I'm not going to touch on developer-community interactions, but purely on playability and game content. As far as I'm concerned it's about what I've come to expect from the franchise. It's got low brow humor and the jokes are explained out for you, despite needing absolutely zero explanation. It is so bad that I honestly believe it was written by someone with autism, or FOR someone with autism, or both. I mean no ill will towards those with autism--they have their place in society, but someone keep them away from the script. Is this what gen-z thinks is humor? Does every bite of every meal have to be pre-chewed for them? I mean sure, it's perfect for the quick fix dopamine cycle kids. God help us if they have to think about something for it to be funny. ♥♥♥♥ you if you think you're going to light up any additional neural pathways with a hot zinger of a joke that does anything more than bounce off of their forehead. Remember, there is liability in forcing guffaws upon them as they have not mastered the art of breathing and swallowing spit in rapid succession. "I NEED TO KISS, BUT I CAN'T CAUSE I'M A ROBOT" --paraphrased from yaptrap; cue sitcomlaugh.wav. What even is this ♥♥♥♥? This dialogue should not even exist. It reminds me of the current SNL in its ongoing desperation to remain relevant. Set scene: a cripple attempts to climb the proverbial or literal corporate ladder, but can't, because his legs don't work. He then points out to the crowd that his legs don't work. "Ha-ha, I can't climb it, because my legs don't work." Aromatically speaking, it smells of a fart from a city block away. "IT'S A REFERENCE!" scream the reddit moderator sitting behind me. Thank you, /r/iamverysmart. Is there some meta-humor in this joke that was explained when no explanation was necessary in the first place? I honestly cannot tell. Or is the joke that corporate America thinks this is what we consider amusing? Is it that these jokes are so bad they can lead me down a rabbit hole of existential crisis? I can't say for sure. What I can say is that the humor here is the equivalent of soylent green and you're one step closer to being plugged into the matrix and having your prostate milked for protein for consuming it and enjoying it. Imagine if you distilled Norm Macdonald through a series of infinitely-finer coffee filters until he was molecularly and mechanically separated into a homeopathic friendly vapor that happened to infiltrate your sinuses and you've got the general idea of the potency involved in these jokes. It ain't even Lacroix. Performance wise: I urge you to recall that the previous titles were wildly cartoony and embrace that because you're going to be running it on minimum and despite the potential for greater things you will in fact be playing a game that looks like it is from 2008. The developer has tried to make it something it is not--which is both hyperreal and cartoony simultaneously. There is mutual culpability here between developer and consumer because the demand from the community dictates we need need to be able to inspect the peach fuzz on a rodent's ballsack from 20 feet away and the shareholders are just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid or greedy enough to insist it becomes a defining feature of the game. We then scream in agony when our hardware is incapable of rendering it. Just forget about it looking like or performing like a fine-tuned AAA title unless you're cloud computing this ♥♥♥♥ from a data center. I run this ♥♥♥♥♥ in 4k with low settings and FSR turned on to ultra performance and I'm hitting 90-100 fps consistently with yesteryear's hardware and it looks plenty good. My wife is running it on a i7-7700(NON-K VARIANT) and manages reasonable FPS around 60-70. Does it look great? No, it does not, but it runs and looks decent and we can go on with our lives. If we demanded more quality content in games and gave less of a ♥♥♥♥ about what it looks like we may in the future see inspiration in games when the developers get a break from corporate overlords cracking whips at their backs to please all mouths at once. In short: It's not as bad as anyone has made it out to be and too many fedora tipping ass goblins are afoot to get an unbiased perspective on this game. Additionally: I hate all of you, no one is safe, lock your doors at night.

The performance was dire when I played and also. Just look at the first 3s of the first preview. Everything looks WAY too refined for a BL game. Where's the messy handstrokes, the linework that's just a little off. Where's the texture. Honestly it feels, and looks like an ubisoft game. Which isn't really a compliment. For a BL game I want that rugged style, the guns with mouths the guns that can nuke you if you mess up. That's the game I played for hundreds of hours. This is like getting a piece from picasso and making it modern. An absolute disappointment of what could've been my new favourite game or even game of the year. A real SHAME.

Where to start... I mean i legit do not know what to say about the game. 3 was a HUGE miss in the borderlands franchise and this follows suit. Its a continuation to a game that was bad and did not feel like a borderlands game. I want to like it but it just feel, for lack of better words 'meh' Its not as fun. The dialogue is 100% FORGETTABLE. Nothing captures the interest or magic of what was Borderlands. Characters, forgettable as well. I finished the first part of the game and i could not tell you at ALL what the story is, or whats happening or why im doing what im doing. The into from Marcus even felt short and non descriptive at all. The most fun thing about the game, i kid you not is the gliding and climbing. That shoud tell you everything about the game. As far as performance, its absolute dog doo doo. The developers took the lazy way out to rely on DLSS and frame gen to run "smooth." Even with my 5080, it runs HORRIBLE. Only bought the game because it was discounted otherwise i would have not of bought it. The Vault Hunters skill trees seem so cluttered and almost feel completely useless. Even when you allocate points to the appropriate trees, a psycho will 1 shot you....... this is on easy BTW. It feels like a game of catch up instead of a fun shoot em up loot game. As a fan and owner of all Borderlands titles, i do NOT recommend this game at all. IF you want to dip your feet in the world of Borderlands...... I cant even recommend it for that. Really disappointed in the direction Borderlands has taken. It doesnt matter. Fans have voiced their opinions LOUDLY regarding the game. Randy, however thinks he knows whats best and its clear the games, since the Pre Sequel, have been designed to his like and not what the consumers have wanted. BL3 was a flop. Tiny Tina was a flop. This is a FLOP. Take the hint Randy.

why tf my game is crushing