Borderlands 4

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.

Have played for over 150 hours, tried various characters, had a decent time as Vex, the others were a constant slog. Made it through quite a few boss fights, opened a couple of vaults..... At some point all the characters become overwhelmed by adversaries, stuttering gameplay, broken navigation. You can change to the "easy" mode, or go broke. Normal gameplay seems to be out of my realm.... Xbox controller "Partially Supported", and they mean it. Better with keyboard and mouse for most stuff. Navigation is basically impossible, mostly blind and searching trying to figure out what to do, even for simple tasks. No real story line, brings back a lot of memories from Borderlands 3, a game with a plot, and even some really deep moments. Typhon De Leon, I missed you on this one. Plays alot like doom eternal, not much joy as a follow on to a decent game. 5/10, save your money. amd 3950 16 core, 64gb ram, Nvidia 3080ti, 2560x1440, ran mostly at ~70fps, taichi board, TB msata samsung 960 pro, miserable performance for an old, but solid system, top 10% of gaming computers on 3d mark..... 160hz benq monitor. Good luck.

Horribly optimized game, crashes constantly and more recently cannot not get the game to save at all. Waste of money, do not buy!

Greed.

Overpirced and overmonetized. It's embarassing. No upgrade from editions to at least get the DLC at a reasonable price. The DLC content is all Mostly Negative for a reason. They want to rip as much money out of you as possible in the middle of an affordability crisis. Pure class.

I really tried. I love a lot of what Borderlands does, but God help me, I absolutely hate this POS game. I am absolutely sick to death of BL writing. I hate the terrible jokes, and the way the game insists upon itself constantly: Accept a quest and be prepared to stand on that spot for another 3 minutes, listening to ♥♥♥♥♥ dialogue. But don't walk away! they will make you manually interact with an object right next to them in a few minutes when they finally finish talking about their vegetable patch or Chad's obsession with toenail clippings or whatever. Then they'll send you halfway across the map to interact with something else, but not before another couple minutes of dialogue! It would be far too simple to make it skippable, or provide a HUD pointer to the mission while they continue speaking. Nope. Stand there, and soak in the legendarily tedious "world building" and wait your bloody turn before you resume play. It is a constant throughout the entire game. I want to shoot stuff, not stand on the spot watching an NPC animate like something from an early 2000s game, spouting "humour" that somehow makes Marvel look like a comedy masterclass. The shooting is fun (very much BL3 but with some extra movement), but it feels so utterly sterile in this open world environment. After a couple of hours you'll know which areas of the map will be the Doom-like arenas where things spawn in before you even enter. It is about as rote as can be. The character classes are again "fine," but the build variety just feels so stilted. There's just no room for creativity here at all. The open world itself is pure Ubi-Slop. Too big for it's own good, the map crammed full of icons and redundant collectibles like an infected petri dish. All the worst elements, with a vehicle too slow to traverse around it efficiently. Gearbox's Randy Pitchford is an insufferable tool whose presence around the marketing for his games actively reduces my enjoyment even further. the game is exorbitantly priced, performs poorly, and is jammed full of boring, predictable content. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone but the most ardent BL fans who are willing to tolerate a lot of unnecessary BS.

Like the gameplay but too much money grubbing for me.