Borderlands 4

50% off and it still isn't worth the price, the team has still HARDLY optimised this, they improved S H I T performance and made it A S S, it's a 15% increase, super negligible for how bad it was and they made a full update log on it like it was a major boost, and better yet, the previews they gave were in the least demanding areas on the map to make it look better than it was, it's hardly noticeable in real-time gameplay, its UE5 slop, if you wanna play borderlands, play the previous titles, this isn't worth it.

This is a hard decision in terms of where to put the review, But the game has been out for a while now and they continue to push new content instead of fixing their broken code. Completely inflates shader cache, and when it's enough to bog down 11GB of VRAM it's unacceptable. The game is pretty okay, nothing will ever touch Borderlands 2 obviously but I do feel this game was better than three..... However we are now in July and the game is still suffering from crashes, (yup blame my pc, don't care, and also you're wrong) and broken NPCS. Can't even tell you how many times I've had to restart a mission because something in the game breaks and an NPC stops moving, won't talk to me, a door won't open, etc.

Still has terrible performance. Don't care for the "open world" aspect, feels awkward and tedious.

Games alright ♥♥♥♥ stinks tho like my buddy Justin but I still love my buddy Justin

its just sooo lacking had so much potential, falling short is an understatement. the open world was a mistake, there is no real sense of progression, you're just marking off a checklist of thigs to do

Shell of what these games used to be. Runs abhorrently.

[h1]Borderlands 3, also known as "[i]Compiling Shaders: The Game[/i]"[/h1] While it's less obnoxious and grating than three, and has fewer of the Mike Meyers-level attempts at non-American accents, it's still pretty dreary fare. Performance is mediocre, leaning heavily on upscaling and framegen, even on powerful machines. The actual game itself seems uninspired, throwing endless increasingly spongey trash mobs at you in huge numbers rather than doing anything distinct. Fiddly jumping puzzle? Here's a load of rubbish flying trash constantly battering into you. One of the endless lazy fetch quests? You're going to have to kill a lot of the same boring crap you've seen a thousand times before to get to Claptrap's left buttcheek or whatever you're after now. None of them will be fun or interesting to fight, it will just scale how much effort they take to kill. It feels like variety is not this game's strong suit. Oh yes, Claptrap. Extremely grating, both the writing and the voicework feel like not the original people. It's so annoying that there's a dedicated volume slider to shut him up. Enough said. It very much feels like the B-team were responsible for this. Even the famous generated Lego weapons are now an indistinct mass, due to the weird manufacturer mixing taking away their distinct identifies, much like the way that mixing plasticine too much always comes out poo brown. The effect of the famous cell-shaded graphics has been ruined by making many of the environments and their contents far too visually cluttered, so it just looks generic. It's like the current teams working on this don't really understand the game - which is probably the case, given the treadmill hire and fire in games now. The upsides? As mentioned before, it's less obnoxious than BL3. Gone is the "hello fellow kids" edgelord dudebro cringe "humour" - this is [i]extremely[/i] welcome. Now it's just a bit dull rather than life-threateningly awful. The game [b]REALLY[/b] needs dialogue skipping though, as literally none of it is consequential or worth listening to. CDPR these people are not. It's quite buggy, especially during the (overpriced and skimpy) DLCs. Lots of mobs t-pose when killed, making it hard to see what's going on. Anything which triggers after you clear an area becomes a time-consuming slog because mobs fail to path around or clip into the scenery, so it takes ages and lots of fiddling to find and kill them. I'm not sure that I recommend this game, having put far too many hours into it, trying to find the fun. If you do buy it, absolutely do not pay full price, wait for deep discounts. I bought it out of morbid curiousity, but it could well be the last BL game that I bother with. TL;DR - it's less obnoxious than BL3 but it's still not good. Borderlands may effectively be over now. Edit: Also, I got a "developer response" responding to the broad themes in the above within seconds of posting it, on a Sunday too - looks like Gearbox are using slop to be their Steam replyguy. Classy.