Listen, I LOVE the Borderlands games. I haven't played 4 yet, but I know I'm gonna have at least a fun time, if not a long time. My favourite is Wonderlands, but I adore all of them equally really. So it really hurts me to write this negative review. And here's the reason why it's a negative:
The game's broken.
Now, jank from an older Borderlands game is to be expected. They're old and they might have some jank when it comes to running on a more modern system. But for the Pre-Sequel, there's a lot of problems just at the start of the game. For context, I played up to the same section with both Athena and Claptrap, so it's not a character problem. First red flag I saw was in the very first level, Helios Station. When you bash the loader out of the elevator after fighting the fire dude, it heads down and is SUPPOSED to let Jack get on. The problem is that the loader has a weird hitbox that spawns on it for some reason, and that hitbox pushes you AND JACK backwards. You can get on real easy, just jump. Jack won't jump. He'll dance in front of the loader until the end of time. The fix is easy but annoying. You need to exit to the menu, then reload. Jack will have teleported to the top of the elevator, ready for the moonshot. But YOU will have been respawned ALLLLLLLLLLL the way back to the very first room where you arrive when you start the game. Enemies will not respawn, so it's a boring run alllllll the way back. The next two bits of jank I saw were during the inspirational poster quest. In the first part, you use a jump pad to do a few actions. The one where you need to shoot targets is broken, the jump pad will trigger but not launch you, making you shoot the targets from the ground. Not really a gamebreaking bug, but a little strange. In the second part, where you're delivering posters, killing the dude you give the posters to will cause them to explode out and one of mine got stuck on wonky geometry. It took me 30 minutes of trying to parkour before trying for another 2 minutes to find the exact crack in the geometry it fell in cause it was in the floor. The final bit of bugginess I had was when you get a car for the first time. It's a simple tutorial: drive a little, then there's a ramp you need to boost to successfully jump from. Simple enough. The boost doesn'T work. The cars are incredibly front heavy for some reason, so you quickly nose dive no matter what speed you take the jump from. I tried ditching the car, no luck the terrain has broken collision. So while I wanted to experience this game again, years later of playing it originally, it seems I just cannot.
If you think you can handle this jank and aren't afraid to go at it, give this game a go it's such a fun time.
