I’m sorry, but after Borderlands 3 trashed the franchise, why should we give even the slightest crap about anything Gearbox makes? They went from Handsome Jack to the farking Calypso twins. Also, Randy Pitchford is a dick.
Paul Tassi joked that we were gonna have a gun called Hawk 2A and a fellow dev asked me if it was real and I wanted to put my hand down the sink grinder.
As long as it didn’t scream “Buy muh crypto” when shooting, I would’ve loved the inside joke.
Maybe they could go back to some of the rough, fun storytelling they nailed with the first two games? Instead of marvel-esque storytelling from the third game. Toilet humour has a place in borderlands, its filled with dumb humour and always has been, but its been in a way that feels almost natural.
A skibidi toilet reference isn’t going to fit, because that’s a passing meme. But shit like the ninja turtles quest in bl2, all the dumb jokes in bandit weapon names, face mcshooty, scooter’s entire existence throughout the first two games, tiny Tina’s character, thats all fucking awesome because we’re all in on the joke and the only pop culture references are evergreen ones.
What I really want from borderlands is for them to get back to the anti-corpo/anti-capitalist messaging that was rife in the first games. Borderlands 3 felt so hollow because I almost felt like I was part of one of the corps. The ragtag group wasn’t a ragtag group anymore, we had similar influence to maliwan for fucks sake and were flying all over the place dropping on planets and exerting our might. Where’s the scrappy mad max vibes?
The jokes in BL/BL2 felt like their own unique jokes, contained within the Borderlands universe, because they were. BL3 had a lot of reference humor, which can be fine, but some of the memes they referenced were 3-4 years out of date and the jokes fell flat and made us groan.
The trailer for 4 was promising, and I only realized on a second watch that it contained no jokes, which honestly I appreciated. I think it has potential, as long as Randy Shitford doesn’t do anything to fuck it up.
I mean they made a lot of pop culture jokes in borderlands 1 and 2. But they weren’t about “current” stuff. It was, as I said, evergreen things, like lord of the rings and tmnt.
didn’t play 3, what do you mean by ‘marvel-esque’?
Cliche catchphrasey dialogue/plot points. “He’s behind me, isn’t he” “did I just do that, with my freakin’ mind?” type stuff
Anyone else feel like the vault hunters in this game look generic as hell? I personally can’t wait to play… Guy in a hoodie.
i thought the same for 3 then zane ended up being one of my favorites vault hunters
I feel like a game like Borderlands needs to lead, not follow. They took some risks with BL3 that did not pay off, but the playability of the game was significantly improved.
Naming a character “skibidi” is moronic in the sense that, this is already a meme. If it get put in the game, they’re just trying to be cool for the sake of it. It’s a very “hello, fellow kids” kind of thing.
Borderlands, instead, should have some creativity with what’s being said and done in the game. Take a look at Tina for a second. When she’s introduced, she’s unapologetically strange. You either work with her on that level, or not at all. IMO, that’s why Tina is a fan favorite. The absurd and borderline insane statements she constantly makes is the reason that she is so well liked. She makes sense in an almost frightening and sociopathic way… And we love that about her.
Going to the length of dragging Gen Z memes into the game for no good reason isn’t going to help, and will, in all likelihood, make things very bad. It’s just, in bad taste, lazy, and a cop out IMO. With such interesting and absurd stuff already in the game, like butt stallion, CL4P-TP, BNK-3R, and more than I could possibly think of or remember that are amazing… They’re going to stoop to a pop culture meme instead?
Borderlands is about being weird and original with stuff, and some things really work, others, not so much. And that’s what made the series great IMO. They took chances, and went out on a limb for a joke, sometimes literally.
I mean, who can forget shooty mcface? That’s a footnote in a quest and it’s honestly really funny, weird and something that sticks with you. That’s what Borderlands should be. It’s not some meme pop culture reference machine.
I mean, who can forget *Face McShooty?
Blam! “Thank you!”
You know some prankster programmer is going to put that in a comment somewhere for the lols now that he’s said that
If the story of borderlands 4 is near as interesting as skibidi toilets, i might actually play it.
Seriously, skibidi gets trashed for being brainrot but it actually has themes and a plot that’s better than 90% of the other modern content coming out.
And tbh, better than a lot of YouTube from when I was a kid
Unironically this. It proves something I have believed for a long time, that there are no bad ideas, only bad executions.
You could have a Sonic game about how Robotnik’s penis is cursed by the Master Emerald to sing and dance when he exposes himself in public, and if done right it could be the greatest storyline in not just a Sonic game, but in all media forever.
Skibidi Toilet is about a transhumanist war between people who have become Cameras and people who have become toilets thanks to a biological contamination. The toilets are so silly and innocous that they were able to doom the world to an apocalypse by being “Invaders coming in peace.” with only the resistance who became camera heads after seeing the danger the toilets really posed. That they weren’t just silly singing toilet people who wanted a good time, but that they were actively hostile with goals of destroying everything.
It’s legitimately a good story and one told without any real dialogue.
To be fair you have to have a pretty high IQ to understand skibidi toilet. Its modern cinema that just can’t be appreciated by the layperson.
I got to about level 5 in borderlands 3 and just gave up… It felt like a slap in the face after the great stories of borderlands and borderlands 2. The third attempt seemed like it was written by 13 year old boys…
The main issue with any borderlands title is that they aren’t worth buying on day one… Or even year 1. I quit buying after 2, and waited for a goty edition for 3. Ended up with the Pandora box which was more than I had planned on getting. Even when 4 releases, I’ll be waiting for the day it goes on sale with all dlc before I even bother looking at it. So probably just 2027 at this point.
Inb4 an npc named Skibby D.
The Rizzler
I can’t fucking believe a fat Turkish chef went from a funny tidbit to cancer upon earth with a single sfm animation
I just want a version that supports multiplayer on Linux. I wasn’t able to experience the writing disaster that was BL3. Been stuck in single player on BL2 or the pre-sequel for years.
I’ve been playing bl3 in multiplayer just fine. Me in Linux and my friend on windows. I just didn’t have fun. And iirc when my friend group of 4 played bl2 one of us had Linux. At least I’m fairly sure he already had at that time
In the before times, they did. If you can handle old graphics (which doesn’t seem like something that should be a problem but apparently is) check out the of Brothers in Arms games, specifically Road to Hill 30, Earned in Blood, and Hells Highway.
Those games were Gearbox at its best imo.
I’m glad the guy who left a flashdrive full of porn at a Medieval Times, which he explained was there for “magic trick research” will aim for high brow stuff
If this is the message they took from Borderlands 3 then I don’t have high hopes for this game. Borderlands 3 was boring. The story was subpar and almost every single item in the game was utterly pointless due to the ridiculously high legendary drop rate.
I like a good legendary drop rate, the problem was the legendary effects were boring.
Legendary drop rate was tuned waaaaaaay too high. There was basically no reason to have anything non-legendary equipped past level 10 because even an underleveled legendary still performs better than your on-level blues or purples (except for uniques) and by the time it doesn’t, you’ve replaced it with another legendary because of insane drop rates.
I found the effects fine, tbh. Some had fun gimmicks to build around, some had powerful effects, some had niche effects, and some were nice gags.
Yeah the legendary drop rate in 3 was way too high just like it was way too low in 2. I’ve played through 2 several times and only ever got a couple of legendaries. The only way I got anything better than uncommons were quest rewards or from the golden chest.
I found the drop rate pretty reasonable in 2 considering that the legendaries had dedicated drop sources as well as just random world drops. So you could actually farm a legendary. As opposed to bl1 where all legendaries were random world drops.
Fart jokes are out. Time to switch to dick jokes.
Hopefully that means we don’t get another Tiny Tina
I agree, but that’s because children should be neither seen nor heard.
