Gearbox and 2K today announced Borderlands 4 is real and it's going to release sometime in 2025 although we don't know many details yet. Hopefully it will work okay with Proton.
After the absolute disaster that was the Borderlands movie, no doubt fans are itching for something less terrible to blast through. The Steam store page doesn't exactly give much away just noting the obvious: "See if you have what it takes to go down in history as a legendary Vault Hunter as you search for secret alien treasure, blasting everything in sight."
See the new teaser trailer below:
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You can follow it on Steam.
What are you hoping to see from it? It's been a few years since the last mainline game, Borderlands 3, which released back in 2019.
You can get a whole lot of Borderlands real cheap right now on Fanatical and Steam.
QuoteAfter the absolute disaster that was the Borderlands movie
And that came after the partial disaster than was Borderlands 3 and the complete disaster that was New Tales of the Borderlands. After that streak, it's hard to get excited. At least the gameplay of BL3 was good, so that's something.
QuoteAfter the absolute disaster that was the Borderlands movieA friend told me it wasn't that bad; it was "fine" :P
Unless they do something really amazing gameplay-wise and/or get a fresh cast of characters that don’t suck like BL3’s and an interesting storyline, I’ll probably stick to watching a couple gameplay videos.
BL1 and 2 were all-time greats. BL3 improved the gunplay a little, but completely shat the bed with the absolutely awful humor, writing, plot... I couldn't even finish the game based solely on the writing, THAT's how bad it was.
Clearly, whatever talent wrote BL1 & 2 has left the building by now.
I bet they planned to use the movie momentum to announce this. Good luck, given the worst flop and just worst movie in a lot of ways of the last decade.
And then of course Randy Pitchforks insane ramblings trying to defend that abomination of a movie don't help restore any faith in that company knowing what it is doing.
Yeah... no.
There's maybe a 1% chance BL4 will actually be good.
Last edited by TheSHEEEP on 21 August 2024 at 5:15 am UTC
Quoting: DrakkerBut there's also a lot of nostalgia involved with BL1. As for BL2 and BL3 and the pre-sequel, man where those stories bad.I played BL1, 2 and 3 back-to-back, in co-op even.
The difference between BL3 and everything else is night and day. The pre-sequel lost me with its moon phase and oxygen shenanigans, so I can't really say much about that.
Sure, The story itself is of course less pronounced in a game like this, this isn't a "cinematic experience".
But the writing, worldbuilding and the humor is still very much important and a constant part of the gameplay experience and while BL1 and 2 had us laughing and giggling throughout, BL3 just made us groan and roll our eyes.
We even tried muting our characters, but it didn't really help (much).
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