Borderlands 4 is coming in 2025

Honestly, more of the same from Borderlands 3? The main problem with BL 1 and 2 was the wild inaccuracy of most guns for much of the game except the end game guns. In BL3 they fixed that and the gun play is fun for the whole game. Give us more gun fun, its all that's required.

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.

Borderlands 3 gun play and physics with a possibly better storyline—please! I freaking love BL3!

QuoteAfter the absolute disaster that was the Borderlands movie

A friend told me it wasn't that bad; it was "fine" :P

I couldn’t be much less excited about this. I feel like we’re kind of done with Borderlands and they’re beating a dead horse at this point. I loved BL3’s gameplay the most and the pre-sequel’s use of gravity was refreshing, but story-wise it doesn’t really feel like it’s been going anywhere since BL2 and I couldn’t be bothered to get Wonderlands. Even with a decent story, I don’t need another escapade searching for a vault key and hearing the same running gags from the same characters that have pretty much exhausted their respective tropes. I can just replay one of the others if I feel like shooting stuff.

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.

I have zero faith in this.

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

All Borderland games have terrible stories. BL was maybe not that bad because we were discovering a new world, there's wasn't much of a story there either so the little it had was more prominent. But there's also a lot of nostalgia involved with BL1. As for BL2 and BL3 and the pre-sequel, man where those stories bad. Borderlands is the kind of game that shines through its gameplay. Forget the story, its not important.

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).

Enjoyed BL1 & 2. Never played 3 because of the Epic exclusivity. I lost all interest in the franchise after that.

wow... another failure.

I've played each of the main Borderlands games. I can't remember if I finished all of them, but I know I at least finished BL3. No complaints. I'd be interested in a fourth.

I absolutely loved BL1 (for innovation) & 2 (for script), also because they were some of the first real native ports (done by Aspyr, IIRC) of blockbuster titles for Linux. You can't really find a more likeable main villain than Handsome Jack. TPS was a bit of "more of the same", with some clear signs of Lilith being the real villain of the saga. TFTB was nice, but a bit too "corridor" narration to my taste. I found BL3 rather bland, with characters trying too hard to be borderlandish while lacking the over-the-top features of their predecessors. After the movie, I'm positively afraid that BL4 will be the first BL I'm going to positively avoid.

Finally, I'm not sure about the graphic technology Gearbox will use, but this could be the last nail in the Pandora coffin for me: no cell shading = no Borderlands.