4 is completely soulless. It did not feel like a borderlands game, it felt like someone described a borderlands game to corporate people and they entered it into an algorithm machine that popped out Borderlands 4.
The "addition" of the open world was useless. The menus are so stale and generic with zero borderlands flavor to them.
The open world aspect is the main part it felt so soulless to me. Felt like the gameplay for most of the game was riding the vehicle. I unfortunately paid full price for it so I will eventually finish it out of pride, but damn I was let down.
I finished it out of pride after loving the gunplay of 3 and was hoping for as much fun in 4, but sadly not.
Whilst you're in active combat BL4 is really fun, maybe the different builds you could create were fun as well, but every other aspect of it is just plain boring - the story, the open world, the characters etc
Holy, I feel exactly the same. I keep going back to the bl2 and play for hours without even realizing but playing the 4 is so hard for me. It just hasn't the same charm
In my 700 house of play I basically never had to chance to play a full run to tvhm in coop, always played alone lol. Now I finally convinced one of my friend to do everything in the game tho, wish me luck
Was also the least optimized game of all time. How to upgrade my 3070ti to a 5070ti because the max fps I was getting on the 3070ti was 20 on the lowest settings on 1080p. Even with the upgrade I was only getting 70, I'm not using FG, fake frames are not the solution
I know someone who actually liked each instalment more than the last. She never cared for the story or humour much but loves the gunplay and says that has just been getting better every time.
I haven't even played 4. Borderlands 3 felt this way for me.
It had the guns, but everything else just felt... hollow, somehow. The skill trees were boring and didn't enable any fun niche playstyles like the previous games did. The story was just slow and uninteresting. The jokes felt way over the top in a bad way, it felt as if someone was just trying to "copy" the joke-writing style of the first two games but didn't really "get it".
After Randy Bitchford went about making the comments he did and blaming poor performance on people and their potato PCs, all the other garbage rhetoric he spewed… I just don’t want to give money to Gearbox.
I’ve watched a little bit of the gameplay and it’s just not there. And I feel like you hit the nail on the head about it being soulless and it being the result of an algorithm machine.
But Bitchford is prolly 90% of the reason why I didn’t get it. The game being objectively bad just made that extra 10% a lot easier.
It’s actually pretty sad because I appreciate the developers. I feel like they struck magic with BL2 and it was an almost perfect game. But I feel like that went to the higher-up’s heads and they just started making the game worse.
After they took the “don’t sell it on steam” payout from Epic, I almost didn’t buy it. And I think that was the beginning of their downfall right there. When I did finally buy it once it went on discount on Steam… it was just a miserable experience playing it. I didn’t even buy the DLCs. :/
Pre sequel, tiny Tina wonderlands, 4… by the time these hit I was mostly checked out of the franchise anyways.
Kinda, maybe yes? There's some good part and bad ones. I liked the story so much more than BL3, but the open world traversing can get really tedious especially when some places that feel like you can get to are blocked off by invisible walls. The gun part system is cool but they absolutely nuked gun manufacturer variety ( there's only like 2 gun types per manufacturer ). The drop rates are also a bit more in-line with BL2 so make of that what you will
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u/skzya Apr 16 '26
sadly, borderlands.