Borderlands 4

The game is good, until you realize that the endgame is basically nonexistent. 6/10. Recommended, but you have to be really into looter shooters.

Le monde est désespérément vide, l'inventaire et la gestion des armes est imbuvable. Toutes les deux minutes, on se retrouve à chercher comment atteindre le prochain objectif, bloqué par des montagnes ou des passages mal indiqués. L'humour, qui faisait tout le charme de Borderlands, est pratiquement absent. Au final, tout ce qui rendait la licence unique a disparu.

runs well if you don't have a brick. it's borderlands. It's fun.

Unreal Slop

Good game. Worth buying, especially on sale, but it's something just to play occasionally. Fights feel fantastic. I love the extra 3D measure to this, with the grappling hook and the verticality. My Vex build feels so much like Salvador from BL2, the whole reason I loved that game. It's wonderful. World is not bad, but nothing spectacular. I like the open world, but it's not memorable. Neither is the music. Performance is good enough for me with an RTX 4070. However, lots of folks complain about it. Personally, I think Gearbox just got unlucky, releasing a game with high specs and some lack of optimization, thinking that computing hardware would become better and cheaper like it always has, only to run into an unprecedented period where AI datacenters ate up all the hardware and made it unobtainable for the regular consumer. Regardless, beware--you might have performance issues. There was one quest that gave me a gut-busting laugh, but...that was one quest, and it was because it harkened back to a prior game in the series. Humor is lacking. Feels like every third quest has raunchy undertones or mentions that fall flat. Biggest issue in this game, in my opinion? No constant draw back into it. You have specializations (making XP worth something very minor at least) and farming dedicated items. You have basic easy achievements. I think this worked well in older, simpler games, such as BL1 and BL2, but I think of newer games today where you have a multitude of things to farm for: components, crafting, cash, items, end-game bossing dropping rare components, difficult (not necessarily grindy, but difficult) achievements, memorable/notable skins/heads/bodies (cosmetics), etc. And, it's just not there in BL4. I can't recall ever looking at my cash or eridium levels. Firmware is quickly acquired, then forgotten. I farm one or two bosses for my gear, kill them 100-200 times, or simply keep checking the unique vending machine every week, and I'm done farming. And of course, what to do next, when you're done farming, the next specialization point for marginal power gain is 2 hours away, and you've killed all the bosses on the hardest difficulty? You play another game. Buy this, play this. It's good, but don't expect to be wowed.

Big thumbs down. Game is unplayable. After every patch, the game performance dramatically decreases. At this point, whenever there are enemies around, the game lags, hitches and freezes. The only point of this game is to shoot bad guys and I can't even do that because the Gearbox won't fix the game. Ryzen 9 5900x 3080 ti 32GB RAM Yes I have DDR4, but the game should at least be playable on low settings and it isn't. This is probably an issue Gearbox will never fix.

Hmmm... While I didn't experience any technical issues outside of the usual Unreal Engine garbage performance, I just don't think the game is good. The characters are just bad. What's with Claptrap and that other chick going on about consent for a solid minute? Yeah, consent is great and all that, but who gives a sht? The rest of the NPCs you meet are just as boring. I didn't know a game about all the crazy sht going on could be this sanitized. I want Jack and Butt Stallion back. I guess the franchise did peak with Borderlands 2. The gunplay is fine, I guess. Same as usual. Otherwise, it's just boring, and finding loot is absolute a from the looks of it. You get these "card exp" now to buy skins and weapons, and I've not found any decent weapon outside of the one I bought. You spend more time traveling on the road than shooting stuff because travel points are few and far between. You clear a point of interest in like three minutes, and then it's back to driving again. Money and Eridium are basically useless; I finished the first area boss and still haven't found a use for either. The shops only sell trash, you never need ammo, and I haven't even seen a place that takes Eridium. They even got rid of the gambling machines they had in pretty much every other Borderlands. I dunno. It's just really boring.