Borderlands 4

I bought this game for my friend and me to play as a fun co-op game together. We loved borderlands 2, enjoyed borderlands 3 quite alot. But is sequel is just.... dissapointed. The characters are forced, unfunny and unlikeable. Every dialoge slows the pace of the game down so you can hear a "haha funny joke". Reintroducing older chars because they couldnt come up with new ones? I managed to get 30+ hours out of a single, slightly rushed playtrough. I would not recommend this game at all for this price point. And perhaps not even at 50% off. PS: forced DLC on the hud prompting you to buy EVERYWHERE at every hub or base. Come on gearbox, you know better.

game is really a dissapointment. and im a huge fan of the borderlands series. Ive played through all the mainline games and thoroughly enjoyed them. This entry not so much. As much as i tried to like it and put up with its issues i just cant. The only thing i like about the game is that the gunplay and combat are alright. And Rafa has some funny things he says, sometimes. The things that bother me: 1. Performance and Graphics Issues. You need to lower your settings so low just to get a playable frame rate, and using frame generation and any form of upscaling makes the game look like a blurry mess. I found that using medium settings with DLSS quality settings gives me about 100fps on 1440p resoloution. And honestly the game doesnt even look good. It still looks like crap with these settings, but less so than using frame generation. And when you are just driving from location to location you really get to take in how bad the game looks. Also i dont know if it was just me but the game seems really dark, like its hard to even make out where enemies are or what you are shooting at. 2. The game world. Most of the world feels boring and uninspired. And unless you are explicitly following the in game roads, the terrain is just awful to traverse with the vehicles. I found myself constantly getting stuck or slowed down on bits of the world. And the verticality of the map is just frustrating to navigate. 3. The shader compilation. On your first start of the game it will make you sit through 5 minutes of loading screen for "shader compilation" and then if there is an update then the game will proceed to download it and then restart itself, where you must then sit through another 5 minutes of loading. Once you finally get to the main menu and click start game, you need to wait through another 1-2 minutes of more "shader compilation" while the game loads you in. 4. Quests. The missions you get from the bounty boards are all the same stuff over and over. once you complete them one time then you have seen it all. And the game world is just littered with random things to collect and quests to do, but it feels more annoying to do these things than fun. most of the time the payoff isnt worth it, like a vehicle skin or an echo log. Yippee. 5. Broken Map Markers. Multiple times the map markers will just lead to nowhere and once you reach the spot where it points you, it suddenly will update to a farther away position, even if youve already explored well past that point. 6. Too much Loot? At this point it just feels like bloat. Inventory constantly filled with junk weapons that you are supposed to sell. I prefer the older games style of quality over quantity. And honestly, alot of the weapons and equiptment are actually cool, but they just suck and arent worth it to use. And somehow, they made claptrap even worse in this game. Its definitely intentional to make him as annoying as possible, but why should i subject myself to having to listen to this garbage dialogue constantly? Its not funny or witty, its just dumb. There are some cool ideas in this game, and it definitely has potential. But seems like gearbox really screwed this one up. I got this game on sale and i still feel like i paid too much for it, its just not worth it.