Borderlands 4

[b]TL;DR[/b] - Gunplay is great, story is meh/ok, optimisation is awful. Wait for a DEEP discount and pray your PC can handle the game. I'll probably finish all the side quests and DLCs but I can not in good conscience give this game a thumbs up. [b]Gunplay[/b] - it's the borderlands you know and love. So far i've only completed the game with Vex (UVHM 5), but the guns and skills feel great. [b]Open World[/b] - No loading screens are kinda neat but this game didn't need to be open world. It just really makes the locations feel less deliberate and more like they just had to put something there so the world feels less empty. Also I tried to play without the "ECHO-4 navigation" but more than half the time when you try to follow the quest you run into a giant mountain or a wall. this is more of a pet peeve of mine than a criticism so it isn't a big deal. [b]Story[/b] - Very minor spoilers (names of characters that show up). The villains are SUPER forgettable, but hey atleast the story isn't cringe. The Outbounders and Electi missions just feel like filler (that's the meh part in tldr). In the Fadefields I only really enjoyed the Claptrap missions, but hey maybe that's just my nostalgia talking. In the Carcadia Burn [spoiler] Zane [/spoiler] kinda carried the story. The Auger quest line was fine and [spoiler] Zane's [/spoiler] banter with [spoiler] Amara [/spoiler] during the end of the story made me smile quite a few times. [b]Optimisation[/b] - Absolutely terrible. Game randomly crashes every like 2-6 hours. Now, I am playing on linux so maybe that played a part in it, but it's still annoying nonetheless. Also the game runs like ♥♥♥♥. As far as I'm aware it's because of the UE5 lighting engine, so don't get me wrong the lighting looks really good even on low details but it doesn't look "I'm fine with slashing my FPS by 2/3" good. I still get very decent framerate but going from 300 FPS native 1440p in BL3 to 110 FPS with FSR in BL4 is just diabolical. You pretty much need a high end PC to have a good experience. Unrelated note: Who tf made the head cosmetics and why are 90% of them so ugly....

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Very disappointing, The worst of the series, boring modern AAA slop. The story and characters are just plain awful and totally forgettable. If you like modern day slop this game is for you.

this game makes me wanna krill myself, i'm literally only playing this because my friend has stockholm syndrome with the franchise

Let's talk for real. This game sucks. It does not do the BL experience justice. This game all the NPC's for the most part you cannot talk to. Remember walking around Sanctuary I, II, III and hitting e or w/e on your controller to prompt someone to speak. Yeah you can't do that here. This makes the world fill empty while still having characters on your screen. The few characters that are brought over honestly none of that makes sense. We get a few cross over NPC's that are just hanging out on a new planet no backstory no reasoning. Just poof here we are. Where's the rest? Oh, you held Ellie hostage for the DLC. Too bad the game was so boring that I quit playing it after less than 20 hours. Calling vehicles in like mounts in WOW is meh, I honestly enjoyed the whole idea if the vehicle was destroyed you needed to trek back to the catch a ride or steal one off bandits. This is an entire element that helped make bl what it is and it's just gone. "I'd really appreciate you taking a poke at that. The catch a ride not my mom!" Scooter. None of the new vh's or main NPC's are really memorable. I seen the trailer for c4sh and it's like they realize their other vaulthunters are pretty bland but this can't be fixed with one character lol that just makes it all the more obvious. I won't beat this game up for performance as I do believe they ironed out most problems and the problems are from a rushed release. The whole game feels like they left the most important part out, the bl soul. BL3 was better even with the cringy twins. I went into this game with the hopes of, it can't get worse than the twins for bosses and cringy things. This game feels like a chore. Open world with mazes to waste your time and make the game longer. There's no way the map was made by a human. Maps have been tediously large historically in borderlands but this just feels needlessly complex trying to get from one location to the next marker. I found I constantly had to back track to get around obstacles between me and my destination with no clear way to know what path to take on the map because it had no elevations on it. So you head towards your objective and randomly there are 4 story cliffs in front of you. So you ride the edge of the cliff only to find it pushes you so far away from your objective. I commend them for trying to do an open world game. But it's only open world if it's navigable.

Most of the time I have played is just my computer open cause I went to work and let the shaders load, then I came back and loaded shaders. 4070 not doing to well in 1080p rn let me lower every thing and load shaders, fk did I load shaders? I meant to load shaders. Nah this setting isn't load shaders so let me LOAD SHADERS. Wow that's actually not that bad I can kinda see in front of me, other than that I hate it. You know what let me give it another chance, the load shader, so I had to load shader, now that we got that out the way lets load shader, so we can load shader. I beat the first load shader some how, okay that was pretty load shader. You find the dopiest golden load shader and it its magically delicious. </3

Gearbox hat wieder ein wahres „Meisterwerk“ (und zwar auf allen Gebieten) auf die Beine gestellt. Mir persönlich gefällt dabei der Aspekt der zusammenhängenden Welt, da ich nie der Freund von den gesplitteten Bereichen von früher war. Die Zonen sind sehr abwechslungsreich und stimmungsvoll, wobei kleinere Poi´s eher leere Kulissen ohne Mehrwert sind. Die Gegnertypen variieren leider auch nur wenig und kennzeichnen sich durch permanentes „im Rücken spawnen“. Die Wege zwischen diesen Schießereien sind sehr lang, wobei das Fahrzeug besagte zähen Touren ziemlich gut überbrückt. Ferner sind in diese Welt hin und wieder Rätsel eingefügt worden, wobei die Lösung immer so daherkommt: „Spring worauf und dann dahin, wo das Ding ist, was du suchst!“. Die Wegfindung ist dabei ab und zu mal Irreführend und da auf eine Mini-Map verzichtet wurde, wechselt man ständig zur Karte. Bei diesen rumprobieren stößt man gelegentlich auf unsichtbare Wände, in der Luft fliegende Gegenstände oder andere kleine Grafikbugs. Die Waffen knallen gut und es mangelt kaum an Effekten, wobei das Ballancing wohl eher nen Griff ins Klo war (um es mal salopp zu formulieren). Das Wurfmesser ist geisteskrank overpowert, ebenso die Perlmuttwaffen. Und nun sind wir an der Stelle, warum ich diesem Machwerk eine negative Bewertung gegeben habe. Mir ist bewusst, das heutige Medien (jeglicher Art) nur noch gefördert werden, wenn diese gewisse Kriterien erfüllen. Diese Kriterien sind daran angelehnt, das sich keine Minderheit unterrepräsentiert fühlt, das Patriarchat keine Oberhand hat und es so feministisch wie nur möglich daherkommt. Ich persönlich möchte aber in Spielen (die ja von der Wirklichkeit ablenken sollen) nicht mit derartigem belästigt werden. Vor allem nicht in diesem Ausmaß... Die Perlmutt-Waffen sind eher Regenbogenwaffen, die kleine Sternchen-Projektile feuern und dessen Ablagerungen am Boden sind ebenfalls Regenbogenfarbend. Der erste Held (Rush) aus dem Ort „die Startrampe“ ist Farbig, hat Muskeln wie nen Bär, ist aber mental derart übertrieben Beta, wie es nur sein kann. Frauen hingegen (so wie Conway) haben Streichholz-Ärmchen, machen aber einarmige Liegestützen. Ferner natürlich taff und immer mit nem kessen Spruch auf den Lippen. Die Charaktäre sind in diesem Borderlands-Teil auch derart geisteskrank geworden, dass es schon erschreckend ist. Claptrap war ja schon immer etwas überdreht, heute hingegen hat er derbe Stimmungsschwankungen und leidet an einer Emotionsregulationsstörung. In einigen Dialogen flirtet er mit dem Char mit dem man spielt, sowie flirtet der gespielte Char in Audiologs mit dem gleichgeschlechtlichen Arzt... Ich will das nicht... Dann hat fast jeder Protagonist eine mentale Störung. Zum Beispiel Professor Ambreleigh, die hat Psychosen und aggressive Neigungen. Der Overkill aber ist der Farmer Mort, der bei der Paarung von 2 Treshern anmerkt, dass er zum „Glück“ eine Kamera installiert hat... Nach diesem erschütternden Dialog, stelle ich den geistigen Zustand von dem Gearbox-Team in Frage und bin froh das „Spiel“ im Sale erstanden zu haben.