Support NeoGAF

[Loomy]

IGN interview with Gearbox narrative director Sam Winkler, lead writer Taylor Clark, and managing director of narrative properties Lin Joyce to learn more about why the team decided to create a more grounded story for Borderlands 4.

'On Borderlands 3, in Our Worst Hours, It Sometimes Felt Like Parody' — Gearbox Explains Borderlands 4's More Grounded Story - IGN

Gearbox is ready to right the wrongs of Borderlands 3 with a more grounded story, an interesting villain, and fewer memes in Borderlands 4.

www.ign.com

 

[Kacho]

Winkler: I don't want to swing the needle too hard on that front. I am not anti-meme. In fact, hey, exclusive: There's a specific meme in this game, and I feel justified putting it in because I accidentally created it. Yes, I didn't mean for it to become a meme, but it became a meme, and it's in the video game. That is all I'm going to say.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

This game is gonna be such a trainwreck. Wait for the predictable and pretentious bullshit of a story where brave seekers of the truth will fight fascism in outer space.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Grounded usually means boring, safe these days. Sure Borderlands series had cringe, more so in Borderlands 3, but the humor was its style, it was unique. If I want a serious game I'll just play the million others. Comedy if done right, can be amazing, especially with a great villain like Jack was. I guess Ill see when it launches since I'm a big fan of the series. I'm more interested in the soundtrack than anything else since the series has amazing songs from masterminds such as Jesper Kyd and Michael McCann(deus ex hr, xcom, etc.)

Spoiler

 

[kpopSuperstar]

I pressed the link.

I got an ad on top of an ad on the bottom, and one ad on top of the screen as well, only showing the middle part of the screen, that was instantly covered by a privacy policy notification. I can't see shit, it's all covered.

Fuck IGN and modern internet.

 

[Holammer]

They say that, but I kinda expect to see unironic "fr fr no cap" or "Straight bussin" language in the game.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Don't care if the story is ridiculous or grounded. Just let me skip it and turn off mid-mission unceasing dialogue.

 

[adamsapple]

Borderlands 4's More Grounded Story

 

[Celcius]

Sometimes I feel like the only person that liked Borderlands 1, 2, presequel, and 3
But a more grounded story for 4 sounds great

 

[diffusionx]

Borderlands 3 is the worst written game I have ever played.

I actually liked the way it played but the dialogue and characters murdered the game for me.

 

[drganon]

Just as long as I can skip every cut scene, I'll be happy.

 

[Labadal]

Fuck them, and their spyware DRM.

 

[TheKratos]

I don't care about the story at all, I just want a brick or gunzerker type character.

 

[Loomy]

Sometimes I feel like the only person that liked Borderlands 1, 2, presequel, and 3
But a more grounded story for 4 sounds great

Same here

 

[kapshin]

Borderlands has a story?

 

[Rush2112]

'more grounded' means nothing if you think about it. It's just something to tell the media so they can advertise it to boost sales.

 

[Itchy Tickles]

I enjoyed Borderlands 1,2, pre-seuel quite a bit and thought 3 and Tiny Tina was pretty dire. Those adventure games had such pathetic writing and characters too (especially the Gearbox written 2nd game), so I have zero hope for the story. Even the trailers for 4 have the most generic lazy basic shit dialogue / acting, so I don't see how they can say it will better when they've already shown it isn't.

I, like most people, liked the gameplay, but it needed to evolve a long time ago and not just what type of guns you can get. Saying all that, I'll probably try it unless it becomes known it is a disaster.

 

[Shubh_C63]

Reminds me of this classic meme that says everything wrong about Gearbox writing.

 

[Mikado]

'more grounded' means nothing if you think about it. It's just something to tell the media so they can advertise it to boost sales.

So what we're saying is this could be a Return to Form for Borderlands?

 

[Baemono]

I have the Legendary Collection (BL1, 2 and the Pre-Sequel) but I never played them, maybe I should give it a try