State of Play | April 30, 2025 |OT| Borderlands 4 Gameplay Deep Dive



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State of Play | Borderlands 4 Gameplay Deep Dive

Creative Director Graeme Timmins and Senior Project Producer Anthony Nicholson





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What made 3 so bad? I didn't play it, I just heard it wasn't good. I really liked 2, though.
 
What made 3 so bad? I didn't play it, I just heard it wasn't good. I really liked 2, though.
For me it was ALL the voice actors yelling every line of dialog. The dialog itself wasn't funny and leaned heavy on being annoying.
Other than that it played great, great guns and loot.
I'm one of those who hate AVA and hope she's the bad guy in B4.
 
For me it was ALL the voice actors yelling every line of dialog. The dialog itself wasn't funny and leaned heavy on being annoying.
Other than that it played great, great guns and loot.
I'm one of those who hate AVA and hope she's the bad guy in B4.
Agreed. However, who plays Borderlands to have a riveting and engaging story? IMO, the story and humor is fine for what it is.

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What made 3 so bad? I didn't play it, I just heard it wasn't good. I really liked 2, though.
The writing is so agonizingly bad there's literal PC mods for skipping over it.

The villains are also some of the worst I've ever encountered.

Lots of wasted potential, dumb character deaths/assassinations, etc.
 
The announcement of a State of Play, exclusively to promote Borderlands 4, was so so sooo well received by GAF that i felt the need to create this thread.

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Lasted 5 seconds before I had to shut the stream down because of the awful music.
 
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Borderlands 1/2/3/4 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Inzoi >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Extraction shooters (Marathon)
 
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So what is this? A DLC for Borderlands 3? Or is this a PreSequel bullshit like they did for 2 or something?

Cause it looks just like borderlands 3 with a couple new gimmicks they are cribbing off Destiny.

I better get another mod that cuts out the dialogue if I even touch this shit.

Really, this needed to be a Sony State of Play? This is dogshit.
 
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Love how he says "there's always something to loot and shoot" and hasn't actually shot anything in like 5 minutes
 
This is what Borderlands 3 should've been. They're seriously behind, it feels like I'm watching a presentation from five years ago
 
Why they decided to switch to 30 fps mode? Watched it for 5 min and quit. Same shit as BL3
 
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Ditch the humorous tone and the cell-shading, make it more serious and maybe keep the dumb robots and allow to kill them with added gore, would make the game worth playing. Also looks like an xbox one game.
 
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Ditch the humorous tone and the cell-shading, make it more serious and maybe keep the dumb robots and make it possible to kill them and add gore, would make the game worth playing. Also looks like an xbox one game.
If they did what you wanted, the replies would be like this:

"what the fuck did they do to the art"
"this isn't borderlands"
"no one asked them to remove the humor"
"name it something else"
 
I had high hopes but... this looks like ass.

  • Borderlands 1, couldn't get enough of it, played it for well over 2000 hours across multiple platforms with groups of friends.
  • Borderlands 2, played about half as much as BL1 though some of my friends fell off early thanks to the early dupe glitches.
  • Borderlands 3, most of my BL friends had gone to Destiny and didn't care. I played three of the characters to max level, did the DLC once.
  • Borderlands 4, based on what I'm seeing here, I'm not even going to buy -- or I'm going to wait until a complete version is out and half price.
 
If they did what you wanted, the replies would be like this:

"what the fuck did they do to the art"
"this isn't borderlands"
"no one asked them to remove the humor"
"name it something else"

Honestly this looks like another flop and death of the franchise after 3 bad games, a shift in tone would be a gamble worth taking.
 
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