I love Borderlands, but I really wish Randy would just shut the fuck up.

How does someone with such a shitty personality and dress sense get so smug?

If I looked and acted like him I would want to punch myself in the face

So a 4070 is a leaf blower to this asshole.

Well I'll gladly not buy this game then.

Considering Randy REALLY wants you to pay $130 USD for this game, I'm not shocked his performance advice was "be less poor"

A game that looks like BL4 shouldn't run like Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing turned on.

Dude really felt the need to insult his customers. He could have said it’s a premium game for premium machines, but instead he decided he wanted to insult people who can’t play it and suggest they are less than the premium people who can.

2K needs to get this nut away from the mic.

Hot take, Borderlands was never really a good franchise. Yeah I played through the second game, but i did so once, and never wanted to return to it afterwards.

That's nice, he is kind enough to tell us that we should not buy his game if we do not have a monster gpu. He is only excluding a very small portion of gamers after all !

Let's look at the Valve's hardware survey.

Wait...

Maybe try optimizing your game before releasing it?

So… I shouldn’t plan on playing this on a Steamdeck when it gets down to $19.99?

It's poorly optimized UE5 slop. Looks like shit, plays like shit.

Hard pass.

It's sad that a lot of devs just make their game and then slap frame-gen on it and then release it. Like who cares about optimization. Not that I blame them, people still buy those games full-priced, so...

borderlands

premium

lol

lmao

rofl

Sucker game made for sucker gamers.

Are you inclined to blame yourself for the obvious failings of a gaming corporation? Smash that buy button now!

I guess I'm not premium enough to give you my money, Randy.

I'll play something cheaper then

What a total dick. Lots of people with high end PCs are all saying how it runs like shit, so what's the next excuse?

Nah I’m not gonna pay $80 for unoptimized copy-paste spyware my man thanks

Is Borderlands really all that popular still? Like I remember seeing the first few games everywhere, and people talking about them, but that was years ago. I realize I'm biased but I would expect to hear something about them...

I guess I will stick to my "non-premium" games made by devs who actually care about providing experiences worth experiencing, instead of a checklist-driven, committee designed and overpriced games that are most AAA games.

I played lots of borderlands 2 with my friends back in the day it was pretty fun.

Three came out, played it for a bit, but it was just more of the same and somehow worse. Then I watched that God awful movie.

I think I'm over the franchise, but maybe here in a few years I'll pick it up for $5 in a summer sale.

I was planning on picking up B4 when the GOTY edition goes on sale for $20-30 couple years from now. I figured performance issues will be solved by then. Now I think I'll pass.

Bought it to try n Linux. I don't have the greatest video card but I can play Dune: Awakening, Helldivers 2, Monster Hunter Wikds, Avowed, Black Myth: Wukong...

Borderlands 4 was stuttering on the barely animated character select. I lowered settings all as low as possible and it was still unplayable with delayed/missed input and stuttering.

"we haven't optimised this at all, lol, $80 please"

That's the thing, Randy, we aren't interested in a monster truck, we just need a car. A 5090 is not a leaf blower, and your game looks more like a clown car than a monster truck given the way it runs. Thanks for telling us that you are basically only interested in whales, although I can't imagine they are happy either regardless of how they've probably thrown money at you already.

Such a bad argument. There is no reason for the game to not support lower end hardware except for lazy development. Not a good sign for the future of borderlands. This is also the type of game that really sucks if you don't get a locked 60 FPS. Borderlands 3 is still a laggy mess on my steam deck. Sometimes it just stutters forever. Constantly generating shaders or something. There is no reason for it to be that way and lowering the setting has almost no effect on the actual performance. This is 100% the fault of the devs. They are pushing half complete products to market not the consumer.

Also as many others have stated, not everyone has $4000 to drop on a PC. My most powerful machine is a Skylake processor with a 1070. It runs most games fine, it's just the handful of unoptimized unreal engine games that run badly. I have nearly limitless options to buy other games from devs who actually care about us poorer folk. A 4070 ti is like 800-1000 rn. Probably won't even run this game well. This is in an age where we have had nearly 100% inflation in a few years. Most people can barely afford to buy a car without spending half of their paycheck. They should be trying to make their games work on older hardware now more than ever. Ram is cheap, there are some things you can work around. It's usually not worth it to target low RAM devices, but there is really no good reason for you game to not scale well to lower end GPUs. You don't have to have only 4k textures on disk. You can easily automate a process to create lower poly, and lower resolution textures, implement modest lighting systems. It's pretty easy in relation to other things. Cpus are mid, you shouldn't necessarily target 10 year old CPUs if it's going to make the game worse but your game shouldn't be so unoptimized that you need 5.5 ghz on a single core to get 60 fps. You should at least have a proper lod system in place so that you can support lower end GPUs in many cases where it's not very difficult.

The issue with many of these modern triple AAA games is they are trying to avoid as much work as possible. They are trying to avoid targeting lower end hardware because it's a bit of work and they are struggling to finish their games. They need to plan for these things from the start and work them into their process.

I can't decide if the explanation that "our shitty game is made for premium gamers" is more or less absurd than EA charging 80 bucks for a game with most of its characters still locked would "provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment".

So anyway, you guys excited for Hades 2?

There aren't enough monster truck owners to support his game. If he gets his wish, Gearbox is going to lose a whole lot of money

The reality is that it is a mass market game. It needs mass market adoption. Currently much of the market is locked out due to performance issues

They toned down the humor, which imo wasn't the problem they needed to write better jokes, and write better villains.

The entire plot feels like an extra long side mission which is basically, "Go Rescue Lilith." They have been teasing something "big" is coming and that they need to prepare for war since the pre sequel. We have gotten now two new main installments, two "tales", and a fucking spin-off since then. Yet they still keep teasing this "big" thing. I wish they'd move the narrative along already.

I'm so sick of bad performance from all the big engines these days. Even unity makes simple 2d games chug.

You need to have $500 gpu to hit 60fps with 1080p native, this is hilariously bad.

I haven't played more than about 30 minutes of a Borderlands game. But from clips I have seen of all of them over the years, they all look exactly the same. Sounds to me like it's just a poorly optimized game, as is standard for new AAA slop releases.

How tf do companies get to say this shit and still be in business?? Are there that many people who just blindly bend over and take it?? Don't people have standards anymore?

Only PCVR titles can even approach saying such things without looking like jerks. And even then, it’s probally counter productive.

An example, for those curious, is Microsoft Flight Simulator.

The problem is Randy.