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

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

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?

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

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

So a 4070 is a leaf blower to this asshole.

Well I'll gladly not buy this game then.

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.

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.

Eh. I didn’t even finish borderlands 3. won’t bother getting 4

The problem is Randy.

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

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...

borderlands

premium

lol

lmao

rofl

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.

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

Hard pass.

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.

This reminds me of the "AAAA" game thing.

Maybe try optimizing your game before releasing it?

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!

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

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

In other words:

"We don't want to put resources towards optimising our product. We don't care if the methods we built our product with make it more difficult to use, while regressing in several key visual aspects. The burdon of our shortcomings will be placed on the end user, who will have to spend their resources to out-power them."

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".

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...

I'll play something cheaper then

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.

So anyway, you guys excited for Hades 2?

I am a premium gamer; if you want me to play your premium game, you'll need to subscribe to me for $29.99/month or $324/year (that's a 10% discount from the month to month!)

I'm an ok gamer, maybe even good, but premium? I don't know... I guess this game isn't for me. Better spend my money on other games then.

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.

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.

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

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 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.