2w ago

'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash

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'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'

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2w ago

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Or hear me out, you can give your developers time to optimize the game. I hate the direction most AAA games are going.
- It's unacceptable for games from big studios to be released in such a shoddy state. At this point, the best bet as a consumer is to wait 3 months before buying anything.
TIL broken is a premium feature 😂
- Advanced purchasers get access to a special gamestate: "Fucked".
  
  Conan did a Clueless Gamer playing it and the game crashed halfway through 😂 Not even making it up, it's on YT.
Another one of his responses to the same topic: "Code your own engine and show us how it’s done, please”
This is their seventh Borderlands game made in Unreal engine. This isn't some fledgling indie studio that's still finding its footing around a game engine. They have 1300 employees, they had 6 years to make this and they have 2K Games' backing. They have no excuse to release a game in this state, but sure. Let's blame the customers.
Oh, and I just noticed: the game uses Denuvo, because of course it does.
- "Code your own engine and show us how it’s done, please”
  Don't need to be a fucking pilot to know that a plane shouldn't be upside down in the trees.
I wouldn't buy this game if every outfit gave it an 11/10. Fuck this idiot
Let's pretend that it runs. Would I even want to play it with the dialogue turned on?
- From the reviews I've seen, it actually seems like they listened to complaints about three and have toned down the cringey dialogue.
  Of course, nobody can get the damn thing to run, so hard to independently verify, but it seems like this entry was meant to be a triumphant return to form, far closer to BL2 in tone and style than BL3.
  It'll maybe be worth checking out once the inevitable Game of the Year edition goes on heavy discount in like four years.
  
  The story is really good so far have beaten 1/3 guys to get the things (trying to not spoil for those who know nothing). I have been having a blast. Only crashed after a hotfix then a second one came out and fixed it as far as I can tell.
  The specs required make no sense though it doesn't look that much better than 3.
  
  Well that's good then. Maybe it might make my "buy on sale" list. You're right, not worth buying these until the dlc is all out and discounted
Not me, then. Cool. Thanks for letting me know.
Meh I've been feeling that since 2018, release of RTX cards and raytracing marketing hype. Since then my perception towards AAA games have become harder to reach; require newer hardware, bigger disk space, better internet to download and more expensive price.
Though that already happen for a decade maybe. Battlefield 3 and 4 all DLC require 40-60 GB download. That would eat about 10 hours download.
This is how a game dies.
I guess it's not for me then, just a regular old gamer without a stick up my arse. Get a haircut, Randy. You look ridiculous.
There's a fourth borderlands game? IDGAF if it even comes to steam this time, silksong is $20.
My mid range 4 year old PC must be hella premium. Because I've had no issues playing it.

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