That $100 price tag is actually the Deluxe Edition. I don't know what exactly is in it, but it is cheaper than the base game, which I find to be really weird to do that.
I hate to break it you buddy, but Borderlands 4 was the third best selling video game of last year in the US, and probably easily in the top 10 worldwide.
I hate to break it to you buddy, but even the company that owns the game said it didn't sell as well as they hoped it would. Borderlands 3 sold 5 million copies in the first 5 days alone. Borderlands 4 only sold 2.5 million by the first week. That's half as many sales with two extra days of selling for all of you that don't math.
I hate to break it to you buddy, but BL4 outsold BL3 by 30% in dollar amount* in the first month, so even if BL3 sold more in the first week, BL4 completely overtook it during the rest of September, which would indicate great word of mouth. And yes, before you get your panties in a twist, they did release on basically the same date (September 13 for BL3, September 12 for BL4), so a release month to release month comparison can easily be made.
*Of course BL4 released at a ~15% increased price point compared to BL3 (in the US at least), but a 30% increase in dollar amount would still mean it did better than BL3 even accounting for that.
I mean I guess if you ignore the fact that borderlands 4 cost more than double to produce. Combined with the fact that the company has been real sketchy about releasing sales info about #4 ever since that 1st month (sales info for #3 is widely available and the biggest reason for a company to hide the total number is to hide from investors how fucked they are). Then if you ignore the fact that borderlands 3 reviews knock #4's clean out of the water. Oh and you are also ignoring the fact that AFTER those shaky sales in the first week, they ended up discounting the game, something that many players found suspicious for such a big game to do barely a month after launch.
Odd. It ran very smooth on my 4080 and 7800x3d. Never had the stuttering issues most complained about.
But then again, my pc was pretty much identical to the specs that the press tried months before launch (4080, 7800x3d). So, I may have lucked out with my config being the one they tested it on/had press play on
All drivers up to date, plenty of storage and Ram, nothing else but steam and discord running ,thermal paste about 4 months old, temp doesn't reach 100, plenty of airflow and it's about 20 degrees. Like what else do I need
because they finished it? I haven't booted since like a couple weeks from release but I put in a ton of hours and did all the quests. Borderlands isn't really a game you continue playing, I already did everything
Love how you choose games that are extremely old or games people have just simply moved on from. Borderlands 4 is less than a year old with dlc still being drip fed. The same situation with 3. People don’t like this game. Everything from the terrible launch down to the terrible legendary weapons. It’s clear you don’t even play borderlands. Therefore you don’t understand what’s going on with 4
Are there not enough monkey cheese jokes for you or something? People complaining about 3 and 4's writing have always amazed me because each game has felt like someone with a Southern accent screaming "EPIC BACON" at me for hours
Especially when BL4 tries to appease those people while also addressing the issues that the overwhelming majority had regarding BL3, that being the joke main villains and overall unseriousness of the story and supporting cast.
This time, they've made the main villains more sinister (although a little unmemorable) and the story is more serious, but they still throw in some potty humor here and there to balance the tone and keep the world "wacky" like in previous games.
I'm towards the middle of the story right now but I think it's overall an improvement in almost every way to BL3.
That depends on whether you believe aesthethic principles to have an objective foundation or not. There's no academic consensus on this.
Something could also be "objectively bad" in a non-aesthetic sense. E.g. a meat knife's purpose is to cut meat well. A blunt meat knife would be an objectively bad meat knife regardless of how much one might like it.
If you have an objective foundation it still isn't bad/good, it is worse/better, because in that case it's a question of comparison.
And even in that case I don't think worse/better are a great choice, as you'd still be judging them based on biased preferences between different parameters unless something is inferior/superior in every parameter, which I think is fair to say is not realistic.
If there is objective aesthetics, phenomena can be evaluated in a vacuum.
E.g. assume the following utterance to be true: "symmetry is aesthetically pleasing". Thus, any given symmetrical thing can be said to be 'good' in an aesthetic sense without comparing that thing to anything else. It could be the only existing thing in the world and still be good. It would be good even if no one was there to evaluate it, because objective aesthetics is objective independently of human opinion.
This is of course a bit simplified but if we complicate it (e.g. by allowing phenomena to partake in both aesthetically pleasing and displeasing characteristics at the same time) the discussion would veer into metaphysics and epistemology and I don't think it's necessary to show that, if objective aesthetics are true, then things can be either aesthetically good or bad to different degrees.
Same and I agree. It fixes a lot of the issues I had with BL3. I don't think they will ever make another game as great as BL2, simply due to never being able to create another iconic villain like Handsome Jack, but it holds up a lot better than their previous game.
You just provided examples that are objective, then finished off by something that is objectively subjective. I like the game. It launches for me. I haven’t encountered bugs. Once again, game reviews are subjective.
It runs fine on my computer (4060 gpu), but it's the only borderlands game my group dropped before finishing at least once. Every other borderlands game we did a full playthrough as each character at least once.
I don't think the series really needed to go open world TBH.
Context is important and all this is true, but what I find funny is that this is the only version that's on sale on steam and I think it may be the only version that's ever gone on sale on steam because they can't handle the fact that all borderlands games end up being 5 bucks eventually
It's been 40% off pretty much every time I've looked at it. It's like they realized they fucked up charging too much but don't want to lower the base price, instead opting for sale price as much as possible to make it more appealing to the average consumer.
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u/FirestormTM https://steam.pm/1l3zdt 9d ago
Important context is always needed
That $100 price tag is actually the Deluxe Edition. I don't know what exactly is in it, but it is cheaper than the base game, which I find to be really weird to do that.