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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I have accepted reality and not purchased the game.

Thanks for the heads up Bobandy.

[–] denialmedia@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Dude is such a tool.

[–] philosloppy@lemmy.world 119 points 2 days ago (5 children)

...or Do Not Play

way ahead of you there, guy

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Couldn't have been less interested. Borderlands hasn't been remotely interesting since 2 and everything since then has been a soulless cash grab.

[–] massi1008@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Hard disagree.

Pre-Sequel, 3 and Wonderlands have all been great games that I had lots of fun with. I also know I'm going to have upwards of 100 hours of fun with 4. That's what makes this whole story even more frustrating...

But I'm a patient gamer. I played the previous BL games years after they came out. I'll do the same for this one - not because I can't afford a 60€ price tag but because articles like this. Sad.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 8 hours ago

If I have just bought a 90 series graphics card and a 60 euro game, it sure as hell better than buttery smooth. Since it won't be ill just save my money thanks.

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Wonderlands

Interesting. To me that game was just the worst:

Unskippable, long, very very very long, boring dialogues.

Shitty weapons, but fantasy. E.g. no oomph feeling when you hit the enemy with a large ice explosions. It just scraps a little of their health.

Boring, unchallenging fights.

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Countdown to him getting fired in 3…2…3…4…8…49…

Because companies ultimately seem to love leaders that are toxic these days.

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[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 1 day ago

He's looking like the Anti-Gaben Newell in that picture there.

[–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Considering i didn't bother to buy anything borderlands related since Borderlands 2, it will keep preety muchbthe same for me

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same, got 1&2 on a humble bundle. I remember one running great, and 2 bearable on a 1gb netbook att. Cell shaded games shouldn't be this resource intensive!

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[–] Muffi@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Soooo, is Borderlands 4 cracked yet?

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The reality is you made a game that few will play for several years. You could have made a game that could be playable on most contemporary machines. You didn't and will now have to suffer from shitty sales due to your inability to understand that the majority of us don't have the money to spend like you do you out of touch clueless ballsack.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Anyone that remembers Aliens: Colonial Marines and Duke Nukem Forever knows that Randy Pitchford is garbage. He also ran off most of the talent behind BL1 and BL2, which is why BL3 writing was shitty.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

The game is grossly overpriced and infected Denuvo malware. Those things are all symptoms of Randy Pitchford being involved. I’ll pass.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 116 points 2 days ago (14 children)

I accepted and just didn’t buy it to begin with.

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[–] CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wasn't too keen on that $70 basic version price tag in the first place, so thanks Randy. Can't wait for it to be $39.99

[–] Zanathos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Why stop there? Pretty sure BL3 was free at some point recently.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Guys who wear bowties are not smart, but desperately need people to think they are.

[–] OmegaMan@lemmings.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bowties are fine for formal (social) occasions like weddings and parties. Wearing them around every day is weird. Wearing them to work is (generally) weird.

Committing to wearing them everywhere and STILL buying pre-tied ones and not learning how to tie them yourself all while being a mega douche is cringe af.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, learn to tie them if you're going to make it part of your personality.

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Finally, someone agrees with me on the fucking bow tie thing.

Love the tie. Wear the tie. Talk about the tie. If you can't tie the tie but you do the first 3, I can't respect you.

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 56 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I swear I have no idea why they let him talk. He doesn't even own the company, surely someone at 2K could just go... you know... shush.

I don't even think the BL4 thing is that bad, on the face of it. There is really no need to make it worse.

"We have been made aware of some performance issues in certain systems in our new release, we'll be looking into performance improvements in future patches". It's not that hard. At this point just copy/paste whatever the other thousand UE5 games said, go fix the wonky precompilation boot step and stop digging a hole.

Hell, it's even easier than that, because they have actually pretty much put that out. All he really needed to do was shut up about it.

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[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 2 days ago (16 children)

Out of the loop, is it a AAA game drama?

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 59 points 2 days ago

Yeah, so it's just the usual

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Apparently the graphics are basically the same as 3, but performance is dog shit on even the best hardware and crashes are unavoidable.

When people complained, he said they need to use AI fake frame and upscale from 720. Which still wasn't good performance.

It might get fixed later in updates. But this guy is handling so badly he might legitimately be mentally unwell. It's at the point it's weird he still has a job

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Just your typical Randy drama you get at every BL release.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Of course the borderlands guy would look like that

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[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I have come to accept that this is a PR campaign to plaster the name everywhere all over social media and let it worm its way into currently pissed off gamers' heads for a few months down the line when they've calmed down and inevitably buy the fucking thing.

Pitchford is a slimeball. Rarely has a man who is allegedly not an insurance or used-car salesman given off such nakedly scummy vibes.

We need to stop giving free publicity to this little marketing man, and to this poorly optimised, expensive game.

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[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry I can't hear you Randy. I am playing silksong and after that, I am doing another BG3 playthrough.

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[–] Greddan@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're using a poorly made graphics engine and got scammed into implementing malware into their game.

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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's the year of the wealthy personalities who dont keep their mouth shut because they believe they are right and everyone will agree with their points and love them.

Happening right now with Mark Cuban on the NBA side.

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

A "Pitchford" - the meme of Randall Pitchford always, ALWAYS being an ass. This isn't anything new, just "fresh" again.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 17 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I haven't played 4, but I played 1, 2, and a bit of the presequel or whatever it was called. They were essentially all the same game. Run, shoot, run, shoot, hear vaguely off-color joke, run, shoot. Is there any particular reason to bother with an overpriced remake of the same old game? Is there a reason for worrying about 4KUHD textures on a game where the aesthetic is cartoony? If you're a 9 year old who's never played, and it's all on mom's dime, I could see being tricked into buying it by the advertisers, but why is anyone else excited about it?

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[–] CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 28 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Welp, that's what I did. Got my money back. I'll buy it when it's $19.99.

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