Borderlands 4’s narrative director has hinted at a cut-back on the bathroom humor the collection is legendary for.
Gearbox’s Sam Winkler tweeted to say he stays “agency” in his criticism of Borderlands 3’s “overabundance of rest room humor.”
Not at liberty to speak a lot concerning the content material of BL4, however I stay agency in my criticism of BL3’s overabundance of rest room humor.
— Sam Winkler (@ThatSamWinkler) December 16, 2024
Then, responding to a consumer who joked that they wouldn’t have the ability to use “the poop poop farty 4,000 whereas doing a mission to wash up porta-potties with my companion skibidi rest room!?!?!?” Winkler mentioned: “I’m not gonna say there’s no bathrooms but when the phrase skibidi ships in the sport beneath my watch I’m gonna cry actual tears.”
I’m not gonna say there’s no bathrooms but when the phrase skibidi ships in the sport beneath my watch I’m gonna cry actual tears. Paul Tassi joked that we had been gonna have a gun referred to as Hawk 2A and a fellow dev requested me if it was actual and I needed to place my hand down the sink grinder
— Sam Winkler (@ThatSamWinkler) December 16, 2024
The Borderlands collection, which started with the primary recreation’s launch in 2009, is called a lot for its humor as it’s its loot-driven gameplay. The tone of the jokes have remained comparatively constant all through the franchise’s run, which takes in 2012’s Borderlands 2, 2014’s The Pre-Sequel, and 2019’s Borderlands 3. Certainly, rest room humor has served Borderlands effectively to this point, with complete franchise gross sales now as much as a powerful 81 million copies. However the debut teaser trailer for Borderlands 4 urged a darker tone this time, and the newest trailer, unveiled at The Recreation Awards 2024, strengthened this shift.
The TGA 2024 trailer confirmed snippets of first-person capturing and some returning characters, together with Claptrap.
This is the official blurb from Gearbox:
Revealed at The Recreation Awards, a brand new trailer introduces The Timekeeper, a ruthless dictator who dominates the plenty from on excessive. A world-altering disaster threatens his good Order, unleashing mayhem throughout Kairos, probably the most harmful planet found to this point in the Borderlands universe.
Borderlands 4 is probably the most formidable Borderlands thus far, lovingly hand-crafted by the event studio that first cast the looter shooter style. The title evolves the collection’ gameplay and storytelling in new methods whereas delivering on the quintessential Borderlands expertise followers know and love, together with:
Intense motion, badass Vault Hunters, and billions of wild and lethal weapons on an all-new planet dominated by a ruthless tyrant.
The deepest and most numerous Vault Hunter ability bushes of any Borderlands title but, giving gamers an unprecedented degree of expression by their builds. Paired with probably the most expansive loot chase but, gamers could have all of the instruments they should hunt down and excellent the construct that greatest matches their model.
Gamers will have the ability to seamlessly journey between zones and turn out to be immersed in a extra dynamic world that includes occasions and discoverable facet missions that encourage and reward exploration.
New traversal mechanics add to the exploration for loot and add new dimensions to fight. A car that may be summoned virtually anyplace could have gamers racing throughout the attractive vistas of Kairos in model.
Combat solo or in co-op with as much as three different gamers in this immense sci-fi journey, filled with free-form fight and exploration, pulse-pounding boss fights, infinitely diversified loot drops, and an eclectic solid of unforgettable characters new and previous.
“Borderlands 4 is about freedom and being badass,” mentioned Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford. “That is by far the most important and most insane world we’ve ever made – it is overloaded with jerkface ratnozzle scrote monsters that should be put down with probably the most over-the-top hardcore nuts op weapons and loot in any recreation ever. Oh, and the story additionally significantly kicks ass!”
Borderlands 4 is ready to launch in some unspecified time in the future in 2025, and comes after the disastrous launch of the Borderlands film.
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