Does anyone feel like the announcement for BL4 is too fast?

[Armoire Z]

Mostly because there's a 7 year gap between BL2 & 3 Last time and the quality of BL3 is more Gameplay focus and not balance at all with the story like BL2.

5 years after that, boom BL4.

[Heretical_Cactus]

Originally posted by Armoire Z:

Mostly because there's a 7 year gap between BL2 & 3 Last time and the quality of BL3 is more Gameplay focus and not balance at all with the story like BL2.

5 years after that, boom BL4.

But there is a game that came inbetween Bl2 and 3

The Pre-sequel. (And Battleborn, but nobody care about it)

[Black Hole]

Yeah they trying to distract from that abomination borderlands movie.

[Uzkniso o.o]

Nah, I feel like it's fine.

What I hope for, is that the game does not get rushed, like what happened with cyberpunk.

[Black Hole]

They need to make a profit fast so I imagine they are gonna crunch really hard on this one to get it out asap and just patch it down the line.

[kukuhimanpr]

this is normal post b3 era gearbox speed as usual.

going turbo bulldozing through unfinished projects and wasted potentials.

just like how b3 maya gets killed in turbo speed by ava and troy without giving maya enough time to reunite b2 hunters together, and also turbo skip maya's funeral by giving lilith, tannis and ava makeshift turbo funeral script on the spot giving tannis turbo migraine due to her being given the job to do spontaneous funeral speech while also being overworked as sanctuary's scientist-doctorsurgeon(why gearbox not recruit zed replacement?)-angelreplacement... tannis is basically barbie with too much jobs now. not to mention her still stressed with her ceiling chair ptsd traumas, autism, introvert aspergers syndromes and whatnot... and gearbox doesn't care...

anyway. turbomansion. thats the default speed of gearbox.

[Black Hole]

I'm sure they will get the gameplay fine but the story as usual is gonna be hot garbage and unfinished full of plot holes never to be answered.

[kukuhimanpr]

and thats why i'd prefer if gearbox just make some borderlands spinoff game where story is very minimalistic with pure focus on gameplay and just throw all borderlands stars in there regardless of their living-death states in 'canon'. like marvel vs capcom crossover games or something similar where players can just have fun with their favorite characters without bad storytelling getting in the way. i can't accept b4 just gonna happen while b3 official canon just disband b2 hunters and crimson raiders' bond just like that with no sense of unity against oppression and other threats like in b2.

i mean they already try to do that with the vaultlander mini game in ntftb... but that idea is badly executed because the vaultlander figurines doesn't feature all the previous vault hunters, and vaultlander figurines are just static lifeless dolls which feels more of a cheap mockery to the actual vault hunters themselves.

borderlands players would want very actiony shootey rpg lootey gameplay, not collecting dumb pokemon statues to fight in boring turn based matches where the lifeless statues throw stuff at each other.

[Armoire Z]

Originally posted by Heretical_Cactus:

Originally posted by Armoire Z:

Mostly because there's a 7 year gap between BL2 & 3 Last time and the quality of BL3 is more Gameplay focus and not balance at all with the story like BL2.

5 years after that, boom BL4.

But there is a game that came inbetween Bl2 and 3

The Pre-sequel. (And Battleborn, but nobody care about it)

Oh yeah, forgot about that.

Honestly we should see what the end result is like.

[Black Hole]

Originally posted by kukuhimanpr:

and thats why i'd prefer if gearbox just make some borderlands spinoff game where story is very minimalistic with pure focus on gameplay and just throw all borderlands stars in there regardless of their living-death states in 'canon'. like marvel vs capcom crossover games or something similar where players can just have fun with their favorite characters without bad storytelling getting in the way. i can't accept b4 just gonna happen while b3 official canon just disband b2 hunters and crimson raiders' bond just like that with no sense of unity against oppression and other threats like in b2.

i mean they already try to do that with the vaultlander mini game in ntftb... but that idea is badly executed because the vaultlander figurines doesn't feature all the previous vault hunters, and vaultlander figurines are just static lifeless dolls which feels more of a cheap mockery to the actual vault hunters themselves.

borderlands players would want very actiony shootey rpg lootey gameplay, not collecting dumb pokemon statues to fight in boring turn based matches where the lifeless statues throw stuff at each other.

It wouldn't be borderlands then.

[kukuhimanpr]

well i just want borderlands characters be present in some kind of spinoff game as full roster and then the gameplay would be of crimson raiders spaceship base management+ hero collection and squad battle gameplay across the 6 galaxies.

it wouldn't need in depth stories since we can't trust gearbox to do consistent storytelling anymore. just have borderlands characters all be collectables in our arsenal and have them do borderlands stuff.

good comparisons for this type of gameplay would be:
1. home, planet & hunters
2. starlit eden
3. zenless zone zero
4. snowbreak containment zone
5. remnant 2
6. mass effect trilogy
7. metal slug awakening
8. counterside
and plenty more. there's already a lot of examples that could inspire gearbox to make borderlands spinoff game like i described above.

but anyway, thats just wishful thinking. i think gearbox would still be too tunnel visioned into developing b4 asap after piles upon piles of problems and mistakes from recent years.