BL4 Vault Hunters

[Breado]

Anyone else slightly disappointed? Its like they came straight out of Concord lets just hope the writing is at least decent but my expectations are basically nil.

[kukuhimanpr]

whats funny about flyboy is that the va and writing seems to know his character is total hipster cringe that will be disposed off quickly later. even moxxie noticed his crampy style and mocks it. so flyboy just decides to just go full ham on his crampy style like an invincible delusional youngster, and then going out stylishly through being kicked out anticlimactically from his buzzard by piston. something something satire mocking of genz hipster culture or something.

[Murph]

I like them. I'm all in for the new Siren (so pleased to see that it is NOT Ava). Also intrigued by the engineer looking character on the right.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

I have no idea what they are. I have not looked at the articles. But how they play is the only important part. They have very little personality now and what they look like is not important. In B1, B2, I liked playing the B1 characters better than the B2 characters.

[The New Crusader]

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

I have no idea what they are. I have not looked at the articles. But how they play is the only important part. They have very little personality now and what they look like is not important. In B1, B2, I liked playing the B1 characters better than the B2 characters.

I'm reminded of a quote from a Borderlands video used to introduce this very subject. To paraphrase "The story of a video game is like the story of a porn movie. You expect it to be there, but it's not important."

Stories of video games don't need to be particularly complex or even particularly well-written, but if it goes beyond simply being something the player doesn't care about and becomes something they actively dread the thought of experiencing, that's a problem in-and-of-itself.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Originally posted by The New Crusader:

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

I have no idea what they are. I have not looked at the articles. But how they play is the only important part. They have very little personality now and what they look like is not important. In B1, B2, I liked playing the B1 characters better than the B2 characters.

I'm reminded of a quote from a Borderlands video used to introduce this very subject. To paraphrase "The story of a video game is like the story of a porn movie. You expect it to be there, but it's not important."

Stories of video games don't need to be particularly complex or even particularly well-written, but if it goes beyond simply being something the player doesn't care about and becomes something they actively dread the thought of experiencing, that's a problem in-and-of-itself.

Pfffffttt. The only reason anyone is dreading the story is that they believe the influencers that tell them they are supposed to. Influencers that need controversy to generate clicks/income.

[The New Crusader]

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

Pfffffttt. The only reason anyone is dreading the story is that they believe the influencers that tell them they are supposed to. Influencers that need controversy to generate clicks/income.

Borderlands 3 came out five years ago. Maybe that was true when it first released, but video games that get entirely undeserved hate for that long are rare. And it's not like the wider internet doesn't acknowledge what Borderlands 3 gets right. They just think the story is complete dogwater and is the worst part of the game.

[Deformerad Dallarydsbo]

The day I care about the words, look or subtext of a Borderlands game is the day I play something else, guns, perk tree depth and difference, varied missions and enemies, that's what makes Borderlands stick out it's the most mechanically complex first person looter.

If you want a looter that had a good story and charachters you should have played Destiny 2 10 years ago all the way to the final shape expansion, unfortunately it's too late now.

[Tentacle of Ozric]

Originally posted by Deformerad Dallarydsbo:

The day I care about the words, look or subtext of a Borderlands game is the day I play something else, guns, perk tree depth and difference, varied missions and enemies, that's what makes Borderlands stick out it's the most mechanically complex first person looter.

If you want a looter that had a good story and charachters you should have played Destiny 2 10 years ago all the way to the final shape expansion, unfortunately it's too late now.

For me the humor is a big part of the borderlands experience. It was perfect in B2 with Jack (and Claptrap ofc). It didn't click for me at all in B3, at some point in the middle I just stopped playing and never finished it. The antagonists in B3 were the worst I've ever seen in any video game, the writing of those 2 youtuber idiots was just pure cr*p.
Gonna be very cautious with B4, watch some gameplays before I buy. No preorder for sure.

[kukuhimanpr]

i'm disappointed with people who don't care about borderlands character's backstories. just try taking a look at b2 jack and angel's very emotional and tragically complex story arcs, and you'd find some kind of beauty worthy to be appreciated with the way classic borderlands games (before b3) writing juggle between over the top wacky crazyness and grim tragic events surrounding those quirky charming characters.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Tentacle of Ozric:

The antagonists in B3 were the worst I've ever seen in any video game, the writing of those 2 youtuber idiots was just pure cr*p.
Gonna be very cautious with B4, watch some gameplays before I buy. No preorder for sure.

I waited for quite a while before I bought BL3. After the whole Epic exclusive issue, I didn't want to give either 2K or Gearbox more than the minimum necessary. And by then I'd heard how much the story sucked and the fact that they killed off Maya. So ... I waited for a sale on the Pandora's Box collection. Got all the BL3 content for $23 USD, and ... at that price, it was worth it. The story does suck, but the gameplay is great.

Going to wait for actual player reviews on BL4 before I even think about putting down any money. And even then ... we'll see. I may still wait for a sale.

[Radiowavehero]

I very much disagree with the comparison to concord , the characters in concord looked like generic NPC's , they wore boring clothing and had no discernible personality.

Meanwhile all the borderlands characters have a certain style that has persisted thru all the games and the newest characters are no different , maybe even a little more flashy than some of the previous vault hunters.

It's a dumb meme https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383880391

But just for arguments sake lets only compare their visuals and not their personality or alternate skins/heads etc etc.

So just based on looks what do we got ?

The typical borderlands formulae goes something like this Buff dude who is a tank , Soldier guy who is an all-rounder , Hot chick siren , Weird guy/girl who has some gimmick like a pet , now lets compare the games.

Borderlands 1

Buff guy , soldier guy , hot chick , weird guy (comes with bird)

Borderlands 2

Buff guy (compact edition) , Buff guy (psycho edition) , Soldier guy , Hot chick , weird chick (comes with robot), weird guy (wannabe robot)

Borderlands TPS

Buff guy (REALLY wants to be robot) , Soldier girl , Hot chick (pay to win) , Weird chick (cowboy edition) , Claptrap (robot) , Weird guy (unpaid intern edition)

Borderlands 3

Buff hot chick , Soldier guy (merc edition) , weird chick (again with robot) , weird guy (actually a robot)

Borderlands 4

Buff dude (beard edition) , Soldier guy , Hot chick , Weird chick

Like c'mon man , these a par for the course borderlands type characters , for good or bad this is the theme and they are sticking with it , as for their clothes I think they look the same as usual , a little too flashy even , not in the least bit "Generic" unless you live in a dystopian punk future.

If anything is wrong with borderlands 4 it's the disturbing lack of robot vault hunters.

[Black Hole]

They look dumb yes, but hopefully their abilities make up for it, not confident their personalities wont also be rather cringe.

[Blue Bucket]

I feel like it's a bit too early too judge. Like I would like to know their personality and backstory first before I like them or not

[His Majesty's strawberry cart]

coincidentally what unreal engine will they be using?

[Gila]

Originally posted by isotope-of-iodine:

{ know this is a necro but what unreal engine will they be using?

Apparently, it will be Unreal Engine 5.

It's mentioned here: https://www.famitsu.com/article/202412/27107