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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 156 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I love Borderlands, but I really wish Randy would just shut the fuck up.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think he thinks he's Jack in The Pre-Sequel, but really he's Jack in Borderlands 2.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jack in BL2 was funny and entertaining tho.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

Probably not if you lived on Pandora.

[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hate borderlands, and I also wish Randy would shut the fuck up!

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (8 children)

B1 is a bit slow, but quite fun, B2 is brilliant, BTPS is similar to B2, but the crafting stuff is annoying, B3 was too chaotic with a too cluttred UI and a damn annoying story, B4, I have no idea

[–] simple@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago

Allegedly B4 is much better than 3, aside from the abysmal performance. I can wait until they fix it and get it for $15 on sale.

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[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 98 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How does someone with such a shitty personality and dress sense get so smug?

If I looked and acted like him I would want to punch myself in the face

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How does someone with such a shitty personality and dress sense get so smug?

Lots and lots of money.

If I looked and acted like him I would want to punch myself in the face

He has top of the line security details to do that for him.

And they keep failing up. Your job qualification is what you have done, not how well they were doing.

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So a 4070 is a leaf blower to this asshole.

Well I'll gladly not buy this game then.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 67 points 1 day ago

Considering Randy REALLY wants you to pay $130 USD for this game, I'm not shocked his performance advice was "be less poor"

[–] kuribo@aussie.zone 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude really felt the need to insult his customers. He could have said it’s a premium game for premium machines, but instead he decided he wanted to insult people who can’t play it and suggest they are less than the premium people who can.

2K needs to get this nut away from the mic.

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[–] xep@discuss.online 55 points 1 day ago

A game that looks like BL4 shouldn't run like Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing turned on.

[–] trslim@pawb.social 53 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Hot take, Borderlands was never really a good franchise. Yeah I played through the second game, but i did so once, and never wanted to return to it afterwards.

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[–] UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's nice, he is kind enough to tell us that we should not buy his game if we do not have a monster gpu. He is only excluding a very small portion of gamers after all !

Let's look at the Valve's hardware survey.

Wait...

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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe try optimizing your game before releasing it?

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So… I shouldn’t plan on playing this on a Steamdeck when it gets down to $19.99?

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not the current one, no. The Steam Deck is closer to a PS4 spec, and even if there weren't optimization problems, this is built to a PS5 spec.

[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone smarter than Randy will figure out tweaks and optimisations to allow it eventually.

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 39 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It's poorly optimized UE5 slop. Looks like shit, plays like shit.

Hard pass.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

In other words:

"We don't want to put resources towards optimising our product. We don't care if the methods we built our product with make it more difficult to use, while regressing in several key visual aspects. The burdon of our shortcomings will be placed on the end user, who will have to spend their resources to out-power them."

[–] yolahermanto@piefed.social 35 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's sad that a lot of devs just make their game and then slap frame-gen on it and then release it. Like who cares about optimization. Not that I blame them, people still buy those games full-priced, so...

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[–] philosloppy@lemmy.world 32 points 20 hours ago

borderlands

premium

lol

lmao

rofl

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Sucker game made for sucker gamers.

Are you inclined to blame yourself for the obvious failings of a gaming corporation? Smash that buy button now!

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 29 points 1 day ago

I guess I'm not premium enough to give you my money, Randy.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 day ago

I'll play something cheaper then

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I am a premium gamer; if you want me to play your premium game, you'll need to subscribe to me for $29.99/month or $324/year (that's a 10% discount from the month to month!)

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Nah I’m not gonna pay $80 for unoptimized copy-paste spyware my man thanks

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is Borderlands really all that popular still? Like I remember seeing the first few games everywhere, and people talking about them, but that was years ago. I realize I'm biased but I would expect to hear something about them...

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

1 was fresh and new

2 was fantastic

prequel was OK

3 tried too hard and was generally average to poor

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

2 was where the series really peaked. The first did some new things, and brought some fresh life into the shooter genre.

2 expanded upon it, and had a much better story. It was also in the heyday of matchmaking game lobbies, so it was easy to boot up the match finder and jump into a game with someone. Probably half of my Steam friends list came from playing this game and just vibing with people on voice chat while we ran through the side quests.

The prequel was… Alright? I’d put it about on par with the first game. It didn’t bring anything new or exciting to the table, but it was good at what it did.

Then 3 was just bad. It felt really cringey, in a “how do you do, fellow kids” kind of way. Like it was trying too hard.

And now 4 sounds like more of 3. The game sounds rushed, and the CEO’s attempting to cover for that rush makes him sound woefully out of touch. There’s no good reason that cel-shaded graphics should require a 5090 to run smoothly.

[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

I guess I will stick to my "non-premium" games made by devs who actually care about providing experiences worth experiencing, instead of a checklist-driven, committee designed and overpriced games that are most AAA games.

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was planning on picking up B4 when the GOTY edition goes on sale for $20-30 couple years from now. I figured performance issues will be solved by then. Now I think I'll pass.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 15 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Piracy, my friend. Fuck devs like this.

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[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I played lots of borderlands 2 with my friends back in the day it was pretty fun.

Three came out, played it for a bit, but it was just more of the same and somehow worse. Then I watched that God awful movie.

I think I'm over the franchise, but maybe here in a few years I'll pick it up for $5 in a summer sale.

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

What a total dick. Lots of people with high end PCs are all saying how it runs like shit, so what's the next excuse?

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[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 19 points 22 hours ago

Bought it to try n Linux. I don't have the greatest video card but I can play Dune: Awakening, Helldivers 2, Monster Hunter Wikds, Avowed, Black Myth: Wukong...

Borderlands 4 was stuttering on the barely animated character select. I lowered settings all as low as possible and it was still unplayable with delayed/missed input and stuttering.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 16 points 13 hours ago

I can't decide if the explanation that "our shitty game is made for premium gamers" is more or less absurd than EA charging 80 bucks for a game with most of its characters still locked would "provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment".

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm so sick of bad performance from all the big engines these days. Even unity makes simple 2d games chug.

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

So anyway, you guys excited for Hades 2?

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[–] User79185@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You need to have $500 gpu to hit 60fps with 1080p native, this is hilariously bad.

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[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

I haven't played more than about 30 minutes of a Borderlands game. But from clips I have seen of all of them over the years, they all look exactly the same. Sounds to me like it's just a poorly optimized game, as is standard for new AAA slop releases.

[–] MrJ199414@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They toned down the humor, which imo wasn't the problem they needed to write better jokes, and write better villains.

The entire plot feels like an extra long side mission which is basically, "Go Rescue Lilith." They have been teasing something "big" is coming and that they need to prepare for war since the pre sequel. We have gotten now two new main installments, two "tales", and a fucking spin-off since then. Yet they still keep teasing this "big" thing. I wish they'd move the narrative along already.

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