Borderlands 3

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  1. Mooser8585
    Sep 25, 2019
    7
    For both fans of the borderlands series, this game is what it says it is, more borderlands. The graphics are great, the gameplay is fun and addicting, and the massive variety of guns is fantastic. However, for players looking to get into the series, I would precede with caution. If you don’t really care about story and are just looking for fun gameplay and exciting loot, this game will beFor both fans of the borderlands series, this game is what it says it is, more borderlands. The graphics are great, the gameplay is fun and addicting, and the massive variety of guns is fantastic. However, for players looking to get into the series, I would precede with caution. If you don’t really care about story and are just looking for fun gameplay and exciting loot, this game will be a fine addition to your collection. However, for those looking for a deep and interesting narrative, you will likely not enjoy this. I find the story and characters lacklustre compared to both other games and previous entries in the series. But, if gameplay is all you care about, this game will be one of your favourites.
    Of course I cannot ignore the elephant in the room; this game has released in a frankly poor state. The game is plagued with bugs and from what I’ve heard, co-op is almost unplayable. In this day and age, games should not be releasing like this, but here we are. I’m frankly quite disappointed with gearbox for this but hopefully they will fix up the game in the coming weeks to make it a more enjoyable experience.
    Overall, I would say that borderlands 3 is an enjoyable experience that may not have fully lived up to its hype, but is a solid game nonetheless.    … Expand
  2. adderampl
    Sep 26, 2019
    4
    Really dissapoonted in the story of the game. Loved the previous ones. Mechanics are good, but all in all - if you’ve played the previous ones it’s the same but with new skins on top of it.
  3. bikergofast
    Oct 1, 2019
    3
    Gearbox went so wrong in this. 5 steps forward, 4 steps back. From the different voice actors, to different writers, to leaving huge plot holes from the previous games, how could the critic reviews possibly give this more than a 5.

    Sadly I fell for the hype and bought on Epic store, and yes I feel so dirty for that choice and will have to live with that for the rest of my life.
  4. rauckus
    Oct 4, 2019
    5
    Unlike most reviews, lets start with the cons:
    -Poor optimization; the game sucks up a lot of extra power
    -Cannot skip cut scenes. If I had known I will spend 5 hours of every play through watching RP and cut scenes, I would've avoided wasting my time on this game. -Trash dumpster fire of a story. Play this game for the loot, unless you are a 14 year old girl you'll find the story as    Unlike most reviews, lets start with the cons:
    -Poor optimization; the game sucks up a lot of extra power
    -Cannot skip cut scenes. If I had known I will spend 5 hours of every play through watching RP and cut scenes, I would've avoided wasting my time on this game.
    -Trash dumpster fire of a story. Play this game for the loot, unless you are a 14 year old girl you'll find the story as compelling as watching grass grow.
    -Excessive feminist overtones. All the story characters are female, and half the male characters are gay. Really made the story seem ridiculous, forced, and unrelatable.

    Pros:
    Good looter shooter. Borderlands 2 is waaay better, but this will entertain that crowd, as long as they are willing to spend a lot of time AFK trying to ignore the story.    … Expand
  5. JVinnie10
    Oct 13, 2019
    4
    Borderlands 3 is more borderlands 2 but with updated graphics, a more epic scope and storyline, and tons of issues. The terrible lag in multiplayer and menus, input delay, and large number of game-breaking bugs make it difficult to fully enjoy, and is disappointing and unfinished in the state it is in. The humor has gone a little over-the-top, and ends up obnoxious most of the time. TheBorderlands 3 is more borderlands 2 but with updated graphics, a more epic scope and storyline, and tons of issues. The terrible lag in multiplayer and menus, input delay, and large number of game-breaking bugs make it difficult to fully enjoy, and is disappointing and unfinished in the state it is in. The humor has gone a little over-the-top, and ends up obnoxious most of the time. The lack of vertical split screen with how wide TVs are today is a bad call, and ends up forcing you to play while squinting through little slits of screen. Updates should address major issues and not character and loot nerfs.… Expand
  6. Sclingan
    Feb 24, 2020
    0
    The story was the most disappointing slap in the face to anyone who still followed this game. who the hell are they trying to please with it? like a small minority of feminists! All the male characters they built up in the past 2 games are either non existent, dead, or absent from the main story line because they conveniently don't have anything to do with it. medicaid, brick and Tina gotThe story was the most disappointing slap in the face to anyone who still followed this game. who the hell are they trying to please with it? like a small minority of feminists! All the male characters they built up in the past 2 games are either non existent, dead, or absent from the main story line because they conveniently don't have anything to do with it. medicaid, brick and Tina got the worst of it, they basically exist for a couple of side missions on Pandora.

    The calypso twins could have been handled better, they are not the worst, but the way they handled them makes them so horrible that they should have just used handsome jack again. All of their lines are so god damn cringey. They don't really do much to make the player hate them, they kill off Maya, but the way they do it is really dumb, which ill get to when i write about Ava.

    Ava is the worst of it all, i won't go too into depth with Ava. just imagine having Rae from Starwars: Mary Sue Edition in borderlands 3... and yea, that is basically Ava. she just kinda exists and takes (well, owns) all the credit like you don't even exist. and to top it off she gets Maya killed and then it is apparently Lilith's fault, so yea.

    honestly the story is so bad it is hard to even recommend this game to anyone who played bl2. the writing is written by a bunch of boomers, the jokes are so stale and so old that you won't even chuckle. The only redeeming quality, is the game play, which has had a huge improvement but, even that is getting stale. i wish Anthony Burch wrote the game's story, at least he understood how to write one.    … Expand
  7. game_bolt
    Jan 19, 2020
    4
    Big fan of BL1 & 2, but very disappointed with 3. It feels like there is a lack in map variety compared to 2, as well as side quests, and then when it comes to enemy variety it felt like I was fighting the same enemies the whole time with a different skin. Definitely a big improvement in graphics, and especially the gameplay. Unfortunately the story wasn't so good, but BL is not known forBig fan of BL1 & 2, but very disappointed with 3. It feels like there is a lack in map variety compared to 2, as well as side quests, and then when it comes to enemy variety it felt like I was fighting the same enemies the whole time with a different skin. Definitely a big improvement in graphics, and especially the gameplay. Unfortunately the story wasn't so good, but BL is not known for its good story telling. The main problem with this though is that the story is so annoying your just trying to get through it as quickly as possible. The lack of side quest and optional maps really felt like your just grinding through the story mode to get to the end, the whole time wishing you were just playing BL2. I understand that for a lot of people this game is appealing but for me I'm just going to go back to BL2. Glad I didn't get the season pass...Only reason I'm giving it a 4 rather than a 6 is out of frustration. This was one of the most anticipated games for me, and I feel like I paid 70 bucks to get disappointed.… Expand
  8. Gme
    Mar 18, 2020
    4
    Somewhere between pre sequel and borderlands 2. Gunplay is better than it ever was but the writing is so bad and the whole game is bland. Classes are "ok" which is more than could be said about the pre sequels horrible classes. There is very little innovation here and it's shocking how this took so many years to make. This feels like it should have come out a year after the last game.Somewhere between pre sequel and borderlands 2. Gunplay is better than it ever was but the writing is so bad and the whole game is bland. Classes are "ok" which is more than could be said about the pre sequels horrible classes. There is very little innovation here and it's shocking how this took so many years to make. This feels like it should have come out a year after the last game.

    Also bad performance and forced arbitrary exclusivity.    … Expand
  9. ZeroToleranceRU
    Feb 28, 2020
    0
    First it was only bugs of all sorts. Bugs and lack of optimization. And by "lack" i mean absolute absence.
    Then developers began making me not to call male hunter "he" or adress him as "him". And i said: fock you, i don't have to listen to this crap, my hunter is abviosly a "he".
    Then leater in game i found out fockTONNS of childish cringeworthy "womanpower" "humor" (God forbid!). And    First it was only bugs of all sorts. Bugs and lack of optimization. And by "lack" i mean absolute absence.
    Then developers began making me not to call male hunter "he" or adress him as "him". And i said: fock you, i don't have to listen to this crap, my hunter is abviosly a "he".

    Then leater in game i found out fockTONNS of childish cringeworthy "womanpower" "humor" (God forbid!). And i just learned to to listen to so called "voice acting".

    And now developers are making us eat perversious crap called "gay addon".

    All i can say to them from now on is "fock you and all that is precious in your perverted **** lives".

    We are normal mentally healthy people and we will not be fed by your **** propaganda for our own money.

    Not a single dime to this pile of crap of a "game developer company".    … Expand
  10. Smint
    Mar 31, 2020
    4
    The Storly is sooooo **** bad, the humor is insanely bad, its like a edgy 14 year old boy wrote the jokes,its 1 year old and full of bugs srsly patch them allready! But the gameplay is realy good and i also love all the weapons and the graphics.
  11. Wesker_12345
    Sep 15, 2019
    1
    More like borderlands 2.3. Copy pasted generic shooter, looks and runs like a ps3 game. Same humour, same story line, same guns, same characters, same , same , same - and more frame drops.
  12. theprocsss
    Sep 15, 2019
    0
    Epic Game Store refusing to give me a refund.

    The game won’t run on my computer. it freezes during the claptrap load screen in both DX11 and DX12. I have a GTX 1070. I7 6700K, 32 GB RAM. Tried to refund the game but epic store didnt allow because i had more than 2 hours on the game. ( 2 hours trying to find out what the hell i cant pass the loading screen ). I learn that i will    Epic Game Store refusing to give me a refund.

    The game won’t run on my computer. it freezes during the claptrap load screen in both DX11 and DX12.
    I have a GTX 1070. I7 6700K, 32 GB RAM.

    Tried to refund the game but epic store didnt allow because i had more than 2 hours on the game. ( 2 hours trying to find out what the hell i cant pass the loading screen ).

    I learn that i will never be buying from epic games and greedy 2K games.
    Now we know why this game is on the epic games store. NO REVIEW SYSTEM, NO REFUNDS.    … Expand
  13. Ganzzoberg
    Sep 15, 2019
    0
    Have over 2k hours in bl1 2 and presequel combined.
    This is game is broken mess, with the fact It being an epic exclusive being the icing on the sh1tcake.
    Best part is, performance problems are caused by an anti piracy DRM. So in turn when the game inevitably gets pirated not only will they have the game for free, but they will have a smother experience than any of us who actually wasted    Have over 2k hours in bl1 2 and presequel combined.
    This is game is broken mess, with the fact It being an epic exclusive being the icing on the sh1tcake.
    Best part is, performance problems are caused by an anti piracy DRM. So in turn when the game inevitably gets pirated not only will they have the game for free, but they will have a smother experience than any of us who actually wasted money on this game.    … Expand
  14. Imaculate
    Sep 13, 2019
    0
    Finally, game releases. Was so anticipating this release.
    Unlike, the previous titles, this one isn't an improvement.
    Can't say I would recommend it at all. Knowing what I know now, I'd wouldn't have even wasted my money and time. Especially, after all the hype... Please, don't judge me. I am just a game addict and was hoping for another great Borderlands title. Couldn't keep    Finally, game releases. Was so anticipating this release.
    Unlike, the previous titles, this one isn't an improvement.
    Can't say I would recommend it at all.
    Knowing what I know now, I'd wouldn't have even wasted my money and time.

    Especially, after all the hype...
    Please, don't judge me.
    I am just a game addict and was hoping for another great Borderlands title.
    Couldn't keep playing it after a few hours. Don't support Communism by buying it from Epic store.    … Expand
  15. Heos
    Sep 17, 2019
    3
    Awful optimization. Manifesting leftist views and a ridiculous level of difficulty.
    In addition, no news, reheating the old meal.
  16. SuicidalTadpole
    Sep 14, 2019
    5
    Ah....the only issue thats ive encountered so far (give or take 6 hours of gameplay) is frame rate dropping at certain point. Most noticeable during boss fights...
  17. kalodosBG
    Sep 16, 2019
    0
    The little time I did play it for was just excruciatingly painful, the game is just pushing weird SJW virtue signaling crap on to the player, cringy as hell, had to get a refund, no way I was going to sit through 40+ hours of that. my brain can only take so much.
  18. NC_Hardy97
    Sep 17, 2019
    0
    I've never written a review before, but here we go.

    Disable cloud save if you are playing on PC and using Epic, inconveniently Epic has auto cloud saving, but it doesn't actually save any of your progress. I repeat IT DOES NOT SAVE ANY OF YOUR PROGRESS. So after replaying the first 16 hours of the game again (yes I lost 16 hours of progress :D) I had the opportunity to really appreciate    I've never written a review before, but here we go.

    Disable cloud save if you are playing on PC and using Epic, inconveniently Epic has auto cloud saving, but it doesn't actually save any of your progress. I repeat IT DOES NOT SAVE ANY OF YOUR PROGRESS. So after replaying the first 16 hours of the game again (yes I lost 16 hours of progress :D) I had the opportunity to really appreciate just how horrendous the **** show I was looking at was. The user inter face bugs, the dialogue cuts, the unskippable 5 minute cut scenes, the inability to turn in quests, inability to respawn quest vehicles, enemy AI somehow being worse than it was in the last game, inconsistent frame rates (across all resolutions), and my personal favorite items disappearing from the bank like they did in 2!

    Honestly I'm enjoying the story and the side quests feel like there was more effort put into them which is nice, but the game desperately needs polish. As someone who played Borderlands 2 over a thousand hours I consider my self a huge fan of the series, but at the moment the amount of bugs I'm encountering trying to do anything just frustrates me. If you are having a better experience congratulations but I doubt you are, you're just putting the blinders on and ignoring the bugs like I did my first 16 hours.    … Expand
  19. Chocolatestraw
    Sep 17, 2019
    0
    7 years of wait for a broken game... What else do you want really?? There is not enough improvement from the previous games of the series and its just quantity over quality
  20. Charliespain
    Sep 17, 2019
    0
    A mi me da igual que el juego sea de Steam o Epic. Lo único que quería era poder disfrutar de una de mis sagas favoritas en condiciones, y eso no está siendo posible. El juego está lleno de bugs, tirones al apuntar con una mirilla, tirones cuando hay exposiones, al abrir el dispositivo echo, tirones al pasar por un punto de guardado...

    El juego está optimizado de pena, y Gearbox mira    A mi me da igual que el juego sea de Steam o Epic. Lo único que quería era poder disfrutar de una de mis sagas favoritas en condiciones, y eso no está siendo posible. El juego está lleno de bugs, tirones al apuntar con una mirilla, tirones cuando hay exposiones, al abrir el dispositivo echo, tirones al pasar por un punto de guardado...

    El juego está optimizado de pena, y Gearbox mira para otro lado. De chiste.    … Expand
  21. scarstobone
    Sep 14, 2019
    1
    PS4 version, apart from numerous glitches and low frame rate had the entire system crash twice. I have put over 2,000 hours into borderlands 1/2/ pre-sequel, and loved them all but can not recommend this to anyone in its current state. With sufficient patches and DLC it may be playable if it is ever on sale with a good PC, but don't bother with PS4 version. This game is one I have beatenPS4 version, apart from numerous glitches and low frame rate had the entire system crash twice. I have put over 2,000 hours into borderlands 1/2/ pre-sequel, and loved them all but can not recommend this to anyone in its current state. With sufficient patches and DLC it may be playable if it is ever on sale with a good PC, but don't bother with PS4 version. This game is one I have beaten and will never touch again, and for a series with as high replay-ability as Borderlands, that on its own makes me hope they don't ever release Borderlands 4.… Expand
  22. The66Monkey
    Sep 14, 2019
    3
    The gameplay has not evolved, the game is buggy and the humour is mean spirited. It's a continuation on the decline Borderlands 2 started and not a return to the high of Borderlands 1.
  23. Aphexmtx
    Sep 15, 2019
    0
    Literally unplayable.

    Game breaking bugs. Bosses glitch. Multiplayer rubber bands. Massive performance issues in PC.

    This should not have been released.
  24. Dead-Pixel
    Sep 17, 2019
    0
    This game runs like garbage. Tons of performance issues. They lost all the good writers that made the series what it was. They send goons to their fans houses to intimidate them. They have MICROTRANSACTIONS despite saying they wouldn't be in the game. This alone shows that the devs are liars.

    And worst of all it's on the Chinese - spyware ridden Epic Crap Store. Stay away and save    This game runs like garbage. Tons of performance issues. They lost all the good writers that made the series what it was. They send goons to their fans houses to intimidate them. They have MICROTRANSACTIONS despite saying they wouldn't be in the game. This alone shows that the devs are liars.

    And worst of all it's on the Chinese - spyware ridden Epic Crap Store.

    Stay away and save your money. Fanboys are the only ones who love this one.    … Expand
  25. GooverDan1
    Sep 17, 2019
    0
    Those 9 and 10 reviews are full of Borderlands fanboys, that's a shame, the half of these reviews give those ratings because are for fighting the others, that's really pathetic.

    And now, for the game. Is buggy as hell, the jokes are stupid before yes, but these are now cringeworthy. And the politics give his step at this beloved franchise. Don't buy the game.
  26. Skladowska
    Sep 18, 2019
    4
    Game is awesome but optimalization... from 60fps to 30 fps in fight moments. Waiting for fix because game is for me unplayeable for this moment
  27. IShowUBasics
    Sep 14, 2019
    0
    I really like playing with my boy FL4K. HE has great design and also HIS skills are fun. Sadly the game is pure cringefest in terms of jokes and lategame.
  28. sirlegowisko
    Sep 15, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Когда-то давно в каком-то интервью я прочитал, что третья Бордерлендс будет похожа на первую часть. И знаете, так ведь и получилось: тройка вобрала в себя всё самое худшее, что было в первой:
    - скучные локации вернулись, и теперь они огромные и сопровождаются гигантскими картами, что искусственно растягивает время прохождения. В игре нет МАЛЕНЬКОЙ локации, кроме корабля, и то по нему необходимо ПОСТОЯННО бегать взад-вперёд, а по ощущениям он не такой уж и небольшой, так ещё и тёмный. Гениальный левел-дизайн так же предписывает выставлять яркость так, чтобы темно становилось ТЁМНЫМ. Из-за этого некоторые локации приходится проходить вслепую;
    - ещё более неинтересные поди-убей или подай-принеси квесты;
    - постольку-поскольку сюжет, в котором
    а) слиты абсолютно все, как протагонисты (Таннис растеряла долю своего задорного безумия, доктора Зеда нет вообще), так и антагонисты (Катагава совершенно ненужный персонаж, Аурелия в Бл3 и Пресиквеле — две разные женщины, близнецы Калипсо вообще персонажи неубедительные, они МэриСьюхи);
    б) некоторые персонажи и линии просто не должны находиться, например, Клэй и сопротивленцы + к этому что-то вообще должно из сайдквестов перейти в разряд основы (квест, где нужно послушать личные эхо-записи Катагавы, нпрм);
    в) лора и в помине нет;
    - умудрились даже стрельбу похерить! Перед выстрелом задержка, враги иногда не реагируют на попадания даже в мили!

    И так продолжать можно долго, ведь куда не ткни, всё плохо — сценарий ужасен, диалоги написаны ОТВРАТИТЕЛЬНО, лора и шуток нет, персонажи картонные абсолютно все. Геймплей и тот похерен уродским левел-дизайном, работой сражений, жирнотой врагов, инпут-лагом и ужасной оптимизацией даже на хороших и топ-системах.

    Ну что это такое? За что этой игре ставить 10? 9, 8, 7? Тут даже 0 ставить как-то неудобно — подобное поделиё оценивается отрицательными значениями.    … Expand
  29. Restarian
    Sep 13, 2019
    0
    Suffers from unplayable lag and disconnections because of the anti-piracy DRM.
    Gameplay and story are mediocre and feel like a step down from BL2
  30. ZpaceMagnus
    Sep 14, 2019
    7
    Take Borderlands 2, then release it 7 years later. That's basically Borderlands 3.
    And the optimization is horrible! Like sooo many bugs, issues, glitches, bad optimization.
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#62 Best PC Game of 2019
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#98 Most Shared PC Game of 2019

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 53 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 53
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 53
  3. Negative: 1 out of 53
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 28, 2020
    80
    Gearbox has a problem: the fantastic Borderlands 2 is too good to be beaten. But in the case of Borderlands 3, it is still more than a worthy successor. The filmmakers brought many pop-cultural references, maybe pushing too hard on how they want to be “modern”, but otherwise it's a great game again. [Issue#298]
  2. Carole Quintaine
    Jan 29, 2020
    85
    Borderlands 3 offers a generous experience, with colourful characters, neat gameplay and a charming universe. Its formula, very close to that of the previous episodes does not revolutionize the show but its small new features bring a little freshness and the scenario makes us want to go to the end of the adventure. Its dynamism and nervousness make it a choice piece for adrenaline-ready FPS lovers and license fans.
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  3. Hooked Gamers
    Nov 13, 2019
    88
    The fun, humorous storyline, some great dialogue and theatrical accents of the diverse characters, beautifully varied locations and the same great gunplay that Borderlands is renowned for, means that Borderlands 3 becomes another must have title in the series.
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