Borderlands 3

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  1. AngerIssuez
    Sep 14, 2019
    5
    Borderlands 3 is like a lion wearing a Rick and Morty shirt--It's an apex predator that's embarrassingly out-of-touch. The gameplay is unmatched in quality, and I would argue that if you mute the game and turn off subtitles, it's the best looter-shooter put to market. The problem is that the humor usually misses and the character moments just never land. When things happen, they justBorderlands 3 is like a lion wearing a Rick and Morty shirt--It's an apex predator that's embarrassingly out-of-touch. The gameplay is unmatched in quality, and I would argue that if you mute the game and turn off subtitles, it's the best looter-shooter put to market. The problem is that the humor usually misses and the character moments just never land. When things happen, they just seem contrived and muddled, and they have no impact.

    But the most unforgivable sin this game commits is ruining Rhys as a character. I will never forgive Gearbox for that.

    Also the game ruins terribly on almost every platform as of now so caveat emptor    … Expand
  2. Technoman16
    Sep 23, 2019
    4
    **** story only really saved by gun play, all the writing in this title is hilariously bad. The gun play is the alright but still lacks a bit as some guns sound like pea shooters still. Also bugs galore almost as many as fallout 76.
  3. Kleptomacer
    Oct 5, 2019
    0
    What a mess, jokes are unfunny, gameplay is bad and repetitive. Gearbox yet again releases another flop.
  4. Ashenkhar
    Sep 13, 2019
    0


    The game is redundant. Take Borderlands 2. Add a few graphics updates. Add bugs. Mix in a bit of drama ($10 off... no just kidding) (Play this on Steam! No, just kidding). Finish that off with a retread humor, and you have Borderlands 3!

    This is a $29.99 expansion at best.
  5. TheHonestJack
    Sep 18, 2019
    4
    Borderlands 3's best feature is its combat. It feels great to attack enemies in this game, just as it probabaly felt great for Randy Pitchford to assault a Gearbox employee in the hotel lobby of a gaming convention.
  6. Rockyboro
    Sep 15, 2019
    0
    Saddly it doesnt work, too much lag and stuttering. GFX is almost same as BL2, its just like DLC fpr BL 2!
  7. Xemnuz
    Sep 22, 2019
    4
    Most annoying bunch of voice actors I have ever heard in a game and I have played too many to count. The optimization of the game is a mess, the dialogue is a mess, the fps on a 2080+6700k is barely 60 in fights at medium. I think Borderlands 2 was pretty good, although a lot of bad humour. This is 100 times that and now performance is bad as well. And hiring a man to voice anMost annoying bunch of voice actors I have ever heard in a game and I have played too many to count. The optimization of the game is a mess, the dialogue is a mess, the fps on a 2080+6700k is barely 60 in fights at medium. I think Borderlands 2 was pretty good, although a lot of bad humour. This is 100 times that and now performance is bad as well. And hiring a man to voice an irish/scottish woman, why? Hiring Ice T to voice act, the cringe... The story is ok but taking the powers from Lilith is a mistake and there are just too many women on that damn ship. And please either change the voice of Claptrap or leave him out of the games.… Expand
  8. Hellion11
    Sep 17, 2019
    4
    DONT BUY THE GAME NOW! WAIT UNTIL IT WORKS.

    This game is fun....when it works. Crashes, bugs so often that I cant play the game now. For real, I start the game and within 3-5 sec my game crashes. Started a new playthrough and happen again. Can't hate the game but Epic and/or Gearbox has ALOT to work on. Releasing the game on Epic was a mistake, big mistake.
  9. akarnokd
    Sep 15, 2019
    6
    + Areas look nice and bigger
    + Many guns with interesting effects, fire mode changes
    + Interesting story kept me going + Quality of life improvements, fast travel, location progress displays + Funny moments + Verticality - Fast travel and vending machines are few and far between - backtracking respawns enemies. - Stutter and hickups on recommended system set to low - Directional    + Areas look nice and bigger
    + Many guns with interesting effects, fire mode changes
    + Interesting story kept me going
    + Quality of life improvements, fast travel, location progress displays
    + Funny moments
    + Verticality

    - Fast travel and vending machines are few and far between - backtracking respawns enemies.
    - Stutter and hickups on recommended system set to low
    - Directional audio oddities
    - Some characters are written to be more dumb, other characters are now smarter
    - Bullet sponge enemies
    - Lack of ammo, expensive ammo, low ammo carry capacity
    - Expensive deck updates
    - Bugs: quests not progressing, physics anomalies, UI problems
    - Some jokes fall flat and are basic
    - Weapons get outdated, no way to level them, rarely get something equal or better
    - Reload takes too long
    - Sniping/scoped weapon sway annoying
    - Some annoying jumping puzzles (where you fall out of the map and die)
    - Ledge grabbing doesn't work sometimes    … Expand
  10. EduardoWk82
    Sep 17, 2019
    0
    Ainda que o presidente da Gear box chamar os fã de putinhas tem que ser muito idiota em comprar essa empresa não vai ver um centavo do meu bolso tem mais é que se fuder esse pessoal do 2K.
  11. ThatUDLegacy
    Sep 14, 2019
    0
    Literally unplayable. completly broken, if it even stars it runs like crap, fps constantly drops
  12. DatBoiKapachino
    Sep 17, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game play and skill tree progression is good. but the game is not only exclusive to epic games but also runs like absolute **** on lowest settings using an rtx card... the character development and voice acting **** sucks. Ava shouldn't exist. Lilith's personality is like cardboard, disappointing ending and final boss was boring, predictable and uninteresting.The side missions have better writing and dialogue than then entirety of the story. any of the interesting characters where only there for a slight portion of the story. Borderlands is now a happy colorfull censored millenial panderfest... the game has no soul, no character and no good writing or immersion. did I mention the implementation of anti consumer DRM Denouvo?… Expand
  13. Burbon
    Sep 17, 2019
    0
    bugsderlands 3 bug on bug going to be lag and if you remeber that that can be bug
  14. Kare80
    Sep 16, 2019
    0
    I am excited to support Epic Games Store. It will install key logging spyware and delete your saves because EGS is so GREAT! Can't wait to pay for MTX.
  15. SaiyanPride89
    Sep 14, 2019
    0
    This game is incomplete, rushed, and glitch infested. This feels like an expansion rather than a full on sequel. Typical coming from 2K Games. It doesn’t help that this trash is also Epic exclusive. Disgraceful sequel to the borderlands franchise. I’m refunding this garbage. DO NOT BUY!!!
  16. OpenlyReggae
    Sep 14, 2019
    0
    Borderlands? More like borderline unplayable. I was a huge fan of Borderlands but this game was released a buggy mess. The frame rate stutters give me a headache. When you take $4.8 million to be an Epic Exclusive you better make sure that money gets put into development and that your game doesn't come released in an unfinished state. I can't even write reviews on the Epic store because itBorderlands? More like borderline unplayable. I was a huge fan of Borderlands but this game was released a buggy mess. The frame rate stutters give me a headache. When you take $4.8 million to be an Epic Exclusive you better make sure that money gets put into development and that your game doesn't come released in an unfinished state. I can't even write reviews on the Epic store because it doesn't have a system for that. Refunded. Bye Borderlands. Bye Epic.… Expand
  17. the_berserker70
    Sep 14, 2019
    5
    Borderlands 3 single player is good and what you expect plus a few improvements. Local co-op split-screen is broken and unplayable however. There is no option for vertical split-screen and fonts are too small in single player as it is and are thus totally unreadable in horizontal split-screen. Borderlands has always been at its best playing with someone in the same room and that joy isBorderlands 3 single player is good and what you expect plus a few improvements. Local co-op split-screen is broken and unplayable however. There is no option for vertical split-screen and fonts are too small in single player as it is and are thus totally unreadable in horizontal split-screen. Borderlands has always been at its best playing with someone in the same room and that joy is absent in this version.… Expand
  18. makhotkin
    Sep 16, 2019
    0
    This game is much worse than BL2 or pre-sequel. The villains are unconvincing, the plot is disappointing, the humor (ass-related jokes) does not appeal to mature audience, and you cannot skip the boring cut-scenes.
  19. ChristianDale
    Sep 17, 2019
    5
    Really disappointed. Loving the gameplay and new mechanics but can't believe they put out such an unfinished game after six years though. If they fix performance issues and bugs soon I'll change this review, but for now this is insane to charge 60 dollars for.
  20. slanderbot
    Sep 18, 2019
    3
    Actual game: 7/10
    -Great gameplay (gunplay, mechanics, feedback, etc)
    -Fun characters and skills -Playful humor, looks great, sound design is incredible -Social and lobby system is atrocious. the worst I've seen in a long time) -The writing and cinematography of the cutscenes are incredibly rushed, poorly written, poorly executed, and NOT SKIPPABLE. Epic Game Store Exclusive: -2    Actual game: 7/10
    -Great gameplay (gunplay, mechanics, feedback, etc)
    -Fun characters and skills
    -Playful humor, looks great, sound design is incredible

    -Social and lobby system is atrocious. the worst I've seen in a long time)
    -The writing and cinematography of the cutscenes are incredibly rushed, poorly written, poorly executed, and NOT SKIPPABLE.

    Epic Game Store Exclusive: -2
    Incredibly intrusive denuvo: -2

    Currently, it's a mess on the industry side of things. It's a shame because a lot of very passionate and talented artists poured themselves into making this game.    … Expand
  21. DocHoliday444
    Sep 18, 2019
    5
    Short and simple: Gameplay's great / The writers need to be punched in the face for what they did.

    Extended review: So, all in all Boderlands 3 deserves to be called Borderlands -3-. It really feels like a new and improved game in almost every regard and, as pointed out above, the actual gameplay itself is better than in every other previous title of the series. It's all still    Short and simple: Gameplay's great / The writers need to be punched in the face for what they did.

    Extended review: So, all in all Boderlands 3 deserves to be called Borderlands -3-. It really feels like a new and improved game in almost every regard and, as pointed out above, the actual gameplay itself is better than in every other previous title of the series. It's all still "Borderlands" but on a higher level.

    However, this is pretty much where the Good ends and the Bad starts. In my very honest and disappointed opinion (being a huge fan of the BL series since the first game), the writing of the story and of most of the characters in it is absolutely horrendous. It ruins everything.

    First of all, the story's pacing is very bad. The missions do, in fact, flow into each other nicely, but there's no real direction to them. To me, it genuinely felt more like a grind than a true progression. A huge contributor to this grind-like experience were (almost) all the NPC's in the game. They were annoying as hell, unrelatable, and lacked depth. They were really just a bad means to an end, which specifically applies to most of the newly added characters, such as Ava, Vaughn, Rhys, or Lorelei..

    In conjunction with the poor writing for them, also the BL-typical humor is completely dragged through the mud in this one. It's almost nonexistent. The game tries so hard time and time again to be funny but it just ends up adding to the player's annoyance and frustration. It really didn't make me want to continue playing the game because it just kept on coming and coming, and every new attempt at being funny essentially was just a +1 on the disappointment scale.

    Also the story's villains were a huge disappointment. There was actually a lot of potential in them, but it wasn't actualized. Instead they ended up being unbelievably one-dimensional and basically made the player hate them only because they would constantly resort to calling him a "hctib" (reversed) and other such names. This just made them seem more dumb than anything else that the """writers""" possibly intended it to be.

    In conclusion, try it out for youself if you like, but IMO it's wasted money. I don't recommend it.    … Expand
  22. Comanche_15
    Sep 15, 2019
    0
    I liked how gearbox and 2k made 6 month beta testing for this game to be sure that the bugs/other issues are fixed for the steam release. Maybe I'll buy it on steam (if I can run it whit my just bought 1400 euro pc) and I sure do hope 2k doesn't send some men in black suits to my house to investigate me and force me to delete this review along with everything else i have in the interwebz.
  23. EarthDG
    Sep 15, 2019
    4
    i want to start by saying that i am a huge borderlands fan. this is a copy paste of what i told my friends on discord so its not written in a traditional review format. aight so just finished bl3, my spoilerless review is non of the questions left after the end of the pre sequal and tales were answered but one and this was not worth the wait. story, franchise, and unanswered questionsi want to start by saying that i am a huge borderlands fan. this is a copy paste of what i told my friends on discord so its not written in a traditional review format. aight so just finished bl3, my spoilerless review is non of the questions left after the end of the pre sequal and tales were answered but one and this was not worth the wait. story, franchise, and unanswered questions aside, gameplay is great
    some returning characters barley appeared in the game itself that you wanted more from which just pisses me off, the campaign itself has the same amount of missions as the bl2 campaign, its about the same size but longer because there is a lot of travel or waiting for npcs to do something
    its clear there was a major rewrite after the end of tales and pre sequal. the villains and the story dont fit at all with the way bl2 ended and the new bl2 dlc was so that they can have a 7 years too late change of heart
    if u play borderlands for the story dont buy this game
    the over 1 billion guns is also a lie, there are like 20 parts for each gun that can rotate so its 1 billion gun combinations. on the start of the game i looted a sniper from a chest and in that same minute i got the same gun as a mission reward. more dups throughout the game
    tbh the best part about this game is the ice t cameo
    and they spoiled most of him in the demos they sent out
    still havent played the endgame, did proving grounds once and it was meh
    oh yeah jokes, again thats why ice t was the best part about the game, he had the best jokes. all those jokes traveled between boomer to ok, rarely will make you laugh. the only good parts were spoiled in demos. i honestly find it hard to believe this took them 5 years to make because the big change in direction couldnt have happened right after tales ended
    the wrost joke is after u kill someone of something big things go south fast and it says to be continued in bl4 and i didnt believe it but it drew on for half a minute or even a minute and with the greed of 2k and randy dickfork i started believing it near the end and was about to punch the first computer related thing i could find
    it honestly doesnt feel like a borderlands game as much as 1 2 pre and tales and tales wasnt a borderlands game
    story is week because u dont care about anything, they hold hostage everything u hoped for through the entire story and almost all of it wont be shown
    this is the only borderlands game so far that i dont want to replay the story in a higher difficulty    … Expand
  24. Minbis
    Sep 16, 2019
    0
    Bad performance, bad developer/CEO, Epic Games Store... could it be any worse?
  25. Duckers_McQuack
    Sep 13, 2019
    2
    The game is just a performance mess on day one. I got 8700k and RTX 2080, and i drop below 60 fos no matter the graphic settings due to the game apparently only runs on 2 cpu cores where i can't get the game to use more than max 40% cpu or 30-35% average with gpu usage at 50-60%, 40% when the fps tanks during combat at 55 fps.

    So no, this game at launch is just a broken mess.
  26. ssbatt
    Sep 13, 2019
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm seeing a massive amount of negative scores that go a bit too hard on the game for whats being said, so here is my take on BL3.

    Its mediocre.

    The game has the same sort of charm BL2 had, but its biggest failure is its story and boss design. You hear the Calypsos try their best to taunt you like Jack did, however the threats are mostly meaningless because you tear through them like butter, and its get annoying after a while.

    The guns are not as varied as they were in BL2. Some guns act the exact same as others for a large amount of the randomly generated pool of weapons you can acquire, with a few exceptions. Most of the elements doesn't do enough damage to justify using them, as a good Jakobs pistol can shred through most enemies like paper.

    The boss designs are just re-skinned, bigger versions of enemies you thought up until reaching the boss, with some big AoE moves, not to mention the only challenge of these bosses is not having enough ammo to destroy the mountain sized health bars they have. Some bosses are also not scaled to the level they are placed in, such as Killavolt, who is notorious for killing many players with his squad killing moves filling the entire arena with no hope of avoiding it.

    Performance wise the game is very buggy, with many frame rate drops. PC performance from what I've heard is abysmal (I'm currently playing Xbox because I'm not supporting the EGS).

    The overall experience is just dull and fails to deliver something that was hyped up and promised by Gearbox, only to fall flat on its face and provide a game that only adds to the Borderlands franchise, but nothing else.

    A mediocre game after waiting 6 years. I am disappointed in how this game turned out.

    5/10    … Expand
  27. Furling
    Sep 13, 2019
    0
    Pour la censure médiatique et le choix des reviews. Pour le traitement fait à SupMatto. Pour le jeu vendu comme une beta. Pour une politique d'exclusivité. Pour les retournements d'explications de Randy. Pour tout ça il me faudrait même une note négative si il y avait moyen.
  28. Swarmofferrets
    Sep 13, 2019
    0
    Game is near unplayable, DRM control lags game and runs shadow backend conections to epic. Epic store has zero functionality and game didn't initially show in libary. Supper buggy duplicate audio, desync with friends, lots of soft crashing and broken unber scalled enemies.
    6H Hours in and story fells bland and boring some good humor but nothing new or inventive, it feels like it should    Game is near unplayable, DRM control lags game and runs shadow backend conections to epic. Epic store has zero functionality and game didn't initially show in libary. Supper buggy duplicate audio, desync with friends, lots of soft crashing and broken unber scalled enemies.
    6H Hours in and story fells bland and boring some good humor but nothing new or inventive, it feels like it should just be a dlc for 2 where all the money was spent on marketing and new textures
    I wish it was on steam, becuase at this point i just want my money back.    … Expand
  29. koubiak13666
    Sep 14, 2019
    0
    Boring repeative gameplay
    Optimization is utterly terrible
    Game is unacceptably buggy
    glitchy, micro-stutter, frame drops
  30. OhForFoxSake
    Sep 16, 2019
    4
    + great "borderlands" look and game play (aside from the problems below)
    + new characters seem fun initially.
    - Lack of vertical split screen?? and the horizontal is a disaster - tiny font, lag, ridiculously wide perspective on widescreen tv.
    - It's nearly unplayable with crashing problems, freezes, glitches.

    Would not have purchased with horizontal split only.
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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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