Borderlands 3

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6.1

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  1. Flattinjib
    Jul 30, 2023
    4
    It feels like Borderlands, as always, especially at combat. The music is top notch.
    That's it, that's the good things.
    This game is like a woke zoomer tiktok brainstorming. The wokeness is unbearable. Possibly the wokest game I've ever played. All the male characters are just losers or idiotic buffoons, when not weak cowards or brainless animals. Except for the gay ones, of course. The    It feels like Borderlands, as always, especially at combat. The music is top notch.
    That's it, that's the good things.

    This game is like a woke zoomer tiktok brainstorming.
    The wokeness is unbearable. Possibly the wokest game I've ever played. All the male characters are just losers or idiotic buffoons, when not weak cowards or brainless animals. Except for the gay ones, of course. The alphabet agenda is all over the place. They made Tina an adult just to make her non binary because reasons. Her, and the Hammerlock and Jacobs story are so forced and shoved down my throat that I can't roll my eyes more or I'll get blind. Let alone some unnecessary fetch quests which are made just to insert more agenda. I don't even want to talk about Ava, the game's Mary Sue, because I can't stand her. I want to talk about the unfunny humor, which seems to be written by a 12 year old who thinks that poo and balls are super funny. I even find disturbing the bad taste thrown into the jokes, constantly. I like gross and offensive humor, but when is so bad, so basic, and constant, it's not funny, it's amazingly cringe. The writing, as always when they focus on wokeness, and female empowerment (completely misunderstood), is atrocious. I can't empathize with any main character because I find them insufferable or at least not interesting. I even found Lillith annoying, while the rest were simply obnoxious. It's been hard to finish the game, not just because of all this wokeness, but because I got really bored of killing the same enemies over and over again. And because I couldn't care less about the bad plot and the characters. The fact that I don't even want to touch the DLCs speaks volumes. The loot system is repetitive and not satisfying. This is the worst Borderlands. I didn't like the Presequel very much, but it was still good compared to this one.    … Expand
  2. NazgulzLegacy
    Mar 18, 2023
    2
    These games are multiplayer only playing these games solo is nearly impossible even on the easiest difficulty setting
  3. sisiv
    Feb 11, 2023
    0
    The cover itself is the reason NOT to buy it, if you do believe in respect for other people's beliefs and symbols that are holy to them.
  4. Paulgamer
    Oct 15, 2022
    0
    I bought this game without paying attention to its artcover. When I got home I realised how offensive the cover is. I am not easily offended but as a christian, I find the cover extremely abusive towards my religion and beliefs. I didn't sell the game but instead I just threw in a rubbish bin. These people think they are clever and brave for offending christians but these same "heroes"I bought this game without paying attention to its artcover. When I got home I realised how offensive the cover is. I am not easily offended but as a christian, I find the cover extremely abusive towards my religion and beliefs. I didn't sell the game but instead I just threw in a rubbish bin. These people think they are clever and brave for offending christians but these same "heroes" are far too scared to insult muslims because they are too afraid of possible repurcauitions.… Expand
  5. Tongxi
    Sep 18, 2022
    4
    Borderlands 2 is far better. The story is boring. The player seems nothing to do with it.
  6. kostokc
    Sep 16, 2022
    4
    Way too dark image even i got very bright qled. Boring game with ne no any difference than b2. Not worth to buy or not even for free. boring weapons without any punch or sound. Aiming is delayed sticky kind of. Got 4 points only cos there is existing way worse than this. Still tho this isnt good.
  7. Thomaswoolf
    Sep 2, 2022
    1
    Try and pause a cutscene, it skips.
    No idea what the hell is going on, story wise, because it just skips when life happens during cutscenes
  8. BlueSlime
    Jul 24, 2022
    0
    I got this for free on epic and still feel ripped off. i have spent more time starting a new game (4 times so far) than I have playing the game. And apparently they have never heard of this thing on PC called a mouse. This is a **** console port.
  9. xSPAZZx
    Jun 14, 2022
    3
    Modernized and polished version of BL2, some glitches and slow menu...
    The humor is pretty tame and kinda cringe at times...It seemed like in not wanting to offend anyone they left a generic product that no one could relate to...
    BL2 had WAY BETTER HUMOR

    I'll wait for a year until it's on sale for 20$...
  10. CoreGamer1408
    Jun 7, 2022
    4
    The new characters this writing and this story are really sub-par. Borderlands peaked with two and even the weak sub-par Pre-sequel is better than this offering.

    The game performance is not ok and so the gameplay is not engaging. Constant micro stuttering and micro freezing is something you don't want in a FPS of any kind. The fun parts are new abilities/moves and that is about all I    The new characters this writing and this story are really sub-par. Borderlands peaked with two and even the weak sub-par Pre-sequel is better than this offering.

    The game performance is not ok and so the gameplay is not engaging. Constant micro stuttering and micro freezing is something you don't want in a FPS of any kind. The fun parts are new abilities/moves and that is about all I can think of in the fun department. The rest of the game as in the laggy driving and laggy shooting is bad. Oh and the tiny text is well annoying.

    TD/LR: Crap writing and crap technical wise with very niche DLC.    … Expand
  11. MalFet1999
    May 26, 2022
    4
    While Borderlands 3 is polished and runs well, the experience of playing it is joyless. Missions are boring and uninspired, and require a huge amount of meaningless traversal. The worst offense here is the writing. Borderlands 1 and 2 haven't aged particularly well, but they still have fresher, funnier writing than this entry. I cringed so hard that I quit and uninstalled in the middle ofWhile Borderlands 3 is polished and runs well, the experience of playing it is joyless. Missions are boring and uninspired, and require a huge amount of meaningless traversal. The worst offense here is the writing. Borderlands 1 and 2 haven't aged particularly well, but they still have fresher, funnier writing than this entry. I cringed so hard that I quit and uninstalled in the middle of a cutscene. Borderlands used to feel like an irreverent counter to the mainstream AAA game, but Borderlands 3 stinks of a board room.… Expand
  12. Noitpecycul
    Feb 25, 2022
    3
    Buy this game on Xbox Series X|S or PS5. If you want to play at 60 fps of course.
  13. danield80
    Feb 6, 2022
    3
    Borderlands 3 is the cringiest instalment of the Borderlands series. The game is overflowing with dych jokes and boomer zoomer-wannabe jokes. The villains are the most cringeworthy villains in the history of games. They just keep bragging about how they obliterated your friend over and over again like no one cares, not even the protagonists.

    The technical state of this game is    Borderlands 3 is the cringiest instalment of the Borderlands series. The game is overflowing with dych jokes and boomer zoomer-wannabe jokes. The villains are the most cringeworthy villains in the history of games. They just keep bragging about how they obliterated your friend over and over again like no one cares, not even the protagonists.

    The technical state of this game is horrendous. Almost unplayable in splitscreen on base ps4. Constantly loading and deloading textures, even reticles have lowpixel versions! Textures deload to lowpoly when you turn your back against them. The game crashes often, leaving you to the longest loading screen with assclap dancing in a total silence which makes you want to delete the game right away due to cringe overload. Frame rate is pretty bad, worst is on vertical split screen. When opening the menu, the game freezes for a few seconds. Every text in this game is so tiny you have to lean towards the screen to read the stats. Some texts are so microscopic that they don't have enough pixels to be readable.

    Borderlands 3 at least doesn't force you to complete side quests in order to be able to play the main mission on a decent difficulty unlike the older games which is probably the only improvement in this game. Edge climbing, slides and ground slams are pretty close to useless.

    If you want to play a Borderlands game (or a "split screen game with your friend") you should definitely try one of the older ones since they are in so much better technical conditions rather than this cringe-emanating piece of craptlap with more coital/coomer "jokes" than jokes.    … Expand
  14. nickojeda612
    Feb 5, 2022
    1
    Worst Borderlands game by far. The humor is terrible and not what it once was, and the characters are often cringy and feel lazily added to the storyline. The antagonists are pretty bad in my opinion and the variety of side quests are also abysmal. Mostly just a forgettable game.
  15. PotatoGames
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    I was very much looking forward to a new borderlands game when this game out and was pretty disappointed. The game still feels like it relies too much on gunplay and not enough of the character abilities that made the past games so great, with a vastly different experience playing with different builds or different characters.

    Ran into a lot of bugs/glitches/crashes while platinuming    I was very much looking forward to a new borderlands game when this game out and was pretty disappointed. The game still feels like it relies too much on gunplay and not enough of the character abilities that made the past games so great, with a vastly different experience playing with different builds or different characters.

    Ran into a lot of bugs/glitches/crashes while platinuming this game, and the load times are absolutely horrendous (though they got drastically better once played on the PS5).

    The story itself is pretty lack-luster this time around, with no real redemption in the dlcs either.    … Expand
  16. DavidJoeseph
    Aug 26, 2021
    3
    I have played this both on PC and PS4. PS4 is close to unplayable. It crashes like crazy and bugs out often. The PS4 just cant handle this game as it does not appear to have much optimization.
  17. Kall
    Jul 31, 2021
    1
    Huge disappointment and a waste of money.

    Tried to play split screen coop, but the frame rate is horrible, it has a lot of input lag, and it freezes from time to time. It didn't help to install the latest patch, it seems like Gearbox never bothered to fix this. The subtitles and HUDs are unreadable due to the small text size. The sound mixing is very bad, with some things that are far    Huge disappointment and a waste of money.

    Tried to play split screen coop, but the frame rate is horrible, it has a lot of input lag, and it freezes from time to time. It didn't help to install the latest patch, it seems like Gearbox never bothered to fix this.

    The subtitles and HUDs are unreadable due to the small text size.

    The sound mixing is very bad, with some things that are far away sounding too loud, etc.

    The number of scenes with people talking is frustrating.

    The game takes minutes to start due to the long loading screens.

    Don't buy this game.    … Expand
  18. znskeba
    Jun 7, 2021
    0
    The guns and gameplay are incredible and the mechanics feel smooth as all hell. Also, being able to pick up the controller and play splitscreen with my friend is an incredible plus for me. Just in multiplayer alone, we both put in about 70+ hours. And the combat doesn't get stale either. Quite an impressive game. My only complaint lies in the performance issues that come from considerableThe guns and gameplay are incredible and the mechanics feel smooth as all hell. Also, being able to pick up the controller and play splitscreen with my friend is an incredible plus for me. Just in multiplayer alone, we both put in about 70+ hours. And the combat doesn't get stale either. Quite an impressive game. My only complaint lies in the performance issues that come from considerable sizes of loot being dropped on screen. Had a few crashes and significant frame rate drops. If they just despawned a lot of the loot, it would probably help this issue.… Expand
  19. abadonna302b
    Jun 3, 2021
    0
    This game is total garbage. This tiny little jump in graphics improvement (achieved mostly by stolen ingame part from other games/engines) asks for 500% improvement in your HW base. I mean I was able to play that 2nd bordelands with HD 7640g iGPU (512MB from 4 GB system RAM) and this games wont run fluently on 8GB 8core rig with RX Vega and 1GB/S M2 SSD? So lets rather talk about story, OhThis game is total garbage. This tiny little jump in graphics improvement (achieved mostly by stolen ingame part from other games/engines) asks for 500% improvement in your HW base. I mean I was able to play that 2nd bordelands with HD 7640g iGPU (512MB from 4 GB system RAM) and this games wont run fluently on 8GB 8core rig with RX Vega and 1GB/S M2 SSD? So lets rather talk about story, Oh wait there Isnt one. It is just big ad. Promoting lazy, infantile lifestyle. Homosexuality and idiocy. Those voices of main and other characters I will not even mention.… Expand
  20. pierco
    Jan 22, 2021
    4
    Decent game but pretty easy most of the time - lots to do. Though nowhere near as funny as a Borderlands game should be instead going with the forced agenda. I play games to enjoy and take a break from reality so when forced agenda is rammed down my throat I am not particularly content with that.
    Borderlands is now dead to me
  21. BallzyDan
    Jan 14, 2021
    3
    Seriously repetitive, not fun and overly difficult. The boss named killavolt is where I stopped.
  22. IL-YA
    Jan 14, 2021
    2
    I fell in love with Borderlands 2 and The pre-sequel when I was introduced to them and even bought the first and got the platinum. I really wanted to overlook its flaws and just enjoy the gameplay. sadly the game runs terribly on consoles (my ps4 pro) and consistent stuttering and low frame rates( 7 months later still not fixed) make my eyes hurt. how can I give it more than 0 if I can'tI fell in love with Borderlands 2 and The pre-sequel when I was introduced to them and even bought the first and got the platinum. I really wanted to overlook its flaws and just enjoy the gameplay. sadly the game runs terribly on consoles (my ps4 pro) and consistent stuttering and low frame rates( 7 months later still not fixed) make my eyes hurt. how can I give it more than 0 if I can't even play the game… Expand
  23. Osernovsky
    Dec 28, 2020
    3
    Lags, bugs, frizzes and very slow to load up and load menu. Terrible, for 2019 year game...
  24. AaronDH456
    Oct 29, 2020
    2
    Good gameplay. Unfortunately the story is atrocious. I'd even go as far as saying that ride to hell retribution has a better story, its that bad. Not to mention that 30fps is awful for fps games. Definitely the worst out of the series
  25. I_Wanna_Die980
    Oct 8, 2020
    2
    The story was bad and questionable, the sniping feels off the controls feel bulky expect for sliding it is very buggy and, in my experiences borderlands 2 has barely any bugs or very in common I would recommend to just play through borderlands 2 or 1 again
  26. Happytrigger
    Sep 12, 2020
    0
    Well what word could describe Borderlands 3 better than disapointing. No content, Lazy writting, repetitive Story, Laggy Menue even after 10 patches. The only good thing about the game is the gungame. There is not very much to say than that

    An extrem diaspointmet all the way through
  27. bigparsely
    Sep 10, 2020
    4
    I have a bit more than 100 hours and I can say that this game is pretty bad. It is one of the least entertaining games I have played, but I was just striving to make it fun due to my love of Borderlands 2. This game is not borderlands 2.

    The graphics are okay. The guns all look ridiculous, though. Now every gun except for the easily identifiable rocket launchers and Jakob's shotguns    I have a bit more than 100 hours and I can say that this game is pretty bad. It is one of the least entertaining games I have played, but I was just striving to make it fun due to my love of Borderlands 2. This game is not borderlands 2.

    The graphics are okay. The guns all look ridiculous, though. Now every gun except for the easily identifiable rocket launchers and Jakob's shotguns look like these weird alien guns.

    The gameplay is annoying. The enemies blend into the environments and the shooting is unsatisfying.

    None of the 4 playable characters clicked with me, like several did in every other game. None of the characters are fun at all for me, so it feels kind of hollow when I play.

    Guns. They suck. Any decent weapon requires a ridiculous amount of farming, or luck. Legendary guns drop like blues dropped in previous Borderlands installments. That is not an exaggeration. Also, guns have anoints. Now, you can't just farm a gun with some good parts. You need a gun with the right anoint, which doesn't always drop. These anointed guns can do more than double the damage of the original, essentially forcing you to just use what you get instead of what you want.

    Oh yeah, the story sucks. Lilith is essentially Roland, except that Roland was always weirdly calm and leader-like, that was his character. It was interesting. Lilith is just monotonous and annoying. She lost all personality in favor of constantly calling over the player to talk to her.    … Expand
  28. crazyking321
    Aug 31, 2020
    4
    This game is not grate at all it just OK, lots of problems, the biggest is aiming with a controller its the worst i have ever experienced.

    If you want to play with a friend its laggey and the FPS drops 90% of the time. (not ps4 pro) The story is boring and drawn out, and the humour is like 20-30% as funny as the last 3 Borderland games. the only good thing is the end game content    This game is not grate at all it just OK, lots of problems, the biggest is aiming with a controller its the worst i have ever experienced.

    If you want to play with a friend its laggey and the FPS drops 90% of the time. (not ps4 pro)

    The story is boring and drawn out, and the humour is like 20-30% as funny as the last 3 Borderland games.

    the only good thing is the end game content but you have to spend 20-30h+ to get there.    … Expand
  29. Euse2619
    Aug 29, 2020
    4
    Sin lugar a dudas es el peor de la saga, deberían despedir al guionista de este juego y volver a lo que hacían bien como el 2.
  30. Trippple
    Aug 13, 2020
    3
    So disappointed in this game, I played it for about 5 hours with friends and decided to sell it. Absolute trash story line and character development, very laggy menus and dissatisfying gun combat, will stay away from borderlands games in the future.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 43 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
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  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Oct 22, 2019
    80
    More guns, more planets, more skills, more… more. If you liked the previous ones, this gives you plenty of the same to enjoy. Borderlands 3 is the very definition of the bigger and better sequel. [Issue#168, p.76]
  2. PLAY! Zine
    Oct 16, 2019
    75
    Borderlands 3 is a by-the-book sequel that takes no risks. Veteran Borderlands players will embrace it, but others will find that it has not evolved enough.
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  3. Telegraph
    Oct 12, 2019
    60
    Factor in the graphical glitches, rampant texture pop-in and generally asthmatic performance levels, even when running on a PS4 Pro with settings optimised to favour smooth running, and there really is no end of reasons not to love Borderlands 3 (and don’t even think about Googling developers Gearbox Games’ litany of employee relations history)...And yet... love it, I do. Guilty as charged.
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