Last 12 months, in an interview with Gamespot, Gearbox boss {and professional} newbie magician Randy Pitchford in contrast the upcoming Borderlands 4 to its predecessor. “With Borderlands 3, with the thought of going to totally different planets, it was extra compartmentalized,” he stated. “It felt rather less open and free. Borderlands 4 is essentially the most open and free ever”.
More just lately, Gearbox’s senior challenge producer Anthony Nicholson advised GamesRadar that whereas “Borderlands 4 does have some open-world-like options” together with “seamless journey between zones” that does not imply we should always count on, I dunno, Ubisoft towers or no matter tedious nonsense open world video games are stuffed with these days. He clarified that, “we didn’t set out with the intent to create an ‘open world recreation’ within the conventional use of that time period.”
What it should have are aspect missions and occasions to find, and new methods to get round, together with a hover bike and a grappling hook. Based on what little we have seen of Borderlands 4 up to now it appears to be set on a single planet, and presumably its moon. The world of Kairos, Nicholson says, is not like Pandora as a result of it is “a world the place the outlook is bleak, the stakes are actual, and the characters deal with them as such” although it does nonetheless have room for “the zaniness, oddity, and mayhem that makes a Borderlands recreation a Borderlands recreation.”
I would not put it previous them to sneak in a joke on the expense of the Borderlands film. In a time when videogame variations have usually been annoyingly high-quality and respectful, the Borderlands film was courageous sufficient to hark again to the period once they had been virtually universally absolute catshit.
