Borderlands 4 Big change in narrative

Summary

  • Borderlands 4 aims to reduce reliance on meme culture and toilet humor.
  • Narrative director confirms Borderlands 4 as Gearbox's most ambitious game yet addresses fan concerns.
  • The Game Awards 2024 debut trailer reveals new factions, villains and gameplay snippets.



Borderlands 4 narrative director Sam Winkler responds to an online fan, revealing that Gearbox is cutting back on meme references and relying on toilet humor. However, the franchise is well known for its humor and references Borderlands 4 is perhaps trying to make amends when many felt its predecessor went too far in terms of its tone and reliance on memes and streaming.

While Gearbox continued to tease its upcoming game, fans finally got the best of it Borderlands 4 during The Game Awards 2024. The debut trailer revealed new factions, villains, and gameplay snippets that included four vault hunters. While details are still very thin on the game, fans have been given a bit more information from the narrative director Borderlands 4who responded to a fan's query for a tone that's a little darker than usual.


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Access to social media, Borderlands 4 narrative director Sam Winkler confirmed that the upcoming looter shooter is Gearbox's most ambitious game to date, though one response to the post wondered if the game would take a more serious and darker tone than the humor the series is known for. While Winkler reiterated that he was unable to comment on the game's content, he doubled down on issues with Borderlands 3's tone and that it had an excess of toilet humor.


Borderlands 4 cuts back on meme culture and toilet humor


Some fans pushed back a bit to get more details, with one in particular fitting into a number of current phrases and words, to which Winkler replied that Borderlands 4 will probably still have toilets, just not of the skibidi variety. Winkler even de-confirmed the weapon called the Hawk 2A after the developer questioned whether it was real following an internet comment. Either way, it seems like the culture of streaming and memes Borderlands 3 will not return for this upcoming entry.

Even after the trailer, fans seem to have more questions than answers regarding the new lead film Borderlands 4 a villain known as the Timekeeper. While four vault hunters have been shown, almost nothing is known about what they can do, leaving many Borderlands 4 fans feel let down by how bland they look. With the game set to launch in 2025, Gearbox still has plenty of time to figure things out, so many of these concerns could be addressed sooner rather than later.


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Borderlands 4

See if you have what it takes to make history as the legendary Vault Hunter as you search for secret alien treasure and blast everything in sight.

Looter Sagittarius

Action

Adventure

RPG

Franchise
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Released
2025-00-00

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