Borderlands 3

Why is it that after all these years, there are still numerous bugs in the game. My main issue with this game is the ui bugs. What game company can't fix their ui bugs? Gearbox apparently and even after all this time, its still bugged out. Great game, but i cant recommend a buggy mess.
EDIT: Same day reporting, the doesnt even fucking work now. I crash when loading into a map. nice job gearbox. if i could get my money back id love to right fucking now

This is from a fan of borderlans 1 & 2. while the story absolutely is lacking with very few redeemed qualities i would still recommend this on core gameplay alone. If you go in this and ignore the whole story it is a bunch of fun. the areanas and some of the bosses are truly a blast and the mayhem modifier adds a lot of fun other than just new gaming every playthrough. Rip story but live on in gameplay.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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☑ 10

story bad but gameplay good. lots of side quests are better than the storyline lmfao. 1st playthrough prolly isn't worth the time, but game is very fun. DLC stories better than base too. Gameplay/gunplay great. I'd recommend this game, gets much better with friends

There is plenty of reviews about what the game do wrong, so I don't have to say none of that. Just like Borderlands 2 was improvement to Borderlands 1 and the same is here again Borderlands 3 it's an improvement to Borderlands 2 minus the story i guess, and this time the game is even more like a open world with awesome smooth combat, just I feel like a badass when I'm playing Borderlands 3. Oh yeahh, the shotguns make the enemies to fly, so dope!

Stubbornly refusing to reinvent itself after a five-year absence, Borderlands 3 sticks to its guns and manages to outdo itself. Refined movement and shooting, a legion of enjoyably challenging enemies, and the single largest arsenal of mechanically distinct firearms I’ve ever seen in a video game easily make this the best in a great series of co-op shooters. Its trademark stylized art, on-the-nose humor, and tattoo-fueled storyline are all enjoyable enough in their own right, but what really makes Borderlands 3 excellent is the addicting item chase that unfolds over the course of 30 hours’ worth of lovingly crafted main and side missions. What’s more, this is an adventure I could see myself happily undertaking again from scratch with a new character and a fresh group of friends.

Tried for 45 minutes to play with friends but 3 of us had constant connection issues. Sometimes it only works when joining via Steam, other times only when using Gearbox's Shift network. In the end we were not able to play it.

This port is a mess, but the game is really good!

I've owned a copy of Borderlands 3 ever since release. I first played it on Epic Games, but recently I saw it on sale on Steam, and decided to pick it up.
Over 4 years later, and most of the problems still haven't been solved.

• Crashes are regular.
  
• Stuttering is very common.
  
• The excess of particle effects can make it hard for you to see during big firefights, specially if you are doing coop.
  
• For what this game is, performance isn't good. There is absolutely no excuse for this to perform almost the same as RDR2 (a game that mind you, looks a lot better).
  
• If you have Discord overlay enabled, the game will crash during startup.
  

• Mayhem is a lot better than UVHM.
  
• Being able to fast travel from any point in the map is a good QOL improvement.
  
• More Rhys, and more Hammerlock.
  
• Balex.
  
• The Calypsos may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I really like them as characters, specially Tyreen.
  
• Combat continues to be fun.
  
• Higher enemy variety compared to BL2.
  
• Higher vehicle variety.
  
• More backstory on Jakobs and Maliwan.
  
• Atlas is back.
  
• Being able to use multiple action skills.
  
• Zane and FL4K are some of the best vault hunters Gearbox has ever made.
  
• Eden-6 and Athena's have excellent maps.
  
• More vaults.
  
• They aren't milking Handsome Jack to death anymore (well, at least not in the main game).
  
• Assault Rifle's aren't useless anymore.
  
• More bank slots.
  
• More endgame content.
  
• Money is the main upgrade currency again, so you'll never need to farm eridium.
  
• Legendary drops are more common.
  
• There aren't many of them, but the seasonal events are nice, and instead of needing to play the game during a specific time of the year, you can enable them at any moment.
  

• They did Maya dirty.
  
• Ava is insufferable.
  
• Tina feels off.
  
• The humor is very hit and miss.
  
• Vaughn is... Well, outdated.
  
• They wasted the plot for the first vault hunter (won't give spoilers).
  
• The retcons about the vaults really mess up the story of the prior games.
  
• Aurelia is kind of just there.
  
• Not enough Mr Torgue.
  

• Performance and stability issues.
  
• Ads on a game that isn't F2P.
  
• Locking the game's only raid boss behind DLC.
  
• A battle royale DLC? Seriously?
  
• Gearbox removed a scene which would have been fundamental for Ava's character development.
  
[*]Continuing the trend of having multiple Season Passes.

good gameplay, story seems like it was written by a 35 year old millennial that was home schooled by a lesbian couple

Just picked up the DLC to play with my friends and as it turns out Gearbox's servers are so unstable I can't hold a connection for even a heartbeat. The last hotfix was three years ago, which is tellingly terrible. According to several other reviews, this is a running issue that hasn't, and apparently won't, be fixed. The menu is also absurdly more graphically intensive than the rest of the game for some odd reason.

As far as I've heard the game is mechanically great but written horribly. What little humor I've bumped into thus far is at-best dated, at-worst extremely grating.

I would love to rate this as a good buy. but even for 6 dollars, with the current state of the Co Op expierience this is a hard NO for anyone looking for the OG BL gameplay with friends. The lag is horrid , no matter the excellent internet and PC specs of the Host or even all involved. I suspect it's the SHIFT servers. But even the shift server status page has been silent since August. Such a sin especially with BL4 upcoming.

Overall I recommend this game for its strong gameplay loop, however that's kind of all this game really offers.

The humor is severely downgraded from it's predecessor (Borderlands 2), and the story is not really that interesting.

8/10

bought this game for 5 bucks, get scammed gearbox

the story sucks, the characters are bland and corny and unmemorable.
VAULT HUNTERS IN ORDER OF CORNY-NESS (least to most):
FL4K, Zane, Moze, Amara

if u like a good story don't recommend

--> THE GAME IS A BUGGY MESS, ESPECIALLY WITH DLC <--

my game had always crashed atleast once while playing this, usually when playing with my friends but at the time of writing this, it literally just crashed during singleplayer

The networking in this game is god-awful. These issues have been known for years with no fix. It's a great game, but my friends and I are unable to play together due to not being able to connect to one another. This is not an isolated thing, I have many other friends that have encountered the same issues. It's a great game, but the great gameplay is overshadowed by the long-standing networking problems.

I really wanted to like Borderlands 3. I was a huge fan of the first Borderlands, and while Borderlands 2 things got a bit wacky it was still a great game with tons of great features.

Borderlands 3 however, turned the wackiness up to 11. The game takes place on planets where there's genocide, death, fire, explosions, animals mauling people's faces off...and everyone is talking like they're on Reddit. I played for about 6 hours and I just can't get myself to fire it up again. Almost every single piece of dialogue has to be wacky, cringy with random comments that aren't funny at all. It's a shame, because the artwork and gameplay are amazing. Tons of unique guns, a nice varied selection of characters to play...you name it. But the cringy dialogue just makes it unbearable. Hard pass, even for 6 bucks.

The story is lazy, boring and the main antagonists are "influencers" in their mid 20s. They are easily the worst villains in any Borderlands game to date and are completely insufferable! The writing is mostly not funny and a lot of the characters you meet are uninteresting or simply annoying af.

I'm only recommending this game because the following things are fantastic - Graphics, Movement, Sound, Performance, Gun Play, Weapon Variety, Vehicles, Character Abilities and EXPLOSIONS!

Most everything else is mediocre at best.

This game has so much connection issues. Despite playing with friends in the same city and same ISP, we cant seem to connect to each other. 5 hours of my playing time is spent on trying to connect with friends. Already read multiple threads in the internet, but no one seems to have a solution. As of this post's date, it's been 4 years and still unsolved. Not recommended if you wish to play with friends

Trying to play with friends is too inconsistent. Have to spend hours just trying to connect to each other

Co-op series where the co-op doesn't even work properly with more than 2 players, save your money and don't buy this game

bad story, annoying written characters. boringish gameplay. guns and flak really only the saving graces

honestly the gameplay is really fun, but the story is so boring. Side missions feel like 90% sitting and waiting for someone to walk or talk... I really do not enjoy the new fast travel menu and mechanics. Also alot of the characters just annoy me, and I am not even talking about ClapTrap LOL!

1000+ hours on console. L story, L characters (most), W gameplay, W environments, W build variety. need bl4

Gameplay fun, story makes it unenjoyable. This game is butt cheeks

The story of this game feels like they are still desperately trying to re-create a villain as good as Handsome Jack. There’s just not many memorable moments. The gunplay is just as good as past games. The ONLY reason I giving this game a thumbs up is for the DLC. Every single DLC is excellent- as good as Borderlands 2 DLC and long- there’s about 20 hours of DLC content between the four add-on campaigns. Handsome Jackpot, Guns Love and Tentacles, Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck and Bounty of Blood are all excellent, memorable and fun, with extra emphasis on the humor. The co-op of course is top notch as far as co-op games go. Recommended to play with friends.

Game itself is very fun, but coop network connection is terrible. Disconnection every 5-10 minutes. Shame I can't get a refund.

Not as good as Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel but its good fun never the less... Gearbox know how to make a quality shooter and I am looking forward to Borderlands 4!

Connection issues randomly prevents players from playing multiplayer. This issue has been widely reported for years and has never been fixed

Can't get all four people connected to the same game no matter what you do. WIth luck you can get two or three connected at the same time but never four.

0/5

I really wanted to like this game... even a little. The ending brought a tear to my eye, but everything outside that scene was childish social media level cringe. The writing was absolutely garbage, none of the new characters were remotely likable, and they pushed beloved characters aside for ones that they gave us no reason to like. The villains were cartoonish levels of bad, and not well written. Handsome Jack, was cartoonishly evil, but the writing was good so it made it work, but the twins in this one weren't even interesting. The social media influencer angle was cliche and could have been done well if the writing was better. The graphics were acceptable, but I already had a sour note in my mouth after it being released on another platform and having to wait months for it.

Notice a theme? The writers were absolute failures. Seriously, I'm not sure what your hiring and promotion practice was like but the writing was entirely the failure here. I'm not expecting Shakespeare but a tiny bit of nuance could have made this a great game. You did it before, so it's entirely possible to do corny / comedy in this universe, if you have writers who can make it work. The ones still with the company couldn't and didn't. I'm sorry but not everyone is meant to be a doctor or astronaut... and some people certainly aren't meant to write anything but fan fiction... that's what the writers in this game (and frequently other games lately from AAA) are to a T... failures.

gun shoot good, loot loots good, i like gun, i like shoot, i like loot; good game

The base game was a lot of fun with decent gameplay, a decent story, and plenty of engaging moments. However, the DLCs were a massive letdown—poor writing, lackluster content, and overall not worth the full price. If you're considering it, I'd recommend getting the base game on sale and skipping the DLCs entirely unless ultimate collection is heavily discounted.

Multiplayer is not playable due to lag. Tried to play co-op with a friend, both of us have great Internet and high-end gaming PC's. The lag was so bad no matter who hosted. Tried port forwarding, that seemed to make it worse if anything. Disabled cross-play and social notifications with no improvement.
Won't be getting Borderlands 4 if this issue that has plagues the series is just going to carry over.

The most cringe dialogue you'll ever find in a game. Unless you're five years old, it's really hard to stomach it.

Would be a solid game had they not added cross-play in such a terrible way. Basically broke co-op and made playing with friends miserable.

9/10 - Singleplayer
2/10 - Co-op

Honestly, they should have stopped releasing merchandise after Borderlands 2, or at least Borderlands 3. At this point, I’m not even that excited about Borderlands 4. The trademark silliness that the series relies on seems to lose its charm over time. What once felt quirky and fun now feels repetitive and cringe. That said, if you’re looking for something to play with friends, it’s still a safe choice—it’s not bad.

Awesome gun-play and progression systems, but one of the worst endings to a story ever!

i absolutely love borderlands 2 but this game has so many glaring issues i am surprised there were people who were paid to make some of these decisions, it almost feels like they were trying to sabotage the game

1. sanctuary is the worst home hub i have ever used in any video game. Multi layered maze where nothing makes sense where it is, just a dull ship that feels soulless with bad lighting, absolutely horrible home hub and nothing in comparison to borderlands 2

2. the story is so god awful and the writing is so horrid, it feels almost like some over the top sarcastic humor is trying to be forced. I have to play the game on mute or else i will literally die of cringe. The villians in this game are nothing compared to handsome jack, it almost feels like they are evil for the sake of being evil, and this whole streamer thing just feels stupid. it feels like they are trying so hard to be relevant

The actual gameplay feels good, i would say similair to borderlands 2, but the glaring issues make it feel so hard to grind through this game. It's a shame and i have 0 hope for borderlands 4 following this.

edit: difficulty slider is the volume, if you skip cutscenes, turn dialog volume to 0 and just enjoy the gunplay its tolerable

What to expect as a former Borderlands player?
Blood? Laughs? Lots of talking in-game? Max level 72? Yup, it is all here! Claptrap is here to annoy the hell out of you whilst deliver its usual punchlines. Story line feels weaker than what you have experienced in previous games, but it is still the Borderlands type of game you expect. Grind your way through Mayhem levels one by one to understand the mechanics, or just jump to Mayhem level 10/11 whilst playing the song "dumb ways to die" in the background.

What to expect as a new player?
Make sure you are comfortable and get ready for some hours of interesting story line, terrible punchlines and lore. Pick up any weapon you like and start shoot to loot cause that is the only way to survive. Feel the satisfaction when mobs and bosses drop your item.

Tldr; great game for value to get along with its DLC's as a bundle once it is on sale. Turn off your brain, put some music in the background and have fun shoot to loot!

Scumbag game keeps releasing DLC not included in ultimate edition/complete packs. Every time I look I have to buy another DLC despite being informed that I would own everything. This would be a positive review if I could refund and buy the whole game in go.

awesome gameplay but the story is hot garbage
also the options to buy all the dlc are schizophrenic and redundant

Game too short, but damage=good just like Warframe 10/10 game of all time would recommend it is like this one but in 3rd person.

This game is absolutely terrible. Borderlands 2 was such a tremendous game and then the devs got rid of everything that made that game great. Dialogue is the actual worst part of this game. I challenge everyone out there to go try to play this game with the dialogue on and not get cancer. That's right... it wont happen. Good characters we all loved from Borderlands 2 are killed in this game because the new "main character" is braindead. Some little bratty kid that magically gets appointed to the leader of the Crimson Raiders. The main villans "Tyreen" and "Troy" are the same way. The last 2 boss fights are extremely cringe between character design and voice lines. ALL things considered, I do enjoy the guns in this game a little more than Borderlands 2. I played this game co-op with a friend which made it bearable. TLDR REALLY shitty borderlands 2. Make sure you turn that dialogue off and play co-op

fun game. Great game to play with some friends. The gun progression is also very cool.

simple dumb fun, great way to relax after a long day. Don't really care that the story is stupid and annoying, i'm not paying attention anyway. The characters talk so much that your brain starts to tune it out pretty quickly and it just becomes part of the ambiance. Looks beautiful and runs fantastically, probably the best $6 I've spent on gaming in a while

This game is a lot of fun! I love the graphic that sort of combines cartoon fiction and reality. Gameplay is extraordinarily exciting especially the variety of guns and visual effects really satisfy me. The loot system is quite good consider how balance legendary weapon drop rate is.

it's aight, it's more of the same but with more obnoxious bad guys and fewer iconic moments/characters
kinda feels like they're trying to blend nostalgia for the old characters with the "annoying streamer" stereotype for the main antagonists

A phenomenal installment in an incredible series, a game that got a bad wrap from release which was undeserved and disappointing. Facing the difficulty of following the story of bl2 this game delivers, a story that works well with missions and opens the series to more adventures and adversaries compared to its predecessor. Yet where this game shines is its fluid and endlessly fun gameplay opening new routes for more explosive action, more skills, and even more loot than any game in the series. Endless replayability with fantastic classes and even crazier guns to compliment, interesting enemies and inventive but classic boss fights, this game is a classic, a game to return to again and again. Something to recommend for years to come.

Is great, gameplay is great but the story bad you don't feel involved at all.

*SPOILERS*




It's so bad I didn't even care that lilith sacrificed herself even though i played borderlands 2 that how much of a disconnect it is.

7/10

Terrible Game. I'm not going to pretend that Borderlands 1/2 were the pinnacle of game design, but they were still decent games that were enjoyable to play through. 3 is not. The base gunplay is serviceable, but theres nothing new here. Pre-sequal at least tried something different with the low grav stuff, but theres no attempt to shake up the gameplay beyond "shoot enemy who is standing still". Enemies all feel the same, and are dealt with in the same ways. Gun rarites are messed up, even at low levels Legendaries are too common which makes other weapons obsolete.

The writing is truly abysmal. Borderlands 1/2 certainly had lots of wacky humor, but they had enough serious stuff to prevent the tone from going complete clown fiesta. In 3 there is no "straight man", everyone is a clown. This could maybe be salvaged if the game truly embraced lunacy, but it does not and still tries to have a conventional plot despite not a single character inside of it taking anything seriously. Dialogue is poorly written, and there are glaring plot holes everywhere. Delivery on jokes is often poorly timed, with too much leaning on Marvel style "WOAH THAT JUST HAPPENED"

Theres random stuff that is just poorly designed. The UX is a massive step down from Borderlands 1/2, using the map takes so many unnecessary button presses until you get to what you want. Your inventory only ever displays a small amount of items at a time which makes looking through it annoying. Manually comparing items defaults to a random item in your inventory instead of something equipped. Teammates going down has no audio/visual notification, just their status changing in the tiny bottom left of your screen. It really feels like there was no real playtesting for any of these basic UX functions that anyone competent would notice immediately.

It's a shame the gameplay is only ok and everything else is terrible, because the soundtrack is good with multiple unique battle tracks fit for each zone. There are some very good visuals, its clear a lot of effort went into certain shots to make gorgeous vistas.

Overall I cannot recommend this game to anyone, I think its a downgrade from Borderlands 2 in almost every way.

Game is pretty fine, but holy fucking shit the npcs literally tell you the solution to puzzles before you've even managed to orient yourself to solve it. In 15 fucking seconds they go "WYh DoN'T yOu JuST JUmp SlAM thAt, MAYBE IT OPENS THAT WAY"

Holy shit this pisses me off.