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Borderlands 4 will cut back on 'toilet humor,' says Gearbox: 'If the word skibidi ships in the game under my watch I'm gonna cry real tears' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Maybe they could go back to some of the rough, fun storytelling they nailed with the first two games? Instead of marvel-esque storytelling from the third game. Toilet humour has a place in borderlands, its filled with dumb humour and always has been, but its been in a way that feels almost natural.

A skibidi toilet reference isn't going to fit, because that's a passing meme. But shit like the ninja turtles quest in bl2, all the dumb jokes in bandit weapon names, face mcshooty, scooter's entire existence throughout the first two games, tiny Tina's character, thats all fucking awesome because we're all in on the joke and the only pop culture references are evergreen ones.

What I really want from borderlands is for them to get back to the anti-corpo/anti-capitalist messaging that was rife in the first games. Borderlands 3 felt so hollow because I almost felt like I was part of one of the corps. The ragtag group wasn't a ragtag group anymore, we had similar influence to maliwan for fucks sake and were flying all over the place dropping on planets and exerting our might. Where's the scrappy mad max vibes?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The jokes in BL/BL2 felt like their own unique jokes, contained within the Borderlands universe, because they were. BL3 had a lot of reference humor, which can be fine, but some of the memes they referenced were 3-4 years out of date and the jokes fell flat and made us groan.

The trailer for 4 was promising, and I only realized on a second watch that it contained no jokes, which honestly I appreciated. I think it has potential, as long as Randy Shitford doesn't do anything to fuck it up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I mean they made a lot of pop culture jokes in borderlands 1 and 2. But they weren't about "current" stuff. It was, as I said, evergreen things, like lord of the rings and tmnt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

didn't play 3, what do you mean by 'marvel-esque'?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Cliche catchphrasey dialogue/plot points. "He's behind me, isn't he" "did I just do that, with my freakin' mind?" type stuff