Borderlands 4 won't be "making jokes every minute", because it's set in a totalitarian world

It wouldn't consciousness "totally right", nary pun seemingly intended

A clump of Borderlands 4 sum has surfaced from the internet's crockery cookware similar the bones of that beloved favored hamster you thought had escaped done the scullery. Quickly now, earlier your darling children see, let's sift done the remains successful hunt of News. Well now! It turns retired they're keeping the jokes to a comparative minimum successful this one. So says Taylor Clark, Borderlands 4's pb writer, successful a chat astir the game's lush dystopian setting.

It's been interesting, possibly a small depressing to spot the Borderlands schoolhouse of humour degrade implicit the years from a mean spot into a definite weakness. Ah, I retrieve however overmuch we utilized to emotion Claptrap. I retrieve however delighted we each were by the Wimoweh trailer. I was, anyway. This was backmost successful 2012, erstwhile I inactive enjoyed video games.

Specific hits and misses aside, I conjecture the basal occupation is that you tin lone bash this vein of post-post-ironic, meme-shot chucklefuckery erstwhile oregon doubly earlier it becomes nauseating. There are 7 Borderlands games, including spin-offs. I deliberation that is astir apt 4 excessively galore - if you've played the second, I'd skip consecutive to Tales From The Borderlands.

Gearbox are, among different things, trying to level the code retired with Borderlands 4, which launches for PC connected 12th September, and volition not outgo $80, contempt oregon perchance acknowledgment to overmuch commentary to that effect from Gearboss Randy Pitchford.

"Of course, we were alert of the feedback that Borderlands 3 got, and we took each the valid disapproval connected board," Clark said of the humour successful an interrogation with VGC. "We're creating an wholly caller world, and we privation to person a code that fits the caller satellite we're on. Pandora was similar the Wild West, this caller satellite is simply a totalitarian world, truthful having everybody making jokes each infinitesimal wouldn't consciousness wholly right."

That past condemnation is, well, it's benignant of a Pandora's box, isn't it. Many thoughts, each of them massively obnoxious. On the 1 hand, humour whitethorn beryllium the champion antidote to tyranny, connected the other, clowns tin marque large demagogues. It's hard to remark without knowing much astir Borderlands 4's thought of totalitarianism. I conjecture I request to play it now.

There's besides the occupation of this being Borderlands' "Simpson's era", successful Clark's words, though I deliberation he's really referring to the "Simpsons did it" gag from South Park.

"We're successful the writers' room, and idiosyncratic volition person an thought connected however to decorativeness a mission, and idiosyncratic volition beryllium like, 'We did that successful Borderlands'," helium told the site. "We're ever trying not to repetition ourselves; that's wherefore our villains are truthful different. We're ever trying to support it fresh."

If you ne'er played immoderate of the older Borderlands, 1) I'd beryllium sincerely funny to get your impressions of the 2009 game, and 2) Borderlands 4 is going to beryllium a "fresh start", continuing the events of Borderlands 3 "with a precise antithetic benignant of villain than we've had before". According to Clark: "You don't request to person played each the aged games to recognize it, but you person thing that rewards radical who are coming from Borderlands 3 and besides radical who privation to leap in, with nary experience."