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Despite all the complaints, I'm sure it'll still sell well because gamers seem to have the least restraint when it comes to their favorite franchises.
IDK how big the following for borderlands series is, but FIFA, MADDEN, CoD, etc. are all powered by gamers buying into crappy releases year after year. And they don't even realize they're being duped.
 
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Well I don’t think many planned to play it, regardless. Also, if a 3070 is fine, a 3060ti is literally only 5% slower and it will be virtually identical to using a 3070.(I actually own a 3060ti and 3070ti because the 3070ti was free and in some games, they literally run within margin of error of each other.)
 
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Seems you really should only use UE5 as a developer if you plan to do something extraordinary graphics wise (which it is capable of).

If your game has pretty nice graphics but really nothing special (like this game and many others) all it seems to get you is bad performance. This isn’t the first UE5 game with average graphics this issue has come up with.

Never liked borderlands anyway so I don’t really care, but the pricing on this is ridiculous and locking core content in an edition that’s twice the price of the base game is just scummy. Hope this won’t be a trend (but afraid it will be).
 
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ok, so they are so into selling us a DLC that they dont even wait for the game to be out anymore. another way to see it, is if you want to play a demo, its 70$; if you want full game, its 130$. and to ask for those specs for this type of game, its clearly a bad prog most probably done in big part by AI, to make even more profit, because "fu".
 
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Ok, so, my son and I both loved Borderlands, Borderlands 2, and Borderlands Pre-Sequel.

We both got BL3 on sale, though the real world has conspired to severely limit my gaming time. My son's view is that BL3 is enjoyable for gameplay, but story-wise he's not impressed, and he finds some of the characters just annoying. (the twins, I think he mentioned)

He heard Borderlands 4 was coming out, and, despite the fact that, as a kid, he practically grew up on Borderlands, was like "meh." The more he hears, the less he's interested. Maybe that awful movie (which he has not seen) has colored his perception of things as well.
 
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Read the footnotes in the first slide:
** Consists of separate post launch DLC-packs.
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So in actuality all "paywalled day 1 content" that remains after that is cosmetics.

Gasp.

A game in 2025 trying to make you prepurchase DLC/Season Pass with the more expensive editions, and padding them with cosmetics? Imagine.

You don't have to buy DLC in advance. If you quit the game you don't need them at all.
 
I honestly don't see anything wrong with those requirements. 8 cores, 16gb and 2070/RX5700 is pretty common for high-end games nowadays. 32gb of RAM? Good, some of us already have that much and games weren't using it properly. 3080/6800 recommend is also good, means it's pushing graphics... except for cell shading, which is the only wrong thing in this whole story.

Also, neither requirements texts mention resolution, which is crucial to properly evaluate them.

Again, nothing wrong with neither, except for cell shading.
 
I was getting excited for a moment that 3070 was a minimum requirement, but alas, 'tis only 2070. :)
The 3080 recommendation is the same as Ark Survival Ascended, which is heavy as f. I bet Borderlands will run much better.
 
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Notton said:
Despite all the complaints, I'm sure it'll still sell well because gamers seem to have the least restraint when it comes to their favorite franchises.
IDK how big the following for borderlands series is, but FIFA, MADDEN, CoD, etc. are all powered by gamers buying into crappy releases year after year. And they don't even realize they're being duped.
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True. It's like Gordon Mah Ung's saying on gamers complaining about nVidia but buying their GPU's anyways -- same goes for those beloved game franchises.

That said, and I used to be a big Borderlands fan, B3 was a noticeable decline for me. Some of it was just having less time, but by this point, I had the best hardware relevant to the game to play it really well. Still, it's hard to beat expectations when B1 was awesome, then B2 even better... CoD, Battlefield, and plenty of other franchises demonstrate how it gets exceedingly hard to truly improve a game over it's predecessor.

Anyways, I burned out on the Borderlands games and don't play gory games anymore now that I have kids. I have recommended system specs, but I agree this is excessive; there's a difference between pushing gaming graphics forward and just being a hog that actually shuts out a lot of gamers either completely or being limited to poor fps and therefore a poorer gaming experience.
 
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So, this may be the first BL game I skip. At least at launch. Mainly because I'm not building a new PC just for one game.
I just can't afford that.

Maybe in the future, when I have to upgrade anyway. And the game is cheaper, with the pay-gated content unlocked.

But, unlike past entries, this sadly isn't going to be a day one purchase.
 
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Yeah right, it's just one of the most anticipated games of the year, so nothing to be excited about, and since you didn't personally plan to play it, for sure not many did as well.
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I mean it WAS highly anticipated, yes. Then, every bit of info they’ve released so far has tempered enthusiasm rather than reinforcing it.
 
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I honestly don't see anything wrong with those requirements. 8 cores, 16gb and 2070/RX5700 is pretty common for high-end games nowadays. 32gb of RAM? Good, some of us already have that much and games weren't using it properly. 3080/6800 recommend is also good, means it's pushing graphics... except for cell shading, which is the only wrong thing in this whole story.

Also, neither requirements texts mention resolution, which is crucial to properly evaluate them.

Again, nothing wrong with neither, except for cell shading.
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Cell shading is definitive to Borderlands; take that away and it might as well not be Borderlands. I've played going back to the original game and everything in between, so can't take that away now, lol.

I don't have a problem with the recommended specs, but the minimum makes for a hard pill to swallow. As for pricing, I do have a problem with that, especially if they are going to charge that much for deluxe and super deluxe editions that raise their average margins. I think every tier should be $10 less, but hey, when not go for the cash grab on a recognized nameplate, a?
 
So that'l be a UE5 game then?

(Just guessing, it seems like the requirements just balloon out when games switch to UE5. Generally blamed on high res everything plus lots of shaders, except they seem to baloon out even on games that don't have that.)
 
Notton said:
Despite all the complaints, I'm sure it'll still sell well because gamers seem to have the least restraint when it comes to their favorite franchises.
IDK how big the following for borderlands series is, but FIFA, MADDEN, CoD, etc. are all powered by gamers buying into crappy releases year after year. And they don't even realize they're being duped.
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Are they "being duped" if they enjoy the games? I may not care for those games, but I'm not going to care if people like them.
 
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