Randy looks at Borderlands 4 actually performing somewhat well critically and says NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT
'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'
Submitted 2 weeks ago by mintiefresh@piefed.ca to games@lemmy.world
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chrislowles@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s what he does best.
ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just got a new GPU, and they gave me a coupon for the game for free. My system should be able to run it great, but I’m not even sure how good it actually even is. All the reviews I see all look like paid reviews or early access folk, or people that claim to love it to justify their overpriced rigs.
I loved 1 and 2, and then the series went downhill for me. Now I guess I have 4 but might wait a while to play it because I know a ton of patches are coming. Besides, there are a ton of other great games on my backlog that I’d much rather play with my limited free time.
deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Stupid comment indeed but this is the gamer community as we know - thet feel SO entitled.
Listen, you can try the game for two hours and get a refund on steam. If you didn’t notice the performance issues on your rig within those two hours, well, what’s the problem? If did notice, then why didn’t you just refund on get on with your life? It’s because of this crazy feeling od entitlement thet gamers seem to have. Whenever something doesn’t live up to their arbitrary standards, the world must burn.
I don’t like BL games and I don’t like poorly optimized games. Doesn’t run like I wanted to? Fine, I refund, maybe try when I upgrade my hardware and the game is on sell. Lots more of these incoming because developers not being able to work with UE5 without optimization issues, e.g. the new Metal gear remake). Also, I know nothing about how devs deal game optimization.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I haven’t looked at the performance reviews per system yet but I recall the complaints for Borderlands 3 mainly came from people trying to run it on an old i5 with a 1060 or similar. You need a high end system, that much is clear. Or you need to get comfortable with 30 fps.
I’m not saying Randy is right to strike that tone, but you can’t deny there is a point to saying that some games are meant to be played on powerful systems and won’t accept anything less.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sure, but powerful systems don’t run it too well either. Especially given how mediocre the game looks visually.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
People with high end systems (5090s etc) are apparent having a lot of performance issues, and are unable to run the game at 60fps/4k without AI upscaling or frame generation.
There’s also a lot of complaints about stuttering, and the game wouldn’t launch at all for a lot of people when it first came out.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
People with high end systems (5090s etc) are apparent having a lot of performance issues, and are unable to run the game at 60fps/4k without AI upscaling or frame generation.
It’s even better when you realize that the performance degrades the longer you’ve been playing that session. It’s unoptimized and leaky.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Sure, in theory. In practice we're talking about 3k machines struggling to hit 60FPS (dropping as low as 30fps on occasions) on max settings with DLSS on. A 3k machine gets you high setting low 70 FPS with DLSS on. If a 3k machine is not a high end system what the fuck is a high end system? And the bigger issue is what exactly are we paying for here? Borderlands 4 doesn't even look significantly better than Borderlands 3. There's no reason for the game to be this performance heavy when it looks like a game from 2019.
You have a point in some hypothetical scenario but in actuality this is a case of Randy being full of shit.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Its a recent AAA game on a modern game engine, so it probably runs awful even on top of the line hardware.
Basically every game that comes out these days in the AAA space is a horrible unoptimized mess.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
My complaint about borderlands 3 was the cringe main antagonists. Like I’m happily shooting stuff and they hop in with painfully mediocre snippets of whatever they’re supposed to be doing. Also they killed off one of the best characters. The gunplay felt nice, the music and graphics were good. I didn’t have any real technical issues.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
He’s just giving mega chuds ammo for their flame wars.
lystopad@mbin.twink.men 2 weeks ago
is there that much difference between 2015 and 2025 hardware? (like now people are saying moore's law is dead and stuff)
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
PC gaming ladies and gentlemen.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I don’t follow. Borderlands is on all consoles too isn’t it? At least the older ones are?
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seems to run fine on console.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it’s wild to me that there are people who still not only let this man talk be first place, but write down the shit that come out of his stupid face and report on it.