DO NOT BUY Borderlands 4 - VERY disappointing

Hello and welcome back to a new video.

So recently I've been playing the brand

new Borderlands 4, and as an avid fan of

the Borderlands series and looter shooter

games in general, I knew I just had to

play this game.

Unfortunately, so far it's been bland,

boring, and uninspiring.

It lacks a certain kind of luster.

So in this game, in typical Borderlands

fashion, you basically just run around

this big map killing enemies and you loot

them and get new weapons and upgrades for

your character.

Now in theory this sounds fun and

everything, but in reality it's just a

massive pain in the backside and leads to

repetitive tedious tedious and very boring

gameplay.

First of all, the beginning tutorial is

extremely annoying and takes way too long

to introduce you to the base mechanics of

the game.

And you only get stuck with boring pistols

in the beginning of the game until you

play a bit later, about half an hour or an

hour into the game.

Then you start getting some more beefy

weapons which are slightly more fun to

use, but still kind of annoying in the way

that you're constantly reloading because

these weapons seem to have extremely small

clips or magazines or whatever they're

called, and you constantly have to reload

every 10 seconds is what I found myself

doing.

It just felt like a reloading simulator if

anything else.

So the main meat of the game is just

shooting these trash mobs, which are

extremely boring to fight against, and

then you get to a boss, which are

basically just massive bullet sponges.

They either have a shield and they have a

big part of health bar that you gotta

deplete, and you just basically shoot them

in the head to get critical hits to do

more damage, and then you just do that

over and over again whilst dodging their

projectiles.

The boss battles leave a lot to be desired

and are not very engaging or fun or

mentally stimulating, and as someone who

likes to be mentally challenged, I do not

find this game mentally challenging in any

other way.

So when it comes to the gameplay,

unfortunately I had to give it a 3.2 out

of 10.

They haven't really made any differences,

any different changes from the previous

games, and it basically just feels like

you're playing the older games but it's a

new game, so it's newer, although it just

feels the same as the older ones.

But you're paying a price tag which is the

equivalent of a new game, which is £60,

which is kind of expensive for a game

that's basically the same game as the

previous game.

So when it comes to graphics, graphics

aren't very good.

It basically just has that cel-shaded kind

of 2D flat image, which is what the game

is known for.

But if you want more realistic graphics

that are going to

going to blow you away, then you're not

really going to be blown away.

Also, the performance of this game is

lacking in a certain kind of luster.

I'm running on a gaming laptop with RTX

4050 graphics card with a Ryzen 7000

processor, and I couldn't even get more

than 30 frames per second.

And that's not very good considering that

this is a game that came out in 2025.

I couldn't even get over 45 FPS even when

I put graphics down to extremely low and I

put DLSS on upscaling onto ultra

performance mode.

And even with all the graphics down to

low, it should at least do 60 FPS.

Unfortunately, I could only play the game

in about 30 FPS, so I didn't really have

the best gaming experience.

The biggest thing I hate about this game

is they haven't removed that stupid little

robot called Claptrap, and he just keeps

talking on and on and on in the most

irritating voice.

And it'd be nice if there was a way to

disable his voice.

I don't know why the developers of the

game think we want to hear this really

annoying voice from this stupid little

robot that's supposed to be funny or

quirky or cute, which it's none of those

things, to be honest.

So unfortunately, for those reasons, I

can't really recommend this game, and I

give it a 3.2 out of 10.

Please, please, um,

stop.

You're supposed to compliment them.

Compliment them?

Ah, whatever.

I got it hard out here.

All my dumb dogs got eaten by those

psychopathic creatures.

Fear not, sad little toaster boy.

I will destroy these interlopers.

Really?

Uh, I mean, really good job showing

initiative, rookie.

Come on, this way.

We're headed to that old Order broadcast

tower.

I was going to use it to send out a

planet-wide recruitment message, but I

couldn't get up the elevator without

getting taken apart by zippers.

Hey, look up there!

Flying rivers!

The stars!

Let's plant it again!

Keep trying, tweens!

Clear out these rivers, rookie!

Oh my God.

Oh.

Yeah,

thanks, Plato, whoever you are.

If you can see that, oh my God.

Did you think that you could get me with

these rain caps?

Let

me at him!

All right,

this game sucks.

I'm still here, so there must be a reason

for it.

My quest winds this way.