Summary
- Borderlands 4 aims to lessen the reliance on meme culture and toilet humor.
- Narrative director confirms Borderlands 4 as Gearbox’s most ambitious game but addresses fan concerns.
- Debut trailer at The Game Awards 2024 unveils new factions, villains, and gameplay snippets.
Borderlands 4 narrative director Sam Winkler responds to a fan online and reveals that Gearbox is cutting back on references to memes and reliance on toilet-based humor. The franchise is well known for its humor and references, though Borderlands 4 may be looking to course correct after many felt that its predecessor took things too far in terms of its tone and reliance on memes and streaming.
While Gearbox has continued to tease its upcoming game, fans finally got their best look at Borderlands 4 during The Game Awards 2024. The debut trailer revealed new factions, villains, and snippets of gameplay, which included the four vault hunters. While details are still very slim about the game, fans got a little more information from the narrative director on Borderlands 4, who responded to a fan asking about the tone feeling a little darker than usual.
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Taking to social media, Borderlands 4 narrative director Sam Winkler confirmed that the upcoming looter shooter is Gearbox’s most ambitious game to date, though one response to the post wondered if the game would have a more serious and darker tone rather than the humor the series has come to be known for. While Winkler reiterated that he wasn’t able to comment on the game’s content, he doubled down on the issues with Borderlands 3‘s tone and that it had an overabundance of toilet humor.
Borderlands 4 Cutting Back on Meme Culture and Toilet Humor
Some fans pushed back a bit for more details, with one in particular fitting in a number of current phrases and words, to which Winkler responded that Borderlands 4 will likely still have toilets, just not of the skibidi variety. Winkler even deconfirmed a weapon called Hawk 2A after a dev asked if it was real following a comment online. Either way, it appears the streaming and meme culture of Borderlands 3 won’t be making its return for this upcoming entry.
Even after the trailer, fans seemingly have more questions than answers regarding the new main Borderlands 4 villain known as The Timekeeper. While the four Vault Hunters were shown off, next to nothing is known about what they can do, leaving many Borderlands 4 fans feeling disappointed at how bland they look. With the game set for launch in 2025, Gearbox still has plenty of time to reveal things, so many of these fears could be addressed sooner rather than later.
See if you have what it takes to go down in history as a legendary Vault Hunter as you search for secret alien treasure, blasting everything in sight.
Looter Shooter
Action
Adventure
RPG
- Franchise
- Borderlands
- Released
- 2025-00-00