The Borderlands series is known for two things: lots of guns and terrible humour. While we all love the guns, the series’ sense of humour started going down the drain after Borderlands 2. Thankfully, narrative director Sam Winkler has revealed that the team will be dialling down the toilet humour in Borderlands 4.
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After a disastrous film adaptation and three very similar mainline games, 4 is an opportunity for Borderlands to evolve.
However, it seems that Gearbox overall has no intention of losing its silly sense of humour. As a Christmas present to the team, management gave out custom cast iron skillets with the Gearbox logo on them. Not only is this a great gift, but it was also a way to tell the team that they “cooked”.
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As shared by Senior Writer, Jordan Mychal Lemos on Twitter, Gearbox gave its developers a cast iron skillet with a Gearbox logo on it. While it may seem like a silly joke of a gift, a cast iron skillet is actually an excellent gift. They’re actually quite expensive and make cooking very easy, even for kitchen noobs like me.
You see, due to its cast-iron nature, the skillet gets very hot and is perfect for… relax, I won’t bore you with the details. Just know that, along with some slate coasters, this makes for a great, and actually useful gift. Of course, a gift card would have been a bit more useful, but Gearbox has always done things a bit differently!
As for toning down the toiler humour in Borderlands 4, Sam Winkler revealed that he was “Not at liberty to talk much about the content of BL4, but I remain firm in my criticism of BL3’s overabundance of toilet humor.” This hopefully means that the level of writing in the upcoming installment will be much better than what we’ve seen previously.
We got our first full look at the Borderlands 4 trailer at The Game Awards, and while there was a lot to take in, fans were seemingly unimpressed with the vanilla-looking Vault Hunters. Of course, this was based on only a few seconds of footage.
