Let’s all simply faux that the Borderlands 4 reveal got here at a greater time

I am glad to know that Borderlands 4 is on its method. Certain, the Borderlands humorousness has worn a bit skinny for me over time, and positive, I believe Claptrap is among the many best torments ever inflicted on an undeserving humanity. When it comes all the way down to it, although, I am as a lot of a sucker for a bajillion procedurally generated weapons as the subsequent man. One other Borderlands sequel is one I will welcome.

However rattling, it positive looks like that Gamescom teaser was meant to coast in on a much bigger wave of excellent will, yeah?

It was a high quality teaser, do not get me mistaken. I wish to know why that moon got here out of that wormhole, and what the cope with that planet’s large, shatterable cloaking area is, and what these alien glyphs on the finish imply. That is compelling stuff! I am compelled!

However for a sport that we principally already knew could be coming, it is a reveal with out a lot substance. Culminating these wordless 80 seconds with the gradual flip of the franchise’s trademark bandit masks has the uncooked confidence of one thing conceived as a mic drop. That is a teaser constructed for an viewers that is already hungry for extra.

Sadly, in the event you’re dropping a mic after a efficiency just like the Borderlands film debacle, lots of people are simply going to listen to a boring thud.

That is to not say that individuals aren’t enthusiastic about extra Borderlands. If you happen to add up the views from the official Borderlands channel and the uploads from Gamescom and gaming information shops, the teaser’s already been watched a pair million occasions. However these views are coming from commenters who’re getting 12,000 likes for joking that it is “Gearbox’s apology letter for giving us the Borderlands film.”

We have seen how potent film and TV diversifications could be for amplifying a sport’s grip on the general public consciousness. Following the well-documented Netflix enhance loved by League of Legends and Cyberpunk, the Fallout TV collection managed to extend day by day participant exercise sixfold. If Bethesda had been capable of announce a brand new Fallout sport within the weeks that adopted, Todd Howard in all probability would’ve had a shot at canonization. (I do not understand how Catholicism works.)

The Borderlands 4 reveal ought to’ve been a second of triumph for the crew that is making it. As an alternative, it is drifting in at low tide.