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Borderlands 3 Is “Much Bigger Than Borderlands 2, Has A Ton of Content” – Gearbox

Coming back from a hiatus of seven years (or five, if you count the Pre-Sequel), Borderlands 3 is a game that gamers all have high hopes from. And at least as far as the amount of content it will offer to players even at launch is concerned, it’s looking like it’s going to live up to those lofty expectations. Gearbox Software have spoken about how the main campaign is 30-35 hours long – and that’s if you’ve only done a few side missions the entire time – so it’s clear that there will be a lot to dive into in the looter shooter.

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Snakeeater251754d ago

Will borderland 3 Will have a story this time or its still dont matter

Ps : make possible to kill claptrap

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Cmv381754d ago

All 3 of them so far have had a story. Tps and 2 have great stories imo. Tps was just on the short side.

criticalkare1754d ago

Uhh what? You never played previous Borderlands?

pleasuretokill1754d ago

Borderlands 3 is being released on EPIC, a platform with scummy practices that I will not support. Wake me up when it's on Steam.

DarXyde1754d ago

I'm not well informed about these scummy practices I hear about (not a PC gamer). Do you mean the exclusivity deals? If so, I believe Epic mentioned something about ending those if Steam was willing to reduce the overhead they take from developers to host titles on their platform.

Is there anything else? I'm genuinely curious to know where to start in learning about this matter.

pleasuretokill1754d ago (Edited 1754d ago )

Epic is paying off 3rd party developers to only release on their inferior-in-every-way platform because they can't just make a better platform. They SAY that they will be cheaper but, only a few games have been cheaper and they have gone back on a few price drops... Basically, I want to buy games where I wish to buy them from. I don't worry about what companies make money wise. I worry about what I want for my cash and then I vote that way with that money. I care about a companies bank account exactly as much as they care about mine. My thought process is completely selfish when it comes to my money. I want what I want and that's it. You either do as I wish or you don't get my cash. That simple. I have a backlog of over 550 games. I don't need to buy any game. When it's released on the platform of my choosing, I will buy it. Not until then. That simple.

DarXyde1754d ago

pleasuretokill,

Okay, fair enough. I do personally care about the wellbeing of companies involved since that impacts their project budgets and whether or not they can self publish - which, as we have seen, does affect creative freedom of the development process; I notice that when a game is developed by a solid developer but published by a company like Activision, it tends to be problematic.

That said, nothing wrong with wanting freedom to choose where to buy from. As a personal interpretation, I don't really see the significance of a launcher war, but as you've mentioned, freedom to choose and I can respect that. I like to support developers for a job well done and I can't say I'm particularly selfish with my money so much as I don't support egregious business practices.

Thanks for the info, mate.

Wolffenblitz1754d ago

Here's something that I found made a lot of sense after the second game was poached from Steam and people got upset because what they were PROMISED was taken away. It's long, but I think it covers everything.

Grunt from Kotaku.com.au made good points: "Its not the Steam monopoly thing. They are the dominant player, to be sure, but they arent the only one. And they are dominant because they give the customer what they want, not by denying others the chance.

At the moment, my launchers include Steam, GoG, Origin, Uplay, Blizzard, , Bethesda, and now Epic. I've missed a couple, and it doesnt cover things like NC Soft. Steam has the bulk of my games, but each of the others has anything from 1 to a dozen that I play, or played.

Trying to remember whats on each gets increasingly hard, to the point I have several games where I have two installs, or even two accounts, because I've simply seen it on Steam, bought it, and installed it. I think I have Shadowrun three times...

So, theres convenience. As for the physical shops comparison, personally I dont. I have JB Hifi one level above EB, and on the same level as Target. They are all in the same location, so theres no travel. Its convenient. I dont go to Target much, so its really just two stores that I can shuffle between in 20 seconds.

Out of all that, I have choice. If I dont like EB prices I can go up and look at JB. I dont like that, I have other choices, like online. Even though the real choice is whether I buy it at JB today, or tomorrow, theres still a choice.

Exclusiveness takes that choice away. Completely. It hides behind a timeframe of 6 or 12 months, but in reality its taken away. You either have to buy that fresh game from them or buyu a year old game. How is that competition?

Steam never took choice away. You could still go and buy a game physically, and you could still go to another online platform, such as GoG, and buy there. Its never been locked away for any other reason than publisher choice. That IS competition at work.

This isnt about competition. If it was, the games would be on both platforms at the middle of this, and Epic would be competing. Thats kind of what competition means - competing. And they could do so easily by differentiating them from the opposition.

Instead, they've bought the ball, locked out the best player, and only invited the cool kids to play. Again, not competition. Its elitism and something society has been trying to get rid of for decades.

Remember the movie Avatar? I hope you do, its the biggest movie of all time. Remember its push for 3D, and how amazing it looked? When it came out on blu ray, they had a choice. And their choice was terrible. They partnered up with a TV manufactuer, and the ONLY way to get a 3D copy was to buy one of those TV's. Or wait until they changed their minds, or pirate.

At a time when they were trying to get 3D going, they locked away the highest profile option to something so limited to be pointless. To me that played a large part in why 3D never got traction - the biggest potential selling point couldnt become the Must Have reason.

Exclusivity killed competition.

Epic can work. But how its going about it is pissing off enough of its customer base that its basically running on Hard Difficulty. They've put barriers in front of themselves while trying to take on the near monopoly Steam has. And in a way thats reminiscent of various anti-trust cases thrown against Microsoft over the years."

DarXyde1754d ago

Wolffenblitz,

Thanks for that. That's really helpful. I have gained a lot more perspective on the matter, though I still have a hard time blaming Epic since developers and publishers have to be on board with this in order for these deals to pass. I'm not sure I can justify blaming Epic for making an appealing offer to publishers - ultimately, they are the ones who agree to provide Epic with the content first. I'm no fan of timed exclusive deals but it makes sense to me if they wish to embrace them because, as is common in business, an appealing offer was made and the parties involved both benefit considerably.

I'm not sure how good Epic is about sales and such, but I do see the issue with locking out competition in this regard since one marketplace controls the entirety of pricing. Altogether, I'm torn with regard to this practice. I believe it is easy to make a case for and against it based on the information provided.

Much appreciated input.

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CP_Company1754d ago

it sounds like it is a time to buy a Playstation for you.

JackBNimble1754d ago

As much as I want borderlands 3 I don't think I can support any dev's or publishers who have supported Epic with their anti-consumerism.
It's to bad Epic just couldn't play fair .

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10 Biggest Xbox Mistakes of All Time (So Far)

The Xbox brand has done a lot of good over the years, but their various blunders are pretty wild to look back on in their magnitude.

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piroh17h ago(Edited 17h ago)

Ironically number 9 can save them at this point (releasing games on multiple platforms)

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Stellar Blade has sold more physical copies than Dragon's Dogma 2 in Japan, despite PS5 exclusivity

By the looks of it, PlayStation 5 exclusivity does not hurt the sales of Stellar Blade in Japan as the game has passed 90,000 sold physical copies.

Hugodastrevas16h ago

Stellar Blade really deserves way more praise than it got, devs have been adding more and more content, for free, since release and the game already was great to begin with!

BrettAwesome13h ago

More than it got? It got tons, by everyone except the sad wankers who's idea of a sex life, is pulling on their dicks while watching big fake cgi titties 😂

gerbintosh2m ago

Don't see the difference between cgi titties and fake boobs. Also no difference to wanking it to either one of them since both aren't physically there

Cacabunga13h ago

I think we can safely claim that Stellar Blade 2 is confirmed!
I got it day one, i have some backlog due to RDR2 i just platinumed.. i will get to Stellar Blade in the near future

shinoff218313h ago

Same but I'm hitting yakuza right now. Stellar blade looks cool though.

neutralgamer199211h ago

Capcom really dropped the ball with DG2. They had easy success on their hand but instead with their stupid decisions ruined the games success

Stellar blade is an amazing game and deserves all the success. For all the artificial hate it got from people who had no interest in the game to begin with this shows if you make a good game it will sell. The so called 1st party drought from PlayStation has meant 4 exclusives in 2024 so far. Other companies need to learn how to run a business and plan for the future

H916h ago

Stellar blade is performing very impressively there, DD2 didn't do well because word of mouth destroyed it's reputation and not about the Microtransactions or performance, bad word of mouth about how the game lacks so many things that were in the first one

Redemption-6413h ago

DS2 sold 2.5M in a little over a week, what the hell are you talking about?

H913h ago

"there", that's Japan, this article is about Japan, the bad word of mouth is about Japan

Hereandthere14h ago

Exclusives matter. No matter what bumbling phil and bond try to say, exclusives is why you buy a console.

The_Hooligan11h ago

How dare you speak common sense!!??

jznrpg6h ago

It would if they added a lot more combat and didn’t focus on graphics

XiNatsuDragnel14h ago

Stellar blade is great excited for 2

anast14h ago

They dropped the ball with dogma. SB is a solid game, it just had to weather the social storm.

shinoff218313h ago(Edited 13h ago)

Said that dd2 was missing things the first one did,like mass effect 2? I haven't played it so I'm really asking.

spss1111h ago

I've played both and I have no idea what people say when they claim it's "incomplete". I've only noticed new things in comparison to DD1 (I would give a list but spoilers). Sometimes I wonder if some people actually played DD1 or maybe they remember it differently. Anyways, if you liked the first one and want more of that, you'll probably like DD2.

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Sony CEO says although AI "has been used for creation," it's "not a substitute for human creativity"

"AI is not a substitute for human creativity. We position it as a technology that supports creativity. Creativity resides in people. We will continue to contribute to people's creativity through technology," the CEO said.

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1nsomniac1d 14h ago (Edited 1d 13h ago )

...not yet but 100% within the next 10 years!

..Then Sony will use it like the drop of a hat. They're no different to the others.

isarai1d 11h ago (Edited 1d 11h ago )

They used to be 😞 sure it was always a business, and money's always the priority, but they used to have a very strong stance on supporting artists and creativity. "Dont f#@k with the artist" was a phrase they touted a few times back in the ps1-ps3 era, a philosophy carried over from their music branch PlayStation was created from. It's not COMPLETELY gone, but it's barely there compared to what it was back then, i just want them to return to that.

Eonjay16h ago(Edited 16h ago)

I am highly encouraged by their statement about human creativity. "Dont f#@k with the artist" is exactly what they are saying. But at the same time, I don't think people understand that Sony is a corporation. If they don't realize growth, they don't get to exist. When you say 'Sony', you are talking about a bunch of investors. To speak about them any other way is a illogical and incorrect. They haven't changed. They have been a group of investors since they became a public business.

isarai1d 4h ago

Ugh, i really wish people would stop gambling people's livelihoods by turning a project/game into their political soapbox. Im all for statements and having your own opinion, but there's more people working on this than just druckman, ham fisting your political beliefs onto just seems inconsiderate for everyone elses job security when it can result in a failure due to people avoiding it for that reason.

I play games for escape, im so tired of nearly every AAA game blatantly dragging real world issues to shove in my face when I'm trying to take a break from it all. They don't even bother to be subtle about it, quite the opposite, it's blasted and force fed to you and it's just getting exhausting

Einhander197218h ago

People are taking a whole interview and cutting it down to clips that make him look bad and take what he actually was saying out of context. For example he also said things like this AI has "ethical issues we need to address"

-Foxtrot18h ago

@Einhander

Why defend him at this point?

It’s not taking things out of context, he said what he said.

Old ND would never talk about soulless AI taking over so many creative things they are well known for. The whole “ethical issues” is just a good PR spin people who push this crap fall back on to make their statements not seem as bad. So many AI lovers do this.

AI has no place is so many creative based things.

Einhander197218h ago

Well yeah, because everyone else is using it so they need to stay competitive. It's the same as paid online, they didn't want to go that route but their competition was making so much money they needed to add paid online just to keep up.

RaiderNation16h ago(Edited 16h ago)

AI will never replace humans in game development in terms of conceptualizing new games. Humans still need to come up with the ideas and what they want to implement. However much of the day to day menial coding could be AI driven to reduce production time and team size. I could also see AI being used for bug testing/optimization that could lead to better quality games at launch. I'm actually very optimistic about how AI can positively impact game development.

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XiNatsuDragnel1d 12h ago

Good statement but hopefully this holds up

NotoriousWhiz17h ago

People that aren't software developers just don't understand the benefits of AI. People who's only exposure to A.I is the Terminator movie and other related sci fi films won't understand the benefits it provides.

It's not about replacing human labor. It's about making human labor easier.

Many years ago, I had laser eye surgery done. It was performed by a robot. The doctor took my measurements and calibrated the machine to make sure it would do what needed be done. And then the robot corrected my vision in 10 seconds.

15 years later and I still have 20/20 vision.

Eonjay16h ago

AI in and of itself is not a 'bad'. Money is bad. Money is evil, and corporations will do whatever they can to get more of it. They will find ways to implement AI to replace as may jobs as possible. This isn't even up for debate. It is the charge of the corporation to maximize returns for the investors. They have no choice. I'm a developer and I know that my job will absolutely be replaced. Therefore, I have decided to become an AI dev. AI has a lot of potential to help us solve problem on a scale most can't even imagine. The issue, as ever is that our monetary system only ever allows us to focus on greed and fiscal growth.

But I am a pragmatist. Perhaps an AI model can be built to help protect us from our most dangerous instincts and habits. And perhaps Congress can pass laws to protect us from people who would use AI to manipulate and control us (spoiler: they wont).

RaiderNation3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Progress is inevitable. Nobody driving cars today is complaining that the horse and buggy is no longer around. Yes, some jobs will be lost but guess what? With innovation comes new job opportunities. It's how the cycle of the job market works.