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'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash (www.ign.com)
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[–] 115 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I accepted and just didn’t buy it to begin with.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    After the borderlands 3 trainwreck it seems weird that people are apparently buying BL4

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's hard to consider an 81 on OpenCritic to be a trainwreck. People tend to buy games that review well, especially when it's a co-op shooter with basically no competition.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Damn I had to look that up cause it seemed unbelievable. I am shocked it reviewed that well. It just seemed so awful to me.

    Am I so out of touch?? No, the children are.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I honestly don't know what this "trainwreck" talk is. BL3 was passable. I didn't like the antagonists, but the game played fine if purples dropped way too much and the new guns weren't great. People make it seem like it was the Worst Game Ever and I don't get it. The pre-sequel was hot garbage, but 3 was fine.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    there's no nuance in anything anymore. you can't just say "oh this isn't really for me, honestly."

    you have to write 18 paragraphs about the fall of the video game industry because of this one game and how its hot trash, kills newborns while they sleep, etc.

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  • [+] -16 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Was going to say... Who is out there buying games way outside their machines' specs? Seems pretty straightforward.

    I do get a little annoyed at the folks angry at BL4 using a higher end engine. Like, it does look a lot better than previous iterations. That engine upgrade wasn't for nothing.

    There are a ton of looter shooters floating around that aren't using the Unreal 5 engine. Just play one of those instead. Hell, go back and play BL1. I'm pretty sure that thing runs on a toaster.

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    This game goes into the twenties on a freaking 4070 at 1440 on high settings and doesn't even get 60 at medium settings

    Now let's take a look at the "recommended specs" Randy put out there

    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 / AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / Intel Arc B580

    Sorry but when in the world is that even remotely acceptable that you consider last Gen was outside machine specs when the developers said sure two generations ago is perfectly fine, which btw, holy crap it's not.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    There’s a difference between a game being way outside of your specs because it’s graphically very advanced and your hardware is old, and a game just being unoptimized slop that expects its users to deal with by throwing higher specs at a fixable problem.

    I have a brand new 5070ti that can play all kinds of UE5 games with much better graphics than BL4 at 4k resolution with ray tracing at a decent frame rate without relying on frame gen. And I’m in the top few percentiles here.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    UE5 can run fine on older hardware, but most devs either aren't given the time to properly optimize or don't give a fuck about it and would rather rely on upscaling and frame gen tech.

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