Gearbox Software released the 8th installment in their hit series Borderlands. Borderlands 4 was released on September 12, 2025. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy and it was worth every penny. It for sure has Game Of The Year potential. They really listened to the fans and have gone back to its roots. With brand new gunplay and movement systems with the witty, crude humor of the last games, they really outdid themselves. I have only gotten 12 hours into it so far, and it’s safe to say that I have barely scratched the surface. The open world of Borderlands 4 is one that was done right, with 4 different regions of the map, all with their own settlements and enemies.
The biggest issue with the release is the performance. Some users report that the game runs fine, while others claim that this is not what they expected from a AAA game studio. From low resolutions to frame rate drops. In a barrage of posts on X, Randy Pitchford responded to one user saying “code your own engine and show us how it’s done, please,” while claiming less than 0.01% of Borderlands 4 users are reporting “legitimate” performance issues. “Code your own engine and show us how it’s done, please,” Pitchford said in response to a user criticising the game’s AI upscaling recommendation. “We will be your customer when you pull it off. The people doing it now are clearly dumb and don’t know what they’re doing, and all the support and recommendations and code and architecture from the world’s greatest hardware companies and tech companies working with the world’s greatest real-time graphics engine coders don’t know what you seem to know. /sarcasm”
Personally, I have not had any problems with the game’s performance and have been able to run a constant 90 FPS at 1080p on my PS5 slim. “It’s a premium game for premium gamers…” Pitchford also added, “You won’t be able to run it on an 8-year-old PC.”
I believe that it has the potential to be the best in the franchise, and that’s a hard mountain to climb with titles like Borderlands and Borderlands 2, which are two of my all-time favorite video games.
