Caleb McAlpine confirms that Gearbox gave him the opportunity to play Borderlands 4 early, and he's in awe of what he saw.
  • MandyEnglish
    11·
    11 hours ago

    Glad he could play.
    Disgusted at those douchebags at the company used it for advertising

  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
    401·
    15 hours ago

    Next week: “Gearbox sues terminally ill fan for early review while under NDA”

  • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    642·
    16 hours ago

    I might very well just be a cynical prick, but at this point I assume these “stories” are just made up Corporate PR propaganda.

    • iAmTheTotEnglish
      391·
      15 hours ago

      I mean, the much more obvious answer is that a terminal patient was incredibly thankful to get a sneak peak at a game he may not live to see released, of his favourite series, and was playing the game with my exactly the most unbiased lens.

      Which is okay. You don’t have to dig any deeper than that, you can just be happy that this person got to play the game.

      • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.worldEnglish
        251·
        14 hours ago

        Which is okay. You don’t have to dig any deeper than that, you can just be happy that this person got to play the game.

        No. I have to be absolutely miserable and constantly offended by something.

      • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
        82·
        14 hours ago

        If it’s a real story then of course I’m happy for him. I just don’t believe anything on social media or anything that a corporation says. I mean, why would I? We are constantly lied to.

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      381·
      15 hours ago

      Could also just be a well intentioned skew. A terminally ill person who’s already a fan and is getting a special gift from the developer isn’t about to say “the gameplay is fine, but it failed to make the most of its niche and has several glaring bugs”, are they?

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      54·
      16 hours ago

      How much corpos paid this shill for this PR?

      People need to really wise up to these clown tricks jfc

  • sir_pronoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    15 hours ago

    Vertical integration: secretly make some of your fans terminally ill, then let them play a preview of your game.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    14 hours ago

    I’m glad people still enjoy this series but I dropped it at Tiny Tina’s. Nothing felt new even if it was technically a new class or enemies or what have you. I can’t help but feel the vault hunting aspect was dropped too soon after 2.

  • CluckN@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    12 hours ago

    Borderlands 3 dialogue was akin to torture. I’m hoping 4 raises the bar by playing slaughterhouse audio during cutscenes.

  • mrfriki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    11 hours ago

    I tried to play 3 when it got free on Epic Store but Jesus, it was boring and generic.