Borderlands 3 'sometimes felt like parody' of itself, say writers, but 4 aims to fix that: 'If I tried to put a meme in the game, he would come to my house with a baseball bat'

The obnoxious villains of Borderlands 3, pictured here being obnoxious.

Borderlands 3's story is… interesting. As someone who has played most of Gearbox's loot'em shoot'ems, I agree with the general consensus that 3's story is kinda the worst. Mind, I've never hopped into Pandora's (or its associated moons') deep narrative—but after hours of outdated memes, when a certain character sacrificed themselves to Beyonce's "This Girl Is On Fire", I straight-up laughed. Which is generally not a good sign.

Per a recent interview with IGN, that's something the Borderlands 4 team is keen to fix: "I think that we had [our] own internal critiques about the tone and the level of humor present in Borderlands 3," says narrative director Sam Winkler.