Borderlands 4 mercifully ditches most of Borderlands 3 potty humor, but Gearbox gives itself a treat and references Dark Souls meme from Twitter in hidden sidequest

Borderlands 4 character art of Amon.

Whether or not the Borderlands games are funny comes down to your tolerance level for concepts such as "toilet prison" and Rickrolling, but as fans of the 2009 franchise grow older and more world-weary, its le epic memes become less impressive. This is why Borderlands 4 players seem to be glad the latest installment of the looter shooter ditches the series' crudest humor.

But "crude humor," Gearbox devs argue, doesn't exclude a Dark Souls joke from 2022 making an appearance as a self-referential, secret sidequest. So they made a Dark Souls joke from 2022 into a self-referential, secret sidequest – first noticed by our friends at PC Gamer.