We got our first up-close look at Borderlands 4 during today's State of Play showcase, and to the untrained eye—which is to say, my eye—yes, this is definitely a Borderlands game. But Gearbox revealed one thing about the upcoming shooter that I found quite interesting: You're not going to see as many legendary items in the new game as you might expect.
It's a bit counter-intuitive, isn't it? We all want good loot, after all, and that's pretty much the entire point of the Borderlands games: As Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says at the start of the show, the studio basically invented the looter shooter genre 16 years ago with the original Borderlands. The problem is that when legendaries become common, they're not really legendary anymore—they're, well, common.
