In the 16 years I've played this series, Borderlands 4 is the first entry that's made me want to do post-game grinding—Gearbox just needs to fix its dang Wildcard Missions first

The vault hunter and Zane look, intrigued, at the sight of something off-screen in Borderlands 4.

Harvey Randall, Staff Writer

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Last week I was: Trying not to lose it over that one boss in Silksong. The guy with the maggots. You know who I'm talking about.

This week I've been: Playing around 47 hours of Borderlands 4. Send help, I'm trapped in the loot dimension.

I've been playing the Borderlands series since its inception, but I have something terrible to confess—I have never, not once, been tempted to engage in the endgame. The closest I've ever got was when I rinsed through Borderlands 3's DLCs (many of which were shockingly good), and even then, that was more coincidental.