16 years, four mainline games, and a decent handful of spinoffs later, you might imagine that Borderlands 4 has little room left to innovate. According to Anthony Nicholson, senior project producer, however, that couldn't be further from the truth – speaking to GamesRadar+, he explains that Borderlands 4 promises to be a bigger, more bombastic Borderlands game than ever.
That might raise alarm bells for some, both within Gearbox and without. The Borderlands series has always used crass humor to its advantage, but there seems to be a desire to move away from the worst excesses of its toilet humor - after Borderlands 4's showing at The Game Awards last month, narrative director Sam Winkler said 'skibidi toilet' and 'hawk tuah' references weren't the kind of thing he wanted the game to feature.
