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NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT?
A chatty looter shooter with a pure heart and weak humor
EXPECT TO PAY
$50
DEVELOPER
Gearbox Software
PUBLISHER
2K Games
REVIEWED ON
RTX 2080, i9-9900k, 32 GB RAM, SSD
MULTIPLAYER
4-player co-op
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Borderlands 3 is a game with long, earnest quests about how darn good coffee is punctuated by gore and gun violence. Borderlands 3 walks by dog poo, laughs at it, and then sets it ablaze. Borderlands 3 stays up until 11.30pm drinking soda and looking up crass Flash animations, taking notes. It’s stuck in the late 2000s, when basic vulgarity was enough to qualify as edgy. Borderlands 3 is seriously obsessed with turds.
It’s stuck in a time when memes lasted months rather than days, when referential humour was still a novelty and not exhausting, when you could point at something the slightest bit abnormal or gross and call it a joke. Simpler times, not necessarily better times.
