There are a lot of massive games coming out in 2025. We're almost 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:through the juggernaut of February, but March isn't slowing down with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Split Fiction and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed Shadows, while we know 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox is building momentum (admittedly 168澳💫洲幸运5开奖网:often through cross platform games on Game Pas🌼s), PlayStation has 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a triple-A double header, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo is launching a new console with what is likely 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a bumper catalogue, and there's the small matter of GTA 6 (and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life 3 and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hollow Knight: Silksong and maybe even 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bloodborne Remastered right?!).

But through all of this, the most interesting game of the year is, I would argue, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Borderlands 4. Not the best. Not the highest selling. Not the most expe꧅rimental or boundary pushing or creative. Simply the most interesting. I say this because I have no idea what to expect, and that's a rare thing in gaming. Most of the releases we've had this year have been in line with expectations, and I think I can probably call the other big hitters right now too.

Most Big Games Are Predictable. Borderlands 4 Is Not.

Let's take a look at what we've had so far. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dynasty Warriors: Origins has had a bump in popularity but alienated some hardcore fans, a very predictable outcome given the game advertised itself as streamlining the experience while upping the scope. Avowed, the RPG from the people who made 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Outer Worlds, has been nitpicked because of its similarities and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:shortcomings to Bethesda games, been 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:praised for its combat though 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the clunk has not gone unnoticed, and is a very fun setting to run around in but 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ultimately feels shallow - so, it's The Outer Worlds.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is great so long as you liked the first one and way too complicated if you didn't. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Civilization 7 is a fantastic game🦄 that everyone thinks you shouldn't play for several months, which we all knew would happen because it's a Civ game. I can keep going like this.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo's franchise games will be excellent apart from the one that over commits to whatever the Switch 2's new gimmick is and there'll be a weird game we'll all forget about. Assassin's Creed Shadows will be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:fun but dated and all anyone will talk about is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:things they've decided to be angry♏ about. GTA 6 will be the biggest video game ever and this, its hype, and it🔯s competent gameplay with intricate technological peacocking and an edgy story will convince a lot of people (including possibly myself) that it's also the best video game ever.

Of course, this might not happen. The Switch 2 could pull a Wii U and the games might suck. GTA 6 might do a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cyberpunk 2077 (though many were 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:happy to crown that the best game🤡 ever despite obvious flaws). Assassin's Creed could finally evolve. But I think we all broadly fe🗹el the same way about the biggest games coming out this year - even people who may not like GTA 6 are expecting it to be massive, cutting edge, and be heaped with praise.

Does Borderlands Hold Up In 2025?

Four Vault Hunters From Borderlands 4 walk side by side through sci-fi streets.

But what does anyone think of Borderlands 4? Of all the triple-A games launching this year, it seems like the one where people have no idea what the game will look like, play like, or feel like. Is Borderlands too far gone now and only able to be a parody of itself? Would a back to basics Borderlands even work, or is that the only path to success? Is Borderlands even Borderlands without th🅠e Impact Font era humour, and is it now so old that that humour has swung back around to being funny?

I didn't love 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tiny Tina's Wonderlands or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:New Tales From The Borderlands, but I think that's less because I'm going off Borderlands and more because those games weren't great. But I did still love 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Borderlands 3, which is in contrast to🦹 a lot of older Borderlands fans who hit you with a shy "yeah the first two were okay when I was a kid, but now I have more mature tastes, like leatherbound books". 3 was the best selling game in the series, but is often looked upon as the embarrassing black sh𓂃eep of the family.

I get it. Borderlands 3 isn't as good as the first two games, and in 2019 its humour was dated, as opposed to potentially being considered 'retro' these days. The looter shooter genre itself is an odd beast these days too, even ignoring the Face McShooty silliness of Borderlands. It's a single-play💦er loot game designed to be played in four-player couch co-op, where the guns are earned by killing enemies, exploring caves, or making tactical upgrades, not by completing seasonal events or watching 🌠sponsored Twitch streams or buying virtual currency. The world Borderlands grew up in is gone, if it ever grew up at all.

This makes it a fascinating game. If you told me you'd been to the future and saw what score Borderlands 3 got, there's not a number between 60 and 92 that would surprise me. If it were 69, I'd say that was at leas🍒t a poetic death for Borderlands. Obviously I'd be surprised that 🦄you'd been to the future at all, and that of all the information you'd chose to bring back it was the Borderlands review score, but the number itself would not be surprising. Don't tell me what happens in the new season of Yellowjackets!

Where was I? Oh yeah. Borderlands 4 is going to have one of the most unpredictable launches of the year, and it might tell us a little bit about where modern gaming stands. Borderlands has always fitted multiplayer-esque mechanics into a single-player experience, but are we more or less likely to embrace that in a medium that has shifted wholesale into pushing multiplayer anyway? W🎃ill Borderlands humour land in 2025, or will Gearbox predict that it won't and change what Borderlands is to suit? Will it score the fabled 69 review score, and other such questions? I doubt Borderlands 4 will be my favourite game this year, but depending on what happens, it might be my favourite game to think about.

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168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Borderlands 4
Looter Shooter
Action
Adventure
RPG
Systems
Released
September 12, 2025
ESRB
Rating Pending
Publisher(s)
2K
Engine
Unreal Engine 5
Multiplayer
Online Co-Op, Online Multipl❀ayer
Cross-Platform Play
Yes - all

WHERE TO PLAY

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