Borderlands 4 narrative director Sam Winkler has revealed that he intends to tone down what he identifies as an “overabundance of bathroom humor” within the collection’ earlier recreation.
Talking to a follower on social media platform X, Winkler says that whereas he is “not at liberty” to debate the narrative content material of Borderlands 4 for the time being, he stays “agency” in his “criticism of Borderlands 3‘s overabundance of bathroom humor”.
One other Borderlands fan then humorously asks Winkler if they will have the ability to “use the poop poop farty 4000” to “clear up porta-potties with my companion skibidi rest room”, which is a sentence that bodily harm me to put in writing, despite the fact that I am quoting another person’s sarcastic commentary.
In response to this painfully-worded query (for which props should begrudgingly go to the submit’s author Moxsy), Winkler says that whereas he cannot assure there shall be “no bogs”, he’ll “cry actual tears” if “the phrase skibidi ships within the recreation”.
He goes on to say that author Paul Tassi joked Borderlands 4 would function a gun known as “Hawk 2A” (a reference to the well-known Hawk Tuah meme) and that this suggestion prompted a fellow dev to ask if that gun was actual.
That query, Winkler stated, made him need to “put [his] hand down the sink grinder”, so it feels like Borderlands 4 may even de-emphasize the sort of meme humor for which the collection has turn into recognized.
With all of that stated, the thread initially started with Winkler praising Borderlands 4‘s contract writers as “a few of the funniest individuals [he knows]”, so the sport positively will not be a critical grimdark tackle the collection.
The primary gameplay trailer for Borderlands 4 was revealed throughout this yr’s Recreation Awards, alongside the likes of an Okami sequel, a co-op survival spinoff of Elden Ring, and Naughty Canine’s new recreation Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
Gearbox describes the sport as a “mayhem-fueled looter shooter” full of “billions of weapons, outrageous enemies, and intense co-op motion”, which sounds about proper for the Borderlands collection.
Borderlands 4 is ready to return to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X|S subsequent yr.