Finally, Tales from the Borderlands crafted the most competent narrative the series has seen to date. The Pre-Sequel developed Handsome Jack’s story and introduced characters that would become villains in Borderlands 2. Borderlands 2 expanded upon that premise with a great villain, plenty of plot twists, and expanding the backstories of old and new characters. Borderlands presented itself with a rather straightforward plot about hunters looking for a Vault. Tannis, you travel the galaxy to put a stop to the Calypso Twins’ plans to open legendary Vaults.īorderlands’ narrative has progressively gained more importance with each new entry. Working with series mainstays like Lilith, Claptrap and Dr. You play as one of four new Vault Hunters (Zane, Amara, Moze and FL4K) who answer the call of the Crimson Raiders. The Calypso Twins, Tyreen and Troy, have moved in and used their streaming capabilities to coalesce all the various Psycho clans into a single cult, the Children of the Vault.
Pandora remains as desolate a place as ever, but things are changing for the worse. Borderlands 3 on next-gen is a cohesive experience with more options, even though the story gets left untouched.īorderlands 3 takes place seven years after the events of Borderlands 2.
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Those who held off on the initial release will be impressed with not only the full graphical experience, but also the DLC for extended replayability.
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With Gearbox announcing a free upgrade for Borderlands 3 for owners of the game on last-generation consoles, the developer has taken advantage of the PlayStation 5 hardware to truly make this the premiere edition of the game. Additional portions here were written by Cory Wells. Borderlands 3 is a latecomer in that regard, but the support remains a welcome sign of thawing relations between Sony and the rest of the gaming world.Editor’s Note: The non-console specific portions of this review originally appeared in our own Kevin Dunsmore’s review of Borderlands 3, which can be read in full and unaltered here. The company gradually relented, though, and allowed the feature in games like Fortnite and Rocket League. Former SIE America CEO Shawn Layden said in 2018 that any inter-platform gameplay would only work if it was "supporting our business," but many critics saw it as a cash grab - Sony didn't like that you might buy content on a rival platform and get to use it on your PS4. Sony used to be adamantly against cross-play for PlayStation. It's not certain if that arrangement applied here. Apple lawsuit that Sony asked for royalty fees for any game with cross-play, determining them based on the popularity and financial success of the PlayStation version. Pitchford revealed that Sony blocked full cross-platform support. Gearbox first added cross-play to Borderlands 3 in 2021, but PlayStation owners were conspicuously left out.
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PS4 and PS5 owners will finally get to join the adventures of their PC, Stadia and Xbox counterparts. Gearbox has confirmed Borderlands 3 will add cross-play support for PlayStation sometime later this spring. Sure, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands supports cross-play on all platforms, but what about that promised Borderlands 3 update? Don't worry, it's coming.