Borderlands 3 Review - IGN

Borderlands 3 sticks to its guns and outdoes itself with an amazing arsenal of weapons, humor, and missions.

[Brave_Losers_Unite]

Hopefully the reviews will be this good. I would hate to see Borderlands do bad.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

Lots of 8's along with some 9's, sound good to me for now

[Inzo]

Quite a few 6's.

[drunkenspy007]

@Inzo, I've seen one from PC gamer from a reviewer who admitted they're not a fan of the series. Where are these other reviews?

[Sgt_Slaughter]

@drunkenspy that's what I was going to say, I see more 9's than 8's than I did earlier and only one 6 so far, not "quite a few" like the other person said.

[Lore]

People should read the detail of the review prior to writing off any reviewing outlets. It’s obvious that IGN has become a joke in recent years compared to where it used to be, however this particular review by them seems solid.

[jznrpg]

Seen a couple 6s already and this 9 so far . Now a bunch of 8s

[UltraNova]

IGN has a huge Borderlands 3 promotion right now, that might explain their favourable review. It only takes reading some other reviews around to connect the dots.

[Steppenwolfmother]

@UltraNova their score lines up with most others if you check meta critic. IGNs reviewers are purposely kept separate from sales and marketing. I don’t believe at all that IGN gets paid off for reviews, given some of the high profile games they have given low scores, even when doing the same style of promotional advertising. Their boss (Peer Schneider) has a pretty good reputation

[UltraNova]

@Steppenwolfmother

IGN hasn't mentioned a single bug or any other kind of issue with the game and as we know there's a lot. They received the same pre-release Epic account code as all initial reviewers out there (many of them giving the game 8+/10) who on the contrary reported on issues with the game. Again connect the dots.

[Thunder_G0d_Bane]

Day one!

I booked my week off for release :)

[Fluttershy77]

Hopefully the game is good too

[Steppenwolfmother]

@Lore oh they are a joke when you don’t agree with one of their employee or freelancer opinions but they are ok when you do agree? A review is one persons opinion, either look at meta critic for the average score or find a reviewer/influencer that has similar tastes to you and follow their impressions

[criticalkare]

So far i seen 9s and 8s with few exception

[djplonker]

As of me writing this comment n4g has three reviews up

9/10 - ign
8/10 - gamespot
6/10 - pcgamer

And one article calling it "third times a chore"

so unless you can filter metacritic to only show 9's and 10's I have no idea where you are getting only amazing reviews?

[MrDead]

out of the 17 reviews posted on metacritic so far the game has

11 reviews with 9 and above
5 reviews with 8 and above
1 review with 6.3
1 "review" from "Polygon"

I don't know where you look at reviews but as of right now criticalkare is correct.

[CP_Company]

pcgamer review is garbage, so that's that. there is always one whos gonna write the click bait review and that reviewer is known for that.

[djplonker]

Edit: doubt post

[djplonker]

^
That was supposed to say double post*

[OldGuyStillGaming]

Hell yeah baby
I’m ready

[Relientk77]

Man this weekend can't come soon enough. I can't wait. Shoot and loot baby, shoot and loot!

[djplonker]

I know it's borderlands but after:

aliens colonial marines
Duke nukem forever
Battleborn

I am surprised people still preorder their games, borderlands 2 is the exception not the rule.

[Ricegum]

Bye then.

[djplonker]

Nah I am staying for the denail stage of some the fans who have been waiting 8 years and are unwilling to accept any criticism and will lash out at anyone who talks ill of the game.

I didnt spend 8 years waiting for them to make a worse game than the last and I wouldn't expect them to because they are bad developers who's ceo is a total clown.

[drunkenspy007]

"Nah I am staying for the denail stage of some the fans who have been waiting 8 years and are unwilling to accept any criticism and will lash out at anyone who talks ill of the game.

I didnt spend 8 years waiting for them to make a worse game than the last and I wouldn't expect them to because they are bad developers who's ceo is a total clown."

wow, nothing better to do huh? better just to be a complete asshat to others then? enjoy your forever POS status.

[djplonker]

Nah just funny watching people try and defend a game they haven't played against someone who has and doesn't like it.

If you want to do the psychological version of running head first into a wall over and over I will point out what you are doing makes no sense once but after that I'm not going to stop you and you can't stop me laughing at your idiocy.

Ooh personal attacks because I am defending someone's right to have an opinion on a game they don't like but you do even though you haven't played it.

What's your next move....... Tell your parents on me?

[drunkenspy007]

"Ooh personal attacks because I am defending someone's right to have an opinion on a game they don't like but you do even though you haven't played it. "

You're not defending anyone kid, you're just being a hater for the sake of being one. Acting like trash ain't nothing new kid.

[l33t_haxx0r]

I've always hated borderlands games, I personally think the humour is pretty poor and to much pointless loot. But each to there own, good job on a decent game many others will enjoy

[rpgenius420]

"To each their own."

[TheOptimist]

IGN seriously doesn't know any score that isn't in the vicinity of 9 these days.

[Skuletor]

They gave Blasphemous a 7 yesterday

[Steppenwolfmother]

There is a lot of 7s and 8s and a solid handful of 5s and 6s. I wouldn’t say 9 is the average

[343_Guilty_Spark]

How is this better than Gears 5?

[Software_Lover]

It is all personal preference at the end of the day.

[Movefasta1993]

not the same genre and... gears 5 isn't better than a lot of games this year imo, relax.

[BenRC01]

Because it has a sense of humour.

[rainslacker]

Different style and genre maybe?

[ShinRon]

checks cleared

[Larrysweet]

Yea low scores because of humor lmao

[bluefox755]

I'll wait for more reputable outlets to review it.

[cluclap]

Wait for ACG review. You really wont need another one after that.

[Soybetaboy]

My diamond edition comes in this Friday

Thank you jebus

[zodiac909]

"Borderlands 3 sticks to its guns and outdoes itself with an amazing arsenal of weapons, humor, and missions"
Soo basically the same boring, repetitive, redundant, and stale trash the series is known for..

[Question_Mark]

Why are you here if you’re only going to insult the series? A lot of people like it, and you don’t. Get over it.

[Christopher]

Looks like this one got over the 0.2 score hump. Congrats.

[amagulick]

I swear, you guys are treating review scores like the stock market. If you wanna play it, play it. A few weeks from now you're just gonna convince yourselves that reviews don't matter anyways.

[Steppenwolfmother]

Someone gives a game a Good score they complain they are paid off. Someone gives a game a bad score they complain that critics don’t know what they are talking about and are just “hating” on the game. People don’t seem to understand what opinions are. They either blindly argue to validate their purchase or hate on a game and shame others for liking it just because it’s not what they like

[Blu3_Berry]

Long as it's better than that boring Borderlands The Pre-Sequel. I know it wasn't made by gearbox but still, that game was boring. BL3 though looks like it's everything that made BL2 so good. Sucks I won't be playing this until next year though. It's fine though, there's plenty of other games to occupy me in the meantime.

[rainslacker]

Gameplay yeah. But I thought it had the best story of the 3. Probably because it actually felt like your character was part of what was going on.

[Smokehouse]

I like how all of the reviews today are either a 9 or a 6. It’s either great or it’s utter trash. Not just borderlands but blasphemous too. Reviews are worthless lol.

[Steppenwolfmother]

Reviews are just one persons opinion. If you find someone who’s opinions are similar you can use that to judge. To be clear tho generally a 6-7 is an ok to good game. They can still be enjoyed. It’s the internet that interprets anything below an 8 to be bad

[Smokehouse]

How would I know if I have a similar opinion unless I play the game though? You have to decide for yourself anyways, that’s why they are worthless. I don’t particularly follow any one reviewer or trust any of them. If a game interests me I’ll buy it, I don’t care if it got all 4s.

[jjb1981]

I dont care about the reviews, this game is going to be epic.

[ARESWARLORD]

Very happy this is getting a good review

[warriorcase]

Nice score but IGN is known to be hit and miss, they also have ads, sometimes even on the review page to preorder Borderlands 3 which seems like a big conflict of interest and also the review codes were sent out to only a very select few review outlets. I'm gonna give it a few until we have a larger review pool to pull from before getting hyped.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Great game but waiting at gamestop like the og i am

[AK91]

if IGN says this then it must mean the game isn't particularly good.