Borderlands 4 makes Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford “a little nervous” because some parts of the game are “more challenging” than players might be expecting. Speaking to Insider Gaming, Pitchford said there are many Borderlands players who aren’t looking for much challenge out of their experience, and parts of the game might test them like the franchise has not before.
“We have lots of players that actually aren’t interested in deep, hard challenges; lots of people that love just exploring the Borderlands or spending time with the characters,” Pitchford said. “I’m a little nervous because there are points of Borderlands 4 that are more challenging.”
The executive went on to say that if any players are struggling, they can “just grind somewhere” and level up their character to become more powerful to help them get past where they are stuck.
“You will find that things that were hard when you were a little chump will become trivial when you become a badass,” Pitchford said. “But we definitely have pushed the challenges quite a lot, especially with bosses and boss fight mechanics.”
Borderlands 4 launches on September 12 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. It comes to Switch 2 on October 3. In other news, Pitchford has said he expects the game to succeed and push the entire Borderlands franchise above 100 million units.
“We went from an industry that predicted that we would die–that Borderlands would find no audience–to being one of the leading video game franchises in the world. And it’s kind of humbling, frankly, to be a part of it,” Pitchford told GamesRadar.
A major point of online discussion about Borderlands 4 has been its price–which is $70. Pitchford said the game delivers so much value that it would still be worth it if 2K charged $350.
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