Borderlands 4 narrative director hints at dialling back the toilet humour – WGB

The Borderlands franchise started life with a way of humour that had a darker flavour, blended with some crass jokes. However because the collection went on, the darker parts had been dropped in favour of bathroom humour, pop-culture gags and “wacky” randomness. The end result was that Borderlands 3 is taken into account by many because the weakest of the bunch when it comes to storytelling and comedy, although its gameplay is fairly rattling good. Regardless of that, I did end up ranking it as the second best of the franchise, purely for the gameplay.

For those who’re one of many individuals who discovered Borderlands 3 a bit an excessive amount of, then I’ve some excellent news: Borderlands 4 is dialing again the bathroom jokes.

That’s in line with the sport’s narrative director Sam Winkler.

Sam dropped a Tweet hyping up the sport, describing as “our most formidable recreation but” and stating that he has gotten to work with a number of the funniest writers he is aware of to develop the sport’s humour.

One other person replied by asking if the sport may be shifting to a darker tone primarily based on the trailers.

Not at liberty to speak a lot concerning the content material of BL4, however I stay agency in my criticism of BL3’s overabundance of bathroom humor.

— Sam Winkler (@ThatSamWinkler) December 16, 2024

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“Not at liberty to speak a lot concerning the content material of BL4, however I stay agency in my criticism of BL3’s overabundance of bathroom humor.” replied Sam.

He goes on to say: “I’m not gonna say there’s no bathrooms but when the phrase skibidi ships within the recreation below my watch I’m gonna cry actual tears. Paul Tassi joked that we had been gonna have a gun known as Hawk 2A and a fellow dev requested me if it was actual and I wished to place my hand down the sink grinder.”

Sam Winkler’s feedback arrive simply as a bunch of individuals on X are saying that they had been contract writers for Borderlands 4. Presumably some type of embargo or NDA has lifted, letting them speak about their work, or at the least affirm they did work on the sport.

As for Sam, his X web page is filled with many poop and cum jokes, so it’s kinda exhausting to guage what he deems an appropriate degree of scat-based humour. It’s most likely someplace between no rest room jokes, and all of the the toiler jokes.