20 Great Video Games That Everybody Turned Against

The keenly anticipated fourth main entry of Gearbox’s looter-shooter Borderlands franchise arrived last year, ushering in a new era for the games, with new features, locations and narrative focus.  

This time around, we join four Rafa the Exo-Soldier, Harlowe the Gravitar, Amon the Forgeknight and Vex the Siren on the prison planet Kairos. Assuming the role of one of these Vault Hunters, we lead the resistance against ruthless dictator the Timekeeper, contending with his army of synthetic and robots, as well as the usual mishmash of monsters and psychos (here, Rippers).

The game makes as little use of legacy characters and storylines as possible, focusing more on the here and now (something even the Handsome Jack-shorn Borderlands 3 failed to do). It also introduces new powers and mechanics, like gliders and grapplers, and largely focuses all the action within a single massive open world location, rather than the usual planet-hopping antics.

But, while this is a bold move forwards for the franchise, its problems have outweighed its benefits for the gaming community. 4 has had technical issues from the start, with glitches, bugs and poor optimisation across platforms. It also suffers from a glitchy UI that is overcrowded, unhelpfully structured and can be downright confusing at times. It’s a great game underneath it all, but for so many gamers that is just not good enough.