#921 - Borderlands 4 Review Gone Wrong & Nintendo Direct Games & News

Video Game Outsiders

Pickaxe

Leisure, News, Tech News, Games, Video Games

4.1 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Borderlands 4, Destiny: Rising, Skate, Nintendo is bringing back the virtual boy, Star Birds, Randy Pitchford says "go code your own engine" and Borderlands is a premium game for premium gamers, No I'm not a Human, more on Cronos: The New Dawn and Hollow Knight Silksong, CoD zombies, What's in Your Fridge, Pokemon, and more gaming news. Support us and get weekly bonus shows, 20 year back catalog, and ad free VGO eps on http://videogameoutsiders.supercast.com/ and listen in the player of YOUR choice. Head to our Discord on https://discord.gg/Ab6pxpT to chat or win games weekly from Loaded.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pickax.
0:07.0	Five, four, three, two, live, Michelle.
0:11.4	What's up, everybody?
0:12.5	Welcome to episode 921 of the Video Game Outsiders podcast.
0:16.6	I'm one of your hosts, and I am a premium gamer, apparently.
0:20.7	Michelle Madison.
0:22.7	Yeah, we're talking about the Borderlands Four situation tonight.
0:29.1	Of course, Randy said that and put his foot in his mouth.
0:34.3	What's up, John? Who are you?
0:36.2	I like that he said this. You like that?
0:38.3	No, he kind of do.
0:39.3	He said a lot of stuff though.
0:42.3	He said code your own engine if you don't like it.
0:45.3	Only 1% of people have complained about it, so it's blown out of proportion.
0:50.3	I kind of agree with him there, but don't be a dick.
0:54.9	Why is he being such a pretentious asshole?
0:57.5	Well, that's why John likes him.
0:58.6	I like when he said, if you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blowers motor,
1:02.1	you're going to be disappointed.
1:03.1	But is Borderlands 4 really a monster truck?
1:05.1	But the attitude he has is counter to the attitude developers have had the last 10 years, whatever,
1:16.2	where they're developing for the lowest common denominator.
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