Gearbox is off making its next new game, a Hybrid MOBA and first-person shooter called Battleborne. The particularly astute among you you will notice from the arrangement of those particular letters that it doesn’t spell out “Borderlands 3”. That’s because the whole prospect of a new Borderlands scares Gearbox a little.
Borderlands 1 was a pretty damned great game, but Borderlands 2 took everything and – to paraphrase CliffyB – made it bigger, better and more badass. How would they be able to do the same with the next numbered instalment to the looty-shooty RPG?
Speaking to GameInformer (via Videogamer), Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford expressed the company’s reticence in making the next Borderlands. The fear comes in not quite knowing how to make their ideas quite come to life.
“There’s a point where it’s like, ‘What should the next Borderlands be? Should there be another Borderlands, and what should it be?’
“We had that discussion and there was this weird mixed bag. On one level it’s like, ‘Woah’. If you’re going to do something that’s called Borderlands 3 and it’s going to be done in this next-generation environment, there’s a whole bunch of ideas that come around of what has to happen in order for that to live up to what that needs to be.”
It was 2K Australia’s take on the thing with the pre-sequel that “changed the nature of the pressure of what Borderlands 3 had to be for us,” Pitchford adds.
“If there’s going to be a Borderlands 3 and what that would be. We imagine what that might be, and frankly it scared us. It’s like, ‘That’s so crazy and so big that I’m not sure we can succeed’.”
Naturally, this isn’t any sort of tacit confirmation that Borderlands 3 exists or will exist in the near future, with Gearbox reminding the world again about Battleborn, and how they’re busy working hard to make that the best game it can be. Which is hopefully better than Alien: Colonial Marines.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! is coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC this October, with hints that it could hit the new gen systems in the future.
Last Updated: July 10, 2014
CAE9872
July 10, 2014 at 12:06
Maybe it is a good plan to shelve the 3rd iteration for now. No point just rushing it to market because its Borderlands.
Grant [_G_] Hancock
July 10, 2014 at 12:19
Yeah … it’s never good to rush the third instalment. 2k should wait a minimum of 7 years, but first they should promise continued episodic content for Borderlands 2 and then never deliver.
Eric
July 10, 2014 at 12:53
LOL! Halflife fan?
Grant [_G_] Hancock
July 10, 2014 at 14:00
Very much so ! 🙁
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 10, 2014 at 12:24
Yes, give people time to miss it. The pre-sequel is coming out in hardly no time after they stopped releasing DLC for 2.
Ottokie
July 10, 2014 at 12:53
Im just now starting on the DLC of Borderlands 2, I haven’t even tried scheduling in the pre sequel.
Greylingad
July 10, 2014 at 12:09
They have the perfect idea for making games, COD BF are games that are shoved down our throats every year with words like “The next generation in gaming” which roughly translates to “the biggest load of crap to hit your screen”, Gearbox is smart…See what this generation is coming up with, wait a little and produce something that’s worth while, after all it’s not a race…
Purple_Dragon
July 10, 2014 at 12:15
Wonder how this Battleborne will do. Is there a market for new multiplayer? Just seem to be quite a few multiplayers coming out.
I want more singleplayers!
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 10, 2014 at 12:22
SPOILER ALERT FOR BORDERLANDS 2 ENDING
They show a cut scene with a bunch of different planets with vaults on them & Brick calls dibs.
So different environments & going to different planets – how about a nice little spaceship that you can fiddle around with while we’re at it? You know what the game play mechanics are, you made damn game. Problem solved you hyperbolic twit.
Viking Of Science
July 10, 2014 at 12:48
Gearbox did in fact register a trademark for “Borderworlds”….
Spaffy
July 10, 2014 at 12:52
Are they making Destiny?
Eric
July 10, 2014 at 12:54
They can make one of the planets… a monster :O :O :O :O
Rince&pop
July 10, 2014 at 13:07
Like Asura’s Wrath!
ToshZA
July 10, 2014 at 13:25
Mass Effect says hi. BUT WITH MORE BADASSITUDE OF BADASSERY!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!
Hammersteyn
July 10, 2014 at 12:22
It’s simple, we kill the Batman, no wait that’s tomorrow. It’s simple, take the Destiny approach but keep it SP/MP like Borderlands. Create a game that has to last 10 years with content being released continuously. Yes we would pay extra but Borderlands does DLC right. You get more than your monies worth. Especially with new characters to play the game through again from the start. Yes it can get repetitive but I always go back for more B2
Rince&pop
July 10, 2014 at 12:43
Yeah! AND! They charge us for level caps! WIN!
Hammersteyn
July 10, 2014 at 12:51
YOU PUT A CAP ON YOUR SLUTTY MOUTH
Rince&pop
July 10, 2014 at 12:58
Is okay?
Hammersteyn
July 10, 2014 at 13:00
XD
Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim
July 10, 2014 at 13:04
SO ICONIC
Rince&pop
July 10, 2014 at 13:06
It’s how I role.
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 10, 2014 at 13:07
and the only interesting about him!
Rince&pop
July 10, 2014 at 12:23
Chill, no need to rush man.
CAE9872
July 10, 2014 at 12:26
You sound like you on a Jamaican beach sipping a cocktail.
Umar Reborn XIV
July 10, 2014 at 12:27
Yaaa maaan
Rince&pop
July 10, 2014 at 12:40
Aiii maaaan 😉 PS: If bloody only!
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
July 10, 2014 at 12:49
You know what. I reckon after the pre-sequal we wouldn’t need a Borderlands 3.
The games were awesome and I hope the pre-sequal will as well.
I reckon they should stop when they are at the top and let it become a classic that will be remembered for years to come and not be another one of those “Ag this series of games should die already” games
Viking Of Science
July 10, 2014 at 13:12
They Should wait like 10 years before the next one… a la Diablo 2…
Damian Paynter
July 10, 2014 at 13:27
Hells bells, If they make 10 Borderlands games, I will play them…LOL