{"id":369919,"date":"2025-08-24T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369919\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:25:10","slug":"randy-pitchfords-a-little-nervous-about-borderlands-4s-more-challenging-difficulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369919\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Pitchford&#8217;s &#8220;a little nervous&#8221; about Borderlands 4&#8217;s &#8220;more challenging&#8221; difficulty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford admits he&#8217;s a &#8220;little nervous&#8221; about Borderlands 4&#8217;s &#8220;more challenging&#8221; difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/exclusive-pitchford-nervous-challenge-borderlands-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Insider Gaming<\/a>, Pitchford acknowledged that &#8220;a lot&#8221; of Borderland players &#8220;aren&#8217;t interested in deep, hard challenges&#8221;, adding &#8220;we definitely have pushed the challenges quite a lot, especially with bosses and boss fight mechanics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Borderlands 4 story trailer.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=onY6y4NZ-t4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have lots of players that actually aren&#8217;t interested in deep, hard challenges; lots of people that love just exploring the Borderlands or spending time with the characters,&#8221; Pitchford said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a little nervous because there are points of Borderlands 4 that are more challenging, but one of the coolest things about Borderlands 4, because of the nature of the RPG, is if anything is a little challenging for you, you can just grind somewhere and level up and become more powerful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You will find that things that were hard when you were a little chump will become trivial when you become a badass. But we definitely have pushed the challenges quite a lot, especially with bosses and boss fight mechanics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Borderlands 4 was announced last August, and we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/heres-our-first-look-at-borderlands-4-featuring-a-brand-new-planet-and-four-new-vault-hunters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally got a first look at the looter-shooter sequel<\/a> when The Game Awards rolled around in December. Since then, we&#8217;ve had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/borderlands-film-director-blames-flop-on-zoom-and-covid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thoughts on that Borderlands film flop<\/a>, a promise to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/borderlands-4-will-dial-down-the-toilet-humour-says-narrative-director\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cut back on the toilet humour<\/a> for the series&#8217; fourth instalment, and, as Matt described it, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/80-for-borderlands-4-too-costly-randy-pitchford-says-if-youre-a-real-fan-youll-find-a-way-to-make-it-happen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">putting his foot in it<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fans-slam-gearbox-ceo-randy-pitchfords-message-to-cost-sensitive-fans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">so many times<\/a> on social media, it&#8217;s a miracle publisher Take-Two didn&#8217;t hide his phone. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/borderlands-4-for-switch-2-wont-release-alongside-other-platforms-gearbox-confirms-but-theres-just-a-few-weeks-wait\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Borderlands 4&#8217;s elusive Switch 2 release date was recently revealed<\/a>: 3rd October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford admits he&#8217;s a &#8220;little nervous&#8221; about Borderlands 4&#8217;s &#8220;more challenging&#8221; difficulty. 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