With the Borderlands film roundly deemed a commercial and critical failure, we can't help but feel comforted by this nostalgic return to bad video game adaptations. The movie might not have made any money (and lost a bunch besides), but along with Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford having a real one on X, another upside is the apparent spike in sales and player counts across the franchise, which is something at least.
GameSpot noted a precipitous rise in the number of players booting up Borderlands 3, citing SteamDB charts. This time last month, player counts peaked at around six thousand concurrents, whereas over the weekend, that number almost hit 13k. Borderlands, Borderlands 2, and Borderland: The Prequel all saw similarly observable if less pronounced, bumps. Don't get us wrong—it's probably not going to make up for the movie's performance, but it's something at least!
Were you amongst the dozens who made it out to see the Borderlands movie over the weekend? What did you think? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source gamespot.com]
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I'll be watching the movie as soon as I have spare time. I really enjoy the borderland games even though its supposedly a bland franchise according to pushsquare (you guys still gave the games good scores considering) and it's a franchise I still go back to every now and then as its a brilliant and fun online co-op game that can produce some awesome unintentional comedy moments. Roll on borderlands 4.
I've been hearing a lot of people in recent years claim that that the old video game adaptation curse no longer exists and directors are finally taking the medium seriously.
But tbh, I can only think of four franchises that have actually been good as far as adaptations go: Sonic, Mario, TLOU and Fallout. I think that they were the exception rather than the rule. I know some people liked Halo but I thought it was absolute pants.
I like Borderlands, but 3 sucked so bad it hurts. Even Tiny Tina Wonderlands is better (if you mute Ashley Burch).
I had great experience with BL3. Played game, out of nowhere I found Legendary weapon machine. Collected i think 8 000 coins for that. Bought gun, and it says, you can equip it only by buying DLC.... great game design. Thank you, uninstalled for all my wasted time
@Northern_munkey yea they did that article for clicks , imo i think the movie doesn’t look good but to bash the whole game series? nah . another pushsquare L
Gotta wash that bad taste out your mouth
I really only enjoyed 2. None of the others clicked for me in the same way.
@LifeGirl Detective Pikachu was good. There was the first couple seasons of the Witcher. Arcane, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, and Castlevania. Idk if Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves since that technically not a video game… Was the Warcraft movie liked? I don’t remember, I just know it made almost half a billion back. There was also the recent Ubisoft animated show
I would say that video game adaptations have definitely improved and we get more W now than L.
@LifeGirl @AverageGamer: Don't forget Twisted Metal. While I can't say its one of the top best adaptations (just my opinion), the show was far from a failure, atleast if you are fine with near mindless fun. Hopefully season 2 will be just as good if not better.
And to answer the latter's question: I haven't seen it but the Warcraft movie was very disliked from what I heard.
@Coolmusic AH. I haven’t seen twisted metal… So I didn’t mention it. I personally only mentioned things I’ve seen myself.
Borderlands 1 was amazing, 2 was good but felt too grindy, 3 I played a couple hours then regretted my purchase.
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