TL;DR: It's aight I guess, would give mixed if possible. Definitely better than BL3. Performance issues and bugs are prevalent. BL2 is still king.

The gameplay itself has already been improved in BL3 by a large margin. BL4 does not differ from BL3 in gameplay by much. It's pretty much the same feeling, which isn't a bad thing.

Story of BL4 is a massive improvement over BL3 which was just full of cringy pop-culture references. Dialogue was painful to listen to and it was just too long while keeping you locked in Sanctuary. Thank god they fixed all of this. There is no single safehouse that you have to keep returning to. You can walk anywhere, do anything, while you get the dialogue and story. Just the way it was in BL2.

The open world map is a huge improvement in my opinion. This feels way more like a world I can believe in than any of the other BL games. There's only a handful of loading screens. Other than that everything intertwines seemlessly. One thing that bugs me however is that there's no minimap. Lowkey infurating. I don't enjoy opening the map every 2 seconds.

Be aware that NOTHING is shared between characters. That includes unlocked open world stuff, money, eridium, badass tokens, nothing except for items in your bank.

I'm not a big fan of how they handled New Game+. You no longer replay the story, rather it just ups the difficulty of everything on the map, that's it. When you create new characters after defeating the game, you can choose to completely skip the campaign and spawn a level 30 char. It's not a big deal, but it does bug me a little.

I would feel a lot better about recommending this if it wasn't so damn bugged. Rubberbanding and no hit reg in co-op have been a huge issue for me. Performance isn't the worst I've seen, but it ain't great, you can definitely feel the latency when aiming even with semi decent FPS.

Characters are okay I guess. I don't feel strongly about them one way or the other.

[b]TL;DR: It's aight I guess, would give mixed if possible. Definitely better than BL3. Performance issues and bugs are prevalent. BL2 is still king.[/b] The gameplay itself has already been improved in BL3 by a large margin. BL4 does not differ from BL3 in gameplay by much. It's pretty much the same feeling, which isn't a bad thing. Story of BL4 is a massive improvement over BL3 which was just full of cringy pop-culture references. Dialogue was painful to listen to and it was just too long while keeping you locked in Sanctuary. Thank god they fixed all of this. There is no single safehouse that you have to keep returning to. You can walk anywhere, do anything, while you get the dialogue and story. Just the way it was in BL2. The open world map is a huge improvement in my opinion. This feels way more like a world I can believe in than any of the other BL games. There's only a handful of loading screens. Other than that everything intertwines seemlessly. One thing that bugs me however is that there's no minimap. Lowkey infurating. I don't enjoy opening the map every 2 seconds. Be aware that NOTHING is shared between characters. That includes unlocked open world stuff, money, eridium, badass tokens, nothing except for items in your bank. I'm not a big fan of how they handled New Game+. You no longer replay the story, rather it just ups the difficulty of everything on the map, that's it. When you create new characters after defeating the game, you can choose to completely skip the campaign and spawn a level 30 char. It's not a big deal, but it does bug me a little. I would feel a lot better about recommending this if it wasn't so damn bugged. Rubberbanding and no hit reg in co-op have been a huge issue for me. Performance isn't the worst I've seen, but it ain't great, you can definitely feel the latency when aiming even with semi decent FPS. Characters are okay I guess. I don't feel strongly about them one way or the other.