Under vores Gamescom Day 1-runder stødte vi selvfølgelig ind i den altid gådefulde, altid underholdende og altid passionerede Randy Pitchford fra Gearbox Studios, og i vores interview fortalte han os lidt mere om hovedskurken i spillet, The Timekeeper. Randy var nøje med at understrege, at Handsome Jack ganske vist var ond, men også sjov - mens den nye hovedskurk er en trussel, en rendyrket ond skurk, der ikke tager fanger.
Vi spurgte Pitchford om udfordringen ved at skabe skurke, nu hvor de ramte plet med Handsome Jack, men missede målet med tvillingerne i Borderlands 3. Han svarede:
"Listen, when you are involved with the literally greatest villain ever in a video game, Handsome Jack, it's kind of hard to exceed that. With Borderlands 4 we have not even tried to attack it from that point of view. Handsome Jack was kind of funny and you kind of hated him and liked him at the same time. Which was really hard to do. With this villain we went serious, we went dark. This guy is not screwing around. The Timekeeper is a pure villain, a true villain in the purest sense of the word and it's gonna take a lot from you to take him down."
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