Borderlands 3’s Lovecraft DLC Dismisses Major Problems With The Author’s Work

With the release of Borderlands 3‘s new Guns, Love, and Tentacles: The Marriage of Wainwright & Hammerlock DLC, I figured it would be as good a time as any to jump back into Gearbox’s first-person loot shooter. The Borderlands franchise has had a decent track record when it comes to post-launch campaign expansions and it’s been a few months since I last played Borderlands 3 so, ya know, why not?

However, I wasn’t particularly enthused by my time with Guns, Love, and Tentacles, largely because Gearbox’s interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft’s work incorporates some of the problematic parts of the author’s worldview and then does nothing to address them.

It’s the DLC’s portrayal of black people that irks me the most, largely because of the Borderlands franchise’s style of storytelling. Borderlands games traditionally explore concepts or pieces of pop culture through sarcasm, satire, or playful homage. Gearbox takes something that already exists and adapts it to match its style of irreverent Borderlands mayhem.

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