One of the most known marketing lines in videogame history is the absolutely ludicrous promise that Borderlands has 87 bazillion guns. Obviously this is hyperbole—the guns are randomised. It has a lot, but a bazillion is not a real number and thus should not be taken seriously. It was a goof, a gaff.

Well, that tagline now has a competitor. Borderlands 4 has 30 billion guns. Apparently. That's per an Epic Games store post that quotes art director Adam May.

Because big numbers are hard to conceptualise sometimes, I want to remind you that one billion is 1,000 million. One million seconds is about 11 and a half days, one billion seconds is over 31 years.

In other words, Gearbox is claiming that watching a video consisting of one second clips of all the possible gun combinations in Borderl

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