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AirRaid posted:Which fits perfectly with what he's saying since the Pre-sequel cutscenes with Athena take place on flying Sanctuary after BL2. Oh... right. I didn't think about that.
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Dolash posted:Honestly, Telltale games usually get a lot of flack for lacking choice or for the choices not mattering as much as they appeared to, but for some reason Tales from the Borderlands doesn't feel like it has that problem. I think a large part of that has to do with tone, since the more dramatic games try to build up these ~tough decisions~ which set high expectations, since if the decision doesn't end up having enough impact then it wasn't as important as it seemed. Comedy adventures like this work better since choices that focus on character over results can feel meaningful just by being funny, so that when there's unexpected real differences that come out of your decisions they feel like a bonus. Coming to this from season 1 of Walking Dead, I think it has a lot to do with the consequences of the choice. You don't always feel like the only option is failure in Tales, although it's a violent enough setting that it's a legitimate concern, as evidenced by the Episode 3 sequence with Sasha and the collapsing catwalk.
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Kaethela posted:Wait, that's an option? What happens if you skip it altogether? There's a fairly tender moment between Rhys and Sasha too, in this route. She says she wants to show Fiona, the flower sprays her, and she starts laughing about it. Rhys says "You kinda deserved that", and Sasha replies "Yeah, I sorta did." Rhys and Sasha are pretty cute together, if only because they both have pretty massive inferiority complexes that they're working through in their own ways. Dolash posted:Honestly, Telltale games usually get a lot of flack for lacking choice or for the choices not mattering as much as they appeared to, but for some reason Tales from the Borderlands doesn't feel like it has that problem. I think a large part of that has to do with tone, since the more dramatic games try to build up these ~tough decisions~ which set high expectations, since if the decision doesn't end up having enough impact then it wasn't as important as it seemed. Comedy adventures like this work better since choices that focus on character over results can feel meaningful just by being funny, so that when there's unexpected real differences that come out of your decisions they feel like a bonus. And at least in my case, I think that's totally fine. Truthfully, most of the spoilers in this thread are probably unnecessary (including mine above) simply because it doesn't matter if you know that so and so dies - the circumstances it happens under are so different that the spoiler loses a lot of its impact. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Jun 28, 2015 |
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Jun 28, 2015 20:11
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Donnerberg posted:
The entire framing device of the game is that it's a story being told by Athena who gets captured by Brick and Mordecai after the events of Borderlands 2. e:f,b
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^^^ So rly it goes... Borderlands > flashback/actual story of Pre-Sequel > Borderlands 2 > Tales from the Borderlands > framing/prologue/whatever of Pre-Sequel
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I wonder if anything from Tales will affect the rest of the Borderlands series? Say, if they make a Borderlands 3? Fiona getting training in Vault hunting from Athena could be a setup to her being a character (maybe a DLC one), not to mention if they actually make it to the Vault of the Traveler vaults are extremely important to the story (so far as I can tell). Could be some big important alien in there or something.
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I think best case they get cameos, but I'd be surprised if they aren't mentioned at all.
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Borderlands 3 is in development so I assume Tales is laying the groundwork for that, and the ending of the Pre-Sequel flat out states that something huge and bad is about to happen..
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I think anything's possible at this point really. Pre-sequel sold well enough to get ported to a bunch of stuff, but the DLC generally seemed to go over like a lead balloon, which implies that people burnt out halfway through and didn't finish the game. Borderlands as a whole isn't winning a ton of fans with its gameplay, the shootmans are mostly there to keep you engaged, if not entertained, in between set pieces that are equally hilarious and dark and insane. That's kind of where TPS fell short - the characters aside from Claptrap were painfully one-note, and Claptrap is, well, Claptrap. His very existence is divisive. If any character in Tales ends up with a particularly large fan base after this season I could easily see them becoming the hook for whatever story they want to tell next. I could definitely see Fiona in particular fitting in with the last chance tenor of the Vault Hunters of BL1 and 2. That said, for my money, I've been getting a ton more fun density out of Tales than I ever got out of BL1/2 so I would not be sad at all if something like Tales became Borderlands' main vehicle for a few years while they figure out how to make BL3's mechanics tuned enough that we're not dismissing an entire end game mode as grindy psuedo-MMO bullshit, passing by the 15th functionally identical worthless drop we've seen today, and having more boss fights be with uniquely named Badass units rather than actual bosses.
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The tie conversation absolutely slayed me. As soon as it started I turned Rhys towards the camera to see what they were talking about and ended up laughing for like ten minutes. My suspicion for the masked character is that it's Gordys and that since it's keyed to Rhys and Fiona they are recovering its parts and going to finally find a vault. The storytelling is just because Gordys wants to hear a story and for Rhys and Fiona to bond over it and get along again.
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Potsticker posted:The tie conversation absolutely slayed me. As soon as it started I turned Rhys towards the camera to see what they were talking about and ended up laughing for like ten minutes. Gordys would never shoot a man changing a tire.
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Jubs posted:Gordys would never shoot a man changing a tire. Spend enough time on Pandora and it can change a person. Get tough or get dead.
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How do I skip dialogue? I'm using an XBox controller.
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Why would you want to skip the dialogue? If you're wanting to skip disalogue you should maybe find a different game.. there's really not much else.
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AirRaid posted:Why would you want to skip the dialogue? If you're wanting to skip disalogue you should maybe find a different game.. there's really not much else. If you're replaying a scene you've already been through it'd be nice
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I'm in the same boat, really. I love the game but sometimes I want to get to a certain point on a replay, especially if I did a game over and have to repeat a particular section over again.
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Xanderkish posted:I'm in the same boat, really. I love the game but sometimes I want to get to a certain point on a replay, especially if I did a game over and have to repeat a particular section over again. Agreed. Like how you can skip dialogue in Phoenix Wright the second go round.
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AirRaid posted:Why would you want to skip the dialogue? If you're wanting to skip disalogue you should maybe find a different game.. there's really not much else. I wanted to do a different choice before the very first save for example; you have to rewatch the intro and everything. Etc etc as everybody pointed out. I guess there isn't a way.
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Jul 7, 2015 22:23
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All choices for Episode Three.
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Playing through episode 3 again, I still feel like there is a missed opportunity for a terrible funicular joke.
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This series is the Archer video game I always wanted.I hope it gets another season.
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The story feels like a great game of "Fiasco" set in the Borderlands universe. I just hope it turns out better than most Fiasco games do. Is anybody else really jazzed that Fiona apparently has Sherlock Holmes-o-vision now?
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I just remembered that the Sanctuary Vault Hunters are going to invade Helios after Athena tells them her story. Ep 4 will own bones. Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Jul 25, 2015 |
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Jul 25, 2015 03:23
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Ep 4 this month!  https://twitter.com/jobjstauffer/status/628614330066403328
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 Nice short gap between 3 and 4!
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Anyone feel like blowing up a space station?
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Well we're now going to be as late in the Borderlands universe, chronologically speaking, as we've ever been. I... guess there's nothing stopping us from blowing it up?
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Paladin posted:Well we're now going to be as late in the Borderlands universe, chronologically speaking, as we've ever been. I... guess there's nothing stopping us from blowing it up? Maya also talked about the BL2 guys going up to Helios in Tiny Tina's DLC. We're liable to run into one of them there, I'm going to guess either Axton or Salvatore since Zer0 has already showed up and Maya was completely neglected by her own game so why stop now?
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I don't know if Axton will show up, the framing device for one of the DLCs in Pre-Sequel is him and Gaige coming back from off-planet at some point after Athena finishes her story and getting the cliffnotes of the story from that game.
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Coolguye posted:Maya also talked about the BL2 guys going up to Helios in Tiny Tina's DLC. We're liable to run into one of them there, I'm going to guess either Axton or Salvatore since Zer0 has already showed up and Maya was completely neglected by her own game so why stop now? When I guessed that the mysterious person in the telltale game wearing a mask was Maya, it was only because I hoped she'd finally get to do something. 
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Paladin posted:When I guessed that the mysterious person in the telltale game wearing a mask was Maya, it was only because I hoped she'd finally get to do something. In seriousness, I've been playing the game with a friend of mine, streaming our respective playthroughs to each other, and our working theory is that the Kidnapper is Maya as well. It's clear that we're familiar with the Kidnapper, and the only two people who have similar speech patterns to the Kidnapper are Lilith and Maya. The Kidnapper is very calm and quite articulate, and the latter in particular is fairly rare on Pandora. Lilith is pretty busy after BL2 since she takes primary leadership of Sanctuary, so Maya is our guess. Tertiary guess is Zed, but he has up till now been just risk averse enough to not go out vault hunting, so it seems less likely.
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Coolguye posted:In seriousness, I've been playing the game with a friend of mine, streaming our respective playthroughs to each other, and our working theory is that the Kidnapper is Maya as well. It's clear that we're familiar with the Kidnapper, and the only two people who have similar speech patterns to the Kidnapper are Lilith and Maya. The Kidnapper is very calm and quite articulate, and the latter in particular is fairly rare on Pandora. Lilith is pretty busy after BL2 since she takes primary leadership of Sanctuary, so Maya is our guess. Comedy answer: Its Claptrap being controlled by Shadowtrap. But episode 4 coming so soon is good news, I'm curious to see the real state of Helios post Jack, it was pretty awesome to visit in the Pre Sequel, probably the highlight of the game.
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I think it's Moxxi.
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Ever since 2 introduced Helios I've had this image in my mind of jumping out of the exploding space station straight back to Pandora. Granted the effect will be less because it's not in first-person POV any more but I can still hope.
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mycot posted:Ever since 2 introduced Helios I've had this image in my mind of jumping out of the exploding space station straight back to Pandora. Granted the effect will be less because it's not in first-person POV any more but I can still hope. Uh, did you see the effect re-entry had on a container just hitting the moon? Now imagine that, with no container protecting you, with an actual atmosphere. I don't think there's a turtle shield big enough.
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AirRaid posted:Uh, did you see the effect re-entry had on a container just hitting the moon? Now imagine that, with no container protecting you, with an actual atmosphere. I don't think there's a turtle shield big enough. Falling doesn't give damage. 
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Turns out the kidnapper was some guy whose car you robbed in a previous episode. Oh, wait, wrong Telltale game. Jubs posted:I think it's Moxxi. I think that's a good possibility, seeing as she is not averse to being a complete and utter bitch at times
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