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Croccers posted:If you get the Aurora guns, you can blow up Dierker's car during the race. That wouldn't win the game, though, right?
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I'm playing Tales from the Borderlands for the first time and I'm on episode one and absolutely loving all the little touches that Telltale added. I'm not even a fan of Borderlands (I tried the FPS games but never made it more than a couple hours into them, I might give them another shot though...) but some of the little things like adding a lootbox that opens to reveal nothing was pretty great. I also love Rhys's eye-scanner that displays funny things about whatever you're scanning, like in the first five minutes when you scan your former boss as he floats outside in space, stone dead, and his status is displayed as "Not well" I also died laughing at how you have to help a side character take down some enemies silently, and she kills her target by quickly snapping his neck. When it's your turn, you jump on the guy's back and are so lovely at trying to kill the guy that your target starts actively talking poo poo about you while your party member also makes fun of you for being useless. I can't wait to keep playing, this is simply amazing. Telltale knocked this right out of the park.
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Tales from the borderlands is my favorite thing telltale has done, and I've played all of their episodic series, save for the Minecraft ones. Like you I'm not a fan of the original games either, their writers did an excellent job with the source material.
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Echoing the whole 'don't care for Borderlands but Tales From is one of my favourite games'. It's easily both the best Telltale game and Borderlands game in my opinion. EDIT: Also episode two has one of my favourite title sequences ever in a game. Veotax has a new favorite as of 23:39 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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HonorableTB posted:I also died laughing at how you have to help a side character take down some enemies silently, and she kills her target by quickly snapping his neck. When it's your turn, you jump on the guy's back and are so lovely at trying to kill the guy that your target starts actively talking poo poo about you while your party member also makes fun of you for being useless. This is one of the funniest things I've ever encountered. Veotax posted:It's easily both the best Telltale game and Borderlands game in my opinion. I love Borderlands games and I still agree with you. Loaderbot is my favorite character in any of the Telltale games.
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HonorableTB posted:I also love Rhys's eye-scanner that displays funny things about whatever you're scanning, like in the first five minutes when you scan your former boss as he floats outside in space, stone dead, and his status is displayed as "Not well" One thing Tales from the Borderlands does that I love is that at one point you encounter a character from the older games and he gives you the option to become his confidant and partner in crime. If you accept then he adds a lot of color commentary to all of the different eye-scanner text but if you find the character annoying then you can tell him to gently caress off and he actually listens and instead you get a completely different set of descriptions for everything. RagnarokAngel posted:Like you I'm not a fan of the original games either, their writers did an excellent job with the source material. To be fair a good number of the writers from the previous games returned to write dialog for their characters, too. Veotax posted:EDIT: Also episode two has one of my favourite title sequences ever in a game. All the opening credits scenes kick rear end, it makes me wish Telltale had a budget to use licensed music in their regular games because the music choices are  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LkjH-v1tGk
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Guy Mann posted:One thing Tales from the Borderlands does that I love is that at one point you encounter a character from the older games and he gives you the option to become his confidant and partner in crime. If you accept then he adds a lot of color commentary to all of the different eye-scanner text but if you find the character annoying then you can tell him to gently caress off and he actually listens and instead you get a completely different set of descriptions for everything. Watching Kaubocks' LP, my favorite bits were the musical intros. The space launch one stuck with me the most.
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You can't mention Tales from the Borderlands without talking about the finger gun 'shootout'. That caught me so off guard I had the biggest poo poo eating grin for an hour.
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Just Offscreen posted:I mean it's OK. I really doubt it's aged well.
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moosecow333 posted:You can't mention Tales from the Borderlands without talking about the finger gun 'shootout'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0VOM7e5Hug The great thing is that if you fail it they realize you're an imposter and then they shoot you for real. 
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I picked up Grand Theft Auto 5 for the PS4 the other day and I love the way Rockstar utilizes the DS4 controller. When you're being chased by the cops your light bar will flash red and blue. I was playing at night and for a few seconds there were cop cars outside my house. I also love how the phone calls come through the speaker in the controller.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Tales from the borderlands is my favorite thing telltale has done, and I've played all of their episodic series, save for the Minecraft ones.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Episode 4 is extremely good in ways I did not expect. I was not expecting to be emotionally invested in a loving Borderlands game.
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rydiafan posted:I was not expecting to be emotionally invested in a loving Borderlands game. Catch-a-RIIIDE! 
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rydiafan posted:I was not expecting to be emotionally invested in a loving Borderlands game. Like has already been mentioned, a loving loader bot, an annoying enemy in the real games, gets a complex and fulfilling character arc in Tales. Neddy Seagoon posted:Catch-a-RIIIDE! Fuuuuuuck.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Episode 4 is extremely good in ways I did not expect. 5's finale loving rules for so many reason, but probably its greatest achievement is making me actually laugh at Claptrap. You spent the entire game scrimping and saving hoping that you could use your money for something cool at the end? PSYCHE, your reward is having the worst character in the series tag along for the climax. 
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Guy Mann posted:5's finale loving rules for so many reason, but probably its greatest achievement is making me actually laugh at Claptrap. You spent the entire game scrimping and saving hoping that you could use your money for something cool at the end? PSYCHE, your reward is having the worst character in the series tag along for the climax. I could not afford that, because I spent my money buying Loaderbot a tuxedo. No regrets.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:That wouldn't win the game, though, right? It does  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQ_8FbyZM0
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While the rest of the game is not great I did really like the mobility you get in Mass Effect: Andromeda with the jump jets. They let you hop into the air above cover, hover and dash around the battlefield.
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muscles like this! posted:While the rest of the game is not great I did really like the mobility you get in Mass Effect: Andromeda with the jump jets. They let you hop into the air above cover, hover and dash around the battlefield. The actual gameplay of ME:A is really satisfying and good. Shame the entire single-player part of the game was messed up by bad management.
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Reminder that The Saboteur also touted BARE BOOBIES as incentive to buy the DLC for it, if you happen to have it you get the benefits right away as the game opens on a lady dancing  Anyway, was playing Tekken 7 online just now and was playing against Alisa the robot girl with chainsaw arms. I manged to get out of one of her throws that usually involves her arms detaching while she slams you into the ground or something. Since i broke the throw, your character automatically throws her arms off to the side as part of the animation and i think it's a neat touch.
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StandardVC10 posted:The Saboteur looks like a lot of fun. It really is. It was vastly underrated at the time of its release because nothing about it was really innovative, it was just a bunch of features from other games mashed together. The thing is they're mashed together so well and create a wonderful game. There's also tonnes of little things that make it a poster child for this thread. Something to note is that the map on the PC port is all sorts of messed up, track down a console copy if you can.
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Any game where you get to kill Nazis is pretty much good by default.
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TontoCorazon posted:So excited for Wolfenstein 2 It's really a shame that Sean and BJ never crossed paths. What a beautiful, Nazi-killing bromance it would be.
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In Wolfenstein: The New Order, BJ talks to himself a lot. However, they were clever enough to make all of the lines whispers in case you are using stealth. It lends to the eerie and almost poetic narrative.
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I just unlocked RDX in The Saboteur
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I am really and truly grateful for Skip Cutscene and Skip Gameplay buttons/options. There are just parts and scenes I just prefer to pass, especially when it's not my first time around. If you make a game and include these, thank you, thank you, God bless you.
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:Reminder that The Saboteur also touted BARE BOOBIES as incentive to buy the DLC for it, if you happen to have it you get the benefits right away as the game opens on a lady dancing To be fair the dlc was free. It was a way to get around nudity by ratings institutions.
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The voice actor for BJ did such an amazing job. BJ as a character was physically a bad rear end but his monologue in the end elevated his performance to a new level for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEza0A15mls&t=50s
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TontoCorazon posted:The voice actor for BJ did such an amazing job. It's the first time MUH AMERICA has been a good theme in a video game.
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RagnarokAngel posted:To be fair the dlc was free. It was a way to get around nudity by ratings institutions. Yeah, I think Saboteur was right at the end of the period where having bare breasts in a game meant and instant AO.
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Jehde posted:It really is. It was vastly underrated at the time of its release because nothing about it was really innovative, it was just a bunch of features from other games mashed together. The thing is they're mashed together so well and create a wonderful game. There's also tonnes of little things that make it a poster child for this thread. The GOG version has a fix for the map glitch.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:That wouldn't win the game, though, right? You get the achievements you get for beating the game and the credits roll.
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A little late to the Borderlands party, but I also loved how they turned their typical Telltale Moment on its head in episode 3, when they melodramatically built it up like Sasha was going to fall to her death....only for the drop to just be a few feet.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu7jwI3YyFU NES Jason has his own theme in Friday the 13th (as do all Jasons), it is amazing.
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There's a loving NES Jason in that game!? Damnit, horror fans are getting so much cool poo poo right now, and here I am unable to stomach a jumpscare.
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It's just a reskin for one of the Jasons unfortunately, given as part of an apology for server troubles at game launch. Still funny as hell though, and the music is surprisingly tense when you're being chased.
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Somfin posted:It's the first time MUH AMERICA has been a good theme in a video game. I don't think you could really apply that TNO considering that the game is all about the European resistance and BJ is the only American in the game in one timeline while in the other he has Jimi Hendrix brow-beating him about being so uncritically dedicated to a system that was just as oppressive to people like him as the Nazis were to everyone else. Which is one of the reasons I'm psyched about The New Colossus, they don't seem to be pulling any punches in how occupied America isnt in any way special about resisting and if anything seems to be uniquely suited to being co-opted by the Nazis with Klansmen in the street and Hollywood creating nationalistic propaganda in the trailer.
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