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Episode 5 isn't showing up in my Steam downloads yet.  e: NM. Restarted and it's downloading. 
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Frankston posted:So what actually happened at the end there when Rhys and Fiona disappeared? I haven't really played any of the borderlands games so do people just vanish when they open chests or what? Weelllll...if we're going with the end of the Pre-sequel answer... The vault hunters were told they needed more vault hunters for some sort of reckoning. Perhaps they got called to that? Also, more likely that ending was Gearbox saying BORDERLANDS 3 IS AN MMO. Which is a shame, but its clear they have MMO intentions. I'd be cool with Rhys being the CEO of Atlas and Fiona as PC.
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Oct 21, 2015 02:25
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Just finished it. I have the silliest goofiest grin on my face and I can't seem to get rid of it. This was a great story and blew my expectations out of the water from what I expected when I heard Telltale were going to do a Borderlands game. 
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Oct 21, 2015 02:28
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Really Pants posted:They all look like they have conditions you need to meet first, though. Has anyone told Vallory that everything was August's fault, not told Janey that Athena loves her, and not deployed Scooter's satellite? August, Janey, and Athena are always available, but their dialogue changes depending on your choices. If you don't patch things up between Athena and Janey they both come, but aren't getting married and don't have as much banter. if you snitched on August, he's still available, but I think he's a bigger prick about it.
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Oct 21, 2015 02:35
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Alright I only replayed through episode 1 as a result of the Krieg tease and it was actually a pretty good idea since there's dialogue callbacks to it at the very very end. Everything about the final boss fight was amazing. I really want to see each team member's special moves (on youtube). This is easily one of the best games in a long time, definitely GOTY material.
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Oct 21, 2015 03:13
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Good goddamn, that was shockingly good and fun throughout. Reeeeeally hope Telltale decides to do more feelgood games instead of going grimdark/depressing; this is now my favorite game of theirs.
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Oct 21, 2015 03:23
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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee MY BABY VAUGHN ALL GROWN UP AND BLOWING UP MONSTERS Was not expecting THAT for the reveal of the stranger but man I cannot wait to go back and play the game again and see how knowing it changes things. Rhys' future clothes are a GREAT fake out - they look so fancy you'd think he must have gotten them from being President of Hyperion but nope, that lasted less than a hot minute. I couldn't destroy Jack though. I just couldn't. I love Dameon Clarke too much. And I bet that's going to be the canon choice because Borderlands can never leave well enough alone when it comes to Jack.
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Oct 21, 2015 03:49
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That was excellent, I had braced for disappointment that never came. My final team was Athena, August, Felix/Claptrap, Athena is a no brainer, I thought August deserved a chance to take on his mother's killer, I was hoping to find out what Felix's deal was and allow him redemption(which he really didn't need) and when that failed....claptrap...yeah I was hoping for someone else when I chose the mystery option
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Oct 21, 2015 04:14
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My first team was Felix, August, and Springs. When Felix did the thing I got the mystery hunter. I love that guy. No Such Thing posted:They need to hand over all Borderlands story development over to this team, they clearly know what they're doing.
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Oct 21, 2015 04:16
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I'm so glad I picked the mystery hunter  It isn't Borderlands without him. I was about to be so mad at Sasha dying.
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Oct 21, 2015 04:22
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Anyone else super disappointed that August didn't go ORAORAORAORA! during his special attack?
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Oct 21, 2015 04:43
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That was SO satisfying. Every time it dragged a little, the next setpiece made up for it. I lost my first save file and had to roll with some default ep 1 choices, wish I'd have one where Felix lived but it's nice to see that choices really did matter in this series!
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Oct 21, 2015 05:03
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AirRaid posted:I'd be interested to hear everyone's Vault team selection. Who was the mystery vault hunter? I didn't have enough money. Mine were Athena, August, and Felix/Claptrap. Not having played a Borderlands game before outside of very very rough familiarity with the setting, I didn't know who Claptrap was and kind of wish I had chosen Springs instead. Really Pants posted:No, that never happens, but it was the Vault of the Traveler so apparently they've been sent traveling. And as someone unfamiliar with Borderlands that much what does this even mean? It's like the two protagonists just vanished at the end of the game and roll credits. If they go a-travelin', does that mean that everything that Rhys and Fiona talked about doing after raiding the vault means squat? I liked the episode, though it toned down on the humor a lot compared to episode 4. The Sasha fakeout was OK but "they're not really dead" gets done a lot.
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Oct 21, 2015 05:30
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It's a huge cliffhanger and nobody knows.
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Oct 21, 2015 05:43
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That was a fantastic finale. Super glad they didn't go with a downer ending after having finished Life is Strange yesterday. So many amazing moments in that episode, what a satisfying way to end the series. The game keeps beating me up for not launching the probe honoring Scooter, I missed out on having both Athena and Janey in my raiding party. I ended up with Athena, August, Agree that the writers behind this need to be put in charge of the entire series. They actually pulled off something pretty amazing here.
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Oct 21, 2015 06:17
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Finally a Borderlands endboss fight that is actually good.
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Oct 21, 2015 06:18
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monster on a stick posted:Mine were Athena, August, and Felix/Claptrap. Not having played a Borderlands game before outside of very very rough familiarity with the setting, I didn't know who Claptrap was and kind of wish I had chosen Springs instead. Basically vaults, while also obviously being vaults that contain, you know, hella loot because they're, well, vaults are these weird otherworldly interconnected things that play by their own rules and have strange special powers and singular abilities This has never really been fully explained in tales because it's never really relevant, and most people who go for them are horribly greedy and want whatever riches that are within them, but there's a strong implication in 2/pre-sequel that the vaults have something else going on and have unique powers associated with them,
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Oct 21, 2015 06:24
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I appreciate what Life is Strange was doing more because I'm a depressing hipster douche BUT I LOVED THE poo poo OUT OF THIS. EDIT: My squad was your standard August/Athena/Janey rollout and I'm glad I went with it. And as overdone as the death fakeout was, the execution was just *mwah* perfecto. DivisionPost fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Oct 21, 2015 |
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Oct 21, 2015 06:24
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Talorat posted:
This may be an insensitive way to phrase the question and if so I apologize to any TT employees out there, but was the "B team" working on this? I'm guessing "Game of Thrones" was the obvious hot property, and TT would have wanted to put their best and brightest on something that would have huge appeal to non-gamers, but this seems like the obvious better game. It's kind of like comparing TWD S2 to TWAU - I had never heard of Fables, everyone's heard of The Walking Dead, yet TWAU was clearly the better game in the end.
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Oct 21, 2015 06:39
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Notice how Sasha used the same electric Maliwan smg in every single gunfight, except when fighting Vault Guardians, which is always the moment you go "poo poo, why did I sell my electric weapons?!" The writers get this series.
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Oct 21, 2015 06:46
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Everything about this series was excellent. Also, I picked Janey, Cassius and Zer0. Apparently Cassius was a very unpopular choice, although his battlyness was very high, but I stand by Springs and Zer0 because they're both awesome.
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Oct 21, 2015 06:54
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Wow, finally, Janey Springs did something other than being a completely useless Australian space-lesbian!
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Oct 21, 2015 06:58
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Holy poo poo what a finale. Fire everyone else at Telltale and just let these people do everything from now on. And the music they chose was once again excellent.
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Oct 21, 2015 07:02
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^^^As soon as I realized the fall of Hyperion would be set to "Retrograde":  What's funny is that you'd think considering how often anything not The Walking Dead gets a sequel season, I'd feel blueballed by the ending being "And then they vanished into thin air. The end!" I do, but I can't even work up that much frothy rage over it, it just works somehow.
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Oct 21, 2015 07:06
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This episode was  But in all seriousness, Telltale knocked it out of the park with this series, between the writers who were just top notch, the animators who really nailed the character animations, the fun background stuff and the incredible work of the voice actors, this is my favorite game of this year. Hell this is one of those games I'm probably going to pop in once or twice a year to play. I know how it goes, but I don't care, I play and I crack the biggest grin on my face. My Voltron/Power Ranger team was Athena (no duh there), August (I figured it'd be a nice conclusion to his arc since he's been so omnipresent this whole series and he showed himself to have some depth) and Cassius (I figured, why not and seeing him pull a Kamehameha was well worth it I felt). If you chose Felix, is he there when Sasha is "dying" or is it just Claptrap being claptrap? I didn't even know Claptrap was an option, I just thought it was Telltale being cheeky with Gearbox and DLC preorders.
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Oct 21, 2015 07:16
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This was a good video game, but I am very confused about two things: Why was krieg not in it Why was the hadouken input not quarter-circle punch
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Oct 21, 2015 07:50
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Jimmy4400nav posted:
I don't believe Felix ever comes with you. He just shows you that he was pulling a long con, has nine million dollars for Fiona/Sasha, and tells you to have a better life than a con artist. You then get to pick someone else, and with the loot you can afford Claptrap.
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Oct 21, 2015 07:51
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What happened to Butt Stallion?
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Oct 21, 2015 08:07
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monster on a stick posted:This may be an insensitive way to phrase the question and if so I apologize to any TT employees out there, but was the "B team" working on this? I'm guessing "Game of Thrones" was the obvious hot property, and TT would have wanted to put their best and brightest on something that would have huge appeal to non-gamers, but this seems like the obvious better game. It's kind of like comparing TWD S2 to TWAU - I had never heard of Fables, everyone's heard of The Walking Dead, yet TWAU was clearly the better game in the end. Pierre Shorrette was the lead writer on both TWAU and this game. Although he only headed 1, 2, and 5, different writers did 3 and 4. I think he was the main story designer though, similar to TWAU. Of course Jake Rodkin and Sean Vanaaman were the heads for TWD Season 1, who have now gone onto Campo Santo. To answer your question, seems GOT was the B-Team. And the Minecraft game has writers I think are brand new to Telltale. edit: just watched the final credits again. Mark Darin was creative director on this game. Who was also heavily involved in TWD Seasons 1 and 2. Him, Pierre Shorette and Nick Herman (who directed episode 5) are season leads theblackw0lf fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Oct 21, 2015 |
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Oct 21, 2015 08:30
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Definitely a stronger finale than Life Is Strange, but I think I enjoyed the individual eps of LiS a lot more. Still, TftB is probably my second favourite game of the year right behind it. I think TftB got away with a lot more because of its comic tone. When it's not trying to be all serious, players will forgive a lot more of the railroading and general bullshit. Which is at least an interesting detail about this CYOA genre we have nowadays. I'm a little sad they got away from so many of their initial ideas. We never really got to play a con again, nor did we get to really use the money. But yeah, definitely Telltale's strongest series since TWD season 1. (I don't think it quite surpasses that.) Couple of random notes:
theblackw0lf posted:Pierre Shorrette was the lead writer on both TWAU and this game. Air is lava! posted:I was ready for dissapointment, when after all that part collecting Gortys had to be destroyed and we couldn't even see the scary monster. That felt like a major letdown. But they certainly pulled it of in the end. TheMopeSquad posted:Funniest scene in the episode for me was Athena getting a legit job as a fry cook for Grease Face. Jetamo posted:Also aaaaargh the game thinks I made the opposite decision to what I picked at the ending of Episode 4. I don't really want to replay Episode 4/possibly further back to fix this. Then in this ep it acted like I'd gone along with it and made references to him giving a speech which he didn't in my game.
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Oct 21, 2015 09:58
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VagueRant posted:Couple of random notes: Not on my playthrough 
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Oct 21, 2015 10:03
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VagueRant posted:The very last beat of the ending was kind of a dick move, but not bad enough to ruin it. I don't know why that would be, it fairly obviously teleported them directly to the sequel/BL3. I was hugely unconvinced on this because I wasn't a fan of Borderlands, but bought it because of thread chat. So glad I did. Thanks goons. I'm curious what else you can get in the Super Sentai Gortys line-up:
What else?
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Oct 21, 2015 11:53
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Athena using... wait for it... her shield. No surprises there. I had her and Springs because I wanted to see their interactions, and August because I didn't care so much about the other choices I had. Zer0 and the secret hunter were locked for me. Any other choices that interact with eachother at all? This was a pretty damned awesome game, loved almost all of it. On comparing it to GoT, I don't hate the GoT game as much as some of the rest of you but one thing that makes this way better is the fact that the writers seem to have had some room to move the story around in. With GoT you know it takes place in the past compared to where the books/show are at, yet there are some of the books'/show's characters in there. You already know what's going to happen for a large part. Here the writers got to write the future after BL2 and were allowed to kill Scooter. I don't think GRRM would ever allow such things. Of course the writers did a stellar job, there's that as well. Griefor fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Oct 21, 2015 |
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Oct 21, 2015 12:22
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Vargs posted:This was a good video game, but I am very confused about two things: Kreig is obsessed with Maya so he's probably too busy staring at her to do anything.
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Oct 21, 2015 12:25
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Griefor posted:Athena using... wait for it... her shield. No surprises there. I had her and Springs because I wanted to see their interactions, and August because I didn't care so much about the other choices I had. Zer0 and the secret hunter were locked for me. Any other choices that interact with eachother at all? Cassius tells Rhys to call him when it's time to start working again, considering that Rhys is now technically his boss.
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Oct 21, 2015 12:37
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I said Claptrap would show up, and he did, because come on, you can't have a Borderlands game without the series mascot in it.
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Oct 21, 2015 12:40
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Judge Tesla posted:I said Claptrap would show up, and he did, because come on, you can't have a Borderlands game without the series mascot in it. This was the perfect way to do Claptrap though, he's completely optional.
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Oct 21, 2015 13:09
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Wasn't there an option to not take Felix's gift for Sasha and just leave it in the box? I might try that next playthrough and see if Sasha dies for really real because the watch healing her felt like such an rear end pull.
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Oct 21, 2015 13:44
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Lt. Danger posted:I'm curious what else you can get in the Super Sentai Gortys line-up: Claptrap launches a shitton of missiles into the air that land on the guard monster thing.
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Oct 21, 2015 13:51
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CuwiKhons posted:Wasn't there an option to not take Felix's gift for Sasha and just leave it in the box? I might try that next playthrough and see if Sasha dies for really real because the watch healing her felt like such an rear end pull. I *think* the option was look/don't look. In my playthrough Fiona never looked in the box but did keep the box with her and gave it to Sasha in episode 5.
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Oct 21, 2015 14:46
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