When Good Heists Go Bad - Let's Play Tales from the Borderlands

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anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

This is an amazing story/game. Shield and Missiles.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2015 10:59

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 14:45

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

CuwiKhons posted:

Vaughn is easily my favorite character in this entire series so I hope you're gonna treat him right. What a bro. Gentle little brofriend who steals ten million dollars from Hyperion but gets sad about a skag dying

Must... resist... temptation... to... spoil... joke... bro...
I agree on that one, the characterization is very well done here. Vaughn starts as this annoying little poo poo but really grows on you and that's without him ever really deviating from his character.

Also the bot we're outfitting now is totally the best character.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2015 18:37

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Break his heart, I didn't do that one.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2015 09:41

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Save the bullet. No need to antagonize August... yet.
I love how wads of banknotes have the telltale yellow light that serve for loot identification in the FPS games. I always thought loot recognition was part of Vault Hunter gear, but apparently any sufficient amount of money generates a pillar of light...

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Nov 20, 2015

# ¿ Nov 20, 2015 08:13

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Judge Tesla posted:

I dunno, I always found that one pretty simple, though I usually play as the Goddess herself, Maya.

That one gets much, much easier if you get a buddy willing to die for a good cause. drat, now I want to play Borderlands 2 again.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2015 11:56

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Sam Faust posted:

I figured it was a non-choice, but I thought the joke was that the dude ended up dead with no head/heart.

There's actually quite a lot of non-choices in this one but it really doesn't detract from the story too much. I think Telltale pretty much stopped giving the player the option to really gently caress up after Walking Dead 1.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2015 23:39

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Nope. Another non-choice.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2015 23:48

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Kaubocks posted:

If there's one thing I worry about, it's that I hope a sentiment of "these choices don't actually matter" doesn't wash over the thread. Sure, there's going to be quite a few choices I give you guys that, in the grand scheme of things, really impact nothing. But it gives the playthrough a bit of flavour, no? I dunno I just hope that people don't get too down on it.

I hear you and shall stop bitching about non-choices immediately.

JT Jag posted:

"Fiona, what's happening?"
"Well, our perfectly serviceable heist story just had a head on collision with someone else's Borderlands game."

This is a very interesting sentiment that could be worth keeping in mind as we run into some of the other setpieces and Vault Hunters (I mean come on, that can't be a spoiler). Tales does more than a few surprise twists on things "should" work if you're familiar with the shooter games. My favorite example - the Borderlands games tend to have really lovely and boring final battles. But that's a long, long way off...

# ¿ Nov 21, 2015 01:07

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

RickVoid posted:

And that's another game purchased because I can't just wait for the thread updates.

See, now you just traded that for the agony of waiting for people to finally see what happens for the first time.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2015 15:01

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Steve mask. Best name. Anyway, I'd go for sowing maximum distrust between the party members and screwing over one another at each opportunity but that's just because I didn't do that on my playthrough so this vote might not count. I'd suggest we become pals with Zer0, though; I always feel sorry for the guy for being easily the weakest character in Borderlands 2.

edit: Oh boy. Rhys doing the stealth kill is one of my favorite scenes in the game; both character-building and hilarious.

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Nov 25, 2015

# ¿ Nov 25, 2015 08:19

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

JT Jag posted:

This gives me an idea. Kaubocks, what do you think about running a little survey between each episode regarding the identity of the Masked Man?

That might be interesting; I think I only figured it out in Episode 4 which is where I assume everyone does.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2015 18:16

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Warn him. C'mon, he as much as told us what was going to happen - if that particular "don't trust anyone" speech didn't ring all sorts of alarm bells before, you have no business being on Pandora.
Also I was a spiteful bastard in my run and kinda want to see how it works this time.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2015 20:40

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Solovey posted:

even on a planet like Pandora, shooting your family in the face and/or letting them get blown up is pretty messed up.

Ellie would like to have a word with you.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 23:27

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

See, I was pretty much turned off by the first episode. The money as the driving force felt incredibly weak and the characters from previous games felt shoehorned in as cheap fanservice. After the first episode was probably where I considered quitting the most.
Thankfully I got over that but I think it was just because of the "future" scenes.

edit: I still can't get over how people apparently didn't figure out who the strangerwasohmigoshohmigoshiamageniusheeheegiggleBLAM.
Sorry, temporary insanity.

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Dec 8, 2015

# ¿ Dec 8, 2015 18:51

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Save Rhys, Fiona can take care of herself. Tell everyone because, uh, I didn't.
I think the eyeball scene was actaully what convinced me to stick with the game the whole way through.

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Dec 13, 2015

# ¿ Dec 13, 2015 07:32

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Eh, Vaughn looks like a pragmatic fellow, he's lying. But we should totally go to Hollow Point.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2015 09:51

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Limopalise posted:

God, I love that title card. Appreciating it more and more every time I watched it. Still, I'd say there's one title sequence I personally prefer that we have yet to see, though this is a close second.

Is it the Ep4 one? Because that one's just amazing on so many levels.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2015 10:23

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

You've gotta admire the craftsmanship; it can't be easy to sound as slimy as Vasquez. He just nails that role.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2015 08:50

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

CuwiKhons posted:

TEDIORE IS BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD, USE A TORGUE LIKE GOD INTENDED

Amen. Slow bullets just need you need to apply mad skillZ when aiming, they're expert guns for expert FPS expert players.
John Romero uses Torgue.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2015 09:45

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

EponymousMrYar posted:

Yeah as a commando with riced-out to the nines turrets (shielded, longbow, sticky, slag bullets & rocket pods) I'm already more than meeting the Tediore quota of explosions and need that Torgue touch to really get the blood and viscera strewn across the blackened earth.

That's because you're missing Axton's best skill: Nuclear. loving. Turret.
I fell in love with that thing the moment I saw it on the skill tree.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2015 00:45

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

I'm almost always up for some BL2 if the level isn't too high; my main character is like 38. Steam handle is the same as here.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2015 08:55

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Alopex posted:

Filigree Flintlock is classy and nicely priced, and let's peek.

Seconding this. I still think we'll need that money for something.
Loaderbro is the best bro. I have literally the same experience as one of the above posters - the spork scene selling me on the game, the bro scene cementing it.

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Dec 31, 2015

# ¿ Dec 31, 2015 10:21

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Trust Jack. What could possibly go wrong?
Fiona's got a somewhat better reason to think it's Athena if you decide to not go to Hollow Point as the bros; Athena gets a bit more screen time that way.

edit: I know the pistol Vasquez is waving around but can't recall its name, drives me nuts.

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Jan 8, 2016

# ¿ Jan 8, 2016 07:52

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

HenryEx posted:

I know about the eye but go back and watch present-day Rhys talk and tell me that Jack could ever act that doofy

Are you serious?!
I mean, right, he doesn't act like Jack but that's an extremely loaded question.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2016 21:13

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Kytrarewn posted:

Jack may or may not have already lied to us with regard to the Wallethead thing, since Vasquez absolutely showed no signs of recognition of the nickname allegedly given to him by the most important figure in his life.

Oh? He seemed pretty drat shocked to me.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 11:46

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

geonetix posted:

It will undoubtably go sideways either choice, but likely the most downhilliest if we trust jack.

Another reason to go with him. It'll end in a fuckup either way, but this one should be funny.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 19:54

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

I bet you just killed Vaughn. Monsters.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2016 17:27

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

I'm a fan of explosion. I mean, come on, explosion as an elemental effect, how awesome is that?

# ¿ Jan 22, 2016 11:17

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

So by now it's not really a spoiler to tell you
YOU CHOSE POORLY

Eh, make her head spin or something.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2016 22:48

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Gortys really originally felt just like a rehash of Claptrap to me. It took, uh, the corpse scene to make me change my mind, so it lasted about a minute.
Anyhow, trust Jack. What could possibly go wrong?

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Jan 28, 2016

# ¿ Jan 28, 2016 07:38

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

evilspacehopper posted:

Oh my god Gortys is so cute! I don't know where the story goes from here but please don't make any choices that would hurt or make Gortys feel bad because my heart couldn't take anything bad happening to her.

I love this reaction because it's the perfect summation of the response Gortys provokes. She's just written perfectly to tug at the right heart strings. And boy, were the writers aware of that.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2016 13:24

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CuwiKhons posted:

Scooter has a BL2 quest to retrieve porno mags for him. Nothing about him is pure.

You'd think that, right. But he's a knight in shining armor at heart.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2016 15:27

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Hey, Axton is awesome and I wish his rather unhealthy relationship with his turret got more time in the spotlight.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2016 15:43

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

I'm shocked by the lack of fashion sense here. Clearly the only option is to R4WR Loader Bot.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2016 08:06

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

JT Jag posted:

We don't have the money.

drat. In that case, save the money for something more interesting down the line.

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Feb 3, 2016

# ¿ Feb 3, 2016 10:05

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

It's probably going to move the thread to start whipping up a lynch mob, but after that rear end joke I miss Paralyzed Vaughn already.
Nothing is weird, including murder. Bonus points if Athena can throw him off a funicular.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2016 09:13

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

EponymousMrYar posted:

Some people are just really put off by her myriad juxtapositions. Or find certain ones really offensive. Or haven't played Borderlands 2 DLC where she narrates the Bunkers and Buster's game.

These people sound like they don't actually play Borderlands games though.

I really learned to like her during the DnD DLC. She gets some actually well-written character development done there.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2016 11:15

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

SyntheticPolygon posted:

We got our hat back so really nothing went wrong.

We're down a character.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2016 11:24

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Mordecai is never not awesome. You can even forgive him for choosing the wrong side here when you know what Jack put him through.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2016 11:27

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 14:45

anilEhilated: Feb 17, 2014; But I say fuck the rain.; Grimey Drawer

Edmond Dantes posted:

Also I really want to have Tina as a playable class.

I'm really hoping she'll grow into a proper demolitions specialist in whenever BL3 rolls out. The lack of a focused grenadier/explosive character makes me sad.
Also we need more Axton. What little dialogue he has (mostly with his turret) is awesome.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2016 21:26

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