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I say it's the best one yet because it had several very memorable moments. The latest instalment, Episode 4: Escape Plan Bravo, launched this week and I devoured it in one sitting.
It's hard to believe it's built on the same clunky engine as the developer's other titles, and the blend of the Borderlands and Telltale art styles has worked out beautifully.
#Tales from the borderlands finger gun fight series#
I'm rapidly elevating Tales from the Borderlands up my ranking of every Telltale series to date, because it's excellent. Have you seen that great developer diary where Gearbox says it did a rubbish job? That's why it handballed to Telltale.Īnd thank goodness it did. Some of this is the player's fault for not playing the game "properly" (LOL), but a lot of it is on Gearbox for not doing a very job of presenting its material in an attractive way appropriate to the genre. It has some really interesting lore and characters, but that all gets forgotten in the mad rush of co-op, the expectations of shooter audiences, and the dancing robot nonsense. You may feel that colours my reception of Borderlands products so I like to remind you of it periodically.īorderlands is great in general, and I think it's under-appreciated in many ways. Nobody can afford to live alone in Sydney and everybody I know there works in games media or the games industry, which is why I used to share house with a 2K staffer. Some light spoilers ahead I won't discuss anything you won't already have picked up from Episode 4 trailers and screenshots released to date. I really like Tales from the Borderlands so I've decided to tell you that again. Now, with a few very successful series under their belts and more developers getting into the graphic adventure genre once again, the problems feel more pronounced.Tales from the Borderlands has gone from amusing spin-off to essential viewing. It’s not that animation issues and other problems weren’t present before, but they were more forgivable a few years ago, and when Telltale was just becoming big.
If you are a fan of these characters then Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 4 might feel a bit hollow due to their absence. Thankfully a few other characters make a return, in some fashion, which somewhat makes up for the smaller cast.Īlso making an unfortunate return are the glaring technical issues that have begun plaguing Telltale games. It was easy to assume that they would reappear at some point this episode, but it seems like that’s being held for the finale instead. At the end of last episode a few of our mainstay characters were either captured or fled in an unknown direction. However, there are a few odd absences this episode that might leave some fans confused. Once you get back on your feet, and the story gets going it definitely begins to live up to the high expectations set by previous entries in the series, but the slow start hurts the experience. Things take a while to really form the shape of the adventure to come, and if you haven’t just finished your run through Episode 3, you might find yourself a little lost as to what is going on with certain characters.
Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 4 has one of the more rough starts of the series.
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After some short, but possibly bloody negotiation, the team sets out to locate another upgrade for Gortys, which is unfortunately located off the surface of Pandora. That quest finds them in even worse shape than usual, having been captured by Vallory and her goons after their discovery of another Gortys piece. The two are still captives of the mysterious man, telling the tale of how they met, and the hunt for the Vault that followed. Players join the continuing adventures of Rhys and Fiona right where they left off at the end of Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 3.