One of the things I loved about Tales from the Borderlands was how it showed how vault hunters were viewed by the average Pandoran. Basically, vault hunters are like superheroes to the average Pandoran
Damn near disliked the video from what he said honestly. Yes borderlands 1 has a potato story. But Borderlands 2 and TPS has a RIDICULOUS amount of story, which not only can be complex, but you can miss quite a bit of it if you don't do any side quests.
@@Kairidabairi I agree bl2 and tps has Vary good and complex lore people just don't pay attention is why people think the story's are bad there actually vary complex and deep just have to actually play the game for story ..like bl2 dragon keep dlc it's vary deep and sad when you look at what it's actually about but it's good
I got into tales from the borderlands not knowing borderlands lore at all and holy shit did I fucking fall in love. I’m so glad that this game had cameos in the latest game
I freaking love Tales From the Borderlands, it has some of my favorite characters in the franchise and my favorite story in Borderlands. Rhys is my favorite character in video games and in Borderlands.
Also PS: I fucking love BL2, love the jokes (most of them) and the gameplay and everything. But as I’ve gotten older I also understand that it’s humor is very conflicting for people. I love it, others don’t. Believe it or not I don’t play BL3 because I think it’s writing/jokes are incredibly bad and are worse than BL2. My point being, I find it interesting that while we disagree on the overall writing quality of the main borderlands games. We still both agree handsome jack is fucking incredible. I think it just goes to show how good he is that most people, borderlands fans or not like handsome jack.
You know, in spite of everything I actually did enjoy Borderlands 3. Don't get me wrong, it had flaws, big ones, but It had some of my favorite gameplay, it had some surprisingly decent characters in the cast, and (don't kill me for this) I actually did like the story. Could've been done better, but I had fun. It did its job. It's still a fun game, but I think it just didn't measure up to what everyone came to expect. At least we can all agree the movie was worse.
I love how Rhys is the main character but everyone in the main cast (including Vaughn) becomes cooler and more skilled than him as the game progresses but his development never comes to a stop nor does he ever lose his likeability. He continues being a loser, but a loser who has learned a lot on his journey with his friends. And I admire that a lot. :)
This game had the best direction and music usage out if all the telltale games. The cinematography during the intro sequence of the second episode is so fucking good. Didnt care for the ending that much but its definitely criminally underrated. The dialogue is pretty good and doesn’t feel clunky since the cast are comedically skilled actors. If you havent played it, definitely give it a try.
Good video, although it's a shame you didn't mention that the final conversation between Rhys and Fiona is mostly the player asking questions, and then answering them. You're in control of most of the questions/answers and are therefore conversing with yourself, but it is done in such a natural way that you wouldn't really notice. Brilliant game, I'm so glad it's back on Steam, hopefully we'll see a season 2 one day, one that's neither bigger nor better, but just as good.
The second attempt was made by Gearbox themselves, not Telltale, so it's the same writing team as the most recent mainline Borderlands games. Which should tell you exactly as much as you need to know about how it turned out.
But...our analysts said the young'uns like the Dab, I don't understand. The amount of media ruined by bad writing is astounding, especially sad since most other departments do their job well.
It was a different approach to the same world. It revived my interest in BORDERLANDS and actually got me to look at Game of Thrones' Season 1 (wishing now that a Season 2 could give closure). *Well written video. If I ever make a commentary video, I'll be sure to make one for this gem, that most of my BL-playing friends have not tried*
I think a way to solve the awkward reason for why Fiona's mad at Rhys in the framing device while at the same time keeping it intact would be for Rhys to have options to tell Fiona and co about Jack... but Jack keeps thwarting his attempts. It would be a nice parallel to him thinking Fiona left him behind on Helios when she didn't really, Rhys keeps trying to tell them he has Jack in his head but he literally can't. Maybe even put some manipulation on Rhys for good measure. It would also rob the player of choice in a way that makes more sense, Jack is NOT a player character. It wouldn't make sense for him to compromise himself for the player's choice, so his intervention would just make more sense for why Fiona's reason to be mad continued to exist.
I couldn't agree more. As someone who has played through almost all of Telltale's games, I can honestly say this is one of their best work. I'm sad to hear it didn't do well financially. This could also be in part to the saturation of Telltale games after TWD. Pumping out so many games a year with very little gameplay changes between them led to player fatigue, I think. I'm glad to see they're coming back and I hope they will do much better this time around. Perhaps they could also ditch the episodic plan and release the games as a whole similar to Life is Strange 3.
I only knew about this game because I was looking at the comments for the first Borderlands 3 trailer and saw someone freaking out, that Rhys was in a mainline game. And I was like "who is Rhys?" and learned he comes from the canon telltale game. Since I wanted to to as update as possible before BL3 comes out I got myself the game and played it with no expectations. And man it became such an unexpected hit for me.
I couldn’t agree more about this. Tales is very underrated, it didn’t receive a lot of promotion at the time but it was fantastic and very successful. Shame we won’t see a season 2
Great video man, this may be the last we see of these pack of rogues, without the tainting of Gearbox’s writing, but as sponge bob once said “we’ll always have fun...in our memories.”
I powered through this game in one night from 8pm to 4am and I have to say, it was an unforgettable experience. I genuinely thought I was high when the giant robot battle happened. I just love this game so much and am glad to be seeing someone do it justice. (also don't be talking shit about Tiny Tina, the best character behind Jack)
Such a fulfilling game on every level. It really helped get me through a hard time on my play through. It breaks my heart that it was removed from digital storefronts.
I disagree very much on the quality of the main series Borderlands games, but this video is great! And Tales from the Borderlands is the best story in the series thus far! Really looking forward to seeing Rhys and hopefully the others pop up in Borderlands 3!
What a brilliant video, can't believe it's took me 6 months to find this since I've be raving about this game since I played it in 2017. Even though I don't agree with you on a lot of your views on the other borderlands games I get where your'e coming from, and you might be glad to hear Anthony Burch will not be returning to write BL3 so there's hope that you may enjoy the writing in this one more.
Its mostly the Borderlands humor that I have an issue with. I actually think Burch is extremely talented at writing dramatic meaningful scenes (He wrote Handsome Jack's final scene in TftB) but his humor isn't my personal cup of tea. I understood that it would be a contentious opinion to slag off Borderlands as much as I did in this video and I actually kind of regret that. I don't hate Borderlands, I just wanted to make the point to those who don't enjoy Borderlands comedic style that TftB is something they could still enjoy.
Eldritch Augur nah I completely get you, and I agree that especially on subsequent playthroughs characters like tiny Tina can be quite grating. Ironically though, have you played the Tina dlc, assault on dragon keep? Strangely enough it’s got some of the best emotional moments in the whole franchises despite being centred around one of the most divisive characters and I recommend you give it a go if you haven’t already.
@@stanners1714 I haven't. My other problem with Borderlands is how Imbalanced the level scaling can be towards the late game and I got kind of fed up with dying in two shots from some of the flying enemies in one of the DLC's. I did play the Torque DLC and thought it was pretty funny though. There is some good humor sprinkled throughout. I'll get around to playing all the DLC's at some point. I loved all of them in BL1 (Except for the Moxxi Arena one).
Eldritch Augur Haha it’s so strange that on paper we pretty much agree on all of this stuff yet I put borderlands 2 firmly in my top 10 and tales isn’t too far behind either. I agree that at very very high levels it’s gets pretty irritating, I’ve only bothered with the OP levels on my krieg and the rest I intend to just stop at 72 as after that I feel the game gets too minmaxy for me. I am so glad I found this video though, takes doesn’t get enough praise and I thought I was going mad feeling like the only person that liked it.
I couldnt not disagree more on your opinion on the BL series. But I could not agree more on your opinion on Tales. I wish one day for a second season :(
@@user-qv5sm5dw1v Yeeaaa that one was rough. My original thoughts would be a sequel following the main characters of the OG Tales on a new adventure together. But what we got was rough
I feel like Fiona’s most important choices are about the people around her. You can play her as someone who doesn’t really care for the people she doesn’t already know and just lets them die, or someone who gets over her own prejudices towards the new people she meets and chooses to save their lives
I always end up coming back this video every few months just because there's not enough analysis videos of this game, when I first played it when it was free on ps plus in 2016 and I didn't know anything about borderlands I loved this game cried when scooter died and loader botand have replayed it multiple times every year, most of my friends dont like telltale games but I got one of my friends to play this game with me recently he was rhys I was fiona and he loved it said it was one of the best games he's played and he's played a lot of games
Glad to see this was commented recently! I've finished Tales from the borderlands today and it was the best Telltale game I've played, alongside The wolf amongst us. They left us on a major cliffhanger and I do hope there is some confirmation for a direct season 2 for this where Fiona and Rhys could possibly end up together. The game is very underrated and never failed to make me laugh. Do you know whether telltale have confirmed a season 2?
@@nbs5288 there has been a second season confirmed about 1 or 2 months ago but telltale is not involved this time as far as everyone knows, its being developed by 2k games and gearbox the same people who make borderlands and helped 50% with the first one, so far we only have picture as a teaser and it looks like 3 new characters looks like 2 people and a new bot as we only see the black outline of them but i hope its a direct sequal
@@nbs5288 if there's any telltale games I'd suggest next would be the walking dead if you havent played them atleast the first season but after the first season most people complete the series, game of thrones which is a lot more conversation heavy like the show and has 6 episodes the only issue with this one is its very hard to get ahold of as most places have it unlisted for sale and you wither need to already like game of thrones or have no history with it to like it as this game is actually what got me into the show also this one ends on a cliffhanger too but game of thrones is less likely to get a sequal due to the rights being a lot more expensive now and because there is some of the main cast in the show in the game too and it would be a struggle to bring some if not all back , then also the 2 batman season are amazing and definitely worth a play
@@user-op6kt8pg9y Thank you for explaining, very much appreciated! I've already played the Telltale batman and Walking dead games where these are both unforgettable and amazing games. Tales of the borderlands is probably my favourite due to the humorous nature of characters and the various plots in the storyline. If you've already all played the Telltale games maybe try out the new Quarry game if you haven't yet. Hopefully there will be a return of Tales of the bordalands characters very soon and more news for the next season where this will be worth the wait.
I will never get of over the fact that in BOTH of the following games, Rhys, the businessman who was done adventuring and just wanted to start Atlas back up again, plays a role in the story. Meanwhile Fiona, the person who was trained by athena to be a VAULT HUNTER, is not even shown in-game.
Honestly this is probably one of my favorite games. It's FAR from perfect and I've played countless "better looking" and "better working" games that also have a deep and meaningful story which sticks with you for a long long time, but somehow when I think about incredible/unforgettable games Tales is always on the back of my mind. It's a shame it's not nearly as known as other Telltale titles.
I also think that the Borderlands style works incredibly well, with a cel-shaded almost graphic novel like appearance. Any technical problems are much easier to hand wave , and it compliments the visual humour incredibly well. The scene with the motor cycle on the truck in the beginning reminds me of the style of Simon Pegg/Nick Frost movies like Shaun of the Dead and The World’s End.
I am so glad there's another person that believes that THIS is the best Telltale game (with TWAU and most of the first two seasons of TWD being tied for very close second place). I also think it's the best Borderlands game, despite my overwhelming love for BL2. The spork scene is one of my favourite scenes in games ever :D
you make a good point about certain parts feeling disconnected from each with account of the players choices. Likely it was cause TellTale doesn't work on all the episodes simultaneously, only one at a time and it wasn't planned out properly with like four-five month gaps between each episode. Now the new Telltale will be working on things simultaneously and will be less chunks of time.
i like this games style borderlands could blend both styles cuz i often got bored of trekking through wasteland this kept me on my toes an really showed the charm of the franchise i was laughing all through episode 3 im on
Maybe I am late, but I just want to say that I was looking for someone who thinks Tales from the borderlands is really underrated game. And I must say that I take it even as the best game ever. And TFTB was the first game from Borderlands series I played and I didn't even knew who handsome Jack is. But I still took it as second best game (after Life is strange) but I gave Borderlands series chance, because I wanted to know more about the characters and the world. After finishing BL2 I loved Jack even more in TFTB. So that was the reason why I put TFTB before LIS.
i played this game on the 360, i liked it, it was a fun game but the problem was that there were parts where it lagged like crazy. i remember there being some dome or ice part where my frames went down to 1 frame every couple of seconds, it was insanely slow
Personally Season 4 of the Walking Dead and Batman Season 2 are my two favorite series from Telltale buuuuuttt if there was a third it'd definitely be Borderlands. I love all the different choices throughout the game, its by far the funniest of telltales games, has the best actions, it made me like Borderlands despite not liking the mainline games, and overall just a good solid game I'd give it either a 8.5 or 9 out of 10.
So... after over two years of Telltale being dead we finally have another Wolf in pre-production. Who knows, maybe Tales will finally get the second season? And I wonder if anyone still would read this comment after such a long time.
God i hate how Bl3 just screwed the development of the characters up and just forgot about the questions it set up from tales. They did Rhys and Fiona dirty man.
Just found out they’re making a fucking sequel two minutes ago. I played The Wolf Among Us and Tales From The Borderlands last year. TWAU and TFTB are both getting sequels. One this year, the other next year. Edit: Wait in Dying Light that WASNT Troy Baker?? I spent that whole time thinking it was.
Imagine those who waited years for season 2 of The wolf among us and tales of the borderlands. I just finished Tales from the borderlands today and also immediately searched for a season 2 because of how good and humerous it was. Glad to have seen that season 2 was confirmed for both wolf among us and tales from boardlands! Hopefully season 2 of tales will not change as due to telltale not leading development.
Just saw the gameplay and I wouldn't put it near Walking Dead or Wolf Among Us, but I really enjoyed it. It would be great if a season 2 came along, I want to see if Sasha or Fiona actually become a thing with Rhys (lots of flirting especially with the first, and very little pay off), although the main storyline does have a fulfilling closure. Btw, the intros and OST are probably the best of all Telltale Games.
Great vid it deserves more views Even if i dont agree with your opinion on the main borderlands games i loooooved it and 100% agree on your analysis on Tales
So I had played a few of telltales games, walking dead and wolf Among us, back when they were still making games, and thought they were awesome. Wasn't until recently I went and bought every one of their games, except Minecraft, and started my playthrough of each game, I've enjoyed them all immensely, but just finished Tales from the Borderlands and while playing episode two I said to myself, this has to be Telltales best game and just like you, when I heard it was being made, I thought it was the dumbest idea id ever heard, so happy I was wrong and gave it a chance. And just like Fiona says at the end of the game " I'm sad it's over". Obviously Telltale had learned quite a bit as time went on, it really shows from the first episode of the walking dead to Tales from the Borderlands. I could only imagine what their next game would look like if they were still going. I hope they come back, even if it's a small team and take their time making a single game at a time.
Great video (And greeting from 2021)! Seeing this and remembering this game after all this time makes me even sadder about what became of Rhys and the writing. Kinda wish the main games never touched these characters honestly, it's just...not the same, the shlooty game doesn't gel with this, and seeing the writing take a predictable nosedive because Borderlands the shloot will always rely on dumb memes instead of actual writing (And actively make the choice to CUT an important scene relating to an important character) do nothing with characters from this, and only flanderize them is...sad. Some things are better left alone. This was the best story ever told In Borderlands history (Saying this as a dumb Borderland lore diver) and one of the best if not the best Telltale ever made.
Picked up tales from the borderla ds a few days ago as I never played it cuz i thought it was ridiculous the concept of a borderlands game that was strictly role playing and not a looter shooter really, an i have to say that im ultimately upset for never giving it a chance originaly, but im also happy that in a sense i saved the experience for later cuz ive only played to ep4 but I love it. Its got great story and its hilarious, it made me laugh more than any of the main games and i consider the bl franchise one of my favorites specifically cuz of the humour, an this amplifies it 10×. its like a borderlands movie or interactive series on netflix and its amazing I hate that there wont be any more borderlands from tale tell now tho 😢
Its a shame the characters in this game were done so dirty in BL3 and New Tales From the Borderlands. The story, character, and writing in those games is a sin and pales in comparison to the original Tales From the Borderlands game
My buddie and I share play the tell tale games and by far we enjoyed this one the most. And we fucking loved batman. The first episode of this one had like three episodes worth of enjoyment lol.
Tales of the borderlands, is the best telltale game. It deserves a season two! This game really changed my life. And got me into borderlands! I really hope they make a second two!
I will actively disagree that Borderlands is incapable/hasn't told good stories/jokes. Despite the "funny haha" memes and the "LOUD = XD" humor that it sometimes has with characters like Tiny Tina, it also has a fair amount of complex, conflicting characters. Tiny Tina (in spite of her humor which is very hit or miss) Lady Aurelia, Handsome Jack/John (2 and TPS) hell, even Claptrap, who is basically a funny haha masoct, in The Pre-Sequel is expanded and written very well. He is still goofy (though it's toned down a bit) but that forced aspect actively takes a toll on him, yet he's still forced to be optimistic, since y'know, he's a robot and so programmed to be that way. If your only impression of Borderlands is "psycho man yells poop xD doge" or Joss Whendon writing, you probably didn't put in much effort into looking at the series (Or just played 3 or New Tales from the Borderlands) and I'd dare say the humor in Tales isn't too far at all from a lot of the humor in the old 3 games.
on one hand i wish fiona and sasha showed up in borderlands 3 but after what they did to vaughn im not entirely sure i trust gearbox with any more tales characters. god this video rocks though
I know this is ancient history by now, but I love how you made an indepth tribute to the series. Still hate how Fiona couldn't give Scooter a proper kiss. Like come on woman, he's going to die! Kiss him on the lips damn it!
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So a few things. This video was really enjoyable, and I do enjoy this video however I want to ask some unrelated questions. First off could you ever foresee making a discord if you ever get a large audience? Finally what sort of game reviewers and critics do you listen to and have you ever heard of MisterCaption?
- I've never used Discord but I do love to talk about games so I would not be opposed to the idea if there's a demand for it. - Ever since I've started making videos I've actually found it harder to watch other critics with a similar style of my own because of how much I deal with it on a daily basis and I don't want to subconsciously plagiarize. Sometimes I end up writing direct lines from other videos without even realizing it. But to answer your question, I do watch Noah Caldwell-Gervais, Superbunnyhop, Joseph Anderson, Raycevick, MrBtongue when I get the chance. -I have heard of Misercaption, I saw a few of his videos. It seems he quit because all that exists of his videos anymore is fan reuploads. I did enjoy his Fallout 4 critique, it would have been very similar to the kind of video I would have made on the game. I never saw much else of his content though.
Well believe it or not Mistercaption is actually a friend of mine and is planning to return on a new channel. He is actually going to talk about what he dislikes and likes about dishonored and if you would like I can send you a link to his channel once he comes back onto youtube which should not be long from now, do you want it?
Nearly 3 years later, and this video still doesn't have nearly as many views it deserves On a side note, I was really surprised by your pure hatred for Borderlands 2. I know it's not for everyone, but I love the Borderlands series, and I think it offers a little something for most types of players. Was really taken aback by how much you hate most of of the series
For me, it’s between tales from the borderlands and the wolf among us for best tell tale game. Yes walking dead is amazing. Yes season 1 and 2 are spectacular in their own rights with season 1 being a true storytelling masterpiece. I just like TWAU and TFTBL just a little bit more.
I don't know if it's just my me imagining things, but not only has this new borderlands 2 DLC introduced a few of the tales characters into the main series, but they seem to have toned down the stupid humour and gone for writing that's a little more subtle. Looks like Tales has rubbed off on Gearbox
@@GregoryTheSmegory Well, I don't want to spoil anything but I'll tell you Vaughn and Cassius are still on pandora. Plus, we know Rhys is in BL3 as well.
I can't completely argue against what you said about the main series Borderlands games writing. It is very hit and miss, but there is a genuinely intriguing story that is largely in the background that you learn yourself through side quests and audio logs. Tales From the Borderlands and The Pre-Sequel did so much heavy lifting in the narrative and they're the two games that are sadly ignored. But there is a decent story to be found across the BL1, TPS, BL2 and Tales with so much potential to be taken in future games. Or, at least, there was until Borderlands 3's writers decided to crank the awful writing up to 11.
If you can tolerate some of the cringier family guy level jokes and the surface level noise that makes up the main borderland games, you’d be surprised to find some pretty compelling characters and story moments, especially in the 1st and 2nd borderlands (pre-sequel’s kinda weird and the less said about BL3’s writing, the better). Tales from the borderlands basically scraps as much of those gold narrative nuggets from the main series as it could and melts/reforges it into something more pure that isn’t hidden away by shitty jokes and constant gun battles or the limitations of having playable characters being more about their kits and less about them being actual characters.
@@EldritchAugur It's Andrew Ryan from the Bioshock. I hope your new video will be about Bioshock. And if it is not, don't worry, i'll watch no matter what. Keep up the great content.👍
i kinda wish the jack ai had more screen time. he jsut kinda shows up when he feels like it. i was also very hesitant on buying this game. i don't like borderlands i'm not a looter shooter guy. then i saw someone stream episode 2 and bought it when it finished [ which is what i would do with episodic games] and loved it. it's jsut to bad i started having issues running telltlae's stuff around the time of batman as i really wanted to play that series as i heard it was very good.
Borderlands has always been good at ludonarrative. You're an absolute demon that grubs for new guns, new grenades, cash, and blood. You like killing people, you are not a good person, and you are above all things shallow. You like death. You like loot. You like prying things out of still tensed hands, you like hurting people. Tales, on the other hand, is a group of manipulative losers all trying to swindle their way to victory. Lying and convincing and worming their way through conversations that they don't have the skill in combat to solve. When you see Zer0 he's fucking terrifying, a whirling dervish cutting through hordes of people as you scrounge and scamper, desperate to survive. People are bigger, larger. Even the low level bandits and psychos are nigh unsurpassable obstacles. Killing takes effort, advantage, and skullduggery. You're not heroes, you're not even combatants. You have no right to even be sat at the table with the forces that are after what you are after. To that extent, you have a *Jack* weighting your hand.
I love The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, but this is a game that deserves a season 2
agreed but telltale is dead but the is the 3rd borderlands which will properly have the characters returning
New trailer, dude
Agree
Batman was really good to 😊
Your choices dont matter in telltale games
One of the things I loved about Tales from the Borderlands was how it showed how vault hunters were viewed by the average Pandoran.
Basically, vault hunters are like superheroes to the average Pandoran
with what some can do with the right perks in their skill tress its no surprise they're seen so godly
i couldnt disagree more with your opinion on the main borderlands games but i agree 100% about tales
Jack_The_Masochist_Kelly MMA you’re 100% right.
Same
Damn near disliked the video from what he said honestly. Yes borderlands 1 has a potato story. But Borderlands 2 and TPS has a RIDICULOUS amount of story, which not only can be complex, but you can miss quite a bit of it if you don't do any side quests.
@@Kairidabairi I agree bl2 and tps has Vary good and complex lore people just don't pay attention is why people think the story's are bad there actually vary complex and deep just have to actually play the game for story ..like bl2 dragon keep dlc it's vary deep and sad when you look at what it's actually about but it's good
Same here
I got into tales from the borderlands not knowing borderlands lore at all and holy shit did I fucking fall in love. I’m so glad that this game had cameos in the latest game
Tales from the borderlands was the first borderlands game I played and I loved it
I freaking love Tales From the Borderlands, it has some of my favorite characters in the franchise and my favorite story in Borderlands. Rhys is my favorite character in video games and in Borderlands.
Same here
handsome jack
"I dont want them to make Fiona a playable character in BL3." Little did you know, they would just forget about Fiona entirely.
Also PS: I fucking love BL2, love the jokes (most of them) and the gameplay and everything. But as I’ve gotten older I also understand that it’s humor is very conflicting for people. I love it, others don’t. Believe it or not I don’t play BL3 because I think it’s writing/jokes are incredibly bad and are worse than BL2. My point being, I find it interesting that while we disagree on the overall writing quality of the main borderlands games. We still both agree handsome jack is fucking incredible. I think it just goes to show how good he is that most people, borderlands fans or not like handsome jack.
You know, in spite of everything I actually did enjoy Borderlands 3.
Don't get me wrong, it had flaws, big ones, but It had some of my favorite gameplay, it had some surprisingly decent characters in the cast, and (don't kill me for this) I actually did like the story.
Could've been done better, but I had fun. It did its job. It's still a fun game, but I think it just didn't measure up to what everyone came to expect.
At least we can all agree the movie was worse.
I love how Rhys is the main character but everyone in the main cast (including Vaughn) becomes cooler and more skilled than him as the game progresses but his development never comes to a stop nor does he ever lose his likeability. He continues being a loser, but a loser who has learned a lot on his journey with his friends. And I admire that a lot. :)
Yearly revisited to this video :D, especially after the dissapointment of a TFTB2
I legit almost cried 3 different times in tales from the borderlands lol cause there is some pretty deep and sad story in it
1. Scooter's death
2. Robot bro's (Death)
3. Handsome Hologram Jack trying to convince him to not finish him off.
This game had the best direction and music usage out if all the telltale games. The cinematography during the intro sequence of the second episode is so fucking good. Didnt care for the ending that much but its definitely criminally underrated. The dialogue is pretty good and doesn’t feel clunky since the cast are comedically skilled actors. If you havent played it, definitely give it a try.
No lie I had to pause the game after Episode 4’s slowmo walk, Fiona’s disgusted slide in followed by Scooter just killed me.
Good video, although it's a shame you didn't mention that the final conversation between Rhys and Fiona is mostly the player asking questions, and then answering them. You're in control of most of the questions/answers and are therefore conversing with yourself, but it is done in such a natural way that you wouldn't really notice. Brilliant game, I'm so glad it's back on Steam, hopefully we'll see a season 2 one day, one that's neither bigger nor better, but just as good.
Bro, you shouldn't have taunted the monkey's paw like that
@@nobodycares743 Yeah...that sure backfired huh
The second attempt was made by Gearbox themselves, not Telltale, so it's the same writing team as the most recent mainline Borderlands games.
Which should tell you exactly as much as you need to know about how it turned out.
But...our analysts said the young'uns like the Dab, I don't understand. The amount of media ruined by bad writing is astounding, especially sad since most other departments do their job well.
The character selection at climax was gold, and the battle wasn't painful, which I see makes it a level above the rest.
It was a different approach to the same world. It revived my interest in BORDERLANDS and actually got me to look at Game of Thrones' Season 1 (wishing now that a Season 2 could give closure).
*Well written video. If I ever make a commentary video, I'll be sure to make one for this gem, that most of my BL-playing friends have not tried*
I think a way to solve the awkward reason for why Fiona's mad at Rhys in the framing device while at the same time keeping it intact would be for Rhys to have options to tell Fiona and co about Jack... but Jack keeps thwarting his attempts. It would be a nice parallel to him thinking Fiona left him behind on Helios when she didn't really, Rhys keeps trying to tell them he has Jack in his head but he literally can't. Maybe even put some manipulation on Rhys for good measure. It would also rob the player of choice in a way that makes more sense, Jack is NOT a player character. It wouldn't make sense for him to compromise himself for the player's choice, so his intervention would just make more sense for why Fiona's reason to be mad continued to exist.
I couldn't agree more. As someone who has played through almost all of Telltale's games, I can honestly say this is one of their best work. I'm sad to hear it didn't do well financially. This could also be in part to the saturation of Telltale games after TWD. Pumping out so many games a year with very little gameplay changes between them led to player fatigue, I think. I'm glad to see they're coming back and I hope they will do much better this time around. Perhaps they could also ditch the episodic plan and release the games as a whole similar to Life is Strange 3.
I only knew about this game because I was looking at the comments for the first Borderlands 3 trailer and saw someone freaking out, that Rhys was in a mainline game.
And I was like "who is Rhys?" and learned he comes from the canon telltale game.
Since I wanted to to as update as possible before BL3 comes out I got myself the game and played it with no expectations.
And man it became such an unexpected hit for me.
We need a season 2 :(
this aged like fine milk
@@Snailing_SuikaTRUE
monkey's paw moment
I know they say be careful what you wish for but nobody could've known what was gonna happen :(
I love how Rhys is portrayed as a total loser but he’s also amazing at finger gunning, which is the most loser thing and childish a character can be
I'd love to see your take on new tales from the borderlands.
Well... Everything I said about not trusting Gearbox to do a good job with these characters ended up being sadly true.
This needs more views. I'm happy that at least one person loved this game as much as me.
I couldn’t agree more about this. Tales is very underrated, it didn’t receive a lot of promotion at the time but it was fantastic and very successful. Shame we won’t see a season 2
Episode 2’s intro song is one of my favorite songs ever now. It’s so damn good.
This deserves more views, man! A beautifully worded breakdown of one of my favorite stories ever.
Great video man, this may be the last we see of these pack of rogues, without the tainting of Gearbox’s writing, but as sponge bob once said “we’ll always have fun...in our memories.”
I powered through this game in one night from 8pm to 4am and I have to say, it was an unforgettable experience. I genuinely thought I was high when the giant robot battle happened. I just love this game so much and am glad to be seeing someone do it justice. (also don't be talking shit about Tiny Tina, the best character behind Jack)
Such a fulfilling game on every level. It really helped get me through a hard time on my play through.
It breaks my heart that it was removed from digital storefronts.
It’s actually back on digital store fronts
Tales from the Borderlands is an absolutely incredible game, such an awesome fun cast of characters and excellent story
I disagree very much on the quality of the main series Borderlands games, but this video is great! And Tales from the Borderlands is the best story in the series thus far! Really looking forward to seeing Rhys and hopefully the others pop up in Borderlands 3!
What a brilliant video, can't believe it's took me 6 months to find this since I've be raving about this game since I played it in 2017. Even though I don't agree with you on a lot of your views on the other borderlands games I get where your'e coming from, and you might be glad to hear Anthony Burch will not be returning to write BL3 so there's hope that you may enjoy the writing in this one more.
Its mostly the Borderlands humor that I have an issue with. I actually think Burch is extremely talented at writing dramatic meaningful scenes (He wrote Handsome Jack's final scene in TftB) but his humor isn't my personal cup of tea. I understood that it would be a contentious opinion to slag off Borderlands as much as I did in this video and I actually kind of regret that. I don't hate Borderlands, I just wanted to make the point to those who don't enjoy Borderlands comedic style that TftB is something they could still enjoy.
Eldritch Augur nah I completely get you, and I agree that especially on subsequent playthroughs characters like tiny Tina can be quite grating.
Ironically though, have you played the Tina dlc, assault on dragon keep? Strangely enough it’s got some of the best emotional moments in the whole franchises despite being centred around one of the most divisive characters and I recommend you give it a go if you haven’t already.
@@stanners1714 I haven't. My other problem with Borderlands is how Imbalanced the level scaling can be towards the late game and I got kind of fed up with dying in two shots from some of the flying enemies in one of the DLC's. I did play the Torque DLC and thought it was pretty funny though. There is some good humor sprinkled throughout.
I'll get around to playing all the DLC's at some point. I loved all of them in BL1 (Except for the Moxxi Arena one).
Eldritch Augur Haha it’s so strange that on paper we pretty much agree on all of this stuff yet I put borderlands 2 firmly in my top 10 and tales isn’t too far behind either.
I agree that at very very high levels it’s gets pretty irritating, I’ve only bothered with the OP levels on my krieg and the rest I intend to just stop at 72 as after that I feel the game gets too minmaxy for me.
I am so glad I found this video though, takes doesn’t get enough praise and I thought I was going mad feeling like the only person that liked it.
@@EldritchAugur HE SAID SLAG AHAHHAAHHA
I couldnt not disagree more on your opinion on the BL series.
But I could not agree more on your opinion on Tales. I wish one day for a second season :(
@@user-qv5sm5dw1v Yeeaaa that one was rough. My original thoughts would be a sequel following the main characters of the OG Tales on a new adventure together. But what we got was rough
The walking Dead season 1, The Wolf among Us and tales from the borderlands are easily the three best things telltale games ever made.
Yep 👍
I remember experiencing this for the first time. Wish I could do it again.
I feel like Fiona’s most important choices are about the people around her. You can play her as someone who doesn’t really care for the people she doesn’t already know and just lets them die, or someone who gets over her own prejudices towards the new people she meets and chooses to save their lives
this with the wolf among us, was Telltales best games followed very closely by the walking dead season1, I also loved the Batman games.
Dishonored, firewatch, bioshock and now this. Somehow you're covering all my favourite games :)
TFTBL is so nostalgic to me and I love it
I always end up coming back this video every few months just because there's not enough analysis videos of this game, when I first played it when it was free on ps plus in 2016 and I didn't know anything about borderlands I loved this game cried when scooter died and loader botand have replayed it multiple times every year, most of my friends dont like telltale games but I got one of my friends to play this game with me recently he was rhys I was fiona and he loved it said it was one of the best games he's played and he's played a lot of games
Glad to see this was commented recently! I've finished Tales from the borderlands today and it was the best Telltale game I've played, alongside The wolf amongst us. They left us on a major cliffhanger and I do hope there is some confirmation for a direct season 2 for this where Fiona and Rhys could possibly end up together. The game is very underrated and never failed to make me laugh. Do you know whether telltale have confirmed a season 2?
@@nbs5288 there has been a second season confirmed about 1 or 2 months ago but telltale is not involved this time as far as everyone knows, its being developed by 2k games and gearbox the same people who make borderlands and helped 50% with the first one, so far we only have picture as a teaser and it looks like 3 new characters looks like 2 people and a new bot as we only see the black outline of them but i hope its a direct sequal
@@nbs5288 if there's any telltale games I'd suggest next would be the walking dead if you havent played them atleast the first season but after the first season most people complete the series, game of thrones which is a lot more conversation heavy like the show and has 6 episodes the only issue with this one is its very hard to get ahold of as most places have it unlisted for sale and you wither need to already like game of thrones or have no history with it to like it as this game is actually what got me into the show also this one ends on a cliffhanger too but game of thrones is less likely to get a sequal due to the rights being a lot more expensive now and because there is some of the main cast in the show in the game too and it would be a struggle to bring some if not all back , then also the 2 batman season are amazing and definitely worth a play
@@nbs5288 heres a link to the announced season 2 of tales ruclips.net/video/vTjNVWqv4CE/видео.html
@@user-op6kt8pg9y Thank you for explaining, very much appreciated! I've already played the Telltale batman and Walking dead games where these are both unforgettable and amazing games. Tales of the borderlands is probably my favourite due to the humorous nature of characters and the various plots in the storyline. If you've already all played the Telltale games maybe try out the new Quarry game if you haven't yet. Hopefully there will be a return of Tales of the bordalands characters very soon and more news for the next season where this will be worth the wait.
I will never get of over the fact that in BOTH of the following games, Rhys, the businessman who was done adventuring and just wanted to start Atlas back up again, plays a role in the story. Meanwhile Fiona, the person who was trained by athena to be a VAULT HUNTER, is not even shown in-game.
Catch-A-Ride Space Cowboy!
Honestly this is probably one of my favorite games. It's FAR from perfect and I've played countless "better looking" and "better working" games that also have a deep and meaningful story which sticks with you for a long long time, but somehow when I think about incredible/unforgettable games Tales is always on the back of my mind. It's a shame it's not nearly as known as other Telltale titles.
I also think that the Borderlands style works incredibly well, with a cel-shaded almost graphic novel like appearance. Any technical problems are much easier to hand wave , and it compliments the visual humour incredibly well.
The scene with the motor cycle on the truck in the beginning reminds me of the style of Simon Pegg/Nick Frost movies like Shaun of the Dead and The World’s End.
It is frequently mentioned as the best Telltale Game after Walking Dead and Wolf Among Us though.
Great video and review man!
You basically cover everything I'd want to have covered in a review of this game.
I am so glad there's another person that believes that THIS is the best Telltale game (with TWAU and most of the first two seasons of TWD being tied for very close second place). I also think it's the best Borderlands game, despite my overwhelming love for BL2. The spork scene is one of my favourite scenes in games ever :D
One of my favorite tell tale games. But i am a borderlands nerd
you make a good point about certain parts feeling disconnected from each with account of the players choices. Likely it was cause TellTale doesn't work on all the episodes simultaneously, only one at a time and it wasn't planned out properly with like four-five month gaps between each episode. Now the new Telltale will be working on things simultaneously and will be less chunks of time.
i like this games style borderlands could blend both styles cuz i often got bored of trekking through wasteland this kept me on my toes an really showed the charm of the franchise i was laughing all through episode 3 im on
The first season of the walking dead did not “wow” people?
Are you high?
Maybe I am late, but I just want to say that I was looking for someone who thinks Tales from the borderlands is really underrated game. And I must say that I take it even as the best game ever. And TFTB was the first game from Borderlands series I played and I didn't even knew who handsome Jack is. But I still took it as second best game (after Life is strange) but I gave Borderlands series chance, because I wanted to know more about the characters and the world. After finishing BL2 I loved Jack even more in TFTB. So that was the reason why I put TFTB before LIS.
i played this game on the 360, i liked it, it was a fun game but the problem was that there were parts where it lagged like crazy. i remember there being some dome or ice part where my frames went down to 1 frame every couple of seconds, it was insanely slow
Personally Season 4 of the Walking Dead and Batman Season 2 are my two favorite series from Telltale buuuuuttt if there was a third it'd definitely be Borderlands. I love all the different choices throughout the game, its by far the funniest of telltales games, has the best actions, it made me like Borderlands despite not liking the mainline games, and overall just a good solid game I'd give it either a 8.5 or 9 out of 10.
So... after over two years of Telltale being dead we finally have another Wolf in pre-production. Who knows, maybe Tales will finally get the second season?
And I wonder if anyone still would read this comment after such a long time.
indeed somebody has, me lol
Me too! ^^
this game was absolutely fantastic
God i hate how Bl3 just screwed the development of the characters up and just forgot about the questions it set up from tales. They did Rhys and Fiona dirty man.
Same with vaughn they ruined vaughn's character in bl3 also
This video was brilliant.
Thank you
Just found out they’re making a fucking sequel two minutes ago. I played The Wolf Among Us and Tales From The Borderlands last year. TWAU and TFTB are both getting sequels. One this year, the other next year.
Edit:
Wait in Dying Light that WASNT Troy Baker?? I spent that whole time thinking it was.
Imagine those who waited years for season 2 of The wolf among us and tales of the borderlands. I just finished Tales from the borderlands today and also immediately searched for a season 2 because of how good and humerous it was. Glad to have seen that season 2 was confirmed for both wolf among us and tales from boardlands! Hopefully season 2 of tales will not change as due to telltale not leading development.
Just saw the gameplay and I wouldn't put it near Walking Dead or Wolf Among Us, but I really enjoyed it. It would be great if a season 2 came along, I want to see if Sasha or Fiona actually become a thing with Rhys (lots of flirting especially with the first, and very little pay off), although the main storyline does have a fulfilling closure.
Btw, the intros and OST are probably the best of all Telltale Games.
Great vid it deserves more views
Even if i dont agree with your opinion on the main borderlands games i loooooved it and 100% agree on your analysis on Tales
So I had played a few of telltales games, walking dead and wolf Among us, back when they were still making games, and thought they were awesome. Wasn't until recently I went and bought every one of their games, except Minecraft, and started my playthrough of each game, I've enjoyed them all immensely, but just finished Tales from the Borderlands and while playing episode two I said to myself, this has to be Telltales best game and just like you, when I heard it was being made, I thought it was the dumbest idea id ever heard, so happy I was wrong and gave it a chance.
And just like Fiona says at the end of the game " I'm sad it's over". Obviously Telltale had learned quite a bit as time went on, it really shows from the first episode of the walking dead to Tales from the Borderlands. I could only imagine what their next game would look like if they were still going. I hope they come back, even if it's a small team and take their time making a single game at a time.
Great video (And greeting from 2021)!
Seeing this and remembering this game after all this time makes me even sadder about what became of Rhys and the writing. Kinda wish the main games never touched these characters honestly, it's just...not the same, the shlooty game doesn't gel with this, and seeing the writing take a predictable nosedive because Borderlands the shloot will always rely on dumb memes instead of actual writing (And actively make the choice to CUT an important scene relating to an important character) do nothing with characters from this, and only flanderize them is...sad.
Some things are better left alone. This was the best story ever told In Borderlands history (Saying this as a dumb Borderland lore diver) and one of the best if not the best Telltale ever made.
An incredible review for an incredible game! Subscribed!
Picked up tales from the borderla ds a few days ago as I never played it cuz i thought it was ridiculous the concept of a borderlands game that was strictly role playing and not a looter shooter really, an i have to say that im ultimately upset for never giving it a chance originaly, but im also happy that in a sense i saved the experience for later cuz ive only played to ep4 but I love it. Its got great story and its hilarious, it made me laugh more than any of the main games and i consider the bl franchise one of my favorites specifically cuz of the humour, an this amplifies it 10×. its like a borderlands movie or interactive series on netflix and its amazing I hate that there wont be any more borderlands from tale tell now tho 😢
there wasnt going to be a season 2 anyway because the characters in tales are integral to borderlands 3
Even to this day I still struggle to choose between Tales From the Borderlands and Batman: the Enemy Within. Both are such good games and stories.
Its a shame the characters in this game were done so dirty in BL3 and New Tales From the Borderlands. The story, character, and writing in those games is a sin and pales in comparison to the original Tales From the Borderlands game
My buddie and I share play the tell tale games and by far we enjoyed this one the most. And we fucking loved batman. The first episode of this one had like three episodes worth of enjoyment lol.
Just discovered your channel. I am baffled as to how you have so little subscribers!
I've only been doing this for about 6 months but I appreciate the kind words.
Tales from the borderlands and wolf among us are the best i played
*"Enhance Computer image"*
-Sasha
Tales of the borderlands, is the best telltale game. It deserves a season two! This game really changed my life. And got me into borderlands! I really hope they make a second two!
I will actively disagree that Borderlands is incapable/hasn't told good stories/jokes.
Despite the "funny haha" memes and the "LOUD = XD" humor that it sometimes has with characters like Tiny Tina, it also has a fair amount of complex, conflicting characters. Tiny Tina (in spite of her humor which is very hit or miss) Lady Aurelia, Handsome Jack/John (2 and TPS) hell, even Claptrap, who is basically a funny haha masoct, in The Pre-Sequel is expanded and written very well. He is still goofy (though it's toned down a bit) but that forced aspect actively takes a toll on him, yet he's still forced to be optimistic, since y'know, he's a robot and so programmed to be that way.
If your only impression of Borderlands is "psycho man yells poop xD doge" or Joss Whendon writing, you probably didn't put in much effort into looking at the series (Or just played 3 or New Tales from the Borderlands) and I'd dare say the humor in Tales isn't too far at all from a lot of the humor in the old 3 games.
on one hand i wish fiona and sasha showed up in borderlands 3 but after what they did to vaughn im not entirely sure i trust gearbox with any more tales characters. god this video rocks though
I know this is ancient history by now, but I love how you made an indepth tribute to the series. Still hate how Fiona couldn't give Scooter a proper kiss. Like come on woman, he's going to die! Kiss him on the lips damn it!
your content is incredible man, just watched your hitman video and this back to back, you really deserve more subs!
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So a few things. This video was really enjoyable, and I do enjoy this video however I want to ask some unrelated questions. First off could you ever foresee making a discord if you ever get a large audience? Finally what sort of game reviewers and critics do you listen to and have you ever heard of MisterCaption?
- I've never used Discord but I do love to talk about games so I would not be opposed to the idea if there's a demand for it.
- Ever since I've started making videos I've actually found it harder to watch other critics with a similar style of my own because of how much I deal with it on a daily basis and I don't want to subconsciously plagiarize. Sometimes I end up writing direct lines from other videos without even realizing it. But to answer your question, I do watch Noah Caldwell-Gervais, Superbunnyhop, Joseph Anderson, Raycevick, MrBtongue when I get the chance.
-I have heard of Misercaption, I saw a few of his videos. It seems he quit because all that exists of his videos anymore is fan reuploads. I did enjoy his Fallout 4 critique, it would have been very similar to the kind of video I would have made on the game. I never saw much else of his content though.
Well believe it or not Mistercaption is actually a friend of mine and is planning to return on a new channel. He is actually going to talk about what he dislikes and likes about dishonored and if you would like I can send you a link to his channel once he comes back onto youtube which should not be long from now, do you want it?
Sure.
Here is his new video on his new channel ruclips.net/video/-z9ACQ_sZWY/видео.html.
Yeah so the fall of Helios is canon in borderlands 2 dlc now
this review is the greatest thing i ever seen
Nearly 3 years later, and this video still doesn't have nearly as many views it deserves
On a side note, I was really surprised by your pure hatred for Borderlands 2. I know it's not for everyone, but I love the Borderlands series, and I think it offers a little something for most types of players. Was really taken aback by how much you hate most of of the series
For me, it’s between tales from the borderlands and the wolf among us for best tell tale game. Yes walking dead is amazing. Yes season 1 and 2 are spectacular in their own rights with season 1 being a true storytelling masterpiece. I just like TWAU and TFTBL just a little bit more.
Just a shame how bl3 screwed all characters over undoing all in tftbl ...
I don't know if it's just my me imagining things, but not only has this new borderlands 2 DLC introduced a few of the tales characters into the main series, but they seem to have toned down the stupid humour and gone for writing that's a little more subtle. Looks like Tales has rubbed off on Gearbox
Stanners like who I haven’t played it yet
@@GregoryTheSmegory Well, I don't want to spoil anything but I'll tell you Vaughn and Cassius are still on pandora. Plus, we know Rhys is in BL3 as well.
Stanners thanks
This is excellent. I literally agree with all of it
you sound like chris griffin
I can’t unhear it now
I can't completely argue against what you said about the main series Borderlands games writing. It is very hit and miss, but there is a genuinely intriguing story that is largely in the background that you learn yourself through side quests and audio logs.
Tales From the Borderlands and The Pre-Sequel did so much heavy lifting in the narrative and they're the two games that are sadly ignored. But there is a decent story to be found across the BL1, TPS, BL2 and Tales with so much potential to be taken in future games.
Or, at least, there was until Borderlands 3's writers decided to crank the awful writing up to 11.
Excellent video!
If you can tolerate some of the cringier family guy level jokes and the surface level noise that makes up the main borderland games, you’d be surprised to find some pretty compelling characters and story moments, especially in the 1st and 2nd borderlands (pre-sequel’s kinda weird and the less said about BL3’s writing, the better).
Tales from the borderlands basically scraps as much of those gold narrative nuggets from the main series as it could and melts/reforges it into something more pure that isn’t hidden away by shitty jokes and constant gun battles or the limitations of having playable characters being more about their kits and less about them being actual characters.
Man you deserve so many more subscribers
Amazing video man! Well done!
If your avatar is what I think it is... You might be exited for my next video.
@@EldritchAugur It's Andrew Ryan from the Bioshock. I hope your new video will be about Bioshock. And if it is not, don't worry, i'll watch no matter what. Keep up the great content.👍
I agree wholeheartedly.
im still mad what the mainline games did to this cast, i bought BL3 on epic on launch for this...ON EPIC!!!
It’s too bad Atlas would go on to make relatively shitty weapons, it’s the only real moral brand other than Jakobs
This needs more views ✨✨✨
Robot ex machina lol.
Machine from the machine
Guess I missed that part in Borderlands 3 where Fiona even showed up
If you played a sonic game, all I’m saying is you’ll be able to tell Kyle Crane isn’t voiced by the same guy as Rhys, that’s just a thing tho
Underrated gem 💎
i kinda wish the jack ai had more screen time. he jsut kinda shows up when he feels like it.
i was also very hesitant on buying this game. i don't like borderlands i'm not a looter shooter guy. then i saw someone stream episode 2 and bought it when it finished [ which is what i would do with episodic games] and loved it.
it's jsut to bad i started having issues running telltlae's stuff around the time of batman as i really wanted to play that series as i heard it was very good.
this is my favourite teltale as it has comedy
great video mate
Thank god telltale is back now!
Borderlands has always been good at ludonarrative.
You're an absolute demon that grubs for new guns, new grenades, cash, and blood. You like killing people, you are not a good person, and you are above all things shallow. You like death. You like loot. You like prying things out of still tensed hands, you like hurting people.
Tales, on the other hand, is a group of manipulative losers all trying to swindle their way to victory. Lying and convincing and worming their way through conversations that they don't have the skill in combat to solve. When you see Zer0 he's fucking terrifying, a whirling dervish cutting through hordes of people as you scrounge and scamper, desperate to survive. People are bigger, larger. Even the low level bandits and psychos are nigh unsurpassable obstacles. Killing takes effort, advantage, and skullduggery. You're not heroes, you're not even combatants. You have no right to even be sat at the table with the forces that are after what you are after. To that extent, you have a *Jack* weighting your hand.