#TALES FROM THE BORDERLANDS ROMANCE SERIES#
#TALES FROM THE BORDERLANDS ROMANCE TV#

JOHN BERNHELM (designer, episodes 2–5) I enjoyed playing through the Borderlands series, but as a developer I didn’t really feel like the world had a lot to offer except for the jokes, and a way to generate interesting guns.ĮRIN YVETTE (“Sasha”) Yes! I used to play Borderlands all the time! LAURA BAILEY (“Fiona”) I had never played a Borderlands game. NICK HERMAN (season director director, episodes 1 and 5) Frankly, I wasn’t a huge Borderlands fan. PIERRE SHORETTE (season writer, episodes 1–5) I had played Borderlands to some degree.ĪDAM HINES (writer, episode 1) I never played those games. MOLLY MALONEY (concept art, episodes 1–5 assistant director, episode 5) Harrison was always trying to get me to play it with him. HARRISON PINK I was always a fan of that world. MARTIN MONTGOMERY (cinematic artist, episodes 3–5 director, episode 4) It was a like, “Wait, really?” It perfectly fit the bill of what we wanted to do, and some of the creative guys at Telltale were eager for something a little more light-hearted after finishing up The Walking Dead. MATTHEW ARMSTRONG ( Borderlands creator and franchise director) We were hanging out with the Telltale guys after the Spike awards back in 2012 when the idea of doing a Borderlands game came up. HARRISON PINK (original season design) It was the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards where The Walking Dead won game of the year and I think Borderlands 2 maybe won shooter of the year or some other award.ĪNTHONY BURCH (writer, episodes 3–5 also Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel) We always thought that Borderlands had the potential to be really story-rich but the games never leant themselves to it.

#TALES FROM THE BORDERLANDS ROMANCE TV#

Like all good stories, this one begins at the Spike TV video game awards. Here, for the first time, is the oral history of the development of Tales from the Borderlands, compiled from interviews with over a dozen members of the cast and crew from Telltale and Gearbox. I wanted to know how Tales from the Borderlands came to be, I wanted to know who made it, and I wanted most of all for my mind not to think of the game in the same breath as “plane racist”. It takes the benefit of the doubt and runs with it like Rocky up the art museum steps. Playing Tales is the most satisfying kind of thrill: that of watching the thing that’s not supposed to work working better than just about anything else. The game feels like something striving to escape the gravity of its limitations, and more often than not surpassing them. Why is the opening song that good? Why is there a licensed soundtrack at all? In Tales from the Borderlands, all the important things are better than they need to be, better than the obvious choice. The game clicks right away, with the sheer goofy joy of Rhys and Vaughn crash-landing on Pandora, then driving away to Jungle’s Busy Earnin’. How would Telltale, with those teams, do one of its typical five-episode stories in the brash world of Borderlands? Telltale had been around for a while, but it struck big with serious, thoughtful and character-driven treatments of The Walking Dead and Fables - emotional, moody and at times devastating.

#TALES FROM THE BORDERLANDS ROMANCE SERIES#

Borderlands, the series of shooters by Gearbox and 2K Australia, is a cheerful, glib bulletfest, a carnival of vibrant, full-fat violence that pokes and prods at the boundaries of taste like a teenager at his zits.

Maybe with something that’s actually worthy of this game. That’s the strongest memory I associate with Tales from the Borderlands, and God knows I’d like to displace it. I love it even though I first played it on a plane flight, and during the episode’s first big decision, the stranger sitting next to me waved his hand in front of the laptop and had me take off my headphones so he could tell me that there were both good and bad types of immigrants. Tales from the Borderlands: The Oral History

Tales from the borderlands romance