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Gearbox is hiring for a writer to work on Borderlands 3
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Se_7_eN
Member
How do you know this?
Heartskips
Banned
Borderlands "writing"
People may make fun of this tweet, but Borderlands 2 has way better writing than Far Cry 3. At least it isn't pretentious non-sense with one of the worst villains in all gaming.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
It was pre-X-Force Remender. But that game wanted to be as raunchy and juvenile as possible so, it got it, for better or worse.
Alec
Member
Gotta disagree. Anthony Burch is great. Did you play Tales?
Edit: Although I do understand the distaste for memes.
Pre-Sequel had pretty good writing IIRC. But it was done by another studio wasn't it?
I think his role for Tales and Pre-Sequel was more about making sure it's consistent with the lore/canon.
I think his role for Tales and Pre-Sequel was more about making sure it's consistent with the lore/canon.
Destiny 2 was probably written by a some graduate student's machine learning algorithm. It's the only way to account for the flat, lifeless story.
What did he mean by this?
Member
Okay, I'll do it
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Idk, I enjoyed it.
Don't.
Borderlands at its best barely had a story (the first one).
Tales from the Borderlands is amazing but a whole different beast than the shooty-shoot loot fiesta
I don't think you remember correctly
Sorry, i know its a matter of opinion. But imho Pre-Sequel writing is total ass. The new characters are annoying (janey and pickles specially, oh my god kill both), the old ones feel like copies of their past selves (and they were as deep as puddles before) and the overall story and flow of it are pretty bad
Borderlands at its best barely had a story (the first one).
Tales from the Borderlands is amazing but a whole different beast than the shooty-shoot loot fiesta
I don't think you remember correctly
Sorry, i know its a matter of opinion. But imho Pre-Sequel writing is total ass. The new characters are annoying (janey and pickles specially, oh my god kill both), the old ones feel like copies of their past selves (and they were as deep as puddles before) and the overall story and flow of it are pretty bad
MosquitoSmasher
Member
Absolutely love these games so bring it on. It's probably a while until it comes out though.
Alec
Member
Pattycakes
Banned
Wasn't Borderlands 3 a lot farther along? Like in thought they were targeting a 2018 release date
Holy shit, this is definitely going to happen. I don't mind Borderlands' style and humor, but I'm also excited for GAF to anger meltdown about it being too meme-heavy.
Any idea what the timeline for this game is? It seems like they're at the very beginning. Goddamn I wish they didn't waste so much time on dumb garbage like Battleborn.
JigglesBunny
Banned
Even the worst cats get nine lives.
After Duke, Bulletstorm Remastered, their short lived partnership with G2A, Alien and Battleborne, theyve still got four to go.
Stormblessed
Member
"Demonstrable skill in writing entertaining and engaging dialogue with meaningful character interactions" must be a new requirement for the role. Good to see them branching out.
Me too, and so did my friends when we played The Handsome Collection together. I always get a laugh when people get in this act like they can only like high quality comedy
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
2K were the ones that lost money on Battleborn.
I hope Battleborn's story is incorporated into B3 so I can laugh at all of you that didn't play the game.
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Make a sequel for the Telltale game as well while you're at it.
It has nothing to do with "liking high quality comedy" but different tastes. if you find old youtube video references and poop jokes, that's on you. no one else is being elitist for liking something else
wasnt there an easter egg of sorts in battleborn which tied to the future of atlas?
you might not be that far off
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
One of the DLCs mention Atlas. I didn't play the DLC.
TurtleSnatcher
Member
Borderlands 3 is announced... This isn't for BL3...
Silvergun-Blue
Member
Agreed, it certainly has its misses and it lays it on too thick, but it's not as bad as people say it is. The hateboner people have for Gearbox definitely fuels it though.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
This is a good point.
His Majesty
Banned
Seems like they could use more than one writer.
Im pretty sure they didnt announce Borderlands 3 officially.
In the job posting they said: "unannounced" so yeas, B3 is still unannounced.
I hate how gearbox is trying to be so cagey about the next BL, like they announced they were starting up a huge hiring spree for the next borderlands but ever since have been like "what's borderlands 3" "we're working on stuff, and it's what you want us to be working on, but we wont say it's Borderlands" We're not dumb, just call it how it is. Hope we get an official title by E3, my guess is "Borderlands 4 All: So big we had to skip 3" now with shared world mechanics and instead of choosing from 1 of a few different characters to play as you get to make your own custom character and class.
Also what happened to the movie that they announced?
Also what happened to the movie that they announced?
benicillin
Banned
Yup. Honestly, Telltale did Borderlands writing that made me care about the characters and universe better than Gearbox ever did. When they announced it I actively disliked the idea, and it's probably my second favorite game they've done now.
You enjoyed a villain being introduced each time by his logo splashed across the screen before he spouted random exposition to a character you don't care about while taking advice from another character you don't care about talking vaguely about "light" and how great and powerful he was while never actually seeing any proof of that?
We also knew the scene was over when his logo splashed across the screen again. So. Cool.
There was some pretty decent writing in Destiny's lore but they decided to make the worst villain of all time instead of exploring that in the sequel. Pretty disappointing.
Borderland's games are a masterpiece by comparison, even with the low brow humor. At least their villain is awesome.
ruh roh watch out tiny tina is a fan favourite (somehow)
Razzmatazzer
Member
It was teased, not announced
Borderlands "writing"
Pretty much.
King Gilga
Member
Just contract whoever wrote tales from the borderlands at telltatale.
Puck Beaverton
Banned
Double rainbow har har
I love Borderlands 2, writing aside, and I welcome a third. If they can just tone down some of the talky sections this will be amazing. I enjoyed some of the writing in Tiny Tina's DLC, which is a first for the series, so maybe they can learn from bits and pieces of that on how to create a more interesting narrative
The irony here is strong
same. It kept me playing and wasn't just bland, really enjoyed it
Hilarious! You're hired.
Borderlands "writing"
Is Anthony talking about God of War?
I have a hunch that ya'll are gonna MISS HIIIIIIIIIM.
But hey, comedy in video games is hard. Really hard.
FarCry 3.
Which yeah, in hindsight, laughable.
If there isn't a character creator, Tiny Tina will most likely be a playable character. If there is a character creator, Tina Tina will play a major role in the story.