![]() It derives a great deal of its humour by planting characters on Pandora and having them realise what a silly and astoundingly violent place it is. Tales From the Borderlands is the slapstick game about a kajillion guns reframed as the game about conversation and consequence. That's sort of what's happening here, except it's the entire game world that has been forced out of its comfort zone rather than a single character. A hero with one solution - shoot it then shit down its neck - forced to talk to the monsters and indulge in adventure game logic. I'm sure it would be possible to reframe him within a first-person shooter but it'd probably involve quips about Call of Duty rather than Quake, trapped in gray battlefields shooting generic soldiers forever - "If this warfare is so advanced, why is so much of it on rails?" It'd be like the first sections of Serious Sam 3 stamping on my face forever.ĭrop Duke in a Telltale game and he'd be out of his comfort zone. In a world where the gun is god, Duke will always be the most relevant man in the room. Surely that was the point, or at least one of them? Surely it always had been? ![]() Even if the delays hadn't piled up quite as spectacularly as they did, the cigar-chomping sack of testosterone would have seemed out of time and out of place. ![]() When that bloated corpse of a game finally saw the light of day, almost immediately turning to ash and stinging the eyes of onlookers, I remember thinking that it's biggest failing - and there were many - was its inability to address Duke's age. Tales From The Borderlands is almost nothing at all like Duke Nukem Forever. Throw in Back to the Future alongside those two and the average number of decent jokes actually goes down.īut Borderlands would stand out as a winner in any company and you don't need to know, or be amused by, Gearbox' games to enjoy it. Given that The Walking Dead and Wolf Among Us are the most recent offerings that might not seem like such a big deal. Tales From The Borderlands Episode One is the funniest adventure game Telltale have released in years.
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