#Reddit tales from the borderlands series#

“Tales was my life for two years, and internally it was perceived as a failure. But even with this move Telltale didn’t seem happy, with the project deemed a failure internally. That might surprise you, because critically there seemed to be no indication of a quality drop with the smaller skeleton team. But that’s a very small team for an episode.” We had at least one person from every department working on the game.

“About halfway through, we made a deal with the studio that if they let us go on, we would give up like 95 per cent of our staff as long as they let us maintain a skeleton crew. In order to finish it, one of the game’s directors, Nick Herman, recounts how a deal was struck to move most of the staff onto other titles.

#Reddit tales from the borderlands series#

A skeleton crew was put on the project in its closing days – a result of mid-season sales that didn’t impress studio heads and couldn’t come close to the rest of the series being produced at the time. The oral history of Tales from the Borderlands was part of a Campo Santo quarterly review, where it was revealed that the game was essentially wrapped up by a group of developers working on the project voluntarily. In a retrospective on the series, many developers who work on the season recall how disappointing sales were, and just how dire things really got at the end. It’s one of the properties Telltale has yet to revisit, and we finally might know why. The weird marrying of a action RPG and point and click adventuring was one that onlookers dubbed dubious at first, but its sharp writing and wit exuded from five episodes of hilarity and tension. Maybe they could look to the writers of the first Tales from the Borderlands (although they’ve likely scattered to the winds when Telltale went under).Tale from the Borderlands could easily be one of your favourite Telltale productions, and for good reasons. At best, it’ll be a good imitation and not the wild and untethered imagination and willingness to try something original that make BL2 such a funny game. I spent pretty much an entire day watching his content when I first came across it.Īnyhow… I feel like Gearbox is always gonna try and replicate Borderlands 2 and without the writers that made it work, that’s gonna be difficult. He’s got videos on Blade Runner 2049 and Mad Max: Fury Road and dozens and dozens of other killer films. He’s also one of my favorite film essayists on YouTube (and was nominated for an Emmy for his work). It’s something you just don’t expect to happen to you, but everyone has been knocked out or sucker punched by life at one point or another and this video is about getting back up before the bell rings. He did a video called “Get Up Off the Floor” that talks a bit about that and I really recommend giving it a watch. And Mikey can be found on FilmJoy’s channel on YouTube he had a stroke at a really young age of 28 and it led to a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis that forced him to stop working on games.

I think Anthony Burch does a podcast called “Dungeons and Daddies” that’s pretty popular. Borderlands 3 was just… cringe, all the way through, but with good gameplay. I feel like the secret sauce behind the writing of Borderlands 2 was the combination of Anthony Burch (lead writer, did the Hey Ash Whatcha Playin web series with his sister Ashly, who also went on to voice Tiny Tina, Aloy, etc.) and Mikey Neumann (Co-Writer, Creative Director, voice of Scooter).