Tales from the Borderlands

Okay, that's what I was thinking. You get Rhys to the end credits by basically staying on good terms with Fiona and Sasha, a big part of which is rejecting Jack's help and refusing to help him reclaim Hyperion. He (doubleplusspoiler)does it anyway, but because you tried to stop him, you basically end up being on much better terms with the girls and Rhys comes aboard Gortys with everybody, where his fingergun shootout skills end up paying off big-time.

I actually had Rhys reject Hyperion and its horrible culture right from the get-go. It's been mildly horrifying to see him embrace it on my Go Hyperion! run.

edited 7th Jan '17 6:01:00 PM by Unsung

What happened to Rhys, then? He is with Fiona and the Stranger as part of the framing device, at which point they discover the Stranger's identity and go on to fix Gortys and defeat the Traveler.. The worst I've ever seen happen in regards to how the girls feel about him is Sasha hugs Vaughn and not Rhys.

edited 7th Jan '17 5:59:59 PM by SilentColossus

...he's still there? He just passes out after defeating Jack and meets up with The Stranger later.

I'm curious how you got him to fight with Gortys and still have him deal with Jack.

edited 7th Jan '17 6:06:44 PM by Soble

I'm confused, as you must have hit a serious glitch. That is simply not the ending. The stuff you're describing is at the beginning of episode five. The episode continues well after that. Defeating Jack happens for everyone, but the game continues for another hour or so. The fight with the Vault monster that occurs at the same time as fighting Jack is not the final fight we're talking about.

After Fiona and Rhys finish telling their story to the Stranger, they manage to capture him with the aid of Vaughn and the remainder of the Helios workforce (who are now bandits). You got that far, right, as you know who the Stranger is? Then what happened for you?

edited 7th Jan '17 6:33:20 PM by SilentColossus

Loader Bot said they need to form a team to rescue Gortys. I only had Janey, August, and Athena available. The game ended with them flying off-

edited 7th Jan '17 7:00:22 PM by Soble

Spoilers, obviously

So what happened to me was most of what you described, but then there was a big battle royale between Gortys and the Traveler— a second one, where the team you pick helps fight it, getting loaded into Gortys' control centre Voltron-style, each teammate getting their own little quicktime battle sequence. Meanwhile Fiona and Sasha fly their van into the core of the Traveler to set charges that will destroy it from the inside out. Once they win, there's a scene where Sasha actually dies [SPOILERS]but is revived by the watch Felix wanted to give her[/SPOILERS] and then Rhys and Fiona race for the now-open Vault. It closes as soon as both of them are both inside, there's some dialogue as they walk up to the big chest/sarcophagus in the middle, they both touch it a la the button back in the Gortys base in the first episode, and they both disappear.

How much of that did you see?

edited 7th Jan '17 6:59:19 PM by Unsung

Well sh't. I feel silly.

Just booted the game up and noticed it said "Continue Episode 5" instead of "Restart."

>.<

I could have sworn I saw the credits. I must have been more tired than I thought, exited out and gone to sleep. Thinking back on it I assumed the story was finished at that point and I immediately went to a second save file when I turned the game back on; instead of going back to the first one.

Well, if you'll excuse me. I'm going to go finish the game.

edited 7th Jan '17 9:33:44 PM by Soble

I figured that something like that must have happened.

... Get Soble the cone of shame!

... I need to replay this.

-removes cone of shame-

Okay, dragging my feet playing the epilogue, but I needed to say this: it is incredible how they made Loader Bot so detrimental to Rhys and Vaughn's survival. I mean, these machines were attacking the Borderlands 2 Vault Hunters in packs and small armies and we were just tearing through them!

Seeing just one of them be useful is kind of awe-inspiring.

edited 14th Jan '17 6:35:22 PM by Soble

Well, they've gotten more intelligent. And this Loader Bot is probably tougher than most.

Also, Rhys, Fiona, Sasha, and Vaughn are generally bad at everything, so LB looks better in comparison.

Loader Bot's real crowning achievement might be that run through the forest at the end of Chapter 3. Kid can move.

And done after 4 months of letting it sit on my desktop and gather dust.

Boo-yah.

And I almost regret not finishing it all in one sitting, but que sera.

Well, I liked that ending. The endings most people call "cliche" I usually end up liking, maybe just for the sake of being contrarian. But they really played up the friendships that developed over the course of the game, and gave a satisfying final chat between Rhys and Fiona.

I shipped Rhys with Sasha. Like 90 percent of everybody else apparently. But I also had Fiona and Rhys say really positive, ship-teasing things towards each other. That was kind of weird and immersion-breaking.

The final scene referenced the most rewarding part of Borderlands - beating that boss and ripping open that final chest at the end of the dungeon. And that just feels really cathartic after all of the hell the protagonists have been through.

It does leave us on a glaring cliffhanger though, one that will hopefully be answered in Borderlands 3, or a Season 2 of Tales from the Borderlands.

edited 13th Jun '17 6:08:08 PM by Soble

Currently $10 along with a ton of other games in the Humble Bundle.

Just noticing now that this is one of the top-rated series outside of The Walking Dead that Telltale's ever done. Man, I want a sequel to this so bad.

Pleaaaaaaaaasssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I want a sequel but that doesn't have to mean a Telltale series. I'd be down with Borderlands 3 picking up the loose threads and using them.

So, got this free on Live, and I'm surprised at the story. Am starting Chapter 3 so avoiding spoilers til done.

So now it's more like, "A Tale From The Borderlands."

Seriously though rewatching this saddens me because this is still probably my favorite game from Telltale thus far. I don't know what's more depressing. That there won't be a Wolf Among Us Season 2. Or that there won't be a Tales from the Borderlands Season 2.

I'm so thankful this game was made though. This and Life Is Strange ignited my interest in these "narrative" games.

Edited by Soble on Oct 27th 2018 at 6:48:11 AM

There probably wasn't going to be a TOTB Season 2 anyway, but it's still a shame, because it is definitely my favourite.

That scene is all the more rewarding now that I know that, originally, Rhys was just meant to 'flip off the monitors' as he ran by — as in, turn them off.

I want more Troy Baker and Laura Bailey arguing with each other ;_;

x3

Didn't the first one end on a cliffhanger? I'm surprised there hasn't been a followup already and now we're never getting one.

It was more And the Adventure Continues.

It was definitely a cliffhanger. And the Adventure Continues is kind of an anti-cliffhanger. It's the sign that stuff is continuing to happen, but you shouldn't expect to see it. Tales very much ended on a hook for later stories.

It can presumably be handled in one of the other games. Even if 3 is too far along in production for it to be anything major, there's DLC and more games to come. Or maybe some other studio could pick up Tales.

Who else does this kind of game? Dontnod did Life Is Strange, but I'm not sure they'd be the best fit.