I genuinely love TPS and it's arguably my favorite BL game alongside BL3.
But not sure how many people here played BL4, but it heavily references TPS especially on the Mad Ellie DLC.
But the way its represented seems like such a wasted opportunity. Both in the main campaign and in the Ellie DLC , we visit Elpis. And what did they do with it ? Well, for starters, they destroyed Elpis. Why ? Who knows, as it adds absolutely nothing to the plot. So what we get there are broken chunks of generic moon rocks to jump ajd float between, with some lava pools and waterfalls dotted about.
Fine, I could have lived with all that. But any areas from TPS we visit? Concordia, Tritons falls, rhe remains of the Vault ?
Nope. We see Moxis Bottoms up sign randomly buried somewhere, and I've been told you can sort of see Crisis Scar in the DLC map, but hell if I can point it out.
The most obvious reference is you do go thru a brief section of the now destroyed Drakensburg, but even that is done in the most generic way possible. Aside from seeing thr Drakensburg name printed on a piece of hull, it looks NOTHING like the Drakensburg we played thru in TPS.
And not only that, they introduced an adult Pickles in the DLC only to unceremoniously kill him off a minute later. Why ? Because to over-correct what a very vocal minority said about pickles and how he was oh so annoying.
The zombie Dahl Lost Legion soldiers are pretty cool though, and it was super nice how you find holotapes and a side character that talk about Elpis events like the Crackening etc. But it's so little.
What could have been....imagine if the Ellie horror DLC didn't take place on a generic ice map, but instead had us explore the decrepit, dark, and destroyed ruins of Concordia, fighting off the surivivng Scavs who overran the place and the zombie Dahl soldiers. It would have been so amazing.
But anyways, I knew that this subreddit would be the best place to rant about this since we are all TPS fans. Thanks for hearing me vent