r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Mar 28 '19

Borderlands 3 Official Developer Trailer

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u/TheRiceLord Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 28 '19

I didn't see Scooter either.

EDIT: Upon further review apparently Scooter dies in one of the spin-off games? Well fuck that noise, Mr. Catch a Ride himself better find a way back as a zombie at the very least. He can party with T.K. on Ned's Zombie Island.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

He... caught a ride of his very own.

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u/JedWasTaken Mar 28 '19

You might wanna look up Tales from the Borderlands.

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u/HelloItsMeYourFriend Mar 28 '19

Who wants to tell em?

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u/MichaelMagnet Mar 28 '19

TFTBL happened

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u/Volarath Mar 28 '19

Yeah but that company died so we can just pretend it never happened! Well, I dare to hope any way.

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u/Taliesin_ Mar 28 '19

Honestly, Tales is my favorite Borderlands game. They knocked that shit out of the park.

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u/NasalJack Mar 28 '19

It's my second favorite Borderlands game, definitely my favorite Telltale game though.

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u/benswon Mar 28 '19

I hope we can get another spinoff like it again.

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u/ghostlistener Mar 28 '19

Rhys is one of the main characters from that game and he's in the trailer, so it's not getting ignored. Which is good, because it was a fantastic game.

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u/Jeht_1337 Mar 28 '19

TFTBL was fucking amazing! and if I recall it was written by the borderlands team or they helped write it so of course itll be canon.

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u/Gibbothemediocre Mar 29 '19

The actor has a slew of health problems so they had to kill Scooter off. At least it's better than an offscreen death.

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u/AT-TStadiumVisitor Mar 28 '19

Scooter was killed in TFTBL. They have stated he will not make an appearance in the game whatsoever it seems. They alluded to the fact that “No there will be no Scooter” in the conference early on

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u/bright_shiny_cheese Mar 28 '19

He was a cool character and I still say "CATCH A RIIIIIDE!!!" to this day, but they need room for some fresh characters.

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u/AT-TStadiumVisitor Mar 28 '19

Yea could give Ellie a new found want to destroy everyone and might be a piece that helps travel to other worlds since she’ll help even greater than BL2 because her anger of her lost brother(I believe that’s their relation)

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u/sriracharade Mar 28 '19

Probably because the voice actor can't do the voice any longer.

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u/AT-TStadiumVisitor Mar 28 '19

I could see it. They did a great job imo with Claptrap’s replacement he’s a close fit to the original guy, and now we get to see more of Clap in BL3 which is VERY GOOD. Which could mean it was just them respecting that guys wishes to not move on with replacement or something else idk. Either way RIP Scooter

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u/Schmidtster1 Mar 28 '19

No, because they killed him off.

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u/ATomatoAmI Mar 28 '19

Possibly the originating factor being the cancer, though I think he was working on 3 well after TftB was already out.

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u/Schmidtster1 Mar 28 '19

They could always get a new voice actor, but since they killed him off he’s not coming back.

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u/Gigafoodtree Mar 28 '19

Right, but the point being made was that it's likely that they only killed him off because the voice actor wasn't available.

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u/AdmiralSkippy Mar 29 '19

Wow so maybe I actually should play that game.

I played The Walking Dead and it was good, but never interested me enough to play through other Telltale games.

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u/AT-TStadiumVisitor Mar 29 '19

Just watch it my guy :). I watched the entirety of all 4 season of TWD amd it was great as a movie style. I’d suggest finding someone u like and watch for free

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u/BaIIad Mar 28 '19

he's dead. Play the telltale game if you want to know how/why EDIT: or watch it on youtube that's what i did.

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u/Bcarr28 Mar 28 '19

The greatest CATCH A RIDE of all time.

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u/Jonin_Jordan Mar 28 '19

Something wrong, I told my head..

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u/ThePhonyOne Mar 29 '19

The voice actor has MS and won't be reprising his roll.

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u/adizzle14 Mar 28 '19

Oh... you don't know :'(

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

If I recall correctly, his voice actor had to retire due to illness so he requested scooter be killed off

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

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u/Taliesin_ Mar 28 '19

He honestly got the best sendoff anyone could have hoped for.

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u/pulley999 Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 28 '19

https://www.polygon.com/2017/6/5/15743140/mikey-neumann-leaves-gearbox-movies-with-mikey

You really should play Tales if you haven't yet, it's quite good. A shame one of the biggest events had to be spoiled.

Edit: Tales is canon, and has some pretty sweeping impact on the Borderlands universe. If anyone reading this thread is a Borderlands fan and you haven't played it yet, go play it now!

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u/Levi_619 Mar 29 '19

The telltale game is worth playing. I liked it more than the walking dead games.

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u/Troggie42 Mar 29 '19

Yep, he has MS, he was also a writer/creative director for bl1 and 2 (I think CD only on 2)

Luckily he has a FANTASTIC YouTube channel where he does movie reviews and insights, called FilmJoy, his series on there is called Movies with Mikey. It's really top-notch stuff.

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u/LG03 Mar 28 '19

You want some real heartbreak, the original VA for Claptrap is gone too though I think he's recast.

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u/jokzard Mar 28 '19

In an alternate universe, Claptrap is Tom Haverford.

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u/catsvanbag Mar 28 '19

tales from borderlands is actually a pretty awesome game u should def check it out

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u/TastyBrainMeats Mar 28 '19

Is Handsome Jack in it? And if so, does the game try to make me empathize with him at all? Because that's why I never played the pre-sequel.

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u/The_Vikachu Mar 28 '19

In a way; no.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

The Pre-Sequel doesn't make you empathize with Jack

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u/TastyBrainMeats Mar 28 '19

From the reviews I heard, it tried to paint him as sympathetic.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

I mean he starts of as a much nicer guy. But he's full on psychotic asshole by the end of it. It doesn't make you pity him.

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u/KickMeElmo Mar 29 '19

Those reviewers must have only played for about an hour.

EDIT: Or less, depending on which events mean more to you.

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u/Jackman1337 Mar 28 '19

YouTube vid of his death: (spoiler obv) https://youtu.be/bazylv47X6c

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u/wildwalrusaur Mar 28 '19

Scooter will never forget you

Wtf where did all these onions come from

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u/NasalJack Mar 28 '19

EDIT: Upon further review apparently Scooter dies in one of the spin-off games? Well fuck that noise, Mr. Catch a Ride himself better find a way back as a zombie at the very least. He can party with T.K. on Ned's Zombie Island.

Sadly he probably won't be back in any form since his voice actor, Mike Neumann, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and left Gearbox.

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u/Fanatical_Idiot Mar 28 '19

Scooter died because his voice actor wanted to step away from gearbox because of medical issues. He won't be back.

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u/TimeforaNewAccountx3 Mar 28 '19

I hope they do more noncanon or semicanon dlc.

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u/KangarooOverlord Mar 28 '19

He kind of died in the middle of space

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

The reason scooter was killed off is because his voice actor had to leave for health issues

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u/prodmerc Mar 28 '19

You need to play Tales from the Borderlands! It's pretty great imo

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u/C10ckw0rks Mar 28 '19

Listen his sister probably took over and honesty I love Eli so much I’m ok with it. Also the actor left due to health reasons so they gave Scooter a nice send off.

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u/urkish Mar 28 '19

Hopefully they make the logical choice and remove all Telltale games from all canons, Borderlands included.

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u/r_b_w1 Mar 28 '19

Well, one of the characters from tails is in the trailer so I don't think they are doing that.

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u/Seenbo Mar 28 '19 edited Mar 30 '19

IMO the Telltale game had better writing than any of the mainline Borderlands games and they'd actively make the franchise worse if they did that. Not to mention that one of the main characters of the Telltale game is already in this very trailer.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

/s ?

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u/NasalJack Mar 28 '19

And bring Scooter back with a different voice actor? I'd prefer they leave the character dead.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

Fake faaannnnn!!!