During their panel at SXSW, Telltale Games developers told tales of their take on the Borderlands series. Along with Gearbox devs, they revealed some key points about their upcoming episodic title, Tales from the Borderlands, including the names and occupations of the two main characters–neither of whom are Vault Hunters like the protagonists of Borderlands and its sequel.
Players control greedy Pandorians Fiona, a con artist, and Rhys, a cyborg Hyperion employee, as they take turns recalling the plot in memory sequences. The twist? The main characters’ recollections differ in immediately-noticeable ways. Telltale’s Kevin Bruner refers to each of their memories as a “Big Fish version of what happened,” indicating that our main characters will be unreliable narrators, aggrandizing their retellings to a degree.
But Telltale’s not throwing away everything you know about Borderlands. The game is a canonical entry that takes place after the events of Borderlands 2. While veteran Borderlands characters will be making appearances, Telltale’s goal by creating new characters is to focus on Pandora’s other inhabitants. Their approach to the Borderlands legacy echoes that of their The Walking Dead series, but substituting latter’s heavy emotional aspect with a tinge of humor familiar to the former.
The series’ hallmark action gameplay will also make the transition to Tales from the Borderlands, but it’s tempered with a Telltale touch. Fiona and Rhys each have unique capabilities that come into play and the game will feature shooting segments. According to Harrison Pink of Telltale Games, these action-oriented sequences will be handled “in a Telltale kind of way.”
Source: Polygon