They should just give up and remove 99% of cutscene and dialogue in bl4,

I lol'd. Uhhh. They have a throwaway gag of testing a battalions worth of guns and only finding four worth keeping? And like keeping like one or two that are under leveled but still unique enough to keep around and starred so you don't accidentally throw them away? I feel like BL would work waaay better as an anime though especially given that its cell shaded and already has a cartoony feel to it.

This one time a person played Borderlands and said "wow this game is fucking terrible"

That's the story

I mean Fallout was fucking great imo, but definitely an exception to that rule

But they don't have too though it's just always disappointing. Why must you always do this capitalism? !

She's quippy but still professional I guess? Like it's not my coomer brain talking (haven't had that happen at all yet here, or as far as I'm aware). You just have a stiff older lady trying to play a young badass with magic powers and she's not giving that same chill and relaxed but could fuck you up energy.

Lilith is a cliched sort of grindhouse/action movie heroine: a sarcastic, sadistic badass who's believably athletic. There are probably some 50-something actresses who can pull that off, but Cate Blanchette bringing "someone's mom, going through a mid-life crisis" energy is just such a bad choice.

Grabbing big name actors that they could get and who weren't busy, regardless of what the role needed was such a bad, quintessentially Hollywood choice. They should have gotten literal nobodies and made a schlocky grindhouse b-movie out of it, not good but like fun bad spectacle slop instead of a baffling "how did this even get made?" make-work project for some random big name actors.

The casting choices being way out of line with the source material is a giant red flag. It's not a meaningless nitpick like when a characters race is changed (and their race never informed the character). It's that the vibes of the characters do not fit the actors and the trailer doesn't show them modifying themselves to fit their roles. Roland especially, he is a straightman, the opposite of Kevin Hart.

First Tolkien, now Disco Elysium? Are they targeting my data and making shows specifically to upset me?

For real... No one is going to touch the IP after this flops hard. They've been making marvel movie after marvel movie and this is exactly where they could've used Jon Whedonites to write a script for this movie... It didn't need to be on Pandora either, could've trotted from one locale to another changing up the scenery from mostly desert planet(Pandora), to city planet (promethea), to swamp planet(Eden-6), or literally any unexplored planet that has yet to be thought up. And they didn't need to stick with any particular character save for Claptrap since they're a mass produced model of robot. Just have a good trailer following about 4 - 6 wacky vault hunters and tag alongs and boom every fan wants to watch it and surely non fans would get sucked into a fun quippy action movie about treasure hunters.

Yep this was kinda my thoughts on it. Should've been mad max esque with a bunch of talented nobodies that throw in a few quips here and there, with the most famous of them being the voice actors for echo logs, echo net w.e. and or maybe an A list for cameos, ala Deadpool style. That is borderlands though huh... Mad max, Deadpool, and a smidge of Halo, blended until smooth

Hey, this movie was written and shot LONG before they had LLMs working properly.

That's what it feels like

Sigh. I hope you enjoy comrade

I usually like anything he's in so I'm sure he'll be fine in it, it's just the vibes I'm getting from hearing his voice put through a filter that's a little disappointing.

Lmao. Roland the bitter reluctant father, krieg the overprotective uncle, Lilith the exasperated mother, and Tina the rambunctious teen, and Tannis the wine Aunt. I know it's usually vodka Aunt but she doesn't seem to be a mess and a bit classier.

1st becomes a slog after sledge I feel like, 2nd is fantastic imo but not yet fully realized due to when it came out, the 3rd is good but does seem to be written poorly in spots and some characters as well, but the gameplay is the best imo with being able to parkour a lil and slide, and again I haven't played any tell tale game let alone when they wore BL's skin, so can't comment on that either. Presequel was eh, to me atleast so if you do ever wanna dip your toes in and try again, skip this one until you want to play it through for the story.

I will say grinding for guns and equipment isn't that fun (I don't really grind for weapons though, mainly side quests and eridium) so hopefully they fix that in 4. But if it's not your jam maybe Tiny Tina's wonderland would be more your speed, but then again they make a lot of in jokes using previous va's and I'm sure there's more but I've hardly played that one, only played it at some ex 'friends' place.

Maybe get a few people to play through it all, it is centered around playing with others after all. No rush though. I will say the commentary on capitalism through the interplanetary corporate wars and it's resulting fallout is

For me it's part manlet, part type casting error. Roland is supposed to be tall and stoic. So stoic he's kinda awkward and rigid, a foil to how easy it is for Lilith to converse with just about anyone in a casual manner and how she can find a bit of levity even after having to phaseshift a whole flying city to avoid it being mortar'd to pieces.