Telltale producer Adam Sarasohn has spilled the beans on the adventure game studios Borderlands spin-off. Not all the beans, but enough beans so that it’s hard to count them all.
Why is Telltale forging an adventure game out of Gearbox’s shooter, you ask? “Because, if you pause to take a breath between shooting everything in sight and stealing your buddies’ loot in multiplayer, you’ll know that Borderlands features some amazing characters and stories in a world that’s rich in dark humor,” says Sarasohn.
I’m infinitely more interested in what Telltale plans for the series than what Gearbox has already done with it. Anthony Burch’s writing on Borderlands 2 kept me going, but god, it was a slog. There’s not enough time in the day for me to spend hours grinding away, even if I am getting to collect ridiculous - and delightful - guns.
But the story, the characters and the world - these were all wonderfully realised.