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r/Borderlands•
piercehead

Call me sentimental but for the (for now) ending of the series....

Spoiler[BL3]

...I was really hoping it would bring us full circle to where we started. I was hoping the entrance to the Great Vault would be in/near Fyrestone.

It would be a great excuse as much as anything to pay tribute to the awesome introduction to the series, and also I can never hear enough of Jesper Kyd's music, especially This which I consider to BE Borderlands, and having a musical theme based on it would have certainly warmed my cockles.

Though it may have seemed overly convenient - on a massive planet, the entrance could really be anywhere - I reckon it would have been a small concession. Thoughts?

Posted Oct 22, 2019, 11:42 PM UTC

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Nenson2[unintelligible roaring noises]•

This which I consider to BE Borderlands

This music makes me want to play BL1 everytime I hear it.

Lack of Fyrestone in this game feels like one of many wasted opportunities. It was in BL2 and even Pre-Sequel so I kinda assumed it will become tradition that in every game we can visit place where everything started.

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Bl3tempsubmission•

Wait when was it in TPS? Been a while since I played.

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Nenson2[unintelligible roaring noises]•

In Clappy DLC so not actual Fyrestone but you know, close enough. And this remix was pretty good too

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Bl3tempsubmission•

Riiiiiight oh man that was an absolutely fantastic DLC. Want to play it again now.

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Caliado•

I agree! I'm hoping we might see Firestone again in dlc...

(The other really cool map to return to would be old haven including the old atlas base they discover under it in tales)

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mrenglish22•

I just finished the game, and like 60% of everything after you discovering Tannis is a siren kinda just left me feeling frustrated.

Especially the ending. Ava and Tannis should have had swapped lines.

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jrr78•

Yeah, it's kind of funny how Tannis (who has known Lilith since the first game) is bewildered by what she is doing at the end, while Ava (who has known her for a few days at most) has a complete understanding of Lilith. Okay Gearbox.

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mrenglish22•

Like I think their goal was supposed to be showing Ava had learned some stuff and had emotional growth. But you interact with characters so little in this game that it doesn't really work.

I get the feeling they realized that many of the die hard BL2 players wanted less "stand and talk" moments that BL2 (the entire start of the game until you reach boom bewm) had so they tried to streamline the gameplay of the story to reduce the amount of time between gunfight. But it didnt help the game.

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ThorsigalDepression is my profession.•

I don't think that was their goal at all. There are multiple minute long cutscenes that you can't skip or interact with at all.

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Vesploogie•

And not even cutscenes, so much time is spent waiting in the middle of maps and mob fights for NPCs to talk and walk around before you can move to the next area. Way too much of the story time was padded to make it feel longer than they could bother to write.

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Vyradder•

My theory is that Ava's powerset includes premonition. Maya knew Ava would become a siren, which she never explained even to Lilith. I assumed that's why Ava said that line about showing the way.

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jrr78•

I always figured it was because Maya knew that siren powers are passed along or released when they die, so she was training Ava to be a siren and her successor after her eventual death.

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Dansterai•

Hearing it makes me sad for some reason, it's like sad nostalgia. Maybe I miss 2009 haha

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OnlyNegativeKarmaPls•

I have to say, i really like bl3 and everything, but nothing could ever catch that Firestone music feeling i got from bl1/bl2.

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VcNasty7psn•

Going back to Fyrestone in BL2 is one of my all time favorite gaming moments. It was completely unexpected, and brought back great memories of me discovering what would end up being my favorite video game series.

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RolandTheJabberwocky•

Hopefully it's a big part of a DLC. Maybe wiping up left over Hyperion robots and flunkies? Or keeping maliwan/CoV want to steal something, so we get a three way war to be in the middle of.

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vorlik•

I was really hoping the ending was going to be good

but it was bad

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ThoraxeTheeImpaler•

What’s a cockles? Lol

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