Tales from the Borderlands Finally Works

On 03/21/2017 at 09:20 PM by KnightDriver

I played the first two chapters of Tales from the Borderlands on XBO the other day and, oh boy, what a difference from the Xbox 360 version. The XBO version ran perfectly smoothly, no frame rate drops or anything. I enjoyed it so much more. I'm noticing things now in the game I didn't notice before because I was so distracted by the technical problems. I now realize how these issues can so badly effect the experience of a game; the whole pacing of the story was ruined on Xbox 360. I didn't even play the last episode on 360 for over six months because I was so annoyed by it. I'm glad I bought this for XBO. It's exactly what I had hoped for, an error free experience.

That being said, these TellTale games are somewhat lacking in actual gameplay. It reminded me of playing Dragon's Lair, a game made up of nothing but quick time events. TellTale games aren't just QTEs, they also do things you'd find in a point-and-click adventure: you make dialog choices and investigate a static environment for objects. Neither of these things are bad, but they are a far cry from a game like. . . well, Far Cry.

But, with the smooth technical performace of this Tales from the Borderlands game, I'm at least enjoying the story and the characters. The writing is excellent, all the characters interesting and perfectly voice acted, and the visual story telling is done as well as any TV show or film. Add to that all the lore and graphics of the Borderlands games, and I'm pretty happy.

And that'd be the other day. Bye there.

Super Step Contributing Writer

03/21/2017 at 10:28 PM

I was honestly surprised when my free copy of Walking Dead Season 2 had me solve a puzzle and actually walk in an environment because I'd seriously thought those games were EXCLUSIVELY about dialogue.

KnightDriver

03/21/2017 at 10:33 PM

They mix it up a bit. It's kind of neat but there's a lot of just watching. Those dialog events sneak up on you though. Gotta keep alert the whole 2 hours of an episode.

Cary Woodham

03/21/2017 at 10:59 PM

Back before TellTale made the Walking Dead games, their games were TRUE point and click adventures with actual gameplay. Now they're just 'follow your nose' adventures.

03/21/2017 at 11:36 PM

I made the Dragon's Lair comparison, but Dragon's Lair was actually more exciting because you had to make many quick decisions one after the other to complete the story or you get a death animation. You can't really fail in Tales from the Borderlands. I died once but it threw me back into the game right away to do the event again.

goaztecs

03/22/2017 at 12:10 PM

When the QTE and Point and Click stuff is done right the game feels like playing a movie. It's good to read that the Borderlands game was made well, aside from the technical issues on the 360 side. Maybe I'll check it out.

03/22/2017 at 06:26 PM

Many have praised it as being one of the best TellTale games made.

Phantasystar77

03/22/2017 at 10:52 PM

I really need to play through this. I got the whole Telltale collection (Pre-Batman) as a freebie for being a 5 star VIP on XBox Rewards but barely touched any of it. I think I played through the first 2 chapters and that was it. I really liked it though. Time to go back I guess.

03/23/2017 at 11:34 PM

It's good all the way through. I just finished it for the second time. I so wish it would be made into a movie, but that won't happen.

03/24/2017 at 12:09 AM

It might be a good thing it doesn't happen since its highly likely Hollywood would screw it up.

PixlBit