#new tales from the borderlands

[phenikas]

"Hello, handsome. What a day, hmm? You look lonely. I can fix that."

[hummelimhimmel]

WELL…. I spent my first 6 hours of vacations on THIS. For what? I have no idea I'll never finish it, I just wanted to do this fast sketch!

The idea came from the incredible animatic by @ inkzectz

[bookersmm]

I literally love him I’m gonna sob and throw up and cry

[rhysler]

[heamoh]

[laydengardrs-brain-dumps]

Drew this a few months ago, forgot to post here Rhys Strongfork, but specifically NTFTBL but only because I like his design better than BL3

[rottenzone]

RHYS STRONGFORK I BEG !!!!!!!!!!!!

uh oh

[krotiation]

y'all. hear me out.

[shinakazami1]

I'm thinking of @krotiation post about how Rhys is strong sm and I'm just wondering of Anu and him

Anu presents herself as genius - after all, she made the device to mimic power of sirens which is just very awesome but... We don't see her genius at all in the game. All we see is that she's dependant on her goggles to analyse for her.

The way the comments are built in the game suggest that Rhys had some doing to them. They are snarky, they get some Atlas marketing in there too and while Echo devices had always existed with some remarks, they have their own character well before Ocvatio puts additional programming in.

Best way to show how dependant she's on them is Episode 4. When she reaches her designed spot where she's made to believe to be seen as genius, she problems solves through... The goggles. She doesn't solve the issues by herself at ALL - everything has to be said to her.

Through Tales, we watch Rhys use the Echo device a lot. But there are many moments, in combat or through hacking in Ep 3 that show its only an enhancer of his abilities, not main source of them. It is of course unfair a bit to say - as he also has the arm that he uses a few times, since it's stronger than his body but, I feel his loss of the devices is very significant. Because at the end of the day - he wanted a manager position from the start. He was sometimes an asshole, a coward, but in the end, he did exactly what he wanted. Through his own hard work, he got to the top.

They both used their echo devices to analyse. Anu however, used it to think for her. Rhys used it to help him think.

[timothylawrence]

Rhys Strongfork -"The Cool CEO" (not you)

[elusivexx]

make them stop pleeeease

[phenikas]

haven't made anything in forever so here, have a random Rhys

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

Ngl I wish the other BL games were like BL1 like I think that the other Borderlands games rely too much on comedy and stupid shit were as BL1 was more grounded and less comical

Like yeah BL1 had it's comedic moments like with the whole thing with Ned and Zed and the whole goofy annoyingness of Claptrap and Knoxx wanting to kill himself because of how much he hated being on Pandora but it wasn't an entire focus on comedy which is something the rest of the Borderlands games focused on

Sure BL1 suffered some things that could've been done better like have it be more story driven and have a better villain but in terms or atmosphere and less focus on comedy I'd say Borderlands 1 is the best game in the Borderlands franchise

Plus the future games treats the vault hunters like legendary heroes (tho BL3 barely acknowledges the vault hunters outside of gameplay) whereas in BL1 you're basically some nobody on the biggest shithole of the universe looking for some myth that may not even exist

I honestly would've prefered if BLTPS BL2 TFTBL BL3 and MTFTBL were more like BL1

Don't get me wrong I love the Borderlands franchise but I absolutely loathe how dependant the rest of the games are on comedy because most of Borderlands comedy after BL1 can be summed up as swearing, toilet humor and stupid pop culture references

Imo Borderlands suffers the same thing that post Dead Rising 1 post Saints Row 2 and post GTA 4 games suffer from and that's that they are too silly and rely too much on comedy

[bookersmm]

I wanna punch him in his stupid face I love him so much

[rhysler]

Half of my favourite Rhys Strongfork moments

[ms-nishakadam]

So whenever I hear someone crap on Borderlands The Pre-Sequel they mention that the characters and storyline are bad and I'm thinking to myself...have y'all not played Borderlands 3 or the New Tales from the Borderlands?? Be so for real...