- [Narrator] The Borderlands series forces players
to face the harsh frontier planet Pandora
in search of a mysterious alien vault legend.
Described as a first person role playing shooter,
this game also features a groundbreaking content
generation system that creates a near endless
variety of weapons and items to customize your character.
Borderlands has a deep, rich fiction and bold art style
that creates a breathtaking experience that challenges
the conventions of modern shooters.
Gamers across the world would be remiss if they passed
up an opportunity to play this game.
That being said, here's seven things that you probably
didn't know about the Borderlands series.
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One of the major draws to this game is its distinctive
art style.
This game utilizes a process known as cel-shading,
the process of making 3D animations look cartoonish
with minimal gradients and bold outlines.
The first video game to use this art style
is Dr. Houser for the 3DO in 1994.
Cel-shading was then made popular in games like
Jet Set Radio and Viewtiful Joe back in the early 2000's.
But did you know that the original trailer for Borderlands
didn't have this distinctive art style.
It actually had a much more realistic feel to it.
Here we see a tech demo of the actual gameplay.
Initially the game was panned by critics for being
bland and underwhelming.
Combined with the fact that the game developers felt that
the market was too saturated with realistic shooters,
they ultimately decided to use cel-shaded graphics instead.
And boy oh boy did they make the right--
Holy nutballs what happened to your freakin' face?
One of the designers for Borderlands 2 got real lazy
and stole pieces of artwork to use in their manual.
The artist they stole from is Olly Moss.
He's best known for creating impressively designed
artistic tributes to some of the most renowned
video games and cinematic classics.
The unnamed employee at Gearbox not only plagiarized
his signature art style, they actually made
an exact copy of some parts of it.
In a series of tweets, Moss reacted to an image
inside the Borderlands 2 manual which replicated his work
on posters done for the Star Wars movies.
If you take a closer look at the zigzag clouds
in the background, you'll see that it's a direct
copy of Moss's Empire Strikes Back poster.
Olly didn't want to make a big deal out of it,
he just wanted the company to know that he was bummed out
about not being given the chance to design the artwork
himself.
In the end it seemed that everything worked out a-okay,
as Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford messaged Olly
to check his email and to also express his love for him.
He went on to say that the person responsible for
the art theft faced consequences.
The foul mouthed but lovable Mr. Torgue is a non playable
character in the second downloadable content
for Borderlands 2, the Campaign of Carnage.
He's a 43 year old founder of the weapons manufacturer,
Torgue.
But did you know that the reason that he is bleeped
is because of a device in his voicebox?
In his own words, he says...
- A lot of people been asking me why my voice beeps
all the (beep) time.
The Torgue shareholders wired my voicebox with a digital
censor so I can't say stuff like (beep), (beep),
or (beep) (beep) (beep).
That's like half my (beep) vocabulary,
it's goddamn (beep).
- [Narrator] By the way, it was also revealed in
a Gearbox interview that Mr. Torgue is actually bisexual.
Easter eggs, Easter eggs, this game has crapload
of Easter eggs.
Honestly, too many to keep up with.
As a matter of fact, BradyGames, the company responsible
for making the strategy guide for Borderlands 2,
says that it was the biggest guide that they had ever made
for a game, as they tried to include some of the game's
references to pop culture, movies, and even other games.
Here are some of the more interesting references
in the Borderlands series.
In Sanctuary, a non playable character might say...
- I used to be a Vault Hunter like you,
until I took a bullet to the knee.
- [Narrator] Apparently Gearbox employees like internet
memes dealing with Skyrim.
We discussed the backstory of this topic in an earlier
video on this channel.
The Siren has access to a blue and yellow skin
aptly named "Vault Dweller",
which is an obvious nod to the outfits worn
by Vault Dwellers of the Fallout series.
In Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, if you go to the top
of the Darksider's tower you can find a man named
Neil Parsec.
This guy looks like a life sized Buzz Lightyear
from the Toy Story films.
The purple, white, and green wing tipped nut
jumps from a platform and tries to fly.
Just like Buzz did in the movie.
In a previous video, I explained to you the significance
of the Konami Code in games.
Entering this code will give you boundless fortune,
extra men, or even a turkey surprise.
But if you enter the Konami Code into Borderlands 2,
you will get extra wubs.
But unfortunately it has no real significance
as far as gameplay is concerned and it does
absolutely nothing.
If you go to the Moxxi Club, make sure you check out
the DJ booth.
DJ Boom and DJ Rang look remarkably like my favorite
EDM group of all time, the beat banging robots
of Daft Punk.
A QR code, or quick response code, is a machine readable
optical label that can contain coded information,
kind of like a UPC code but with greater readability
and larger data storage.
Borderlands 1 and 2 have secret QR codes scattered
throughout the game.
So just flash your smartphone's QR reader on the screen
and unlock some interesting tidbits.
One code in the first game decodes to CL4P-TP
was here, Claptrap was here.
In Borderlands 2 one code reads, "Thank you so much
"for playing our game, now I'm rich with love and money!
"Nick Wilson, Ditto!"
If you guy to Moxxi's, you'll decode this message.
"Wise man say, forgiveness is divine but never pay
full price for late pizza.", Captain Picard.
Of course we all know that Captain Picard never said this,
it was actually a direct quote from Michaelangelo
in the first and best Ninja Turtles movie.
- [Michaelangelo] "Wise man say, forgiveness is divine
but never pay full price for late pizza."
- I gotta get a new route.
- [Narrator] Handsome Jack is the main antagonist
of Borderlands 2.
This egotistical megalomaniac declared himself
dictator of Pandora, took credit for finding the Vault,
and even claimed responsibility for killing
the Destroyer.
Here's some behind the scenes facts about one of video
games' worst villains.
The game's lead script writer, Anthony Burch,
originally intended Handsome Jack to simply
be a placeholder name.
It was a reference to a Doctor Who companion,
Captain Jack Harkness.
However the name proved popular among the production team
and they decided to keep it.
One of Handsome Jack's most famous quotes is,
"These pretzels suck."
- Hey, how did...
Ah, these pretzels suck.
How's your day been, buddy?
We haven't really talked much since I left you for dead.
- [Narrator] This is what Anthony Burch had to say
about the subject.
"These pretzels suck was an adlib by Dameon Clarke,
"the voice of Handsome Jack.
"It's easily Jack's most popular line,
"and I didn't freaking write it.
"I will never forgive Dameon for this.
"Seriously Dameon, I hate you."
Handsome Jack's flamboyant and slightly douchey attitude
is based on something pretty peculiar.
Burch stated that the personality of Handsome Jack
was partially inspired by an interview with Nathan Fillion
on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
He said, "Fillion acts charming and funny,
"but also slightly arrogant in a down-to-earth
kind of way."
The Guinness Book of World Records didn't even
do their research and put a false Borderlands record
in their 2014 Gamer's Edition.
Somebody over at Guinness looked at a guy's speedrun
video on YouTube and decided to put it down in the book
as the fastest time to beat Borderlands 2.
What they didn't know was that the guy who posted
the video used overlevelled and augmented weapons
that you wouldn't normally have access to
in a regular campaign.
Basically the guy used unconventional methods to beat
the game fast and he was just doing it for funsies.
But since they needed to put something in the book,
Guinness just added his name, and now this dude
is immortalized as a record holder.
I mean, look at the tweet that they sent to him.
They didn't even know anything about the guy
but they still added his name to the book.
Pretty incompetent if you ask me.
But honestly it's not like Guinness takes the Gamer
Edition serious anyway.
Look at some of these frivolous, meaningless records.
First downloadable stealth game based on a TV show.
Most prolific fictional video game DJ.
Gamer's Edition, more like Lamer's Edition.
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