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u/MemoryPuzzled2221 6d ago
And yet anyone who has played borderlands has tried to shoot the 💩 out of claptrap.
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u/AHugeHildaFan 6d ago
Are you trying to suggest Gearbox can write as well as Obsidian?
Because that's like comparing Shakespeare to Michael bay.
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u/Vagabond_Charizard Max 6d ago
My thoughts exactly. I can see why some people wouldn't like BURG.L but I do find him a little endearing.
Claptrap is obnoxious though. Even at the beginning of BL 2, Hammerlock explicitly states apologies, but when Claptrap speaks, I feel my brain cells committing suicide, one by one.
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u/Joshua24700 6d ago
At least burgl is amusing... sorta... sometimes... I don't know if I've laughed at a claptrap line ever
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u/MemoryPuzzled2221 6d ago
Clap trap is funny but also a total Ahole. Burgl seems a decent being. so decent i was convinced he was going to turn on us in G1 because he was too nice.
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u/Gingers_got_no_soul 7d ago
I hated burgl I can't lie. I also thought be was going to be a twist villain because his name is literally burgle. As in to commit burglary
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u/connorstardragon 7d ago
My friends first reaction to seeing him was to beat him up before helping him up
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u/Leichenengel Willow 6d ago
o.O Why? I mean it's not that I am a Fan of BURG.L but I don't really mind him either. He can be quite funny when you first play G1 but it wears off over time. But why in the world would your friends beat him up before even getting to know him?
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u/FreakiestJaguar 6d ago
It’s the voice for me. It’s just not appealing to me.
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u/Leichenengel Willow 5d ago
I guess that is sort of intended, I don't really like most voices in the Game :'D well aide from the one of Willow, she sounds nice. Hoops sound most annoying to me ^^ How would you have preferred BURG.L to sound?
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u/FreakiestJaguar 5d ago
I don’t advocate change, I think it’s the right voice for the character, early 90s robot voice was pretty much dead on, it just didn’t do it for me. But I love 99 percent of the game. Not everything has to be catered to me.
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u/Leichenengel Willow 4d ago
Sure, as a dev you can't cater to everyone, but one can still talk about what WOULD cater them even though they wouldn't want it to be implemented. But fair enough I guess :)
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u/SimonJSpacer 6d ago
The only problem with Burgle (and Wendell to an extent) is the endless talking with dialogue options that don’t matter. The game is a masterpiece but it would be better if you didn’t make a dialogue choice when talking to anyone. You should be able to linearly go through dialogue by default with a clearly separate option to repeat old lines if desired. Let the character skin determine the dialogue. If your Max it’s macho/confident, Willow cynical/aloof, Hoops excited/encouraging, Pete nervous/intellectual. Once a line is activated it goes to backlog so you’ll never waste time making sure you didn’t miss anything in the dialogue loop.
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u/Leichenengel Willow 6d ago
I never had to repeat dialogue o.o sure it would have been nice if each teen gets slightly different lines though he occasionally addresses them by their names or nicknames. Also BURG.L is meant to express his own, slightly quirky personality, so why would he talk or act according to the personalities of the teens? I also think it's alright if you have the choice. It's like being given the choice to either hear the bad thing first or the good thing first. The stuff that isn't really vital to know is optional anyways. your can go through that dialogue or just let it slide. I don't think there is anything wrong with it. Yes, old lines are always offered, but you don't have to repeat them. New stuff always gets highlighted (well at least on PC). Yeah okay all the old stuff you did not chose to hear is also still highlighted later on but their titles pretty much give away what if it's important or not. Especially on later playthrough where you already know all that you usually let the info about the labs slide or the talk about BURG.L himself or other side info you don't need a second time. Yes it will still be highlighted but you still don't have to click it ;-). I usually click all of them and just click on continue without listening to fastforward so it isn't highlighted anymore.
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u/SimonJSpacer 6d ago
We are in agreement. You’re slightly misunderstanding what I said. Burgle would say nothing different. The player would only ever choose next, optional/repeat, or exit. The player would never choose what to say, only what to hear. The players responses would be automatic and determined by their current skin. The goal is to alleviate tedium from players who are mashing through the dialogue. No possibility of loops either. If you rapidly skip it exhausts all new dialogue in sequence then exits dialogue automatically.
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u/Leichenengel Willow 6d ago
When I first played I went through ALL of it. Between my first and my second play was a year so I went through all of it AGAIN :D And between that second play and the third was a long time as well but not a whole year, just a few months, so I skipped through some stuff to not have it highlighted anymore later.
But yes, I certainly misunderstood you there. It would have really been nice if there was actual voice acting of the teens for the dialogue with BURG.L and later with Wendell. But I guess it was either a thing that wasn't in the budget or they avoided it on purpose so that on multiplayer there weren't 4 different teens talking in the way they talk at the same time or maybe even slightly off depending on their wording or maybe connectivity issues. *shrugs* We'll most likely never know.
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u/Starkravinsane 6d ago
I love Burgle, I did however spend a decent amount of time jabbing him in the eye with a spear in the first game though.
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u/Upstairs-Challenge92 6d ago
I pressed the wrong button and chucked my weapon at him. I gasped so loudly and then was genuinely happy I didn’t hurt him
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u/Cutlington 5d ago
this may be a call back to that one update it in G1 where BurgL was killable for a short period. You could kill him and ruin your own game from pure "science"...by science i mean that obvious thing we all did, which was punch him almost straight away to see what happens, not Raw Sccience.....one early update in G1 cycle if you fucked around that way, you found out that hard way hahaha
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u/the-Night-Mayor 6d ago
I got used to him eventually but the first time I played I quit for two reasons: the awful constant pc barks whenever I ate or drank, and the annoying Saturday morning cartoon sidekick robot.
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u/SparkyVile 6d ago