[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by SpasticPlastic

I don't know what Borderlands is, but these look swell.

Well it's a video game series. They're cooperative FPS semi-RPG games where you and friends can shoot your way through a futuristic/apocalyptic alien world in search of treasure and guns while playing as several different character types. All of that is set over a zany outlandish tone with a good amount of humor and cultural references which keep things weird. The first one honestly wasn't that great but still good, it had its charm but the world was kinda dull and got boring pretty fast. The second one though was pretty awesome, the world was much livelier and far more colorful especially with regards to the cast of supporting characters. The bad guy especially in Borderlands 2, Handsome Jack, put it on a much higher level than the first with his bits of humor and flare all while being a despicable villain that you really wanted to kill. There was a third game which acted as filler for the events between 1 and 2 that was pretty much just more of the same stuff from 2 and then there's also a story-driven player choice oriented game from Telltale (the people who make the great Walking Dead games, etc.). NECA was actually making Borderlands 2 figures when the game was new but the first two figures they made were drastically different in demand levels, the one was the franchise's sorta-mascot robot character Claptrap and the other was a psycho (the basic grunt level enemies of the world). The psycho didn't sell very well while Claptrap sold out and so retailers then on only wanted NECA to make Claptrap variants. So flash-forward to now and we get another go at the franchise but this time from McFarlane so while they won't probably be nearly as articulated as NECA's stuff at least it's an opportunity for more.