and never the TellTale shite.
Dude, no. If you actually care about storytelling, Tales from the Borderlands beats the pants off everything Gearbox has ever done with the franchise. Tales is an awesome Sci-fi buddy road trip adventure across Pandora.
Telltale Games’ storytelling is good, but the gameplay is bad. TTG is not the point-n-click successor to LucasArts that everyone thought they might be. Instead, they make interactive stories. Plus, while you feel the choices matter, the truth is they don’t. Story branches commonly meet back together again, or some choice becomes moot (or both). That, and many of their games have various, potentially even game-breaking, bugs. And they move on to the next project instead of fixing the previous one.
My understanding is that many people in their fanbase come excited but go annoyed, as they become increasingly frustrated at how their concerns for a certain game go unanswered.
You know, when I bought Tales of Monkey Island, I bought the Deluxe Edition with a physical copy and a box full of “feelies”. One of the items in the box was supposed to be a cloth map of the ingame world or some such; but it turned out to be nothing more than an image of the ingame map onboard the ship (basically a cropped screenshot), printed smallishly on one side of a white cloth restaurant napkin. And that’s after they told us the Deluxe Edition would be released in “Spring” (my having pre-ordered it) but I didn’t get it until July–and when we were waiting and asked for an update on it they were stone silent.