SajuukKhar said:
MeTalHeD said:
I have to say it, but Borderlands 2 is just not making sense. I played the game, finished it with different characters, but something kept gnawing at the back of my mind: why, oh why did Handsome Jack never switch of the New-U stations if he wants to kill you so badly?
the New U stations dont technically exist in lore.
He cant turn off something that technically doesn't exist.
I'm sorry, but that's just lazy. "Oh look, this technology created by Hyperion, which exists in the game, and allows you to respawn countless times to finish the game doesn't technically exist, so please ignore that tingly feeling and the money being deducted when your respawn."
That's a terrible excuse. If it's in the game, and it's part of how you complete the game and central to its mechanics and function, saying it isn't canon is ignoring a vital part of the game. I don't know how many people ran through the game without dying, but it is central to you completing it. It's different if it was, say, a save file that you reloaded or the game took you back to another checkpoint. But the company - whose boss you want to kill - owns the technology that keeps bringing you back and they keep reminding you they're doing it every time you die in game. When the game tells you this is part of the game, this will help your game progress and it even communicates to you, it is difficult to ignore it. If they acknowledge the bandits and psychos, why not the little machines that bring you back to life? If you say the game will fall apart if they do, then it's not being held together by something strong, now is it?
Furthermore, the game alludes to this when psychos shout things like "No one kills my friends but me" almost as if they respawn. If they really wanted to avoid the whole canon debate, they could have made the New U stations another company's technology or at least provided the vault hunters with respawner technology or something when they land on Pandora. Making it part of the company whose boss is trying to kill you is silly.
It's almost as if Jack looks the other way when you die and looks back when you respawn, before shaking his fist and shouting: "I'll get you, if it's the last thing I do!!!" Apparently his company profits every time Jack, or something gets you...
-The vault hunter falls off a cliff-
-Jack is conveniently distracted by Butt Stallion's pretty sparkly diamond exterior-
-The vault hunter respawns using Hyperion technology-
-Jack looks back at his screen, while sitting in a dark room illuminated by the screen and gently stroking Butt Stallion-
Jack: "Jeezuz, just can't seem to kill those vault hunters, even with all those bandits and constructors down there. Gosh, I better not acknowledge the Hyperion technology respawning the vault hunter, which we created, so it could be dismissed when discussed as a plot hole because, technically, it isn't canon..."
Really?