Chapter 805: From a submissive programmer to a handsome jack who strikes hard against the tyrant of Pandora
Whether RPGs and FPS can be combined well, it's clear that Borderlands shows everything with its own sales.
Compared with the number of online users of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", compared to the highest record of 3.5 million in dream memory, better quality, and a more experienced operation team, coupled with the free strategy of the game itself, the average number of online numbers alone has stabilized at around 5 million.
But "Borderlands" is also very good, it is at the peak of its popularity, with a maximum of 3 million online sales, and its sales have exceeded 7 million, which can be said to be an absolute success.
And unlike games like PUBG, Borderlands focuses more on single-player PVE and teamwork over competition.
In the game forums and various game websites, the topic of "Borderlands" has already overshadowed the popularity of "PUBG" when the game has just been launched.
If you talk about the length of the subsequent game, then "Borderlands" is definitely not comparable to "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds".
Because of a multiplayer competitive game like PUBG, it has an unsurpassed advantage in terms of continuous gameplay.
That is, fighting with people is endlessly fun.
But if you come from the short-term stickiness of small goals, then a game like "Borderlands" is definitely poisoning.
From the beginning, it was hard to fight the mobs, and then the equipment with a higher color level exploded, and the firepower immediately came up.
And with the increase of the level, from the initial bait, all kinds of golden flashes made the player excited, and the player slowly began to become indifferent to this golden legend.
But after such a long experience, basically, even if you don't deliberately brush it, the game's plot progress has basically advanced almost halfway.
The level of the player character is already high enough, and at this time, the subsequent skill tree and equipment matching is a more core way to play.
Of course, these belong to players who are deeply involved in the core of the game.
Just like Monster Hunter, there are actually two ways to play the game.
First of all, the most ordinary player, I, as a tool man, Blue Star, has finished playing the last ancient dragon game, and he has already played this game to the end.
On the other hand, the core of the game is the core of the game, which is the core of the game.
The same is true for brush-and-brush games like Borderlands.
Of course, in addition to the brushing elements of the game itself, there are also many game media posts to analyze "Borderlands" from the worldview and plot of the game.
In terms of plot, "Borderlands" is actually not too good, of course, this is for its third "Borderlands".
In terms of the plot of "Borderlands" developed by Nebula Games and UEgame, Yang Chen uses the story on Pandora.
The stories of the planets Athena and Promethea will be dedicated to players as the story of the follow-up DLC, and although "Borderlands" is not based on an immersive experience in the movie, it can't be so casual, just like a joke.
Compared with the story of the third "Borderlands" in the dream memory, in fact, in the first two "Borderlands", through two consecutive series, plus prequels and various DLC, although the story can only be said to be similar to the Hollywood-style traditional routine, but through a large number of details, as well as a variety of tasks, a qualified villain who is good enough has been created: Handsome Jack.
It's not the kind of villain who is super evil from the start, and the game shows Handsome Jack's voice in front of players through various missions and stories.
Even compared to the protagonist controlled by the player, Handsome Jack's fortune history is more detailed, and at the same time, it gives the player an idea of what kind of person this is.
The history of how a programmer turned tyrant.
From the very beginning, Handsome Jack was just an ordinary programmer with low self-esteem, and he usually didn't dare to speak up when facing his boss.
In private, he is ambitious and wants to seize the opportunity to be promoted to the top.
This opportunity is the Vault, and where he has confidence is his daughter: Angel, the mysterious woman that comes to mind when the player first steps onto Pandora.
His daughter was born a witch with strange powers that resonate with the Vault, which allowed Handsome Jack to learn the secrets of Pandora and grasp the actual information of the Vault.
Like a puppet game, Handsome Jack uses satellites as a platform and his daughter as a line to induce the newcomer protagonist and his party, turning the Vault Hunters into his pawns on Pandora.
The chess pieces spun and jumped under the command of the chess player, first destroying Pandora's largest Red Spear army, dissipating the food chain between the planetary forces, and then opening the vault to bring the Destroyer of Ancient Monsters to the light of day.
With the death of the Destroyer, a new source of energy erupts from within the planet, turning the entire Pandora wasteland into a land of opportunity filled with eridium ore.
In this story, Handsome Jack never shows up, and from beginning to end, he hides behind the scenes, playing the role of a conspirator.
It wasn't until the satellite marked with Hyperion appeared that the player and the protagonist in the game suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the destroyer who looked like a big boss was so weak, it turned out to be just a younger brother, and the villain was someone else!
Originally, although all this was a bit unexpected, it didn't make Handsome Jack much of a situation.
But after this, another sudden incident not only deviated from Handsome Jack's plan, but also changed his personality.
In a crisis, Handsome Jack urgently needs the help of his former colleagues, but this former subordinate has his own little calculations, and for the sake of a better future in his career, he betrays Handsome Jack.
This made Handsome Jack angry, but out of old feelings, he still chose to forgive, but when Handsome Jack turned to leave, the sound of triggers and gunshots appeared, and three shots were fired from a table, but probably fate, or other factors, all three shots were missed.
So a corpse lay in front of Shuai Jack, and from this moment on, the word trust was marked with a question mark in Shuai Jack's heart.
After that, in the face of others, Handsome Jack demanded to obey his words, and his ambition also intensified, he tried to build a giant cannon to deter all the forces on Pandora, this behavior disgusted some of his teammates who fought side by side and chose to leave, and in Handsome Jack's eyes, this was another betrayal.
But the real change came in the case of Handsome Jack's trusted old lover, the barkeeper Moxie, who set a trap that not only made Handsome Jack lose the key to making the cannon, but also almost lost his life.
After this, trust completely disappeared from Handsome Jack's heart.
Obedience and power became the only creed.
Immediately afterward, the Lunar Vault was also opened, and Handsome Jack sat on the throne of the vault and saw the prophecy about his future.
It was a beautiful vision, he controlled a secret monster called the Samurai, ruling the whole of Pandora, no one could resist, such a world made him obsessed, but at the critical moment, the witch Lilith who parted ways appeared, she shattered the illusion with a punch, and left a permanent scar on his face, which was a shame for Jack.
The contrasting experience from heaven to hell drives him crazy, he sees the protagonists controlled by the player as bandits, vows to eradicate these bandits who bring chaos, kill all these disobedient enemies, and with murder and extortion, he quickly ascends to the top of the Hyperion and puts on a mask, announcing the existence of Handsome Jack to the entire galaxy.
Although it is not portrayed as a positive character, in the plot of "Borderlands", the portrayal of such a villain character is undoubtedly unforgettable.
Especially his experience of how to become the final boss from a submissive programmer has a feeling that the player is the protagonist.
Even after beating the plot of Borderlands, Handsome Jack is more popular than the other protagonists in the game.