{"id":315589,"date":"2025-12-14T12:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315589\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:56:11","slug":"going-platinum-3-tales-from-the-borderlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315589\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Platinum #3: Tales from the Borderlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Going<\/a> Image: Push Square<\/p>\n

Platinum Trophy #3: Tales from the Borderlands<\/a><\/p>\n

Date Earned: 9th May 2017<\/p>\n

Dopamine Index: <\/p>\n

The Borderlands<\/a> series is one I’ve dipped my toe into a couple of times, but I just don’t get on with it.<\/p>\n

It isn’t even really the style of humour that puts me off, which I know is a hurdle for some. I like the cel-shaded art style, and the concept of a looter shooter is a strong one.<\/p>\n

In my opinion it’s just a bit of a clunker.<\/p>\n

What little I’ve played didn’t feel particularly great in the hands, and the UI and the menus always left me a bit confused.<\/p>\n

I mean, I’d probably have a better time with the more recent entries, which I’d hope have streamlined some things and improved the gameplay, but with so many games to play these days, I don’t really want to take the risk.<\/p>\n

However, one game in the series I do like is a spin-off, made by an entirely different team \u2014 Tales from the Borderlands.<\/p>\n

I only played it because it was one of the PS Plus monthly games many moons ago; I’d heard good things but hadn’t played one of Telltale’s narrative adventures before, so wasn’t sure what I was getting into.<\/p>\n

I remember being so pleasantly surprised by the game’s writing; with almost no knowledge of Borderlands, I suddenly was able to care about its world and some of the characters within it.<\/p>\n

As my first taste of Telltale’s episodic formula, I was really into the whole journey. The idea that my decisions were having an impact on relationships and the story was great, making it feel like I was putting my stamp on things.<\/p>\n

If I’m being really honest, I don’t have very vivid memories of the game, but recalling it brings back particular imagery and characters and warm, fuzzy feelings.<\/p>\n

Even though it was built within a world I didn’t really care about, Tales from the Borderlands managed to transcend the broader series and provided a very different, but much more appealing, way in.<\/p>\n

The reason I haven’t really been talking about the Trophies yet is because they’re extremely easy to obtain. To platinum the game, all you need to do is play through it.<\/p>\n

It’s not a particularly rewarding or hard-earned plat, then, but in this case it wasn’t really the point \u2014 I just had a really good time with Tales from the Borderlands, and the plat is a nice cherry on the cake.<\/p>\n

Cheers, Tales from the Borderlands.<\/p>\n

P.S. I can’t be the first person to ever point this out, but Robert from Dispatch<\/a> doesn’t not look like Rhys, right?<\/p>\n

\"Going<\/a> Image: Push Square<\/p>\n

I mean, you know, it’s not an exact match, but I’ve seen characters that look less like each other, put it that way.<\/p>\n

Do you have the platinum Trophy in Tales from the Borderlands? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Push Square Platinum Trophy #3: Tales from the Borderlands Date Earned: 9th May 2017 Dopamine Index: The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22943,242,59,117802,197,125347,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-315589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-2k-games","9":"tag-features","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-going-platinum","12":"tag-ps4","13":"tag-tales-from-the-borderlands","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}