Borderlands: End Game (Spoilers!)

[Liquid Paradox]

So I just played through Borderlands for the first time, and it really was an awesome game (despite disappointingly easy boss fights), but now I can't help but find myself wondering: What just happened?

For those of you who have not yet played through... MASSIVE SPOILER WARNINGS

There, now nobody can accuse me of not warning you

So... After all the blood and toil, fighting through leagons of human bandits, greedy mercenary companies and hordes of alien wildlife, you finally manage to open the not-so-mythical vault, and find... the immortal harbinger of the Apocalypse? Some giant God-alien thing from another dimension? WTF?

Worse still, there is absolutely no in game explanation of this creatures origin, nor why your "Guardian angel" Who may or may not be a ninja-claptrap creating satellite, was so keen on having you kill it in the first place. I mean seriously, even if you buy the whole "once released the Destroyer will lay waste to countless civilizations" line (I am assuming this would happen, even if such a thing was never mentioned) there is still the question of why the guardian angel would have you collect the key to begin with? Wouldn't the vault just stay closed for another two hundred years if you left it alone?

Anyway, if you know more then I do, or have any theories on the situation, feel free to post! I don't really want to hear any "The story is unimportant, it's all about the loot!" crap because even Diablo had a good plot.

 

[Nillz]

I don't understand it either, it's very confusing and not explained.

 

[Poomanchu745]

I didn't really care for the reasoning behind the guy because there really wasn't much of a story to begin with. But when the whole game is based around loot and the whole game you are told about the crazy awesome money and loot inside im expecting at least a legendary gun or two. So I was super disappointed when there was nothing... Big let down.

 

[Antiparticle]

All will be explained in Borderlands 2! (Maybe.)

 

[AWC Viper]

Spoiler

i only like the ending for the "cl4p-tp Ninja Assassin" part

 

[ma55ter_fett]

The ending was the weakest part of the game, I was really looking foreward to plundering me some alien weapons and stuff, but the last boss doesn't even drop anything good (at least for me).

I guess their setting it up for a sequal, which I would buy.

 

[metalmmaniac]

one of the better theories ive heard, was that maybe the destroyer gets stronger every 200 yrs, so the guardian has you give it a beatdown to keep it in check until next time.

 

[theSovietConnection]

I assume she wants you to open the vault and kill it so nobody else stumbles across the key for the vault and accidentally releases it.

 

[RidleyValiant]

I have to say it ranks highly amongst the most unsaitisfactory endings I've ever seen. Quite possibly the most unsatisfactory. Nothing is really explained anywhere with regards to the main story, and the loot drops utterly pathetic (from the end boss). Surely the bloody vault door is open for more than the 5-6 minutes it took to kill the bloody squid thing if it only opens every 200 years. If there is a sequel I won't be purchasing it, if thats the some total of their ability to end a semi reasonable story I'd probably rather shoot myself

 

[TPiddy]

Considering that most people in the game manipulate you into doing things for them I don't see how this was any different. The boss has a better chance of dropping good loot... I found a sweet shield when I killed him.

They don't even explain how that chick is able to talk to you anyways, so yeah there is a whole lot of stuff that goes unanswered. Realistically, since we never get to go inside the vault I can see how some people would be let down, but the boss, for me, dropped good enough stuff to make it seem worthwhile.

 

[Liquid Paradox]

I personally wouldn't mind the "The vault is really a gateway for the eater of worlds, the guardian angel if the force of good who must stop it" plot device, so long as it fit into the story. But the truth is, there is no explanation AT ALL for this thing (and I agree, the loot was really pathetic for me as well, a pair of green's and a bunch of money. The Clipper was more worth it.)

Also the ninja would be cool if it had some relevance.

Apparently there is supposed to be some DLCs coming out, and that might explain everything a bit further, but they shouldn't have left things so open.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

I watched the ending on youtube.....tentacle rape monster was the end boss and VAULTS ARE FOR PROTECTING PEOPLE FROM THE GREAT WAR THUS MEANING YOU STOLE PIECES FROM FALLOUT!

 

[Slycne]

In an attempt to read between the lines - the Vault is actually a portal or gateway to another dimension where that thing got sealed/lives. Every 200 years it has the opportunity to break free or the Vault needs to be reset to ensure another 200 years of imprisonment. The Guardian AI satellite was set up to ensure that didn't happen by whatever means necessary. So it spreads the rumor that the vault contains untold riches to lure certain people it needs to the Vault that can fight the thing while the Vault itself resets for another 200 years.

 

[Asehujiko]

I don't see how a giant vagina with an eyeball in it could threaten anything outside it's acid spitting range...

 

[El Poncho]

She was misleading you to kill it so it didn't destroy the world, maybe people who made the satellite thought that it might of done something to them. It may tell you in later DLC's or something.

I watched the ending on youtube.....tentacle rape monster was the end boss and VAULTS ARE FOR PROTECTING PEOPLE FROM THE GREAT WAR THUS MEANING YOU STOLE PIECES FROM FALLOUT!

They stole alot of other things from other games aswell, not just fallout and they combined all those different parts very well

 

[LockeDown]

I don't see how a giant vagina with an eyeball in it could threaten anything outside it's acid spitting range...

You've clearly never fought C'Thun in WoW, then.

 

[lvl9000_woot]

She was misleading you to kill it so it didn't destroy the world, maybe people who made the satellite thought that it might of done something to them. It may tell you in later DLC's or something.

Yeah I thought that was kinda lame. They could have just told you that if you killed it, then you'd get untold riches. That seems like enough reason to want to seek the vault and kill it.

 

[Asehujiko]

I don't see how a giant vagina with an eyeball in it could threaten anything outside it's acid spitting range...

You've clearly never fought C'Thun in WoW, then.

Again, pretty harmless outside his own instance.

 

[Summerstorm]

Well, the whole story was pretty much designed in under half a hour (or so it seems). Also no characters (except the weird scientist woman) gets fleshed out.. or.. has a real character whatsoever.

The game is pretty much a straight shooter. Nice setting (if a bit boring) and an ok multiplayer part.

It was fun playing it once... but that was enough for me too. I was very disappointed at the ending (and the lack of characters and interaction)

 

[Hazardlife]

Boss strategy was basically "Shoot the giant glowing eyeball." How original.

The bastard didn't even leave any decent loot.