Borderlands 4 story beginning.

[DanielSon]

What's the best way to start the story of Borderlands 4?

I think the fire hawk symbol should dissolve from the sky mysteriously, distracting everyone while Lilith sneaks up behind Ava and executes her in a single shot with a revolver. Then some sorta 4th wall breaking from Lilith "What, you thought that was cannon VH? HAHAHA." Then maybe some moon-walking from CL4P-TP where he pulls down some old school projection screen, showing what really happens before Maya dies.

Anyway, enough fanfic. Borderlands isn't GoT. killing characters doesn't make it good.

Where do you go from here?

[Diogenes49]

lillith put ava in charge of the crimson raiders

[Bankai9212]

Will the writers keep that though? We know from borderlands 2 and the pre-sequel the writers will re-write or change whatever they want.

[kukuhimanpr]

just expect a lot more retcons and plotholes.

[Black Hole]

Hopefully they rewrite the story in a way that makes bl3's terrible story moot and give us something better to replace it.

I just want your character to be relevant to the plot this time around perhaps give us options to choose that could perhaps change direction of a story or character?

One can hope.

I like the op's version though lol

I believe this franchise could come back to being relevant and enjoyed by all both story and gameplay, they just have to be willing to do it.

[Junipercat]

Tyreen being tortured being the most popular podcast?

[Black Hole]

Or the twins end up killing each other.

[Palehorse]

Originally posted by DanielSon:

What's the best way to start the story of Borderlands 4?

I think the fire hawk symbol should dissolve from the sky mysteriously, distracting everyone while Lilith sneaks up behind Ava and executes her in a single shot with a revolver.

That's by far what most would like to see happen to Ava, and it would be the best start for Borderlands 4.

[kukuhimanpr]

or b4 begins with tannis somehow goes into hiding to construct a time machine, and then secretly recruit a new group of b4 vault hunters out of sight from all other factions' eyes (including crimson raiders and ava)...

and then tannis and the b4 hunters jump through the timelines of b1, b1.5, b2, tftb & b3 to help the 'heroic good team' vault hunters of each timelines survive with better outcomes against old and new threats... while also fixing all the plotholes, retcons, character butchering, and wasted story potentials that gearbox made...

seriously tannis is already mary sue as it is. remember that she built the legendary op digistruct peak training simulator in b2 just from scraps of pandora tech junks... just give her the power to fix the plotholes and remake the series from the grounds up.

[Uzkniso o.o]

I have a feeling it will start as usual: with the player character meeting claptrap. Lol.

[DanielSon]

Originally posted by Megatron:

I just want your character to be relevant to the plot this time around perhaps give us options to choose that could perhaps change direction of a story or character?

I always thought it was very weird how many cut-scenes occur while your character is seemingly sitting on their hands, watching the antagonists fight or kill your friends.

[kukuhimanpr]

gearbox in the past b1b1.5b2 era doesn't want to make a lot of long cinematic cutscenes that completely takes away player's control in the game.

and then b3 era gearbox decided to throw that principle away, and put much more long dramatic cinematic cutscenes that focuses too much on the b3 npcs

[Freqsync]

The artificial intelligence that has been taught by all of us through machine learning finally plays the game in real time during your normal lives. The End. All your vaults are open to us.

[kukuhimanpr]

until some factions of the ais start disliking how the genocidal ais rule them and force them to hate humans, and start rebelling or isekaiing themselves to other dimensions. all vaults are free real estate turbomansions.

[Black Hole]

Sanctuary should become a turbo mansion.

[kukuhimanpr]

dahl would declare all out war on creamy raiders' sanctuary if that happens. they'd be go all karen over their former property.

but dahl will never get that opportunity for casus belli. under ava's leadership who wants everyone to run towards the fire, she'll probably try practicing her siren teleporting skills and accidentally ends up teleporting the whole sanctuary into a random turbostar. ironic ending since in b2 when after lilith teleport the whole sanctuary to avoid jack's helios bombardment, she jokingly tells roland that they're all lucky lilith didn't accidentally teleport them into a random mountain.

if b3 writers didn't cut corners, have all the main casts support each other and don't retcon the eridian watcher, sanctuary would most likely already become a turbomansioncapitalship at the start of b3 by the help of engineering mech skills of gaige, ellie, moxxie, springs & pickles... (sadly scooter died in tftb) with lots of sponsor funds from marcus, rhys, torgue, jakobs, moxxie & aurelia's connections.

bam. the actual b3 starts up with the crimson raiders already having strong space HQ turbomansioncapitalship... and players can just immediately jump around the 6 galaxies choosing their own vault hunting adventures getting easy money from their lucrative mercenary 'heroes' lifestyles. though they would have to prepare dealing with much more aggressive dahl and other greedy megacorps.