What do you think of the new design of Angel ?

[Sombrero]

The question is in the title. For the people who have no clue about Borderlands story (you may want to leave before getting spoiled) Angel is the "mysterious" woman talking to you by visions from the start of the game.

She was quite different looking in the original game and honestly I think I prefer her new AI looking design. The old one was uncanny it felt like a weird commercial for shampoo or something. The images are essentially the same but the redesign with the blue dots and the fact that she appears smaller and in the corner of the screen are much better.
I am surprised they made such a change and I love it!

[SeriousCCIE]

I think perhaps it's because they changed the entire plot and outline of what the game would be like in the middle of the design.

This sort of brings it to what they intended, as opposed to what they had already recorded and paid for and had to use...

I don't have any links handy, but there used to be trailers before the original BL came out that had Helena Pierce and a dramatic voice over and a big reveal of her face being messed up and essentially a description of a sort of mad max apocalyptic world that did not match at all with what Claptrap and his brethren managed to usher in instead.

It's like they made a comedy on top of a drama and had a bunch of serious poetry they had to turn into dirty limericks to keep things consistent.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Sombrero:

She's big only at the very beginning then she's just in a corner.

They couldn't really remove her she's a vital part of the story of pretty much the 4 games to this point. Considering what they had I'd say she's better than she used to be.

she is big at the ending too I just finished it

working on DLC's now

[Nicholas Steel]

Only downside to the change is that they don't preload the animation, so the game stutters when such cutscenes begin playback

[Diederick]

It looks worse

[mad_le_zisell]

Okay. Due to them converting all the cutscenes from BIK to BK2 I don't know how to replace them now. Renaming doesn't work. Game crashes. Converting via RadVideo Tool don't work either. For the same reason. Does anyone know a fast way to convert BIT videos to BK2?

[Senri]

I tried switching the movie files from orginal over to the remaster to see if it would fix it.
but the file types are a little different and it ended up crashing the game.
let me know if a mod comes out that lets you play the game with the original angel.

[Keaton Fox]

I prefer the old look for Angel in Borderlands 1, but the new one is fine. As much as I prefer the original BL1 look, I found it rather unfitting and out of place. For a cartoony game that's heavy on cell shading, thick outlining, and a hand drawn texture aesthetic.

[Nicholas Steel]

The problem with the new look is it ruins the ending of Borderlands 1. The big reveal that it's a computer program all along... (and in BL2 it's clarified it's a person using a sattelite).

[Lunacy]

Not only do I hate it
but I hate the fact they replaced the old ones in regular edition and in Borderlands 2 it looks terrible

[BROLY 32]

It's terrible. Best part about Angel was her looking genuinely scared when everything doesn't go as planned after Flynt.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by CrissLHB:

She has ONLY 1 FACE EXPRESSION!!! What the fúck is this default face búllshít!? I'm really fúcking curious at the end of the game if she will still have the same monotone lifeless expression.

she does, at the game end its a bigger version of her but with the same face

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1705585962

[shyboy27]

I it was my choice I would of left it alone, just left the original live action shots , ran them through video processing to sharpen them , made it a bit smaller and moved it to the side like it is now. It didn't add anything to the exp.

[Steel Jawbone]

I got so sick of seeing her gross broken nose and weird malformed skull in the original.

I'm so glad that they AI'd that deformed weirdo.

[DragonIV]

Old > New.

[acv55555]

Originally posted by mad_le_zisell:

Okay. Due to them converting all the cutscenes from BIK to BK2 I don't know how to replace them now. Renaming doesn't work. Game crashes. Converting via RadVideo Tool don't work either. For the same reason. Does anyone know a fast way to convert BIT videos to BK2?

I sincerely wish you had found out a way to make it work, and hope that one day, you or somebody still will. In the meantime, might you at least share those files?