5 Games That Could Have Turned Out Totally Different
Borderlands
When people think of the Borderlands series, most wouldn’t describe it as subtle.
Filled to the brim with crass humor, an extravagant cel-shaded art style and a metric ton of outlandish, overpowered weaponry, the game revels in being as over-the-top and bombastic as it can be.
It’s been much to the series’ benefit too, helping it stand out among the deluge of titles that inhabit similar genres and wasteland shooter settings.
And yet, before the first title made it through its development process, Borderlands was intended to be far more grounded and serious.
Early coverage of the game depicted a dark and gritty title more akin to Mad Max or the more serious side of Fallout. Where one would expect to find nonsensical raiders there would instead be violent cannibals, with nary a dick joke to be heard from anyone.
Likewise, the key cast of characters would have been far more grounded, only varying in the weapon types they used.
Though this might not have totally nuked the series’ chances of taking off, it would have made it stand out a whole lot less from the other gritty titles up for grabs in the seventh console generation, and robbed the world of an undeniably unique franchise.
