Borderlands Corporate Ship Warfare
In a feature where we spent some time talking about Sid Meier’s Starships, we couldn’t possibly find a way to not include something with space flight in it. A great many franchises take place in the final frontier and yet such a vast amount of them don’t actually embrace what could be the best thing about space. Space flight is a dream many on this humble rock wish they could fulfill. So why not bring the loot-gathering shooter Borderlands into space, with each of the game’s corporations battling it out using gigantic capital ships.
Borderlands 2 and its younger cousin The Pre-Sequel introduced us to the world above Pandora with Helios station and the attack upon it by Zarpedon’s Dahl forces. While often hinted at during the narrative of Gearbox’s shoot and loot ’em up, this spacefaring environment was never really shown until the latest title. What a glorious opportunity it is then for a whole new game to be born from this tidbit of information.
You could take on the role of a mercenary, hired by Hyperion/Dahl/Maliwan/Vladof to wage war on their behalf against their rivals. Of course being a mercenary you’d be able to take on missions from any of the manufacturers. This would mean that there’s still plenty of scope for warfare, while allowing enemies to keep the weapon qualities we’re used to seeing but on a much greater scale. Sure, in Borderlands 2 you can get an SMG that spits flaming bullets. What about having a broadside of 50 cannons all doing the same thing with rounds the size of your house.
Hell the idea of collecting loot could even be maintained as the wreckage left behind in battle could easily be used. No denial that Tales from the Borderlands is a great spin-off into unfamiliar territory for the series. This would just be another way for Gearbox to drain every possible cent from their premier franchise and this time not upset fans.
Cash in on this idea Gearbox and you could buy diamond ponies. We only require a nominal fee to pay for food and turbo mansions.
