![]() ![]() ![]() He lives in a crater he calls 'the badass crater of badassitude'.Īnd yet he's also one of the most likeable and humorous creations in both Borderlands 2 and games in general. He sends you into the midst of grave danger for the sake of a pun, and spoilers major plot points in the story the moment you first meet new characters (“Is it just me or does it seem like this guy is going to betray the f*** out of you?”). He berates others for using too many syllables in sentences, and silences them on subjects other than “loot, pecs or explosions”. His loud voice a decibel rip through the air. If Mr Torgue is still human - and after what appears to be an epic poem's journey into steroid abuse, he may now be more pharmacy than man - then he is probably the worst human you could meet. Torgue Tokens make farming the top-tier challenges worthwhile for players already at the level cap. It's also there to fill out the character of Mr Torgue, the kind of man that would send a hitman to settle a review score - the personification of a particular type madness, one both remote and familiar. The satire works because of the exaggeration, the suggestion that a 6/10 review is motive enough for a killing spree. The first is to send up the hysteria that surrounds review scores and the tinderbox tensions that exist between snooty game critic and suspicious game fan - a satirical riff on a taboo theme familiar to both Gearbox and its audience. It's an optional, decorative mission bolted onto the side of Campaign of Carnage, but it serves two purposes. Enraged with the unique force and immediacy of the angered internet commenter, Mr Torgue sends you back in to kill every last writer, finishing with the final, spindly target known only as Game Critic. Until, that is, one makes a barbed remark about the stealth sections in another of Mr Torgue's favourite games while you're making your exit. When the deed is done, Mr Torgue hears the pleas of the other reviewers at ECHOnet (a wry dig at the seeming herd mentality of game review sites?) and bids you spare them. (“He said it sucked, but then gave it a mark that implies it's above average. At first your task is merely to take down the author of a mean-spirited 6/10 review for a game beloved of Mr Torgue, your quest-giver in the second add-on storyline for Gearbox's hick-chic shooter Borderlands 2. It escalates, of course, as all revenge fantasies do. And Mr.It's the revenge fantasy of every developer wounded by a ruthless critic: a side-quest in which you send your player off to murder an unsympathetic game journalist. So you fight your way up the ranking system, deal with some neat, original boss encounters then thrown down against the above mentioned Bad-Ass-A-Saurus and the vault rains a “Lootsplosion” upon you. A new vault is discovered in the Badass Crater of Badassitude, and it’s up to the Vault Hunter to become the number 1 bad ass on Pandora in order to open it. I mean come on! As far as missions go, the “story” isn’t really that deep. At one point, during a level with tons of lava surrounding the play area, a voice calls out “Bonus points if you can knock someone into the molten lava and as they sink into it, they reach out with a single hand and give you a thumbs up”. I think another big reason it’s my favorite is all the 80’s movie throw backs. Torgue’s Campaign will pull out all the stops by throwing as much visual steroids at you as it can.
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