Torgue was funny at first but he got cucked into nonsense levels. I think the worst was during the D&D DLC where he wants to play the RPG with them but Lilith bullies him for it because he's "too hot" to be a nerd and is just into it because it's trendy. Like she even fits the nerd stereotype herself.
I still loved him during the Campaign of Carnage. He was so fucking cheesy, he was like every 90s WWF wrestler just smashed into one hulking one-liner spewing package. It was fucking great.
I think the reason that Torgue was such a great character is that he just wasn't meant to be taken seriously. His personality seemed to be outright dictated by "How cheesy and fun can we make this?", at least in the Campaign of Carnage. Fuck, some of his quotes were the funniest part of the entire game.
Or at least till they kill themselves like Burch should do.
Was Burch ever even alive? I get the impression that he was stillborn and refused to have the decency to stay that way.
why do that when i can just pirate it
Which shouldn’t astonish anyone. Does anyone dispute that they ran out of steam after 2 came out, 7 years ago? Combine that with Pitchford being the most obvious shyster in game development and you end up with exactly what you’d expect.
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“What’s actually going on is, as the DLC progresses [it becomes clear] that Tina is using this Dungeons & Dragons module to cope with the fact that a lot of her friends are dead,” he says. “She uses it initially as a denial mechanism, and then, as it goes on, her walls of denial are going to begin crumbling and characters that she cared about or that influenced the main plot are going to start infecting the narrative.”
“You’ll see people like Roland, you’ll see Angel, you’ll see Jack, but her own mental versions of them. The way she looks at Roland, the way she looks at those characters. It actually ends at a point that feels very much like a closing kind of note. It’s a very personal note, nothing big and global.”
Hellquist adds, “There are the two stories: there’s the module that you adventure in and then there’s the story of the people playing the module at the table. We really wanted the people at the table to change by the end. That this experience of playing this game together has brought some change to all of their lives just in terms of where they are emotionally. I think it’s really ultimately a touching story when you get through it.”
