What was your reaction to the stranger reveal?
NOBODY PREDICTED THE STRANGER TO BE LOADER BOT! When the reveal happened I almost shat myself.
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NOBODY PREDICTED THE STRANGER TO BE LOADER BOT! When the reveal happened I almost shat myself.
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I believe my thought process was "ROBOT ON STILTS! ROBOT! ON! STILTS!"
I was like "HOLY SHIT IT ALL MAKES SENSE" but also "HES NOT DEAD WOOP"
When it was revealed I just laughed and looking back I'm ashamed I didn't see it coming. Looking back I should've seen the hints like the robotic voice for example. Guess the body shape and the fact he was hitting Rhys threw me off. Telltale did an awesome job keeping his identity secret.
Here you go, skip to around 6:30, I wish I captured the whole thing, but I decided to pause and stop recording because I was in so much shock. It caught me completely off guard, I never would have expected Loader Bot to be The Stranger, but yet, it makes complete sense.
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Not kidding. I made these exact facial expressions the moment I saw his figure emerge from the sandstorm;
Personally I really disliked it being Loader Bot. I didn't see it coming and nor should I have. I am replaying the whole series again in order to have money for the end and I'm just personally not buying it that the stranger was meant to be Loader Bot this entire time.
It's cause they didn't give us time to legit consider him. That exoskeleton wasn't shown till that same episode and then no one legit thought LB survived being shot up by Kroger and then the crashing onto Pandora, it was.....too good to be true.
I was still hoping it was Lilith or Zero (or at least Athena) but that wouldn't be fair to those who haven't played the Borderlands series.
....You wanted the stranger to be someone else?
I figured it out once he stayed behind on Helios and we got to see that random dude wearing the suit. No way the stranger would be that random dude haha. What I didn't figure was how the hell did he fit into that suit, so the reveal of him using the skeleton was pretty awesome to me :P
I was shocked and awed, then I laughed a bit.
....You know, there is that part where you can self destruct Loader Bot and he comes back fully functional and back together alluding to the fact that he might have fixed himself up. Maybe there was more to THIS Loader Bot than meets the eye.
I have a theory it's Felicity slowly coming back but that doesn't seem to be the case
But here's my almost literal reaction:
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I was amazed but at the same time equally satisfied - in my mind he was the perfect one to be in the suit
Sussed it out about 20 seconds before he started reminiscing. Felt really stupid that it had taken me so long.
I thought it was brilliant. It also explained Jack's detailed description of how those suit things worked, back on Helios.
I agree with this. I also started to replay (because I wanted money) but the Stranger still doesn't work for me...
Seems the Stranger was meant to be someone else and his personality kinda changes all of a sudden.
I agree, it seems like episode 4 and 5 the Stranger is Loader Bot but before that, it just doesn't seem like it to me. Makes me think that TT didn't decide on LB being the Stranger til after episode 3.
I personally don't know who I wanted it to be, however I do dislike that it was LB. I love LB but him being the stranger just doesn't fit for me.
They knew it at the very least in episode 2. There is a break from the story after Loaderbot saves Fiona and Sasha from Athena. Loaderbot spins around knocking Athena across the city. At that point The Stranger says "but Loaderbots cant do that." to which Fiona replied "were you there?" A pregnant pause occurred before the story picked back up.
They knew in episode 2 at least.
It makes perfect sense to me for the kind of character Loader Bot is. If you're iffy about his attitude at the beginning, it can easily be explained that Loader Bot is playing a character because he doesn't want Rhys and Fiona to have any clue about who he is.
while that COULD be true, doesn't prove that they knew it was gonna be LB. Could of just been somebody that knew about LB's. I am up to Episode 4 again and not once until then did I truly feel that this was actually LB. While the scene you described did stand out to me replaying it, still doesn't grasp me that this was meant to be LB the whole time. It really became a let down for me when he was revealed.
agree to disagree I suppose.
also, if you choose the sticky grenades for his weapons in Ep 1, he throws one exactly like that. So, ideally LB's could do that.
Really now? I think I fully understood what the writers were going for.
good for you, I however disagree completely. Like I said above, agree to disagree no need to try and "win" this by getting me to agree with you as I clearly am not.
Well let's look at the bright side telltale games didn't kill loader bot like scooter.
I'm just thankful it wasn't Vaughn or Felix, because that would have made less sense to me.
Especially since in episode 1 there is a part where you can admit you tried to throw Rhys out of the caravan and the stranger doesn't believe you (both Vaughn and Felix were there so it wouldn't make sense. LB wasn't.)
My reaction was complete indifference because ever since I was forced to remove the Jack AI I was dead inside
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Are you me? That was my exact same reaction. I kept hoping we were able to rescue Jack or that he would appear later in the episode. Nope
I was caught totally off guard. Who, here, ever speculated this, eh ? It never, ever, touched me ...
And even so, I could just say, "well, of course, TT, what a bloody moron I've been ! The voice, eh ? Who else ?".
But the plot cunningly and successfully made all attempts at hiding the obvious by diversion to other characters.
That's quasi-evil, by my books, lots of kudos to TT for this :-)
I was blown away, I was honestly expecting the stranger to be like Vaughn, or even Pollux. Brilliant reveal, though, I never saw it coming, and now that the reveal is there, looking back seems like we all should have guessed.
"WHAT THE FUCK."
I had started guessing that it was Loaderbot about 10 seconds before the reveal and even then my mind still exploded!