Borderlands 2 will release the final story-based DLC for the game, "Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep," in late June and it will be a loving tribute to tabletop style games such as Dungeons & Dragons. Lead writer for Borderlands 2 Anthony Burch discussed the inspiration for writing the DLC to Gamespot:
"Don't be the guys who are just being condescending, like, making nerds the punch line of the joke rather than the people who are making the jokes. We wanted to be a love letter to nerd culture that can still poke fun at itself. Not like, 'Ha ha, you play video games, what a nerd!' That wouldn't have even made sense because we are the biggest nerds. Borderlands is a really hardcore, really in-depth game with a whole crazy amount of mechanics because we like those kinds of games, and this story is about nerdy [expletive] because we really like that--there's Game of Thrones references because everybody on the team likes Game of Thrones and all that kind of stuff [sic]."
Despite the amount of fan service and jokes aimed at nerd culture and longtime fans of the game, this DLC package will also have serious moments, as it will also show Tiny Tina coming to terms with the death of one of the game's characters.
"You kind of inadvertently ended up making a story that's about the healing power of nerd stuff," Burch said.
Burch is hoping that the positive message shines through the humor and zany action of "Borderlands 2" and people come to accept the positive role video games play in some people's lives
"It always bums me out when people are like, 'Oh, it's just games; it doesn't matter,' But no, it kind of all does matter a lot. Even if the message you're sending isn't anything big and wide-reaching about human nature and the nature of violence, which is totally not what we're dealing in, the message that games are cool and you can play games to be close to people is, I think, still a message worth telling," Burch said.
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