The unskippable opening cinematic is really bad. Like, bad quality. I don't know if they were trying some weird style but boy does the animation look awful.

lol I went into this thread expecting that you liked it... I liked it anyway, as well as the ending cinematic also which is done in the same style. Think the rap song that plays over it is great - Gearbox are pretty good in making licensed music choices for their games.

Here's the animated opening OP is referencing also:

The song that plays is good, I just didn't like the animation.

I'll change the thread title, sorry.

Thanks for adding the video. I didn't realize how long it was, I put the dogs out and came back and it was over.

On the latest Bombcast Jeff said the song is by Deltron, is that Del the Funky Homosapien, because it sounds like him?

Wow I loved that. Cool animation and choice song selection. Almost makes me interested in playing Battleborn.

@darkjohnny477: That is indeed him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltron_3030.

I dunno. Looks alright to me. Interesting idea.

Damn. I loved it. Assured me I like the style even if reviews have been mixed

It very much looks like some lower-budget Flash animation. The backgrounds are well done, and the character designs look pretty good, but it's very flat and inconsistent (in terms of framerate, character positions and proportions, fluidity).

But yeah, 2D frame-by-frame animation is expensive. I'm not surprised they didn't shell out for higher quality stuff, considering they also had an entire game to budget for as well (there aren't any reusable assets in this, after all).

Yeah that was pretty bad. I loved the weird-ass Naruto run she does at the beginning!

I liked it, but at the same time I've seen much better 2d animation in some crazy anime fight scenes.

It's a deliberate stylistic choice, mixing in jankier and simpler looking animations and characters with some super fast paced, complex and fluid animations as well as some very detailed sets. Same with mixing in traditional 2D animation and 3D models. It's kind of evocative of certain eras of cartoons.

For my money it works great and I thought it was a hell of an intro. So yeah I'd say it's really good.

It's a throwback to old saturday morning cartoons like thundercats and stuff. You're probably too young to get it (no disrespect just saying)

Gonna have to agree to disagree. I think that the animation varied in quality quite a bit, but I thought that whole thing was pretty fuckin rad. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

The animation reminds me a lot of a very specific artist who did a few semi-famous anime movies but I can't remember the person's name or the name of the only movie of theirs that I saw (it's on the tip of my tongue).

I like the animation style, tho. Lots of movement thanks to the 'sketch-like' style that you don't see in a ton of animations. Most animation looks really stiff to me unless you pour tons of money into it or can make a work-around like this Battleborn opening did.

I am 38 years old and loved G.I. Joe and Transformers cartoons. I very much remember saturday morning cartoons. Maybe I'm too old to get what they were going for, if anything.

Maybe I expected more after loving everything about the Borderlands games, including the opening cinematics.

Pretty rad. Wait I mean red, it's very red.

The fact that its unskippable is fucking inexcusable. It just comes off as "look at this animation we did!!! what you don't want to watch it? tough shit for you!!!".

I actually sort of liked it. The inability to skip it did sort of suck having had issues with the PC version, at to keep watching it. :D

They have since made it stoppable right?

That wasn't bad. Pretty awesome actually. But I up grew in a time when the Aeon Flux nonsense was pretty awesome.

wow. WOW.

that's what it reminded me of too

Video is really cool. If I didn't know anything about the game I would be immediately interested.

But I know what the game is and have zero interest in playing.

@bson: reminds me more of Aeon Flux.

It's 100% a stylistic choice. Too bad you can't skip it though.

As much as I dislike that style, I'd have a smidgen more appreciation for the game if it opted for something unique like that rather than a retread of Borderlands-esque graphics.

The opening cinematic is baller as fuck, OP. They should have spent the game budget on making more music videos for del.

A five long ass minutes and no Orendi?

Yeah that's really bad!