Maya's Funeral Animatic - Borderlands 3: Director's Cut Behind-the-Scenes

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 707

  • @garrettwasson8811
    @garrettwasson8811 3 роки тому +939

    This is worlds better than what we got. I really wish we had gotten this.

    • @dragonsember
      @dragonsember 3 роки тому +31

      God yeah bl3 was really lacking in emotion

    • @toadkiller6022
      @toadkiller6022 3 роки тому +34

      Same, it actually got me a bit emotional. Also it makes Ava much more sympathetic.

    • @jimbojenkins1921
      @jimbojenkins1921 3 роки тому +9

      Yes this should have been in the game.

    • @mrsumoyoshi
      @mrsumoyoshi 3 роки тому +16

      100% agree. This sympathy and emotion were exactly what was missing from the death of Maya. It reminds me of the emotion at the end of the tiny Tina DLC for borderlands 2.

    • @KillerChrono666
      @KillerChrono666 3 роки тому +8

      Yea, at least we got a tiny bit of that emotion from Krieg's DLC.

  • @THawkMedia
    @THawkMedia 3 роки тому +976

    if you ever feel stupid, remember that gear box cut this for "figure it out lillith"

    • @EsteemedReptile
      @EsteemedReptile 3 роки тому +52

      Story writing in general has taken such a fucking nosedive in the last 5 years.

    • @easiestcc6451
      @easiestcc6451 2 роки тому +18

      @@EsteemedReptile TRUE! WHERE DID ALL THE GOOD WRITERS GO??? Oh yeah twitter ruined good writing. *Claps* nice job tumblr you fucked us all over

    • @EsteemedReptile
      @EsteemedReptile 2 роки тому +29

      @@easiestcc6451 It has nothing to do with Twitter. It has to do with the experienced writers retiring and the new chumps coming in with no clue.

    • @easiestcc6451
      @easiestcc6451 2 роки тому +5

      @@EsteemedReptile thats why i wanna become a writer. All it takes is a few good writers to make more good writers. We've seen this with a lot of media.

    • @KhoaLe-uc2ny
      @KhoaLe-uc2ny 2 роки тому +4

      ​@@easiestcc6451 shoot, go for it. the sky's the limit

  • @garbagepanda8
    @garbagepanda8 3 роки тому +306

    Lilith saying “She saw us all better than we saw ourselves, “ as the camera was on Krieg really got to me

  • @MaskOfLimbo
    @MaskOfLimbo 3 роки тому +1585

    So... Why was this cut?
    Would help people not hate Ava as much, gave Maya a proper funeral and Krieg was here!
    So why the HELL was this cut?!

    • @SnowTheKitsune
      @SnowTheKitsune 3 роки тому +31

      Mordecai, Tiny Tina and Brick wasn't introduce in this point. That's why they decided to cut Maya funeral. And I never hated Ava

    • @MaskOfLimbo
      @MaskOfLimbo 3 роки тому +56

      @@SnowTheKitsune couldn't they just replace their models with generic NPCs? They didn't even talked or interacted with us during this.

    • @MaskOfLimbo
      @MaskOfLimbo 3 роки тому +23

      @@MetisLeigh427 You could be right. I wouldn't be surprised, honestly. Could also be because they rushed to finish the story and had to cut this or for another reason. Idk.

    • @optimusprime2890
      @optimusprime2890 3 роки тому +6

      Budget? Maybe?

    • @SnowTheKitsune
      @SnowTheKitsune 3 роки тому +3

      @@MaskOfLimbo wouldnt work because I think in funeral was intended for all crimson raiders.

  • @RiskE80
    @RiskE80 3 роки тому +1000

    I think I speak for all of us when I say this. Please add this to the full game and animate it. Please, this scene is so important to the story and would show us that Ava isn’t such a brat, instead of “FIGURE IT OUT LILITH” we could have a nice girl who realizes she was responsible for her actions, these 2 cutscenes would've changed the outlook on almost all of the characters, this is a scene that was more emotional than any movie I've watched, and I've watched a ton, but no scene actually got me to cry, I think adding this scene wouldn't fix the story entirely, but it would definitely changed peoples views on it and maybe make people like it a lot more, Gearbox I hope you read this and understand what I'm saying and do the right thing
    Signed, The Borderlands Community

    • @seltrixbl2623
      @seltrixbl2623 3 роки тому +43

      that scene could have changed soooo much. I would literally accept mayas death after this scene

    • @NEEDLESALAD
      @NEEDLESALAD 3 роки тому +45

      SERIOUSLY WHY WAS THIS CUT O U T.
      None of the Ava hate would of happened if they went with this instead.

    • @Xurimix
      @Xurimix 3 роки тому +11

      SERIOUSLY! I'M SO ANGRY THAT THIS HAS BEEN REMOVED!

    • @Xurimix
      @Xurimix 3 роки тому +4

      And yet, some people say Borderlands story is useless and we play it only for the gameplay.

    • @RiskE80
      @RiskE80 3 роки тому +10

      @@Xurimix i play Normal Mode for the Story and then TVHM is for Gameplay, i LOVE the Borderlands story and im very invested in it, thats why i care about it so much

  • @Tina_Beans
    @Tina_Beans 3 роки тому +522

    Cut scene: profound, emotionally moving, actually tear-jerking
    Actual scene: Welp! Maya's dead! Okay, back to work everyone!

    • @fungeonsandkraggons5381
      @fungeonsandkraggons5381 3 роки тому +47

      The cut scene was almost as good as the tiny tina dlc scene where she tries to cope with roland's death.

    • @theobell2002
      @theobell2002 Рік тому +4

      The same thing happened with Roland in BL2 but for some reason people didn't care nearly as much for Roland as they did for Maya. He died but you just kept going because you can't really allow yourself to be vulnerable while there's a greater threat looming over Pandora.
      The funeral scene should've happened at the end of BL3, imo. Not in the middle of it.

    • @Hehehe-gk4eq
      @Hehehe-gk4eq 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@theobell2002 to be fair there was more that happened after Roland died that with Maya. There was a DLC that was about Tiny Tina's coping with his death, and even without the DLCs you still talk to people around Sanctuary about it.

    • @whodatninja439
      @whodatninja439 11 місяців тому +1

      Actual character writing? Nah We need more Shitty humor and Internet memes from 2010. Like borderlands 3 ended up.

  • @xSiLeNt-_-Wo7Fx
    @xSiLeNt-_-Wo7Fx 3 роки тому +443

    OK now I'm tilted that this wasn't the scene in the game

  • @Scooty.
    @Scooty. 3 роки тому +566

    If only we got this in game.. People might have started liking Ava more.

    • @seltrixbl2623
      @seltrixbl2623 3 роки тому +26

      lets start a riot. We need this scene to be added in the base game

    • @TheNoMoreGamer
      @TheNoMoreGamer 3 роки тому +28

      Lmao no it wouldn't. It was entirely her fault Maya died in the 1st place.

    • @benben7797
      @benben7797 3 роки тому +63

      @@TheNoMoreGamer yes but this at least has more substance for Ava as a character, rather than just being a brat and screaming and cutting down Lilith every chance she got. Also Maya's death practically being footnote in BL3's story is fixed by having a funeral scene at all. Those were the core issues with her character, if that was handled better, the sting of Maya's death being Ava's fault, probably wouldn't have been as bad as it was.

    • @Lynch2507
      @Lynch2507 3 роки тому +7

      @@TheNoMoreGamer yeah we get it, you're very edgy, moving on

    • @RiskE80
      @RiskE80 3 роки тому +24

      @@TheNoMoreGamer we know that, but the whole reason people didn't like her was that she blamed everyone BUT herself for her death, in this cutscene, she realizes that it was her fault, which is exactly what people wanted

  • @Twocoolman115
    @Twocoolman115 3 роки тому +366

    This is canon and nothing anyone says can convince me of otherwise.

  • @sprite-consumer7677
    @sprite-consumer7677 3 роки тому +333

    I’m so confused as to why they cut so much good story from the game, they even had the vault hunters in the cutscenes and then cut them out. Not going to lie I’m really disappointed to see what could’ve been. :(

    • @prtyproductive
      @prtyproductive 3 роки тому +26

      my theory is that they saw the backlash about the story so animated it in a rush to save face and blame it on pacing issues

    • @EsteemedReptile
      @EsteemedReptile 3 роки тому +7

      Because developers like Gearbox don't give two shits about anything genuinely artful. Putting this much emphasis on a characters death sets a precedent that any in the future need to be treated with the same gravitas. That would take time, time they would rather spend advertising and embellishing.
      I gaurantee you that when the animation/storyboard team came to the higher ups with this animatic, they were shouted out of the room for "wasting player time". Now Gearbox want to use it as a get out of jail free card to soften the relentless backlash they've received for their utterly dogshit story design. Why do you think they haven't made a peep about WHY this was cut? It's because they are craven assholes who want to monetize talent at the cost of its artistic integrity. They never cared about how good the story was. They cared about how "engaged" your eyeballs were with the gameplay so the numbers on their stockholder spreadsheets would keep ticking up.

    • @christopherrivas1512
      @christopherrivas1512 3 роки тому +9

      @@EsteemedReptile I think it was made after because if you remember rolands death he had a quest and a statue and even an intense plot point in tiny tina’s assault on dragonskeep

  • @confusdsquirrl
    @confusdsquirrl 3 роки тому +140

    The thing that I found the most improved was that this scene has all the vault hunters in it. I think that's the first scene, outside the intro, where you actually see the vault hunters in a cut scene.

  • @juanjose-jn6iw
    @juanjose-jn6iw 3 роки тому +107

    Sad krieg hurts the most

  • @kainepeterson6638
    @kainepeterson6638 3 роки тому +71

    WE COULD HAVE GOTTEN THIS? I’m crying, like I did for Roland’s funeral. Krieg being there. Zero taking a pause before he casts the dust into the fire. That moment of connection for Lilith and Ava when she talks about Roland. This scene would have made the game. Everything else could have been exactly the same, except for these two scenes, and the game would have been vaulted like BL2. Because this scene is what’s missing from BL3: Heart. An emotional center piece. For BL2 that was how personal the conflict with Jack becomes after he kills Roland. For BL3 it SHOULD have been how personal the fight becomes after Maya’s murder, but it’s lost without this scene. Can you IMAGINE how pissed off and invested players would be if instead of walking onto the ship after her death and seeing that haha hehe edited video of Maya’s death, we saw it after THIS? Imagine, if they let Maya’s death breathe like this and then Troy and Tyreen brag about it after her funeral. They’d be as hated as Jack.

  • @waffeltoad
    @waffeltoad 3 роки тому +110

    You see this? This is character development! This is one of the reasons why we like characters like Tiny Tina as much as we do! CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!... also not just sweeping Maya's death under the rug makes you feel not as cheated...

    • @derpyKitsu
      @derpyKitsu 3 роки тому +2

      Character development, in this economy? Nah, couldn't be

  • @al-burrito3882
    @al-burrito3882 3 роки тому +186

    This is so much better compared to what we got in game. By 10 fold.
    If they can, I hope they animate this some day.

  • @Arristi1gaming
    @Arristi1gaming 3 роки тому +69

    Apparently the blog post about this said Krieg was supposed to be in the main campaign of the game durring the Promethea section, hence why he shows up at the funeral in the deleted scene

    • @2_soultang247
      @2_soultang247 3 роки тому

      really!?! source plz?

    • @hououinkyouma3864
      @hououinkyouma3864 2 роки тому +2

      Did they just trying to make the worst possible story outcomes? WHY THE FUCK DID THEY CUT OUT KRIEG? Why? WTF. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

  • @BadgerAtHomeKid
    @BadgerAtHomeKid 3 роки тому +129

    I demand there be a statue of Maya made somewhere on Athenas.

    • @Blackheartzero
      @Blackheartzero 3 роки тому +16

      "They're in a race against time with the Calypsos, they don't have the time to erect a statue!"
      *_SKAGSHIT_*_ THEY DON'T!!_ They live in a universe with readily-available machines that can 3D print anything into existence like magic- even working machines and living organisms! Just feed a large enough boulder through a Digistruct machine, give it some pictures of Maya to work with, find a proper spot to place the statue and hit Print!

    • @lilacocto9103
      @lilacocto9103 2 роки тому +5

      @@Blackheartzero EXACTLY! Digistruct tech is used for nearly everything in Borderlands, even all the way back to the first game! You lose your car? Just make another instantly! You need to store excess items? Just digitally store them!

    • @Blackheartzero
      @Blackheartzero 2 роки тому

      @@lilacocto9103
      Did you _just now DIE?!_ Our machines will digitize your meat and teleport it to safety in living condition, saving your life for a small fee of like 7% of your total money.
      Don't have money to pay the fee? No big deal! We'll just waive the fee and bring you back to life for no charge at all!
      These machines are a miracle! you're telling us they can't use 'em to make a statue?! Was there some reason the gang didn't want to make a statue? Was it like Harry Potter wanting to bury Dobby _"properly, without magic"?_

  • @DaoYeLung
    @DaoYeLung 3 роки тому +196

    So instead of making Ava seem sympathetic and vulnerable they made her whiney and dumb after Maya's death...right. I hope with the director's cut this is patched into the game. I'm right at the part where you raid the vault before Maya's death and will be disappointed if this isn't the case. Maya's death deserves more weight and Ava needs to be portrayed in a better light.

    • @XxSuperGamerxX42069
      @XxSuperGamerxX42069 3 роки тому +8

      No they arent going to add this

    • @RedRosemary
      @RedRosemary 3 роки тому +1

      Bro I started crying at this scene why don't they just add it

    • @EsteemedReptile
      @EsteemedReptile 3 роки тому +1

      @@RedRosemary Because developers like Gearbox don't give two shits about anything genuinely artful. Putting this much emphasis on a characters death sets a precedent that any in the future need to be treated with the same gravitas. That would take time, time they would rather spend advertising and embellishing.
      I gaurantee you that when the animation/storyboard team came to the higher ups with this animatic, they were shouted out of the room for "wasting player time". Now Gearbox want to use it as a get out of jail free card to soften the relentless backlash they've received for their utterly dogshit story design. Why do you think they haven't made a peep about WHY this was cut? It's because they are craven assholes who want to monetize talent at the cost of its artistic integrity. They never cared about how good the story was. They cared about how "engaged" your eyeballs were with the gameplay so the numbers on their stockholder spreadsheets would keep ticking up.

  • @AJMiller117
    @AJMiller117 3 роки тому +114

    Not Krieg hiding away watching : (

    • @hououinkyouma3864
      @hououinkyouma3864 3 роки тому +22

      The fact that he could stay completely quiet broke me on too many levels.

    • @LitwolfYT
      @LitwolfYT 3 роки тому +12

      @@hououinkyouma3864 cause both his sane self and insane self felt the sadness and knew what happened

  • @LaSombradelCherlock
    @LaSombradelCherlock 3 роки тому +40

    3:18
    brooo... watching kreig standing there broke my fcking heart

  • @ViktorMatievHawkeye
    @ViktorMatievHawkeye 3 роки тому +102

    Why wasn't this in the game! I actually makes Ava a sympathetic character. She never got it that Maya died saving her, because she didn't listen to her.

  • @ff-ev1yv
    @ff-ev1yv 3 роки тому +161

    not trying to be mean but whoever thought to cut this needs to get demoted this would have made ava a better character and make this a better story the story could have been way better with scenes like this

    • @JackbatMurphy
      @JackbatMurphy 3 роки тому +8

      was definitely nasty man randy

    • @LitwolfYT
      @LitwolfYT 3 роки тому +4

      It was most likely Randy he continues to ruin the story

  • @jackmcmorrow9397
    @jackmcmorrow9397 Рік тому +6

    words cannot describe how badly you guys fucking blew it by cutting this.

  • @pineapplebuddy5693
    @pineapplebuddy5693 3 роки тому +68

    Why the hell was this cut???? This cinematic is AMAZING. Maya deserved better

  • @ConcussiveCrow
    @ConcussiveCrow 3 роки тому +37

    "Vault Hunter You're Back!..."
    Oh, NOW We Exist... Where were you, Writers?... This Story Deserved Better, All of it...

  • @bloodraven432
    @bloodraven432 3 роки тому +66

    Who’s bright idea was it to replace this with what we got? Because that guy should be fired. They took a genuine moment for Ava to actually become a decent character and threw her into a dumpster.

  • @seltrixbl2623
    @seltrixbl2623 3 роки тому +69

    Just PLEASE add this scene to the game! It has so much more impact, better character development for ava and its so much more emotional. i rlly would accept her death with this scene. Also these throwbacks when lilith got roland killed... i love this! Lilith and Ava are so good in these scenes

  • @MJTbreww
    @MJTbreww 3 роки тому +302

    Soo why was this not chosen to be the scene? Instead we had Ava being Ava and Maya’s death basically being ignored?

    • @humanreal255
      @humanreal255 3 роки тому

      I think they couldn’t don’t know why

    • @EsteemedReptile
      @EsteemedReptile 3 роки тому +16

      Because developers like Gearbox don't give two shits about anything genuinely artful. Putting this much emphasis on a characters death sets a precedent that any in the future need to be treated with the same gravitas. That would take time, time they would rather spend advertising and embellishing.
      I gaurantee you that when the animation/storyboard team came to the higher ups with this animatic, they were shouted out of the room for "wasting player time". Now Gearbox want to use it as a get out of jail free card to soften the relentless backlash they've received for their utterly dogshit story design. Why do you think they haven't made a peep about WHY this was cut? It's because they are craven assholes who want to monetize talent at the cost of its artistic integrity. They never cared about how good the story was. They cared about how "engaged" your eyeballs were with the gameplay so the numbers on their stockholder spreadsheets would keep ticking up.

    • @Glitch-Artist
      @Glitch-Artist 3 роки тому

      @@EsteemedReptile I agree but the issue is they already set the president of good storytelling from bl2 (and maybe pre-sequel to a lesser extent). So trying to rush it for 3 to have more focus on gameplay was a really stupid move

    • @santiago-jr1bg
      @santiago-jr1bg 3 роки тому

      @@EsteemedReptile I think BL3 story is just a setup for bl4 story

    • @Jetanium
      @Jetanium Рік тому +1

      @@santiago-jr1bg just like BL1 set up BL2’s story and BL2’s set up BL3’s? You’re a genius!

  • @Lynch2507
    @Lynch2507 3 роки тому +46

    I wanna know who thought "Figure it out lilith" was an acceptable alternative to this. BL3 already had a huge problem with chatacter writing on launch and this would've done so so SO much more to fix that. Genuinely, whose idea was it and why, cause unless it was some budget thing or time constraints, they've no idea what they're working with

  • @GullyVanDeckel
    @GullyVanDeckel 5 місяців тому +5

    3 years later and I'm still mad as hell they just didn't patched it into the game. I liked Ava and I still do like her but this not being in there really ruined a lot for the story and for Avas character.

  • @pigboy1698
    @pigboy1698 3 роки тому +38

    I believe we all think the same that this is 10 times better than what we got

  • @robinvobin9094
    @robinvobin9094 3 роки тому +10

    WHAT MONSTER CANCELLED THIS? KRIEG PEEKING MADE ME CRY

  • @noahguertin5698
    @noahguertin5698 3 роки тому +26

    Finally good character development for Ava

  • @toadbox8884
    @toadbox8884 3 роки тому +68

    People would've liked Ava a tiny bit if they just added this to the main game

  • @jimmyneutronmemegenius427
    @jimmyneutronmemegenius427 3 роки тому +26

    Why did u cut this, this makes the death 1000% more meaningful

  • @seb1520
    @seb1520 Рік тому +4

    Bro what the fuck? This makes Ava way more empathetic as a character and you realize what she’s gone through to have this sort of reaction, how stupid is Gearbox to exclude this part?

  • @fartgarfunkleengifam7492
    @fartgarfunkleengifam7492 3 роки тому +21

    XD When the cut content is better than what we got.

  • @chelosking985
    @chelosking985 3 роки тому +23

    WHY wasn't this in the game? This is the type of content Borderlands 3 needed.

  • @kaidanlawson4231
    @kaidanlawson4231 3 роки тому +19

    This. It's so good... I only wish we had gotten this, because is really, really, really good and shows that Ava isn't just a brat.

  • @RedDed228
    @RedDed228 5 місяців тому +2

    WHY WAS THIS FUCKING CUT IT MAKES THIS MOMENT HOLD SO MUCH WEIGHT AS IT SHOULD HAVE! OH MY LORD GEARBOX WHY

  • @hoppyman11
    @hoppyman11 2 місяці тому +1

    My low stakes conspiracy theory is that this was made post-release after the huge backlash they got from Ava's character.

  • @morningcoffeecat2271
    @morningcoffeecat2271 3 роки тому +27

    Imagine not putting this in the game, whoever thought that was a good idea should be reprimanded. Way to make us hate a character that could have been seen as a bit more redeemable

  • @TheAutoman217
    @TheAutoman217 2 роки тому +10

    5:36 "Farewell, dear Maya / Now go shine amongst the stars / I'll miss you, my friend."

  • @austintse5719
    @austintse5719 3 роки тому +24

    This is how I imagined Maya's funeral. So this is the director's cut then why was this not released and patched in to the main game?
    I think the director knows he made a mistake and wants to change it but somebody higher up won't let them.

  • @keynanmartinez
    @keynanmartinez 3 роки тому +20

    Borderlands 3 would have a great story like Borderlands 2 if this wasn't cut.

    • @Techhunter_Talon
      @Techhunter_Talon 3 роки тому +4

      It still wouldn't have been great. The Calypso Twins are still just bad as the antagonists and villains of the story. I enjoyed Katajawa and the Traunt brothers better as villains than the Twins.

  • @Aaxoz
    @Aaxoz 3 роки тому +46

    1:35 Good detail, Tannis tapping her arm to signal Lilith

    • @the_dapper_stormtrooper9302
      @the_dapper_stormtrooper9302 3 роки тому +15

      How a single animatic of a cut scene has more detail than the entire game is astonishing

  • @xR5cer
    @xR5cer 3 роки тому +10

    my heart....I can only imagine how the previous vault hunters felt losing their siren...

  • @i_escaped_area_5128
    @i_escaped_area_5128 3 роки тому +22

    I'm crying! Why weren't these scenes added? 1st, it made me sympathize with Ava more and she didn't seem like a complete brat. She knew it was her fault, and she didn't blame everyone else. She felt like Maya shouldn't have wasted her life on her. 2nd, the funeral scene was perfect. Lilith's speech hit me so hard, and seeing not only Zer0, but Krieg too as Lilith said Maya brought out the best in everyone.

  • @seltrixbl2623
    @seltrixbl2623 3 роки тому +9

    the music gives me chills. i cried here. not in the release footage. i think thats a sign

  • @itsyogirlcrim1476
    @itsyogirlcrim1476 3 роки тому +3

    I am so completely perplexed as to how this scene was cut. It's a near objective improvement. I am blown away.

  • @EvilNinja182
    @EvilNinja182 5 місяців тому +2

    I mean if they were worried about the length of the scene this could be a chain of echo logs in a sidequest or smthn

  • @SCHNEEBLYJUICE
    @SCHNEEBLYJUICE 3 роки тому +4

    what makes me the most angry is the fact the story barely even remembered maya after she died, this would have been an emotional and impactful scene to have where we see how much this hurt every other character, especially ava and krieg but for whatever reason this was cut
    i think if this was in the game borderland 3's story could have been saved, whoever cut it for the 2 minute tantrum from ava genuinely didn't understand storytelling

  • @pot4tolord
    @pot4tolord 5 місяців тому +2

    They should just make this the starting cutscene for borderlands 4, or at least incorporate it somehow so it is officially canon

    • @GullyVanDeckel
      @GullyVanDeckel 5 місяців тому +1

      They really should at least mention that ava and lilith had that talk, so its more in the canon... I'm like praying everyday they do this man

  • @grantcasperson3872
    @grantcasperson3872 3 роки тому +6

    The fact this wasn’t in the final cut is honesty criminal.

  • @blazebear95
    @blazebear95 3 роки тому +18

    This is infinitely better than the shit dialogue we got in game!

  • @hououinkyouma3864
    @hououinkyouma3864 3 роки тому +3

    Who.. WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO DELETE THIS?! What the actual fuck.

  • @backmarkerbob
    @backmarkerbob 5 місяців тому +1

    Whoever made the decision to cut this deserves to be "future endeavored"

  • @thehatman9837
    @thehatman9837 3 роки тому +11

    I don't care if that would've been a 20 min cutscene, that's a million times better than what we got and redeems the most hated character that your trying to focus an important plot on

  • @hazzywazzeh
    @hazzywazzeh 3 роки тому +60

    Why was this deleted !!

    • @w01dnick
      @w01dnick 3 роки тому

      I think it's because too long scripted scene. Maya death cutscene and immediately after it another one.

  • @davenic2471
    @davenic2471 2 роки тому +4

    This 6 minute scene is written better than the rest of the game by a large margin, I think they made this afterwards, I couldn't fathom this being the same writing team

  • @nonono732
    @nonono732 3 роки тому +11

    if this was actually in the game maybe i would've bought it LMAO

  • @jfs1291
    @jfs1291 3 роки тому +2

    Adding to the echo chamber: HOW THE FUCK WAS THIS CUT

  • @porozil4068
    @porozil4068 3 роки тому +6

    I'm just gonna pretend this is cannon whenever I replay the campaign.

  • @raecare485
    @raecare485 3 роки тому +8

    This added so much more depth to ava compared to what we got of her just complaining all the time.
    This scene alone added so much to the story and having that small clip of krieg makes more sense than not hearing from him at all aside from the echo logs in the mine

  • @jonathanavitua5559
    @jonathanavitua5559 3 роки тому +18

    Seriously please just animate this and add it to the base game, not as a dlc, just patch it in where it needs to go and fix the one part of your game that fell short. It shows that you know how to write better than you've proven.

  • @Xenonuke
    @Xenonuke Рік тому +1

    Whoever decided to cut this out should not be making decisions

  • @Ningen788
    @Ningen788 3 роки тому +35

    Damn, they cut this from the game? Ava wouldn't be as hated as much she is now

    • @Ningen788
      @Ningen788 3 роки тому +3

      What makes this more annoying is that Krieg was never acknowledged in this game and Maya's death didn't seem so important which fucking sucks since she was the character I played in BL2

  • @DT-5537
    @DT-5537 3 роки тому +27

    Damn, we could've gotten this? Now I just want to know why it was removed. Budget restraints? Time issues??

    • @w01dnick
      @w01dnick 3 роки тому +3

      Most probable - time, too long scripted scenes - Maya's death, then this.

    • @RufflesThe2nd
      @RufflesThe2nd 3 роки тому +3

      Id argue its general incompetence, I mean the company is run by Randy Pitchford a man who is infamous for being incompetent

    • @xxriseempirexx5520
      @xxriseempirexx5520 3 роки тому +1

      I would rather have a long cutscene than a hated character who blames others for her own damn mistake that cost the entire story

  • @EpicSlash
    @EpicSlash 2 роки тому +1

    Such a huge mismanagement.
    Whoever decided to cut this shouldn't be in their position at all.

  • @darkwind9000
    @darkwind9000 3 роки тому +13

    If they don't add this someone should make animate it themselves!

  • @Nightstand94
    @Nightstand94 Рік тому +1

    I legit cried when I saw Krieg. Even with the lack of animation you can see he was destroyed
    R. I. P Maya
    And yeah who on earth made the decision to cut this out of the game was a blooming idiot

  • @MrKrossix
    @MrKrossix 2 роки тому +4

    This is canon to me

  • @cattata01-_-38
    @cattata01-_-38 10 місяців тому +1

    I kind of wish Zero had a moment to speak, imagine he didn't speak in Haiku and saw Maya as a good friend so he spoke in clear sentences. Nonetheless they should have taken their time to actually put stuff like this in game.

  • @StormX6
    @StormX6 Рік тому +1

    To me, Borderlands 2 had one of the best treatments of death with Roland, the mission Bearer of Bad News really adds emotional weight by having the citizens of Pandora mourn the loss of Roland and remember him as a great man. These scenes would’ve done something similar, but instead we get Ava being a brat and Tannis’ awkward memorial speech. Maya’s death was played for laughs

  • @RMGWRESTLING2024
    @RMGWRESTLING2024 3 роки тому +1

    People asking why wasn't this in the game forget this is worlds different than the rest of the game. Hell, the rest of the franchise. The real question is why did people need to see an animation sequence detailing that ava was very hurt by the loss of the only person alive that she thought cared about her? I mean all of her interactions pre Maya's passing showed that ava had nothing but Maya. So that loss would've devastated her. Everything after her loss shows her characters mourning and growth. This scene is exactly what I figured happened off camera. The growth of Ava was always there, people just saw a teen showing emotions and automatically hated her like every other teen character on so many other things

  • @Mickterminator30
    @Mickterminator30 6 місяців тому +1

    We need a Director's Cut Version or one final update from Gearbox to implement this mission into Borderlands 3. This will give Ava's character redemption. Tarnishing her character is unjustifiable and Maya's death felt so weird, the whole episode took me out of the game completely. At first I used to not like Ava but I at least now empathize, she also admitted accountability and spoke about Borderlands 2 and the significance of Lilith. DO THIS PLEASE!

  • @Megunonymous
    @Megunonymous 3 роки тому +3

    I’ll gladly pay $10 for a DLC where this is literally the only thing that gets added to the game. Maybe they could also throw in a full fledge Maya Skin and hood for all the vault hunters, but I’d be content with only the scene.

  • @KenzoSeriesX
    @KenzoSeriesX 3 роки тому +10

    You need to put this on the game ASAP, this change everything 😱

  • @Mars_over_seer
    @Mars_over_seer 3 роки тому +10

    Oh my god! I actually feel bad for Ava in this scene. She’s emotional but understanding. It characterizes her by trying to move on like she’s always done. My god who in their mind would cut this out?

  • @drumnut1185
    @drumnut1185 3 роки тому +6

    Man... this really should have made it into the full game.

  • @ryanc3609
    @ryanc3609 3 роки тому +4

    No way this was cut. This feels like something they created after all the backlash and just slapped cut content on it

  • @Obrimus
    @Obrimus 3 роки тому +2

    You really, really, should patch these missing scenes into the game. They should have never been cut from it. They're crucially important for character development and closure for the whole death scene of Maya.
    Honestly, I would even be willing to pay for that if it were part of a DLC.

  • @whistlerdan7718
    @whistlerdan7718 3 роки тому +2

    Ava’s anger to Lilith feels much more justified here instead of what we got

  • @burningxnecro
    @burningxnecro 5 місяців тому +2

    I really hope they use a flashback or something to retcon this back into continuity in the next game.
    Lilith was my Borderlands 1 main, Maya was my Borderlands 2 main, seeing them both get written off and out of the story, treated like dirt for this annoying little generic kid character stung. A lot.

  • @xenoyorshka4419
    @xenoyorshka4419 3 роки тому +12

    I played borderlands 2 for like 5 years or more and when Maya died i ddin't feel S*** about it, the first time i was just like "really????? Nah she's gonna come back later!" And at the end of the sotry i was atonished by how little theye cared about Maya (the cinematic and overall dialogs make it feel like that) But with just that great cinematic that would have been so much better and we wouldn't had to wait the 4th Dlc to feel like this was actually the End....

  • @OhDangItsBazn
    @OhDangItsBazn 3 роки тому +2

    Uh...yeah, this undoubtedly should have been in the game.

  • @thefaithfulwisp6272
    @thefaithfulwisp6272 2 роки тому +1

    One of the things i like about this is the fact we can see moze, fl4k, zane, and mara

  • @ordinator7203
    @ordinator7203 Рік тому +5

    ahh yes """""""""""""""cut""""""""""""""" content

  • @pauljordan0203
    @pauljordan0203 2 роки тому +1

    this... this right here should've been in the game, ya know, this should've been the impactful, emotional moment right there.

  • @s.o.q2914
    @s.o.q2914 7 місяців тому +1

    Vault hunter in the background: "..... I'll just drink my drink in the background so...." Shrugged and walks away

  • @bryanegelhoffsanimationtec257
    @bryanegelhoffsanimationtec257 2 роки тому +5

    Seriously.... Why did they cut this scene out?
    It actually makes Maya's death mean something!
    It not only pulls the heart strings the same way the deaths of Roland and Bloodwing did, but it made Ava much more sympathetic!
    She blamed herself for Maya's death instead of Lilith. She felt genuinely bad about it. She wanted to become better, so Maya's death wouldn't be for nothing.
    And God, seeing Krieg at the funeral and hearing Lilith talk about losing Roland to help Ava with her grief....
    And what we got was....
    "Figure it out Lilith!"
    I'm not gonna act like this scene would have fixed the entire game, but it would have been a step in the right direction....

  • @alexrexaros9837
    @alexrexaros9837 Рік тому +4

    I can imagine Randy being like "Nah! This needs more Marvel-tier jokes! The players need to laugh! All the time! Like in Rick and Morty!"

    • @GullyVanDeckel
      @GullyVanDeckel 5 місяців тому

      I swear I hate this man so much, why is he like this

  • @lithiumnoctua
    @lithiumnoctua 3 роки тому +1

    The first two minutes would’ve been perfect, and Maya’s funeral could’ve been a side quest, maybe even had you go to Maya’s home and learn more about her and Ava while collecting stuff for her grave

  • @polishbrit7772
    @polishbrit7772 Рік тому +1

    If this actually happened i think I would of cried
    Especially after Kreig is revealed to be watching like damn

  • @alexf0723
    @alexf0723 Рік тому +1

    This was definitely written, drawn up and made when the Director's cut dlc was planned. Absolutely no way in the middle of the bafflingly shitty writing of the entire game that there is this 6 minutes of well written dialogue meant to be released in the original launch
    And just as i thought, 3:05 just confirms it. At no point in the game did you have any relevancy to the game and in the one scene they cut, ALL FOUR OF THEM ARE THERE

  • @maher7894
    @maher7894 3 роки тому +1

    The fact this is not in the game is a crime.

  • @RicePrezPip
    @RicePrezPip 2 роки тому +1

    That shot of Krieg broke my heart.
    This wasn't cut out of malicious intent and animating cutscenes like these can be very time consuming and expensive, but I can't see a universe where bringing these to life wasn't worth it.
    Please reconsider cutting scenes like this in the future.

  • @conair2786
    @conair2786 Рік тому +1

    The fact this was cut really made me upset.
    This cut content literally could of made Ava just a little, or at the very least, a lot more redeemable. She blames Maya's death on herself and she starts to doubt that Maya training her was a waste of time. But no, in the final game, Ava straight up says it's Lilith's fault and the whole scene didn't feel like a mourning funeral like it did in the cut content. Instead, it's literally just "Oh no, Maya's dead! Ok, back to work."
    I can't believe this entire scene, that would of redeemed a disliked character and would of made a more beloved character's death feel more emotional, was completely cut from the game.

  • @410colepyro3
    @410colepyro3 3 роки тому +5

    I can feel the sadness of Krieg

  • @youngzay1ftw649
    @youngzay1ftw649 3 роки тому +1

    Yea between this and the missed opportunity with Troy not being more crucial in the end of the story in bl3 shows that there was something actually really great here a actual interesting story