~@% WARNING!  This thread is mostly intended for people who've played BL1 & BL2 so therefore SPOILERS!  %@~

Now, then.  With the announcement of Borderlands Pre-Sequel, I've started playing a new character in the original Borderlands game.  That, combined with my recent playing of Borderlands 2 due to the Loot Hunter event, has me thinking about the Borderlands universe, where the story is heading, and what I'd like to see from Borderlands 3.

The ending of BL2 seemed to open up the a vast number of new worlds which supposedly contain Vaults like the ones on Pandora.  Are they more prisons, more bio-weapons, or perhaps something else?

With that in mind, here are some of my thoughts on the potential of Borderlands 3:

-- Who will be the protagonists of BL3?  An entirely new team?  That seems to be the trend.  If I understand correctly, there are six Sirens in the universe at any given time.  We know of two living, Maya and Lilith, and two that have died, Angel and Steele (supposedly).  That means two Sirens to play with, hopefully, and I'm definitely a Siren fan.  The Siren is always my first choice of character to play.

What I'm really hoping for is a new team, with the BL2 team providing back-up in much the same way the BL1 team provided back-up in Borderlands 2.  That really allowed Gearbox to flesh out the BL1 team, which is what I want for the BL2 team.  Zero and Maya, especially, have some pretty interesting origins.

-- The Setting.  Will we really leave Pandora?  It feels strange to think of going to another planet, to be honest.  On the other hand, Promethea has already been set up as being WORSE than Pandora.  That would be my guess as to the next destination, as it's a known location for Eridian technology.

I guess that could mean no more hold-over characters like Scooter or Dr. Zed, though you never know.  However, I'm tired of Skags.

-- The Enemy.  We've fought Atlas Corp in the first game, then Hyperion in the second game.  Will the trend of battling these mega-corporations continue?  If so, will it be a new corporation or will it bounce back to Atlas or Hyperion?  I believe Atlas is in control of Promethea, or part of it.  We still have groups like Dahl, Maliwan, and Vladof out there, though Torgue is mostly accounted for.  Axton was a former Dahl soldier.

There is also the possibility of more Eridian Guardians and perhaps even other alien cultures.

-- Who will die?  Character death is a big part of Borderlands.  I just hope it's not Maya.

I cannot wait for the next games.  Pre-Sequel is set between BL1 and BL2, which should give us a lot more information about Hyperion and Handsome Jack (how did he get branded?).  The TellTale game is supposed to be AFTER BL2, which is awesome.

I also want Slag to go away, Marcus to stay in the game, and more information about Sirens.

What do you guys think?  Any hopes or dreams for Borderlands 3?  Characters you want to return?  Characters you want to die?  Your choice of setting?  Even MORE Claptrap?

#1 thing just keep the humor that the series is known for, tbh I can't think of a lot that I'd chance, BL 2 improved on the first in almost every way.  I'd probably just wanna see bigger scale battles for next gen, specifically the boss fights.  Btw do we know what characters were playing as in the prequel?

Yep.  Wilhelm, the cyborg boss from BL2, though without the armor; Athena, the gladiator from the Knoxx DLC; Claptrap (not kidding); and the female Sheriff sub-boss from BL2.

Not sure why Athena ends up working for Handsome Jack.

As far as the humor goes, I agree.  The series has had some awesome voice acting so I hope that continues.

"More of the same" would get my vote, too.  I wouldn't mind jumping planets, though.

I also want to see Gauge again, she was nifty.

Like BL2, more cinematic, more humor

-I want Borderlands 3 to run at 60fps on consoles While supporting 1080p.
-New Planet with more & deadlier enemies with better A.I.
-A female Commando or Assassin/Hunter class because a little change never hurt.
-A lot less Tiny Tina, I may be the only one who doesn't find the character funny.
-Deeper Customization i want to feel like my character is a different peron than my buddy's of the same class.
-The Ability to fly a Buzzard. (Also they need to improve the strength of mounted guns).
-Weapon system from BL1, weapons become useless too fast on BL2.
-New Weapon designs
-Maybe add more Major villains.
-No MMO (Borderworlds)
-Better Skill trees.
-No half assed Character DLC Krieg and the Mechro were decent, but try something out of the ordinary. (A Wereskag)

I'm done for now

Can we please get rid of useless Legendary guns like the Invader, most uniques outclassed the Legendary weapons 0_o

Well like the jump from BL 1 to Bl 2 I want it to be bigger better and more badass. Most of the things I would like to see have been previously mentioned like erdians returning, full body outfits like the heads in bl2 rather than the skins( on top of that I would like the ability to change the colour like in bl1,) a flying vehicle( and more vehicle’s in general), a spaceship replacing new haven & sanctuary as the hub, Marcie Holloway's( if I remember correctly she was gaige’s school rival who stole death traps designs before a school science fair and made her own version which was then mass produce for police/military purposes, her uncle was in the son of crawmerax dlc) death trap rip-off’s appearing as enemies., dubstep grenade mod’s.

That’s about all I can think of right now.

Oh, I think it better leave Pandora considering the ending of 2 pretty much said it would. Not much of a spoiler. I could probably write an essay on what I want iif I really thought about. For me though, the setting of the new world should change a lot to be unique. I have been hoping for a jungle world for a long time. I would prefer all new characters with the opportunity to download every old character from the previous games early on. I would also really, really, really prefer they started making the downloadable content earlier. I bought the season pass last time and because it took so long to get the content out I still have not played it all due to moving on to new games.

I will some day because it is so funny, cool, and enjoyable.

They have the player character’s talking( I say talking, it was more like the odd line of dialogue) in response to Npc’s in one of the head hunter packs. So I’d like that throughout bl 3 to breathe some more life into the player character’s, I wouldn’t want them to go too far in that direction though like say mass effect confession level.