Shack: It was really mean to tease Ninja Claptrap after the credits and then not deliver.
Mikey Neumann: [laughter] Ninja Assassin Claptrap?
Shack: After I beat the game, I went back to Fyrestone, found Claptrap, and all he did was ask if I'd found the vault yet. Jerk.
Mikey Neumann: [laughter] The thing was, Borderlands is a bit open-ended obviously because we wanted to hint at some things to come. We definitely have a lot of ideas for the future in a lot of different ways. We wanted to make sure that the story of the vault finished--you definitely find out what's in there, you definitely solve that problem--but we wanted to be like, "oh by the way, we're not done here." There's a lot more to explore, there's a lot more to do, and we'll obviously reveal more about that in the future.
I was a little proud of Ninja Assassin Claptrap. I thought it was cute.
Shack: I liked it. I was just bummed that, when I went back to Fyrestone, Claptrap was just hanging out by the bounty board and not being a ninja assassin.
Mikey Neumann: Well, there's more than one Claptrap. There's a lot of them.
Shack: I thought it was the same Claptap in Fyrestone given the surroundings and such, but I could accept if it was a different Claptrap.
Mikey Neumann: We are going to do some stuff with Claptrap in the future. Don't worry. That one, specifically.
Shack: What about the Guardian Angel and the various corporations, like Hyperion? How do those factor in?
Mikey Neumann: Her motives are going to be explored further in the future and what she is and how she knows stuff. I mean, it seems like she's helping, but is she actually helping? Helping you?
But the companies, like Hyperion you mentioned, we're going to dive into those more. I will say that the first DLC involves one of the companies. It explores the history of what that company is. As we go further, we actually want to explore a lot of the companies and who they are. A lot is pretty funny.
The world of Pandora hasn't really been explored yet. We've introduced the companies and we've introduced what they're doing, but we haven't really scratched the surface of what's going on in this huge world.
Shack: Thanks Mikey.