Or maybe I’m just hopeful he’s destined for greater things, a last vestige of something that Telltale did really well. I feel like he’s destined for greater things than just that silly mustache and another corporate gig. After all, the last time we saw the real Rhys, he and Fiona had disappeared in a flash of light inside a Vault. It could be that Pitchford is trying to save face against a deluge of angry fans (and the things Pitchford tweets certainly need to be taken with a grain of salt), but it could also mean that Rhys isn’t actually Rhys, so having the original Rhys actor doesn’t matter. You’ll see for yourself when the game comes out,” Pitchford said in one of his tweets. “Fortunately, with how Rhys appears in the game, I don’t think it actually matters at all. My last hope that this is some kind of deeper narrative ploy comes from comments from Randy Pitchford when he was addressing the Troy Baker controversy. In Borderlands 3, Rhys seems clueless and one dimensional, throwing away five episodes worth of character development in the interest of making him a shoe-in side character. One line in particular sticks out, where he questions the capabilities of a single vault hunter against the Maliwan army, but he should be well aware of what a vault hunter can do (particularly a Siren, which I was playing as). So when I saw him again in Borderlands 3, and he had adopted the company man persona again as the CEO of Atlas, it was hard to take him seriously. He went from sitting pretty and comfortable in a corporate environment to understanding the rougher side of the world. Rhys went from being an ambitious and slimy company man to someone a bit more layered and interesting. ![]() Voice and appearance aside, his personality also doesn’t really match up with the Rhys that went through a harrowing journey on Pandora. Or it might be that the mustache and overbite, along with the different voice, are meant to indicate that this isn’t the same Rhys, or at least that there’s a major plot shakeup that happened between the conclusion of Tales and Borderlands 3. ![]() Now it might just be a bad angle as the hologram towers over you, or maybe the game is still getting some polishing touches. When Rhys talks to the player in Borderlands 3, the graphics on his mouth show off his upper gums weirdly. Often an evil doppelganger is parodied by having a mustache and maybe something like an overbite. Rhys’ new look is a big component of my theory. Borderlands 3 Rhys – The ‘Evil Rhys’ Theory I don’t think mustached Borderlands 3 Rhys is the same Rhys who disappeared in the Vault of the Traveler with Fiona at the end of Tales From the Borderlands’ final episode, and it’s not just his voice that gives him away. Baker shot back that he had actually never been approached, and suggested that Pitchford “fact-check before…tweet out to the internet.” Now I’m not trying to dogpile on Ray Chase’s performance in Borderlands 3, but it’s definitely a starkly different Rhys than I was expecting. Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford retorted that they had asked Baker, but he had turned them down. Baker was asked if he would be returning to voice the character and he indicated that he wasn’t even asked and wasn’t happy with how Gearbox was handling it. The drama surrounding Baker’s replacement began when a mustached Rhys was spotted in the original Borderlands 3 reveal trailer. Chase isn’t trying to mimic Baker, but wants to put his own spin on the character. You might know Chase as Final Fantasy XV’s Noctis. ![]() He’s no longer played by actor Troy Baker, replaced instead by Ray Chase. Now of course the first thing I noticed about Rhys was his changed voice. The slice of game that Gearbox allowed us to play did feature Rhys in a big way, but something wasn’t right about the company man turned, well, whatever he was by the end of Tales. As the main character of Telltale’s take on the Borderlands franchise, there’s a pretty strong fan base out there looking forward to seeing Rhys (and hopefully Fiona) finally enter the series proper. I thought that this character would end up being saved for later reveals, or maybe even the full game itself. ![]() When I finally had the chance to go hands-on with Borderlands 3 last week, I didn’t expect that I’d be coming face-to-mustached-face (well, face-to-hologram-mustached-face) with Tales From the Borderlands’ Rhys so soon.
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