The entire game you hear how great the Vault is. oh the vault has women and crazy ass guns and it will just beat awesome! So after beating the final boss, what do you get? oh sorry you missed your window your going to have to wait another 200 years for the fucking thing to reopen. and the final boss dropped jack shit for loot (but he did drop a lot of money). any one else feel this way?

" The entire game you hear how great the Vault is. oh the vault has women and crazy ass guns and it will just beat awesome! So after beating the final boss, what do you get? oh sorry you missed your window your going to have to wait another 200 years for the fucking thing to reopen. and the final boss dropped jack shit for loot (but he did drop a lot of money). any one else feel this way? "

Sounds about right. It's the journey, not the destination, and it strikes me as just the right brand of Borderlands humor.

It was myself and the OP who ran though the game co-op. The ending was really dumb. But I figure maybe they wanted to leave it open for a sequel?

They also might leave it open for the DLC. I thought the ending fit the humour of the game pretty well. Also, the whole Hyperion thing in space was pretty cool.

If you still thought the vault had goodies, you weren't paying attention. The vault was basically a gateway for the destroyer. The stories and everything were just that, stories. It was only a deceptive way for the destroyer to gain entry into our dimension. Atlas corp pulled out of Pandora when they realized this, and the Guardian Angel was an AI on a satilliete that they programmed to ensure the vault wouldn't be opened. You were used the entire time, really.

" If you still thought the vault had goodies, you weren't paying attention. The vault was basically a gateway for the destroyer. The stories and everything were just that, stories. It was only a deceptive way for the destroyer to gain entry into our dimension. Atlas corp pulled out of Pandora when they realized this, and the Guardian Angel was an AI on a satilliete that they programmed to ensure the vault wouldn't be opened. You were used the entire time, really. "

The whole game they were also telling you the vault was a myth and you were wasting your time. I guess you just believed the wrong people. 
 
"Would you kindly fix that robot..." in the first 10 minutes should have told you all you need to know.

 @Biohazardous:  
I don't believe that the Atlas corp. knew that the destroyer was there nor did they program the satellite. The women who opened the vault was working for the Atlas corp. and I doubt they would let her keep searching for it knowing there was a giant monster trapped inside. Also if you look at the satellite at the ending on the top part it says Hyperion so it's not even an Atlas made satellite to begin with. Since no one knew what was inside the vault or if it even existed for sure until you start finding the key pieces on Guardian Angels advice I don't think that it's even man made. I figured that it had to do with the Eridians and that it hijacked the satellite and waited to complete its goal of finding someone to open and then kill the Destroyer.

dude you beat Cthulhu what more do you want.

" "Would you kindly fix that robot..." in the first 10 minutes should have told you all you need to know. "

Hehehehe, BioShock style.

The ending seemed good enough, the claptrap ninja thing was enough to get a laugh out of me. Not to mention that they now have the easiest setup for sequels in the history of gaming. 

What's that? You mean the myth/legend/rumor wasn't TRUE?! WHAT?! My god, it's almost like this were taking place in some sort of distopian shithole or something... 
 
Sarcasm aside, the game did kind of just end abruptly, but honeslty that game had like no story to it. Which is fine, it's just damn fun to kill shit. I don't feel cheated because I don't have some crazy self-entitlement issues like many : D

" Sounds about right. It's the journey, not the destination, and it strikes me as just the right brand of Borderlands humor. "

"Sounds about right. It's the journey, not the destination, and it strikes me as just the right brand of Borderlands humor. "

we need more cthulu esque end bosses in game
 
end of wolfenstein? kill hitler, cthulu is really behind it all, epic battle ensues
 
end of persona 4? train ride, goes into tunnel, turns out to be cthulus mouth, epic battle ensues
 
the ending of halo 3 was just master chief finding cthulus braclets

Sounds to me that the developers either didn't know what to put in the vault because they made it sounds so great or they didn't want to put stuff in the vault that will be super powerful thus making you into a god so why not just say oops too late, buh bye. Just my guess.

i think the 2nd play through explains more of it at the end.

Man it's the Coperations, think about it throughout the game they run everything, the lady satlite Hyperian, your HUD is made by the DAHL, plus all your weapons and your shields.....

You mean opening Pandora's vault lead to bad things coming out of it? NO... WAY... that's like a metaphor or something. these game designers are the masters of subtlety....

I quite enjoyed the allegory that the ending presented.  All these games where the whole playthrough is so badass, and then the end boss is always a giant pussy. 
 
Well...in Borderlands...the end boss IS a giant pussy!

" I quite enjoyed the allegory that the ending presented.  All these games where the whole playthrough is so badass, and then the end boss is always a giant pussy.  Well...in Borderlands...the end boss IS a giant pussy! "

" Meh.  That boss was so damn easy that I didn't really feel like I deserved anything special for killing it. "

" It was myself and the OP who ran though the game co-op. The ending was really dumb. But I figure maybe they wanted to leave it open for a sequel? "

The ending -- as far as I'm concerned -- was only bad because of the way it was presented.  Had the narrative been fleshed out a little better, and if you actually cared about what was going on, the ending likely would have been purely ingenious. 
 
If you guys haven't caught it yet, the planet is called Pandora, and the goal is to open the Vault.  Anyone getting the whole Pandora's Box thing going on here?

" The entire game you hear how great the Vault is. oh the vault has women and crazy ass guns and it will just beat awesome! So after beating the final boss, what do you get? oh sorry you missed your window your going to have to wait another 200 years for the fucking thing to reopen. and the final boss dropped jack shit for loot (but he did drop a lot of money). any one else feel this way? "

Still...people miss the allegory.  *le sigh*

Since when was Borderlands about the story?  I don't care about some stupid vault...  I WANT LOOT!

" Still...people miss the allegory.  *le sigh* "

Just finished up the game about an hour ago with a friend playing Co-Op.  I gotta say, I don't feel 'cheated' but a little disappointed at how easy that final battle was.  The Arch Guardians on the final run up to the Vault were more difficult to navigate than the final boss.  Hide behind the furthest pillar and shoot him in the eye until he dies, none of his attacks hit you, and if you stand far enough back even the shock wave won't move you.  Just felt kind of cheesy after not using a sniper really at all the entire game (as Soldier) the final fight is me and whatever sniper I had doing 4k of damage per hit until the guy is dead.
 
Story wise I thought it was pretty good, didn't really care if the vault was real or not, or if I would be able to go inside or not.  The plot wasn't the reason I kept coming back to this game, and when you play co-op with your idiot friends who don't read quests, and just grab them all at once so you have 25 in progess it's a little hard to follow every little bit of the story.
 
Pretty fun overall though, I might make my way through a second play through in my spare time.

Shitty awful ending to a completely mediocre game. Not disappointed, but I don't really care that it's over.

" Sounds about right. It's the journey, not the destination, and it strikes me as just the right brand of Borderlands humor. "

I'd think the women in the vault would have been dead anyways
and knowing that the game is basically one big waste of time with no pay off made not want the game

" I found as the game went on the bosses got easier and easier instead of the other way around. "

I just beat it 5 minutes ago. The end was a little disappointing but it was all about the journey anyway.

@Jackel2072
 
It looks like the story did it's job well then, no?
 
It convinced you and the character that you would be rewarded for the effort.
 
Seem's pretty decent to me.

This is probably going to be my last word on this subject, but I feel like it's worth noting. The ending clearly made an impact on you if you were compelled to make a thread about it, so wouldn't it be fair to say that the developers did their job? You're discussing it, aren't you? Well then clearly you cared about it in some way.

" This is probably going to be my last word on this subject, but I feel like it's worth noting. The ending clearly made an impact on you if you were compelled to make a thread about it, so wouldn't it be fair to say that the developers did their job? You're discussing it, aren't you? Well then clearly you cared about it in some way. "

No arguments here on the ending, except I wish there was at least something unique at the end, such as, possibly, 1 little crate that would only spawn alien weapons or something of that nature. 
Can't wait for the DLC.

i was more disappointed by the easiness of the fight. i just stood there unloading my 257 clip of fire bullets into its eye, then it went plop; and BOOM CREDITS!

" The ending -- as far as I'm concerned -- was only bad because of the way it was presented.  Had the narrative been fleshed out a little better, and if you actually cared about what was going on, the ending likely would have been purely ingenious.  If you guys haven't caught it yet, the planet is called Pandora, and the goal is to open the Vault.  Anyone getting the whole Pandora's Box thing going on here? "

ok here to set some things straight.
ok first the vault isnt a gateway for the destroyer, its a prison, the erdians destroyed themselves to lock him away.
the destroyer apparatlly can only be killed in this world for it reason to take on a physical form.
the gaurdian angel is a super advanced AI inside the satalitte.
all the storys and lies were made so that you would go to the vault as you were the only one that had the chance to destroy him.
 
and the ninja robot is the actually a claptrap infested with the destroyer.
the gaurdian angel and the destroyer are from the same place.

I thought the whole parody thing was great but he could have dropped Something but the game was awesome regardless.

" ok here to set some things straight. ok first the vault isnt a gateway for the destroyer, its a prison, the erdians destroyed themselves to lock him away. the destroyer apparatlly can only be killed in this world for it reason to take on a physical form. the gaurdian angel is a super advanced AI inside the satalitte. all the storys and lies were made so that you would go to the vault as you were the only one that had the chance to destroy him.  and the ninja robot is the actually a claptrap infested with the destroyer. the gaurdian angel and the destroyer are from the same place. "