This guy's got everything you need from a video game protagonist; brash, cocky, entertaining and of course good-looking, he's kind of like a megalomaniac version of Nathan Drake. So if Drake has his own game, why shouldn't Jack? There's something incredibly likable about him, and you kind of sympathise with him based on his past, in which his parents died and he was subjected to an abusive childhood by his grandma. If you've played Borderlands 2 or the Pre-Sequel, you'll know Jack to be a master manipulator, always seeking to use other people for his own gain - and usually to their own detriment. There isn't much to suggest that Jack was an all-out action hero like the Vault Hunters, but the way he carries himself in that final boss encounter shows that he must have picked up some gunning skills from somewhere. So let's find out what Jack got up to between childhood and his first marriage. The game would tone down on the Diablo-esque shoot-&-loot fare usually seen in Borderlands, and would be a more traditional first-person RPG, with more focus on dialogue options (and what awesome options they'd be with Jack!), romances (you just know he had plenty of them), and recruiting expendable Vault Hunters to help you out on missions - who you could get killed or sneakily execute instead of paying, if you so wished. The story would follow Jack's ascent to owning the Hyperion corporation and becoming the despot of Pandora, with players having the option of slaughtering pretty much everyone in Jack's way. Which villain should get to star in their own game? Let us know in the comments!
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