It's interesting to see where the franchise started and come back to the odd lonely feeling the first game would illicit in me. I actually hated that feeling when the game first came out and really wanted to play it with people but everybody was obsessed with fifa and cod so nobody wanted to play.
It's quite a relaxing game, just running around shooting things and looting things, not really paying attention to any of the storyline or characters. One thing I noticed is claptrap and his various incarnations are actually quite charming and not annoying at all. Infact a lot of the really obnoxious elements of the later games doesn't seem to be present at all in this one.
It runs extremely well on the steam deck, suited to playing in bed listening to a podcast or something. Maybe I need to give borderlands 2 another try i might not hate it as much this time.
Claptrap being a little shit really only starts with the DLC, Claptrap's New Robot Revolution
Problem was that people really responded well to it and the poison tree took root
I think a lot of the Borderlands series' cringe can be attributed to that even though I've played and enjoyed it all by and large.