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.
I never played BL1, but BL2 was huge with me and my college friends over a decade ago now. I replayed the game a year or two ago and had a lot of fun with the gameplay, but the characters, story, and overall sensibility of the game have aged like milk with a dead turtle in it. Tiny Tina.
Those elements were obnoxious even back in 2012-2013 when the game first came out, so now, a decade removed, it's almost completely unbearable unless you somehow appreciate it from a "time capsule" perspective. I think the best way to play it is with the dialogue volume at zero. Tiny Tina.
Somehow, Borderlands 3 was even more aged than BL2 when it came out. The gameplay keeps getting better, but the dialogue keeps getting worse, somehow.