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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

Definitely one of my all time favorites. I love the whole series, but 1 will always have a special place for me. Last year I loaded it up after not touching it for several years and went through all of the content again with Lilith, and then decided to try to find at least one of each pearlescent. Way way too many Craw kills and armory runs later, and I still didn’t get all of them. Maybe I should fire it up again…

I never got very far in the first one because there's a point fairly early on where enemies become so bullet spongey I got road blocked from progressing any farther without someone else to play with.

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.

I could never get into Borderlands, there's a reason I call it Bored-erdlands

I remember the endgame of the original and the feeling of disappointment at the loot that the final boss dropped and after a week or so it popped into my brain that the disappointing loot might have been "the point". Came back to it years later and the steam version was "upgraded for free" to the enhanced version or something that changed the loot that was dropped into something "good" and felt it took something away from finishing the game.

Also, very much appreciated wandering around on a planet completely stripped (at a global level) by industrial exploitation into a mostly collapsed ecology.

weird I also just redownloaded borderlands 1 too. Great minds and all that

I have a bit of a soft spot for BL1, it's very playable to this day and has a lot that seemed to click into place. I definitely think 2's improved gameplay and endgame went a long way forward, but 1 has a sort of crunchy feel that's still quite fun.

suited to playing in bed listening to a podcast or something

That is so much psychic energy for bed lol

Very nostalgic game for me. Kind of reminds me now of OddWorld: Munch's Odyssey

But does it have a legendary HAWK-2A drop?

Borderlands 2 was a fun game to play with friends, but it is absolutely where nearly everything annoying about Borderlands originated.