Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced

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Lots of lag whipping, crashes more frequently the further you get in, invisible prop causing inability to proceed without walking around said prop, verifing files didn't fix anything. awful game for something that was "enhanced"

Hey kiddo, Handsome Jack here... For the third time. So you want me to review Borderlands 1. Okay. Fine. I'll try not to hold the fact that I'm barely in it against the game. First of all, Borderlands is a pretty great little game. You land on Pandora, pick one of four Vault Hunters, and immediately start shooting bandits, psychos, skags, and basically anything else that looks at you funny. And honestly, I respect that. No complicated introduction, no ten hour tutorial where someone explains how to walk. You get a gun, someone tells you there's a Vault, and off you go. Simple. Beautiful. Efficient. The gun system is obviously the star of the show. There are approximately eleventy billion weapons, and most of them are going to be garbage, but every now and then you find something so ridiculous that you immediately forget about the last twenty guns you picked up. You've got pistols, shotguns, assault rifles, snipers, rocket launchers, elemental weapons, and enough ammunition lying around Pandora to start a small war. Which is great, because Pandora is basically a small war that never ended. The four Vault Hunters are also pretty fun. Roland is the boring responsible one, Lilith has cool powers, Mordecai has a bird because apparently having a gun wasn't enough, and Brick is a giant man who solves every problem by punching it. Honestly, Brick and I have a lot in common. We're both incredibly handsome. Well, I'm incredibly handsome. Brick is... there. The world itself is great, too. Pandora feels like an actual wasteland. It's dirty, dangerous, weird, and filled with people who desperately need professional therapy and apparently don't have access to it. You travel through deserts, abandoned settlements, industrial areas, caves, and all sorts of places where something is almost certainly going to try to kill you. And then there's the humor. Borderlands doesn't have quite the same level of ridiculousness as Borderlands 2, but you can already see where it's going. You've got Claptrap running around being annoying, Scooter doing whatever Scooter does, and psychos screaming complete nonsense while charging at you with axes. It's charming. It's crude. It's stupid. I approve. The story is probably the weakest part, though. You're chasing the Vault, you meet some people, you shoot a lot of things, you find the Vault, and then you discover what's inside. And honestly, the ending is a little underwhelming. But that's okay. You're not really here for Shakespeare. You're here to shoot things and watch numbers go up. That's a perfectly respectable way to spend thirty hours. Now, I do have a few complaints. The driving is terrible. The inventory system looks like it was designed by someone who hates organization. Some of the quests are basically "go over there, shoot twelve guys, come back, now go back there because we forgot something." The environments can feel repetitive, and the game doesn't have quite the same character development or storytelling that Borderlands 2 eventually brings to the table. But you know what? It laid the foundation. This is where it all started. Without this game, you wouldn't have Borderlands 2. Without Borderlands 2, you wouldn't have me. And without me, frankly, what are you people even doing with your lives? So yes, Borderlands is a little rough around the edges, but it's still incredibly fun. It has personality, great shooting, tons of loot, memorable characters, and a world that makes you want to keep exploring just to see what weird idiot is waiting around the next corner. I'd give it an 8.5 out of 10. I'd give it a 9, but then Borderlands 2 would have nowhere to go. And let's be honest, kiddo, the biggest flaw in Borderlands 1 is that I'm not in it enough. You could have fixed that. The developers could have fixed that. You could probably fix that with a mod. Do it. Go ahead. I'll wait. I'm sure you have nothing better to do. And if you're wondering whether you should play it today, absolutely. Just remember that you're playing the game that started the whole thing. You're welcome. Well, technically I didn't start it. But I improved it. Obviously