First time playing Borderlands? Boy are you in for a treat.
I freakin’ love the franchise for its humor (sometimes bad but always whacky) for its core-gameplay-loop (LOOOOT) and its visuals. Oh and the music…THE MUSIC!
This franchise on its own opened my frozen shrunk heart for FPS and 3PS games, and therefore also Open World games…without the first Borderlands? No Uncharted, no Bioshock, no Witcher, no (modern) Tomb Raider, no Last of Us, no Red dead Redemption, no No Man Sky, probably no modern jRPG ever and most importantly NO MASS EFFECT for me!
As you can guess I hated everything remote “shooter-y” before then…to think I nearly missed out on all that good stuff!
Even then…my Backlog would be as big as it is now…only with more obscure games on it 