Game completed: Borderlands 3

Toni and I started playing this last summer after we had finished with the Pre-Sequel. As much as I found Tyreen and Troy to be an absolutely hilarious parody of Twitch streamers, I also found the Borderlands 3 base game story to be one of the weakest Borderlands stories. I loved how integral the original gang was to the story and that the gang from the sequel also showed up, especially Maya, but apart from sweet, sweet nostalgia that was it. It was pretty sweet to see the events of the Telltale game made canon though, with the inclusion of Rhys and Vaughn.

We played as FL4K and Amara respectively. I just got a thing for Sirens after playing as Maya in Borderlands 2. 

The final fight against Tyreen was completely underwhelming, but the final fight against the Pandoran Vault monster was pretty cool iirc.

I know Ava has gotten a lot of mean comments, but I really ended up liking her as an addition to the gang and I hope she'll be a playable character if there's ever another Borderlands game coming. 

As with most games the DLCs are better than the base game. The first DLC was to hijack Handsome Jack's casino, which was cool, but we both feel like the Jack angle is kind of a done deal. It's been made to death. 

The second DLC was Hammerlock and Wainwright's wedding which was Lovecraft inspired and I absolutely loved it. Every single main quest was named after a Lovecraft story and they all felt like we were playing table-top rpg Call of Cthulhu: and it was so creepy in a good way. Loved it!

The third DLC was inspired by the wild west but with a Japanese twist. It was so weird to have all the NPCs call us tomodachi (friend in Japanese) with a Southern accent. I'm not big on the wild west, so for me this DLC was pretty meh. Rose was kind of cool though, and we both really liked the song. 

The fourth DLC had us delving into the mind of Psycho Krieg, which gave us flashbacks to the last DLC for the Pre-Sequel in which you go inside Claptrap's mind. This DLC was weird and hilarious, but felt way too short. We both laughed until we could barely breathe during the sidequest where we help a gun AI take back its nest and then watch it give birth to an egg. Which Amara sat on until it hatched. It was so weird and hilarious.

After the fourth DLC I decided that I was done with the game. There was no more story. We did all of the Circles of Slaughter, and we even tried to do the Takedowns, but we both found them annoying and tedious. Initially we both found the second season pass to be a greedy money-grab and so neither of us got it. After Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck we were done. Or I was. I'm a RPG girl at heart. Games are a way for me to consume a story. Toni on the other hand kept playing, because he wanted the best loot. So for him Borderlands 3 turned into a Diablo-esque loot hunt.

I really enjoyed Borderlands 3, but I definitely agree that Borderlands 2 is the best. Borderlands 3 had the best DLC, though; Guns, Love, and Tentacles.