Borderlands has what it takes to be a great game, but ultimately falls apart the more you play it. The game has such an incredible setting, great ambiance and cool concept, but all of that is wore down by the gameplay mechanics. At the start you won't notice this, but later on, enemies start being HP Sponges, and the loot will be trash 99.9% of the times, even the vendors sell crap. You'll be stuck with that good~ish weapons you found like 10 hours ago. I was lucky enough to get an awesome shotgun that stuck with me till endgame, as the thing would annihilate bruisers and bosses easily, that still doesn't change the fact that most of the loot you get is trash and it's everywhere to the point where it becomes a chore to check every single thing for a slight upgrade. Missions are a chore, most of them is the same old "go here, fetch this, return" or "Go, kill, and return" and none of them are rewarding enough to excuse how tedious they are, it doesn't help that enemy variance is low, there are like 5 - 7 enemy types with some variants and that's just it.

Oh, and the inventory management? awful