I'm honestly more mixed than I should be on this one. It was a fairly fun time revisiting this game and caring about loot farming and getting good rolls until I went to UVHM, which is NG++. Between the exhaustion of trying to farm for a good gun (and then losing it to my stupidity) and the sheer tedium of going through the game a third time, I was pretty done with it while storming the Bloodshot Stronghold for the third time. You really feel when you don't have slag applied to an enemy, and that really made things worse for me. Seeing normal enemies take millions of damage to kill is only fun if you can consistently do millions, and I was not really able to do that without certain gear or slag. Some quests also went from neat to a complete slog due to enemies having health regen on top of heavily inflated stats.
Outside of that tho, the story was alright. It has moments where it drags, and it has some solid peaks. Handsome Jack remains a solid villain that you love to hate and boy is it easy to hate him. I can't say much about the DLC stories mainly cause my original plan was to do them with a full build on UVHM.
The gameplay of BL2 doesn't feel like it offers much you can't get elsewhere. You really only get crazy effects on guns if you farm for legendaries, which can be quite time consuming and will likely require a guide on who to farm and how to farm fast. The skill trees didn't feel like much beyond stats for the character I played (Axton). I felt somewhat squishy at most points even with an on-level shield. Enemy DoTs were especially deadly, as it felt like one corrosion or shock proc and I'd be down 70% or more health.
In spite of my complaints, it's still a solid experience the one playthrough. I think it's a shame most people won't experience the more interesting weapons in that playthrough, and the game feels like you should go multiplayer instead of solo.
Outside of that tho, the story was alright. It has moments where it drags, and it has some solid peaks. Handsome Jack remains a solid villain that you love to hate and boy is it easy to hate him. I can't say much about the DLC stories mainly cause my original plan was to do them with a full build on UVHM.
The gameplay of BL2 doesn't feel like it offers much you can't get elsewhere. You really only get crazy effects on guns if you farm for legendaries, which can be quite time consuming and will likely require a guide on who to farm and how to farm fast. The skill trees didn't feel like much beyond stats for the character I played (Axton). I felt somewhat squishy at most points even with an on-level shield. Enemy DoTs were especially deadly, as it felt like one corrosion or shock proc and I'd be down 70% or more health.
In spite of my complaints, it's still a solid experience the one playthrough. I think it's a shame most people won't experience the more interesting weapons in that playthrough, and the game feels like you should go multiplayer instead of solo.