Now that Borderlands 3 is finally on Steam, I've been playing it, and, *sighs*. It's fine. It's okay. Not horrid. It's a Borderlands game, for better AND for worse.
I have no idea if I'll finish it at all though; it's rapidly turning into a tryhard version of Borderlands 2.
"LOOK! SEE? WE DID THE THING YOU SAID YOU LIKED IN BORDERLANDS 2! LIKE THIS GAME LIKE YOU LOVED THAT ONE, OKAY?! SEE! WE'RE RELEVANT! SEE HOW ZANY OUR CHARACTERS ARE?! EVIL TWITCH STREAMERS ARE THE BAD GUYS! WE'RE RELEVANT DAMMIT!"
Combined with a lot of story decisions concerning the gen 1 and 2 vault hunters that flat out anger me (THEY MURDERED MY GAL MAYA!), the writing of this game is really starting to grate. I kind of hope a mod emerges that somehow cuts all the spoken dialog and rewrites the subtitles so that it's less "forty year old writer trying to pretend to be an edgy teenager" and just settles for being a competent open world looter shooter, because I really do love the core gameplay loop. I just... am not overly fond of everything else, particularly the villains, who just annoy and irritate me where Handsome Jack entertained. And the Calypsos don't annoy me in a way that moves me to kill them, they just annoy me in a way that makes me want to put the game down and keep it down.