Although it’s never truly gone away, it’s been a minute since the Borderlands series really mattered to most gamers. Following a pair of excellent releases with the 2009 original and 2012’s Borderlands 2 the franchise shifted into prequels, spin-offs, and eventually a trilogy capper in 2019, but by then some of the luster had worn off. After the dumpster fire of a live-action adaptation hit theaters in 2024, it almost became hard to remember why anyone ever liked Borderlands to begin with. But they did!

The main games were extremely fun primarily due to two constants: satisfying gunplay and loot mechanics pulled from RPG series like Diablo . The special blend of action and item collection in Borderlands became a subgenre known as the looter shooter, where players kill

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