The first Borderlands was a real innovation—probably more than it gets credit for. It carved out a new genre that's gone on to be one of the most influential in the industry. After that, Borderlands 2 cleverly refined and expanded on the core formula, demonstrating quite how much of our time all that looting and shooting could suck up with a bigger world to do it in.
And then after that… well, it's been a lot of wheel-spinning, hasn't it? It's depressingly hard to remember the last time Borderlands had a really fresh new idea.
