Borderlands 3

Main Campaign story is the worst writing of the franchise. Best gameplay though.

The writing is TERRIBLE but the actual gameplay is super fun. Ava is hands down the most annoying character in any game ever and it's not even close.

Amazing game if you skip cutscenes and mute the story cause it's cringe

I'm not going to talk about the story because millions of people already talked about it and yea, it is pretty shit and villains are trying to be Tiktok Handsome Jack.
Gameplay wise It's great. Maybe even better than 2. Shooting is great, weapon identities are great, using a gun for hours and being satisfied with your gun only to find an even better gun is great. I like the talent trees being more active ie. picking and choosing active skills and modifying them instead of dozens of passive skills. Borderlands 2 had very fun skill trees and classes but 3 made them even better.
The map is horrible. It may even be considered a crime against humanity in some countries.
Loot wise, new anointed weapons are great and enhance your gameplay if you enjoy using skills a lot. I don't like that they didn't add more loot qualities like they did in 2 like Cursed, Pearlascent etc. but the amount of loot and builds you can have is still satisfying.
Story is shit but at least quests are somewhat less memey. Worst part of 2 was EVERY SINGLE SIDE QUEST was a reference to a meme or it was a LOL RANDUMB xD moment. 3 still have quests like that but it's overall better than 2.
Even with all the negatives, positives are too much fun for me so I can easily ignore or even forget the negatives.
On one hand I'm hyped for 4, I hope they look back at 2 and 3, think about what they have done, and make a great comeback that surpasses the trilogy combined but on the other, I know 2K and Gearbox will fuck it up somehow by adding some skibidi toilet quest and making the villain a "quirky" alien that likes to eat tide pods.
I wish developers the best as they try to make a good game despite Randy Pitchford and 2K.

probably the worst story and writing i've ever experienced but on the same hand its followed by amazing gun/gameplay. still recommend it just mute the dialog during story missions and its a wonderful experience

Hard to go back to Borderlands 2 after playing this game, it's an improvement in nearly every aspect. I play it with dialogue volume at 0 so the amazing soundtrack distracts from the awful story/characters/dialogue

I wanted to hate this game, I really did.

But after I juggled an enemy with a shotgun while listening to Ariana Grande's "yes, and?" I came to the realization that, "Yeah, this game is amazing".

The satisfying gun play and smooth movement of this game have also won me over.

So grab some friends(or go solo), turn your brain off(trust me, you'll only hurt yourself given the writing) and have a lot of fun with this game.

PS-Here's hoping that BL4 is amazing.