Borderlands

Borderlands Game of the Year with every DLC bundled in, it’s the perfect reason to jump back into Pandora and experience the game from a fresh angle. The graphical upgrades are immediately noticeable small details like Mordecai’s skill animations stand out more than ever. The characters have been tweaked to look closer to their Borderlands 2 counterparts, and honestly, it’s a change I really prefer. The core gameplay is untouched, which makes sense for a remaster, but it’s still great to finally have a proper FOV slider instead of relying on mods and clunky workarounds like in the original. It's a minor addition on paper, but it genuinely improves comfort while playing. One of the best features here is the ability to import your original characters, achievements included. For returning players, that’s huge it means you can pick up right where you left off and jump straight into the enhanced content without losing progress. Between the original and the Enhanced Edition, the remaster easily comes out on top. Better visuals, improved settings, all DLC included, and at a lower price than the original ever was it’s a straightforward upgrade for both newcomers and veterans.

Borderlands is still such an incredible game to play, even after all these years. The art style is just something so unique and special. The game holds a sense of humor, while still keeping the bleak and lonely tone along with it. Ambiance is incredible for the tone as well. Characters are memorable and add so much personality to the game.

Originally played this game years ago on my own, but now am enjoying it and appreciating it even more with friends.

That being said.. Randy Pitchford still sucks.

This is the premium game for premium gamers randy. You mistakenly called borderlands 4 the premium game.

This game walked so Borderlands 2 could sprint while screaming.
Borderlands GOTY is rough, loud, and very much from another era, but the core idea still works: shoot everything, grab loot, repeat. The guns are fun, the wasteland is empty in a charming way, and the humor is simpler but still lands.
You’ll spend a lot of time driving across the desert, fighting the same enemies, and opening chests that may or may not hate you. It’s not as polished as the later games, but it has personality.
If you want to see where the series started and don’t mind some jank, it’s worth playing. If you’re here for nonstop chaos and modern quality-of-life features, you’ll feel the age.
Still chasing better loot.

I prefer Borderlands 1 to Borderlands 2.
Sure, the environments could've been less repetitive while still keeping a badlands look, and there could've been a bit more active plot for extra engagement (without falling into quirky millenial mush of more recent entries), but the vibe of the game feels better, it's properly desolate and hostile with appropriate dashes of dark humor. There's less junk in the weapons you find, they feel more balanced in that regard, and I find weapons feel better to use, they look less stupid overall too, and the enemies generally feel less bullet sponge-y.
The cripplingly low FOV can thankfully be fixed by setting up an hotkey to change FOV in the config, the only annoying part was the online connection being a bit rough and laggy, from experience. I tried Enhanced and it was about as laggy unfortunately. Eridian weapons were a cool idea too, I just wish they were less bad and got improved instead of being straight up cut from later games.

Borderlands GOTY is a brilliantly chaotic trip to Pandora: weird bandits, ridiculous amounts of guns, and Claptrap testing your sanity on a regular basis. The humor hits, the action pop , and going for 100% completion took me 75 hours. Totally worth it. Loot is love, loot is life!

Playing this instead of the GOTY Enhanced, I see what the difference was.

This is the superior experience compared to the rerelease. There is no gray-ish brown-ish filter that makes everything look bad, it doesn't have a debilitating memory leak issue and also runs a lot better, they didn't gut a lot of the iconic hybrids like the Ajax Ogre out of the game, and they didn't screw with the general balance of the game. The story is still the same, so fairly basic and without the amount of care and humor you'd expect out of later games, but it is much more playable and enjoyable overall. The only real upside Enhanced has over the OG is the FOV slider and the minimap.

Play this instead of the rerelease, if you can. It's going to be much better.