Why did I spend 15 hours slogging my way through the main story of this game?

Because it was in my backlog after buying it 8 years ago. I dropped $120 on a four pack of this game for me and three friends to play. One friend couldn't run it, and the other three never played it. So I finished the game after 8 years, by myself, because I wanted to finish it from my back log and justify the $120 I spent eight years ago. It wasn't worth it.

There are so many technical issues with the game. The frame rate frequently stutters and even dipped down into the literal teens at many points on my rig with a GTX 1080ti and Core i5 6600k overclocked to 4.0GHz. Yes, the performance really is THAT bad. Even the compass is stuck at 30 fps while the rest of the game is perfectly smooth. You get stuck on things constantly, causing so many unwarranted deaths.

Then there's the overall design of the game. For a game that's all about loot, there are pretty much zero quality of life features to make the looting more convenient. You put up with a super small backpack through the entire game, and skip on so many weapons. Instead of holding down a button to collect all the loot near you, you have to click on each individual one. The menus are slow and clunky. Everything involving loot just feels like a miserable chore. That's before you even get into the overall story, too. So much time is spent running from point to point with so little to do in-between, and the insufferable voice acting doesn't make the trip any more pleasant. Driving the vehicles is fun for a few minutes until you realize it's mainly there to make you spend the same amount of idle driving as you do idle running to the next objective. The most grievous sin, however, is making you run back to an outpost to turn in missions. I'm convinced this was done for no other reason than to waste the player's time and pad out the game's length.

The multiplayer is barely functional, and even if you manage to get someone to play with you, the game scales up way too much and makes it an insufferable game of waiting for your shield to recharge between poking out behind corners to shoot something (which was already pretty bad playing solo). Not only that, but you HAVE to schedule a time to play with your friends, because otherwise you'll be too leveled or your friend will, and it'll be miserable for both of you. So you can't even enjoy the game with friends.

So no, in this day and age, Borderlands is not worth playing. There are better looter shooter RPGs out there that you can be playing that not only respect your time as a player, but also run better and are more fun to play either alone or with friends without compromising the fun factor for all parties involved.

Why did I spend 15 hours slogging my way through the main story of this game? Because it was in my backlog after buying it 8 years ago. I dropped $120 on a four pack of this game for me and three friends to play. One friend couldn't run it, and the other three never played it. So I finished the game after 8 years, by myself, because I wanted to finish it from my back log and justify the $120 I spent eight years ago. It wasn't worth it. There are so many technical issues with the game. The frame rate frequently stutters and even dipped down into the literal teens at many points on my rig with a GTX 1080ti and Core i5 6600k overclocked to 4.0GHz. Yes, the performance really is THAT bad. Even the compass is stuck at 30 fps while the rest of the game is perfectly smooth. You get stuck on things constantly, causing so many unwarranted deaths. Then there's the overall design of the game. For a game that's all about loot, there are pretty much zero quality of life features to make the looting more convenient. You put up with a super small backpack through the entire game, and skip on so many weapons. Instead of holding down a button to collect all the loot near you, you have to click on each individual one. The menus are slow and clunky. Everything involving loot just feels like a miserable chore. That's before you even get into the overall story, too. So much time is spent running from point to point with so little to do in-between, and the insufferable voice acting doesn't make the trip any more pleasant. Driving the vehicles is fun for a few minutes until you realize it's mainly there to make you spend the same amount of idle driving as you do idle running to the next objective. The most grievous sin, however, is making you run back to an outpost to turn in missions. I'm convinced this was done for no other reason than to waste the player's time and pad out the game's length. The multiplayer is barely functional, and even if you manage to get someone to play with you, the game scales up way too much and makes it an insufferable game of waiting for your shield to recharge between poking out behind corners to shoot something (which was already pretty bad playing solo). Not only that, but you HAVE to schedule a time to play with your friends, because otherwise you'll be too leveled or your friend will, and it'll be miserable for both of you. So you can't even enjoy the game with friends. So no, in this day and age, Borderlands is not worth playing. There are better looter shooter RPGs out there that you can be playing that not only respect your time as a player, but also run better and are more fun to play either alone or with friends without compromising the fun factor for all parties involved.