For me, the characters carry this game. Each time the game introduces a character, they have a unique personality. No matter how little they appear in the game, every character leaves an impression on the player. Also, the dialogue is funny enough that I didn't want to miss any of it. Despite all those things, at times the game feels too easy. An enemy would appear with a cutscene, then be dead five seconds later. Overall, the story, characters, and design are all top-tier. However, the enemies' abilities mostly underperformed how cool they looked.

When people ask me, "what's your favorite game?" I will usually rattle off a list, because I hate picking favorites. Different games do different things well, and I'm the kind of person who can't play the same game for too terribly long. Even so, I wouldn't think to list Borderlands 2 as a favorite - but the hours don't lie. I've played this game all the way through multiple times, and even revisiting it recently feels... fun. It's a nice game. Lightning in a bottle, even. After 1's kind of raw crusty low-budget feel, but before 3 (a game that I maintain to this day was not all that bad and whose gameplay is an improvement over 2 in some ways), this game is kind of a tentpole. Sure, there are problems, the game's randomly generated guns lead to situations where theoretically good weapons are hamstrung by some statistical quirk or by being a Torgue weapon, but there's something oddly unassailable about the game to me. The story is nothing special, though it is so competent and memorable for the low standards of video games that everyone's jaw seemed to drop anyway. I can't say whether the game has made me feel something strongly or question myself, or challenged me in an especially unique way, but even after all these years I sometimes come back here, get hooked back in, and despite the trashy reputation of the game, and Gearbox, it's something that few games can be for me: weirdly, "home." And I will live with that.

Also the humor is not as cringy as everyone says it is lol

Staff, CEO, and dated writing aside (there were a lot of people that actually LIKED the writing/jokes when this came out), you will find a very fun co-op game with a lot of customization for your character available for you and a lot of ways to play. I really liked the Berserker class from the first game, and in this game they have two classes that are very similar but utilize the game mechanics in a well thought out way. Looting and doing giant firefights in this game is a very fun thing to do, especially with friends. There were countless times where there would be answers to certain enemies for me but not for someone else and vice versa, so the co-op aspect of this game really shines through. The higher tier items and endgame equips make a lot of the game pretty easy, but overall I would say between the slaughter arenas, all of the missions in the base game and the DLC and the endgame/secret bosses, you may have one of the best co-op games ever created.
The reason this gets a 4.5 from me is because I can't rate 4.6/4.7 and the writing/voice acting does get a bit bothersome. The game is very fun and that is what matters most.