I've heard positive opinions about this game from people normally disinterested in mainline Borderlands titles. I thought it might've had something to do with improvements in gameplay - I was wrong.

Other than the change in narrative style and a new art theme, this is just another copy-paste of the first borderlands with no major improvements - weapons are still weak and gimmicky, there's too much loot to juggle, combat is basic and monotonous, enemies are uninteresting, there's tons of walking between places, levelling up doesn't carry a tangible increase in power and is too slow, the abilities are too shallow to carry the core gameplay.