What i like most about Borderlands 1 is probably the atmosphere, to most it is just dreary but that’s why i like it. It’s depressing and the soundtrack really amplifies it. Also it makes the little humour hit so much harder

Nice to see the Borderlands franchise never abandoned one of the things that makes it great: the *Split* *Screen.*

The opening theme, the first area, the characters, the story, it’s all just so perfect and nostalgic for me, this game was amazing

Adding to the point of side missions being straight forward, there's less dialogue overall. It's not constantly trying to shove characters in your face 24/7 and makes their lines more impactful when they do speak It also makes it a much more chill experience, which is my favorite part about it

One thing I liked about Borderlands 1 was the Bandits were kinda creepy to me in that game were as other titles just portrayed them as being idiots who just shouted nonsense. I remember the first time I saw a psycho come running at me with that demented laughter I screamed what the fuck. That and when you'd ignite a lance Soldier and you hear that radio static screaming gave me the chills too.

Love the lonely atmosphere of bl1 especially In Solo It feels like a actual barren wasteland

Borderlands 1 is my favorite out of the series by far. It is an otherworldly, gritty Western. The music is brilliant, heightening that effect, from the Cage the Elephant opening to the dark, spacey, western guitar and synth. The further you get into the game the more otherworldly and aetherial it becomes. Add to this the bloodbath of psychos and endless weapons, and even the mud palette which I like...

Borderlands 1 opening scene will have a special place in my heart, its so barren and lonely but at the same time it's one of the most nostalgic places ever

I feel like the characters you get to play as are probably the best out of all the borderlands games.

straight up my favorite thing about BL1 was how much gore there was it made it so much fun to play

I feel like the Borderlands 1 DLC is where the series peaked with it's sense of humor and tone

I just started a new playthrough of Borderlands 1 yesterday, and it just doesn't get old. Even by level 15 you often have too many great and interesting guns that it's hard to decide which to use. While future games have more guns that are out there in design, they are often gimmicky and not that useful outside of building around them. BL1 just feels consistent and smooth difficulty wise.

When you found a legendary in BL1 (The original version, not the GOTY edition) it was something special as they really were that rare, so you tried to keep hold of them as much as possible. Fast forward to BL3 and you get so many, you can't even to be bothered to pick them up anymore.

Forget being forgotten by a newer generation of gamers BL1 is very over shadowed by bl2 to me. As some one who played each bl game in the order they have came out and currently I am playing 3 it feels like bl1 never get quite the respect i feel it deserves. Yes bl2 was a massive improvement over 1 in a variety of ways and bought even more people to the series of that there is no doubt. But during my time on twitch I came across so many people who loved 2 or even worse never even touched bl1 despite how much they liked 2. Like for as much as people praise 2 i feel like 1 did the loot aspect and gunplay aspect better then 2 especially when it came to higher lvls and difficulties at least to me. However I just wished more people had given bl1 a chance to see just how far BL2 had come from it and to see why bl1 had so much charm of its own. I was excited for bl1 almost 2 years before it came out due to an article i read in a random game magazine on a counter in a clothes shop where i went to get my high school uniform the summer i started high school. It was such an exciting article with pics of the weapons and got me so excited for the game despite me not having the money to buy the game let alone a ps3 and wondering how i would get to play it. But I did eventually and almost if not 13 years later it is one of my favorite games that I just wish more new fans to the series gave some more attention to.

It's been a long time since I played, but I remember really liking the Underdome DLC. To me, it was the satisfying conclusion to farming all those weapons. Nothing but enemies to shoot, who were also more difficult than most other parts of the story so it felt like it was worth getting the awesome guns.

I really kinda enjoyed the old apocalyptic vibe, makes the world feel more formidable, and that color when you did come across it feel far more powerful.. and I miss the mystery man, it all just feels dumb by our current story..

This was pretty much my game and series. Ever since I saw the Game Informer about this “Diablo with guns” I became obsessed. Because of this game, I wound up playing fewer other games and stuck mostly to open world RPGs like Skyrim. I easily put more hundreds of hours into these than anything else. Yes there’s like no story and everything is deserts and scrapyards but good god there is no other loot system that is as satisfying as this one. I would run builds with legendaries but also those with only epics. I would also run manufacturer loyalty playthroughs with only Maliwan or S&S guns (my two faves).

I actually really appreciate coming back to bl1 and the colors being bland and whatnot idk why but i like it. One thing i dont care for is how it feels every quest is like just collecting a few things and turning in but its ok my absolute favorite thing that i appreciate 100x more with bl3 being out is pearlescent and effervescent man i wish they were in bl3 or just a new rarity for crying out loud

The guns never hit the same after 1. Sledges shotgun catapulting your friends across the map to get under the map to explore the checkerzone, the assault rifle feelings, thw leveling of guns. It was an amazing era

I like the eerie sorta creepy atmosphere of the game. A lot of mystery surrounding it. I explored every little corner of all the areas trying to see if i could find any mysteries. I also like the giant ass flying rakks that would assault us while we were out exploring and doing side quests. You would take them down and down comes a 20ft worm with wings. Insane

The best part of BL1 is how shotguns work, how weapon proficiency works, and how weapon proficiency for shotguns is broke in the best way possible, resulting in the most satisfyingly OP shotguns ever

I remember on release day, the game was discounted (from CAD $59 to $39) because they were worried it would undersell. I had been waiting for it for what felt like years. I still remember holding it in my hand, being so excited and having to work the rest of my shift trying not to think about it. I played the crap out of that game, hundreds of hours over the years and I still replay it once in a while. It's held up quite well.

Lots to love about BL2, but if I had to pick one thing, it would be the quantity and quality of the DLC. Overall, really great writing, large areas to explore, great loot--they truly felt like they were just part of the game instead of something tacked on. Hate? Replaying the main story over and over. Normal, TVHM, UVHM, OP1-10... just too much of the same thing. I wish that effort had been spent improving other aspects of the game. Great vid! Looking forward to the next one

the best DLC was the zombie one.. i love zombies and that is my jam

I really loved the rustic gritty look and feel of bl1; And I think bl3 could've taken a note and toned down the epileptic rainbow of colors being vomited at you. What I hated about bl1 was the moxxi dlc and the lack of the ability to reset your story for a playthrough 3 and beyond.

BL1 is an absolute classic to me. I'm 37 now and to this day I log in and dick around Pandora listening to the wasteland's music. The game gives you unforgetable experience of going back to the 90's and recall how u felt watching Mad Max 2 and Waterworld. It has post apocalyptic atmosphere, bandits, wild beasts and large open areas. The dirt, rust and dust is everywhere. I was playing with Brick and it was hell of a fun. During covid bullshit I started new campaign with Roland and I enjoy it as well. It is not as good as BL2 which expands every aspect and bring it to next level but to this day it gives you unique experience of loneliness and misery of Pandora. I was hoping that in BL3 they will go back to the roots, instead they went opposite direction which broke my heart :(

Borderlands 1 and its DLCs were something else entirely. I found them more better and far more appealing than borderlands presequal and borderlands 3. Borderlands 2 did it correctly and was a massive improvement story, mechanics and lore wise. ... but presequal and 3 failed miserably in those aspects. Borderlands 1 was and forever will be the perfect borderlands for me because its introduction into the gaming industry was revolutionary... and the dlcs were pure joy to play.

Its funny because Dr neds zombie Island is probably in my top 5 favourite DLC's through all the franchise, I loved the setting in fact one of my main complaints about guns, love and tentacles is that it didn't carry on the atmosphere from the main town throughout the DLC.

This is exactly how I feel about borderlands 2. It started a whole big part of my life and is what got me into games as a whole.

best thing about borderlands 2? it just has to be handsome jack.

borderlands 1 will always be my favorite! great series but this game had a vibe that was truly incomparable

Something about BL1's atmosphere and tone makes we want to do sidequests if for no other reason than to just explore. It's really hard to pin down exactly why I care more about exploring BL1's technically bland vista's and areas vs the more spectacular areas in the later games, but I think it comes down to the mystery invoked. BL1 took itself just a bit more serious, enough to give the world some weight to me. Also with regards to gameplay, I really enjoy BL1's chunky automatic weapons, and how you slowly work through the areas during the story, vs the later game's more linear romp through the story and areas.

Borderlands 1 is a Classic Masterpiece plus was also the game that started a new genre of Role Playing Shooters.

Great job brother! And what I loved about BL2 is Jack. Nuf said.

I love bl1. I played bl2. Havent tried ble cause I'm still upset about what happened to Matt. But nothing has come close to the satisfaction of having a top-grade level 69 Unforgiven Masher on a Gunslinger Hunter class

I also liked how they established lore early on, mentioning promethea and sanctuary. Little did we know that 10 years later we would be flying a space ship to open up the promethea vault

Borderlands 1 came 1 year after my birth and I will always remember it,it started my favorite game series ever

Borderlands has something very rare in games nowadays: personality. Loved BL1 even before start playing because of the visuals and the awesome intro (I knew the band and the song before the game).

11:03 *sad t.k's wave bulldog noises*

One thing I loved about BL1 was every character ended up unique because they could specialize on different weapon types.

I completely disagree about the tone and design of the maps. Borderlands one had these trash heaps of a city and just the rustic tone and music made you feel like this really was a backwater planet in the middle of nowhere. The frozen tundra didn't make sense on a world that looks like it used recycled water, limited supplies, and overall just a horrible place where people go to die. TJ Bhaha when talking about his wife moving to Pandora captures the feel and tone of the game the other games just didn't have. Borderlands had a simple yet diverse range of guns and the general Knoxx DLC made it a farmable looter shooter that skyrocketed its popularity. My biggest complain was limiting pearlescent guns to only being found in the General Knoxx DLC as it esentially made the rest of the game feel pointless for farming. Number two had an amazing story compared with 1 (and its lack of a story) but lost that unique pandora vibe it had so painstakingly built up in the first game. Crazy earl is just "thrown in" even though his role as a trash heap garbage collector doesn't really work in a now floating city. The game just lost that pandora vibe which i wish they would of kept and made borderlands 2 take place on a different planet, which would explain now having ice fields (and thus fresh water) and lush jungles with the backwater tundra planet didn't have.

I love BL1! I think it had the best loot system until 3, and the minimalist story and great atmosphere made it so much better! Also love the dry humor, weapon proficiency, S&S, Crimson Lance enemies, and it really set the stage for an amazing franchise!

Sunny Fyrestone with the slide guitar in the background, T.K. Baha smiling and "looking" at the horizon, making the same jokes about not shooting you cause you're not a skag or "see ya later..." and chuckling cause he's blind ... Few things in video games were as impactful, especially if you play it with your childhood friends when you're a teen. The game even cleverly brings you back to Fyrestone further in the game's story, because they knew how amazing they made that level. It had like a Dark Souls fireplace significance. It had some really cool Mad Max vibes and it grew on me in a way that the later games couldn't, especially the third one. The art is still there and it's beautiful and every NPC and the guns and characters are unique... but the first one was just a masterpiece and one of the greatest games I've ever played. And I recently bought it again because I had missed it so much. I was 17 when I played it with my friends

Borderlands 1 isn't even remotely close to being my most played game but it's still my favorite and probably largely because no matter when i go back to it it almost brings a joyful tear to my eyes because of how nostalgic it is for me.

BL1 has the best ost BY FAR in series and toned down pallet my personal favorite And of course the fact that only this one allows you to become truly overpowered

I love literally everything about borderlands one except the cutscene memory leak issue. Real fun having to close the game every 45 minutes.

I am late to tha party, all ym friends LOVED this game but i could never get into it. However somehow now as a 24 year old i have fallen in love with this game. In a time when i quit gaming for ages its a breath of fresh air and i am really enjoying grinding this game out. Just completed the Zombie Island of Dr Ned & have just unlocked half the achievement in the game its so much fun just to binge watch youtube while playing this game for hours on end. So many Side Missions & wepons to unlock and areas to explore. It is easy to understand, Not to difficult to but challenging enough to make me wanna grind to play. It truly reminds me of the good ol days as a teenager grinding late nights to get the next achievement and get to the next level.

Once you‘ve watched the intro to Borderlands 1 you would know you’re in for a badass ride!

Bl2 had an awesome story with the best bad guy the handsome one. The snipers in that game were amazing. Also the DLCs were the best of all time. Dragon Keep, Pirate DLC, ECT

I always remember CL4P-TP claptrap from borderlands, great character 🏅

This is one series I would buy on any console I owned...hell I had it on the ps3, got the handsome collection on the PS4 and then bl1 when it was remastered. Then I got them all again on my switch this year. Love this series.

great video man. This game is a huge classic for me. Even to this day I always come back to it

Subbed, thank you for making these videos. 💯🙂

I will never forget about borderlands 1 it was the first shooter I’ve ever played I had only played games on Nintendo and banjo and kazzui and crash and my cousin pointed out a game I never noticed I had and we put it in my Xbox and played for hours this was around 2010 or 11 and the game we had was broken so it was in black and white but was still super fun and after that it became our favorite game series I have ever borderlands except the first on my ps4 but that’s on my Xbox 360

BL1 & 2 were both awesome. I put over a thousand hours into these. Sadly, I thought the Pre Sequel and BL3 were garbage. I won’t be buying another Borderlands. game.

Whenever someone asks if I recommend this game I always refer to the first time my friend and I played it. We started the game around 7PM and the first time either of us looked at the time it was 3:30AM. It was so interesting to explore and loot that you literally lose track of time.

man as a kid this game was everything to me the story and aura of the game pulled me in like a magnet, i felt so connected with this game i wanted to live in the borderlands world lol, i didnt have internet at the time so i had to explore and learn everything on my own and i feel like that made it such a better experience instead of looking up guides on youtube to figure out difficult things

A friend introduced me to BL1 about a year after it's release. I had seen a few other friends play it prior to playing myself and thought it looked too cartoony. I was a big Halo fan at the time. After about an hour of split screen play I was hooked. This cartoony first person looter shooter/ rpg/ driving ( with functional passengers) was also friggin hilarious with the npcs and psychos. The first time Scooter said ,"catch a riiiide!" You knew this was something different. I didn't play the dlcs until much later. My favorite thing about BL1 was by far the legendary Pestilent Defiler revolver. I melted more enemies and especially badasses with this gun and still to this day wish they had carried it over to the other games.

I kinda liked 2 best, but I won't argue about one being a classic.

You never should've come here now you're gonna pay!

The DLCs of B1 are the best.

Unpopular opinion, I like that legendaries didn’t have a dedicated loot source. I loved the randomness of the loot and how powerful most any weapon could be. I also loved the mad max feel of the bone dry and salty deserts of pandora. I love the Borderlands series, but the first one has a special place for me. :)

Well, in 2009, luckily the first game I played on new Xbox 360 my dad bought to me was borderlands 1. Many people quit cod, Minecraft, assassin’s creed nowadays, but I am still playing borderlands 1,2,3.

I've loved going snd playing old games my whole life from before my time. Borderlands among other was big during my childhood and like many other games I love will be forgotten and that's why I try to get friends, and family into them. When I have kids they will plqy these gems. I love being a gamer and collector and being able to go back and look at these games and so on that each have memories.

BL1 had the best Weapons and is the only Borderlands with Explosive Element Weapons :(

I love playing as my favorite codehunters, I mean vault hunters.

Mashers will always be my favorite guns in any of the games

Awesome intro song and clap trap, I was hooked from day 1

I feel like it is worth mentioning that BL1 DLC4 is an absolute masterpiece by itself and is actually one of my favourite DLCs in the entire series. It far outclasses anything else in that game, from tone to general fun, to the final boss which is just so fucking cool. I highly recommend it to anyone, as it just ties up that game so so nicely.

Played through 1 dozens of times, still rocking my same Siren in BL2 after only starting it last year. Gotta give my personal fav to BL2.

EVERYTHING,down to a melee mordecai,was viable. The balance is amazing and the guns actually feel like guns rather than stat sticks you shoot,characters felt different in playstyle and personality along with the methods to use their abilities,and the humor wasn't "LOL SO RANDOM" that 2 became onward but was actually pretty clever and down to earth.God I miss this game.

Replaying it right now and it’s as good as ever

Can we just appreciate that Borderlands 1 got so much right and had few annoyances of the later games? I enjoyed the pearlescents that were released and I haven’t stopped trying to get them all. All were decent to massively powerful. Borderlands 2 failed in making pearlescents that could be pretty powerful on their own. Borderlands 2 is way too hard, the only reason why very few pearls may be considered op in Borderlands 2 (ex bekah) is because you have to have a bee shield or gear that enhance the weapon. Although pearls in Borderlands 1 were great with specific gear, on their own they proved usually useful and powerful on any character with most builds and play styles. I know specific gear and builds made other pearls better than others and what they were just on their own. Borderlands 2’s pearls overall aren’t worth farming, since there are at best ok (on their own) or just terrible.

This was a childhood favorite for me and my brother! We played the whole game in coop twice

First game ever for me that didn't stop after finishing the story! I learned through BL2 what true endgame play was! Loved collecting all the special guns. Special mention for finding tubbies! Best DLC in any game ever with Tiny tina Dlc ❤️

I remember this seeing this game at Blockbuster. And later playing this with my cousin and friends after school. Good memories.

I played a lot of borderlands 1 when it came out. My dad ended up getting it for the Xbox 360 and all of us had our own characters and split screened it. My little brother and I would spend hours resetting the game and opening the chests in New Haven over and over until we got “alien weapons”

Such a classic game and what got me into the series and this style of game. Definitely one of my favorite shooters and way higher on my list that most.

Favorite co-op shooter of all time. So many great memories playing this game!

Nice to bring it as series

BL1 was a life changing game for me

BL 1,2 and the PS are 3 of my favourite games ever, I've played BL2 and the PS several times and I love them. I have never been so psyched for a game then when i heard BL3 was coming to the PS4 and whoah man, what an utter pile of shite that was. It has to be the single most disappointing game I've ever played, I barely managed to complete the game before it went straight back onto Ebay. They just seemed to forget everything that made the first 3 games so great. If they make a 4th game then surely they have to go back to the first 2 games roots because part 3 was wank.

Just started playing borderlands today and it's awesome. I was even thinking of streaming it maybe tommorow

What i loved about bl1. The ambience, the discreet music, the color palette (yeah i prefered it to the ultra colorfoul sequels), the mad max vibes radiating everywhere, the subtle not in your face humour, the visual non traditional storytelling, the loot of course, the gun skins which were more realistic and not as cartoonish, the extra weapon types such as the split between support machine gun, heavy machine gun and assault rifles which all worked differently, S&S and atlas manufacturers, the fact that manufacturers depending on their economic standing in the game had weaker or stronger and rarer or more common weapons (atlas were hard to find but with very good stats while tediore were super common), the dlcs except for Moxxies, pearleacents being legit the best guns of the game, the very strong purples, crawmerax being an insane yet rewarding challenge, general knoxx armory (best feeling when you loot it with the glitch), the fact that 90% of the legendaries are strong (compared to bl2 where they were both insanely hard to find and the majority of them was weak anyway), the class mods which were very impactful gave significant boosts and enabled tons of builds in an otherwise seemingly limited game and the much smoother scaling of difficulty. What i didnt like was some of the bugs that gave you a few legendaries in different rarities which made them easy to miss, that even with the bank you didnt have enough space to stash enough awesome weapons since so many of them were great and that we waited till the remake to have some of the legendaries that didnt have their effect working properly finally fixed, also some of the skills which made 0 sense in late game such as the money or exp giving skills which were simply dead for 99% of the game.

I still remember staying over at a friends house and playing this game all night, some of the most fun gaming I ever had. Being a 15 year old an experiencing this world was just awesome.

The zombie dlc is premium content

Yo easy on the breathtaking there keanu, you'll hyper ventilate

It didn't matter that the story was wonky. Demented humor in a Mad Max like world, along with being an entertainment loot game, that's what made it work.

My biggest problem with BL1 is the lack of fast travel in the DLC

Great series my dude

On the but about coop bringing people together, i met one of my best friends to this day streaming borderlands 2 one day. They joined my chat and asked to join and play, and ever since then, they have been one of if not my closest friend. Love you Zach ❤

Im playing for the first time in 2024 and it holds up so well. Better than anything released post 2020. Actually immersed and gives will to grind

this game was my childhood went back thru last week to finish up some achievements.

I’ve always loved Borderlands!! I’ve been a huge fan since 2009!!! 🤘🤘🤘

i liked the atmosphere and music, especially the snipers

i wish they never stop making borderlands FAVORITE GAME OF ALL TIME!! definitely my top 1 video game series

Nice look back. But I have to disagree about the color palette. That's one of the pros for me. I love how the game looks and the atmosphere it creates. The cars are great and you forgot to mention the creatures. Pandora has unique and interesting Fauna.

The freedom of Modded weapons in BL1 was amazing! Nothing better than pulling the peashooter out and launching your teammate straight off the map! Modding freedom was one thing BL2 was seriously lacking... I mean I didn't even mess with mods because I hated having to dump my items back in the bank before logging off everytime. Of course I did every game regular style before messing with mods

Oh, there was a story in BL?! :D Awesome video!

Just started playing through this again for nostalgia I love the franchise