Here are some random thoughts in no particular order:

- Usually I try to complete a game before talking about it, but because the game is draining my will to live, I'm probably going to have to make an exception.

- Did not have the crashing or the other issues people review bombed the game for. Still don't like it, though.

- Have played all characters and tried almost all powers. It seems like there are ones that are blatantly the best, as usual. I find myself spending all my money respeccing because the game doesn't like it if you try to multitask.

- Have played every borderlands title and completed most of them, so I can compare what we've got here to what we used to have, and wonder why stuff is missing.

- Somehow they made inventory worse. You have to hold a key to drop a gun one at a time in a game with 500 billion guns. It adds up. I was playing with a friend and had to stop to empty my backpack FOUR TIMES in the middle of a gunfight. Now I just don't pick up any guns that aren't purple. Can I at least get a loot filter? I would think you would know how to do inventory by now, but...

- Unless I'm losing my mind, they only recently added tap to mark as junk, but there is still no tap to drop, meaning the fastest way to get rid of loot is to vend it after having used tap to mark as junk, as in, dropping items is many times slower to the point of you not wanting to do it.

- No meaningful additions to the progression, skill tree is mostly the same as it always is, grappling is not an interesting change, neither is the larger map.

- The game does not do much to justify the larger than normal price tag. The game does not do much to sell me on playing it over one of the other ones I can go and play for free. For context, I have given this game a chance for...35 hours.

- Despite the larger than normal price tag, you will still find skin packs and other things nobody should care about. It truly is a AAAA game.