I tried coming back for DLC 3 and was bored to tears after half and hour or so. There is no emotional investment in any of the NPC’s or their stories because they are all new and have no relationship to any of the main story or previous games. The narrator sounds a little like Matthew McConaughey, which is interesting, but he drones on and on and on about nothing important or exciting or funny or otherwise worthwhile. Why is it so hard for GB to understand that it is the original characters, whom we have been with since the beginning, that matter the most and that breathe life into the DLC’s? UGH, so frustrating…!
Anyways, I gave up playing again after that waste of effort. It doesn’t pay to put time into a FPS RPG game when it is constantly changing underfoot. If I wanted ever-evolving endgame content and endless bullet-sponges, farming and co-op missions, I would simply go back to playing Destiny 2. They have that formula down pat and are far superior in that arena than the Borderlands franchise will ever be.
But for me the Borderlands games have always been about the storyline, the characters and the humor first and foremost. The game mechanics, loot and the rest were only ever secondary and could be lackluster at times as long as the adventure was solid (underwhelming loot from the final boss fight of BL1, anyone?).
BL4 just looks stupid. And from what I am reading today, I am correct in my assumption.
Anywho, that is my (updated) response as to why have I stopped playing. I see others have listed DLC’s in other posts in preference order, so I am adding mine here.
1 - Handsome Jackpot - solid DLC, fun, exciting, good storyline, character development and interactions, firm tie-in with the rest of the franchise. More than happy to play through this one multiple times once they stop making changes to the base game.
2 - Tentacles - great take on Lovecraft-ian mythos. Fun environment, though there is a lot of driving around on the infinite frozen lake of do-nothing. I would enjoy multiple playthroughs more (after they stop changing the main game) if not for the Empowered Scholar. That boss is just an annoying, pointless, never-ending bullet-sponge, complete waste of time that you are forced to deal with since he is part of the main storyline.
3 - BOB - Boring On Boring. Could easily have done without it. Never even finished it. Might go back once they stop changing the base game (hopefully after fixing it) since I already paid for it.
4 - Krieg - are you freakin’ kidding me? Really? Another Crap-tastic Voyage? And, oh joy, I get to relive the pointless death of Maya. I want my money back… Of course, if they were to change the ending so that Krieg wakes up on Sanctuary and goes on a psycho, bloodthirsty rampage and slaughters Ava, hurling bloody pieces of her dead carcass out into the void of space while the rest of the crew applauded and welcomed Krieg back to the fold… THAT would make it all worthwhile and redeem GB completely in my eyes. I would start playing again immediately just to see that.
