Tell me about Borderlands...?

[seawasp]

I've heard some good general buzz about the game, and I have heard that there's a sequel out or coming soon, but I've never played it or seen it played. Is it a game I'd enjoy?

Games I've played and enjoyed:
  A bunch of the JRPGs, with Chrono Trigger and Star Ocean and Persona at the head of the lists
  Fallout 3 and New Vegas
  Oblivion and Skyrim
  Dragon Age

Games I have enjoyed but found I can't play them for long before my aged reflexes betray me and I am filled with fail:
  Action-RPGs like Tomb Raider and inFamous

Games I don't really enjoy are FPSs.

  I've also been thinking about Mass Effect. Is it important to play ME1 before ME2 and ME3 or are they pretty much separate?

Comments

[melchar.livejournal.com]

I tend to thing that 'ME1 & ME2 are more rpg than shooter. The story and universe are excellent. The in-charactering between Shepard and the world around [him or her] is wonderful. I liked the blended weapon/psi combo classes - and the weapon-play was not difficult for me to do. [And I usually do not do well at twitch games.]

I consider 'Bioshock' to be a fps 1st and foremost that has a great story - with an incredible setting. On 'normal' I was just barely able to keep up with the combat, but the controls [Xbox 360] my 1st play-through were intuitive enough that I could stay alive. Sometimes by accident. ^_^ I got very fond of sniping - and the TK plasmid. The story made the twitch elements bearable - but it was spooky and trippy.