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

[seawasp]

I'm not terribly into strategy games. I've played Civ (II, IV, V) and AlphaCent, the old Mac game Outpost, and some of the tactics games like FFTactics. Of them I think Alpha Centauri was my favorite.

There was, long ago, a magnificent game for the Atari and Amiga systems called "Sundog", which combined a whole bunch of elements into a single game in a way I had never seen done before or since. I would have liked to have seen that game remade but using the capabilities of modern systems; it would be part explorer, part trader, part RPG, part ship-to-ship fighting game, and part planetary exploration. Some games have approached parts of it, perhaps the closest approach being Escape Velocity and Escape Velocity Nova, but none have quite managed the whole package.