It's interesting to see where the franchise started and come back to the odd lonely feeling the first game would illicit in me. I actually hated that feeling when the game first came out and really wanted to play it with people but everybody was obsessed with fifa and cod so nobody wanted to play.
It's quite a relaxing game, just running around shooting things and looting things, not really paying attention to any of the storyline or characters. One thing I noticed is claptrap and his various incarnations are actually quite charming and not annoying at all. Infact a lot of the really obnoxious elements of the later games doesn't seem to be present at all in this one.
It runs extremely well on the steam deck, suited to playing in bed listening to a podcast or something. Maybe I need to give borderlands 2 another try i might not hate it as much this time.
I remember the endgame of the original and the feeling of disappointment at the loot that the final boss dropped and after a week or so it popped into my brain that the disappointing loot might have been "the point". Came back to it years later and the steam version was "upgraded for free" to the enhanced version or something that changed the loot that was dropped into something "good" and felt it took something away from finishing the game.
Also, very much appreciated wandering around on a planet completely stripped (at a global level) by industrial exploitation into a mostly collapsed ecology.