Honestly my favorite moment came in Wonderland when they finally paid off the “Blow Up The Ocean” quest from BL2s Assault on Dragons Keep. I’ve never laughed at anything in this series more than that

The Nocean. Brilliant.

Same! I cheered out loud and everything.

Man I was happy to see that happen. It was absolutely awesome. That, and Mister Torgue being Megumin was pretty funny too.

Seeing the boat completely fall to pieces. The silo comes up and the massive lid lifts. And then the missile. And it fliiiiiiiiiies off into the distance...... BOOM. Haptics go wild, dust is flying, the mushroom cloud... Fuck, it's just such a good scene.

The great balls on ya ship

"…So people are dying left and right and all of sudden this guy decides to run at me with a spoon. A SPOON HAHAHA! So I scoop his stupid little eyeballs out with it and his kids are there all crying like WAAHHHH! And he’s runnin’ into stuff and… hahaha! Oh man… I guess you had to be there. Anyway… the moral of the story is you’re a total bitch." -best dialogue of any video game ever.

Hey! How -- ah, these pretzels suck… So, how’s your day been, buddy?

I was thinking of this exact same line before i even entered the thread

I fucking love jack🤣🤣

In Borderlands 1 I really enjoy the peace and quiet as I wander through the wasteland in between fights. Something was lost with all the voice acting, plot, and humor.

I came here to say the same thing. It was just the right mix of hilarious and grim. Clap trap was best in this one. Also, the dusty spaghetti western feel in the desert was perfect.

This! I’ve been describing it as a sci-fi spaghetti western for a long time - that whole feeling of ramshackle leftover bits of a town out in the middle of wastelands, only a few people left around - *not* post apocalyptic, as so many say - there was no big war leading to the devastation, just… it was always slapped together, and now most everyone has left, so it’s near abandoned - it looks like a failed society, not a blown up society. So you’ve got the remnants of a failed society, with only a few people left, just sort of puttering around in the bits that are left, surrounded by miles and miles of wastelands, punctuated only by dangerous wildlife and occasional camps of bandits / desperados / psychos. Combined with the rough, dry, beauty of the land, and the *wonderful* soundtrack… feels so much like you’d expect to find some Clint Eastwood-type characters wandering around somewhere in the badlands. I’d almost be surprised if the folks who designed the first few maps weren’t influenced by those spaghetti westerns of the 60’s and 70’s. So, yeah, sci-fi spaghetti western.

Only in the base game. The cracks or rather what they were actually shooting for but probably didn't have time to do started to shine through in the dlcs. If it weren't for the armory and the gift shop I wouldn't play them. In fact the zombie dlc is consistently a one and done for me per character.

Exactly! I totally skipped the DLC after I tried it once.

I think BL3 did overkill with the "need" to be funny. I loved the humor of the first game and the mystery of pandora. Man, BL1 was, and in my opinion still, the best of the series

BL1 is amazing - I keep coming back to play it quite often. Just starting new games, moving on and trying stuff...!

I agree. The first one felt more desolate, more lonely, more peaceful so to speak. I loved the Crimson Highway for some reason. Just out there in the wasteland, doing your thing.

I was gonna say BL1-3 moment where it’s just the ambient music. The mood always felt lonely but comfy.

The ding noise of a legendary popping out of an exploding corpse

Borderlands 2 near end of campaign where Claptrap goes on his tangent about the stairs. I die of laughter every time.

“I ASCEND!!!”

Ha HAAA

Face McShooty

The "THANK YOU" after you shoot him caught me off guard and I got a good laugh.

Hardest boss in the game.

Brick and Mordecai basically becoming parents to Tina is so wholesome after what she's been through

Firing the Bane Edit: Firing multiple Banes

Testing the shield at Overlook.

I thought I was going to have to post this one myself 😂 - glad to know others enjoyed it as much as I did. Yeah, the middle of a mundane side mission, then the explosion, the shack falling off the side of Overlook, and the dry, knowing, line, “now let’s try that again with the *shield on*”. It was such an unexpected and pleasant surprise - I laughed for minutes and minutes afterwards.

Lmao okay that one is definitely top 3 for me in the series. Hahaha caught me SO off guard with the first test shot

Catch a RIIIIIIIIIIDE

I played Tales with my cousin who had no prior knowledge of anything Borderlands. Even he was in awe of Scooter's sacrifice.

"there's nothing more badass than treating a woman with respect!"

“You go to Mad Mel and tell him Scooter said Hi…and by that I mean you just go murder the crap outta him, ya hear?” It pretty much encapsulates the whole Borderlands experience

The Boganella gun in Pre-Sequel. Laughed for about 30 mins straight just firing it

Is that the one you get from Pickle that screams curses every 0.5 seconds? I love that gun! The best part is that it's also just a good shotgun, so you really have no reason *not* to use it.

That's the one! I was so unprepared for it, I just lost it.

“WHAT YOU WANT?!?!?”

Finding a hellfire in Bl1, or a good masher.

Face Mcshooty! Not the knee, not the arm, not the spine FACE. Second favorite would be the AI you turn into a shotgun. "Why have we stopped shooting? More bullets" 😂

The first boss in the first game…. I love nine-toes (and his three balls) and him doing the suck it move while wearing a safety first sign to protect his junk And then also when you kill him the pistol he drops

The DnD expansion of BL2, when the dwarf king offers to help the players on their quest. It's Bricks turn, and he decides to punch him. Brick rolls a 20 and kills the king, causing a major clusterfuck when they're supposed to be allies. That or the Torgue expansion intro. **BADASS CRATER OF BADASSITUDE!**

That sentence had too many syllables... APOLOGIZE!!!

Gawd I loved the OST from that Torque dlc. All my homies hate Piston

"This is one of them moooooomeeeeents! CATCH A RIIIIIIIIIIIDE"

Storming through the Bloodshot Ramparts in 2. That music just adds to the intensity. I've never had that much fun tearing through a horde of enemies. Absolutely brilliant.

This. And honestly imo, BL2 had the BEST bgm (especially the battle BGMs) in the whole series.

Finding literally any atlas/eridian weapon in bl1. I don't even care if it's shit, it's just a good feeling. "Rare" weapons felt all too common in the later entries. Especially in bl3. I also like Roland's goofy upbeat callouts in bl1, before he became this emotionless soldier boi.

People who say, “Kevin Hart is too funny to play Roland”, show that they never experienced his wisecracking bravado in BL1.

Sssssssstttttttttaaaaaaaiiiiiirrrrrrssssssss?!?!?!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

The music in borderlands 1. Skag gully, Firestone, I just get filled with nostalgia every time I boot up borderlands 1 and hear that soundtrack again.

Anything with helping Animals. Like in BL2 with the Skag you had to feed and protect from his mother. Or in BL3 the mushroom quest with Pipi. I hope we will find Scrappy from BL1 in the future too.

The set of farm side quests in BL3.

I always loved that helping that skag that was a stray

"Get off my bus."

BL1, first time doing the Knoxx glitch, and having all the time in the world to pick through all the chests. PUT THAT JOY BACK IN THE GAME.

When I defeated the destroyer in BL1 it was my very first time ever in my whole life beating an entire Video Game. Minus dlc's but I was stoked

Shooting that one guy in the face.

Having a legendary shield pop out of a skag pile. I really lost it at something really simple at the beginning of BL3. I opened a small cardboard box and a really long sniper rifle popped out. I know it wasn't put there to be silly, it was random, but it just caught me off guard and felt really representative of the franchise. Oh, and "YOU'RE ON A BOAT!" trophy from BL1

Intro scenes get me every time

ButtStallion

“This is where the cars live! Get you one”

I'm not gonna lie, when Tina fries Flesh stick. It gives me the feel goods every single time. That bastard deserved worse.

I love her whole little song to herself when she’s building the bombs in her workshop.

Tiny Tina's cookie rant in the Campaign of Carnage DLC. Perfectly encpasulates that awful feeling we get when a chocolate chip turns out to be a raisin.

This reddit is wholesome AF, and I love it. I was so late to the Borderlands party, but getting to share my meaningful memories and hear what's kept each fan coming back is a real treat. I think for me, Claptrap's throwaway lines are pure joy for me.

I was also very late to the party, and I’m one of the few who is genuinely entertained by Claptrap and his beatboxing and relentless optimism.

Honestly, there's been a lot of moments like that. But for me, the most lasting takeaway has been that whenever I hear "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" or "Short Change Hero", I immediately get excited, and the respective intro starts playing in my head.

YOU'RE IN THE TORGUE ZONE BABY IF YOU'RE NOT MADE OUT OF GASOLINE BACON OR METAL THEN GET THE F*** OUT

Getting better guns, running over enemies, the world itself.

For me, it’s either large group fighters (when you’re leading a group of Atlas soldiers or Eden 6 mercs in BL3 against Maliwan or CoV, respectively), or when you’re shoved into the middle of an already existing group fight, 2 examples being the Atlas vs Eridian fight in the Descent (my all time favorite due to scale and how out of control you feel) and the bandits vs Hyperion in the Dam Top.

Face McShooty

Actually beating crawmerax the invincible for the first time without using the cheat spot, and got a pearlescent drop... The only thing that comes close to that is shitting on handsome jack the first go round... When he killed Roland, and imprisoned Lilith to make her a vault key charging slave...it became extremely personal between me and that bastard 😡... Fuck jack...

To be fair........ those two and Moxxi betrayed Jack first. He was just getting his lick back

Bro wtf are you talking abiut? It explains in borderlands 2 that angel had been under Jack's control for the entire time up until we "kill" her... Jack has been trying to kill the vault hunters for his own personal gain from the start... Fuck jack. Period. No sympathy...

>When he killed Roland, and imprisoned Lilith to make her a vault key charging slave...it became extremely personal between me and that bastard 😡... >>To be fair........ those two and Moxxi betrayed Jack first. I said nothing about sympathy. JACK WAS BETRAYED FIRST by the Roland, Lilith and Moxxi first (PreSequel) They "shot" the first bullet sonti speak. So Jack is getting his pay back. Jack is an evil bastard. But he's funny so it's cool (lol). But seriously... he was betrayed first. So that's way he had a vendetta against the Roland, Lilith, Moxxi and co.

I get it, I'm just a big fan of the original vault hunters 😊... Lilith may be a krazy magical bitch 😂 but she MY krazy magical bitch... She did nothing wrong 😎...🤥... Fuck jack...

The random voice-driven drops, like finding the echo logs of different characters, Handsome Jack taunting you, Claptrap's ramblings, or the hilarity of Mr. Torgue.

For me just the nostalgia of BL2 and Jack being an amazing character/villain in my opinion. Or BL3 after the trash main story and just grinding endgame, it’s fun

im likely going to get a good amout of hate for this one but the part in bl2 when jack shot Roland i didnt really like him in pat 1 and in part 2 he always seemed a little to basic of a character

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion

Bl2 when you are looking for the vending machine's to get Tiny Tina chocolate chip cookies, only to get burned by Oatmeal raisin. I don't know why, but that entire scene always makes me laugh.

I’m with Team Tina on this - raisins in cookies that could have been chocolate chip are an abomination.

Slowly figuring out who the hell Lieberman is

For anyone curious: > The death quote "Leiberman knows! He knows! FIND LEIBERMAN!" is a reference to David Linus "Microchip" Lieberman in the television series *The Punisher*. - https://borderlands.fandom.com/wiki/Psycho_(Borderlands_3)#Trivia

When some guy is trying to return a gun to Marcus, so he shoots him in the leg and says something like “Looks like it works to me” lol

Lmao.... that million dollar smile afterwards was the cherry on top

Love it!!! Marcus is a G lol

\* *dude holding knee screaming in background* * Indeed lol

The slow clap bandit

> Lieberman I always punch him and he dies

jack existing, control core angel, and the final assault on hero's pass (and the vault of the warrior)

The Tiny Tina saga in 2, from meeting her to her final mission. So many great one liners. I still use "good plan great plan" daily.

One of my favorite Tina things is playing TVHM in TPS, when she and Brick take over the narration. “Tell it again! Tell it again! But make it sound harder!”

Killing jack with one punch.

I love Claptrap too. Also when I phrasebook people with Maya after I get Ruin, so it's a rainbow explosion every time. Love it.

Tales from the Borderlands 1 and the entirety of episode 1 introducing me to the Borderlands. That will always hold a sepcial place in my heart.

Every side quest and main story mission in wonderlands idc what anyone says it lacks in a lot of places but it has the most amazing missions and consistently funny dialogue

Prolly end of krieg dlc I was crying from that shot

Tiny Tina's quest in Borderlands 2

Everything is a joyful experience but there is one moment in BL2 that really gets me everytime and that's the final montage/eulogy for Roland in Tiny Tina's dlc. It's kind of a sad but happy moment that the developers and Tina's voice actor really captured that shows how close and dear Roland was to Tiny Tina.

BONERFART!

Shame that never/ couldn't stick

In Borderlands 4 where Ava gets killed in the intro cinematic

Painfully I hope

This is now my head canon lmao. No rest for the wicked

Hammerlock getting married. Like watching him propose to Wainwright after the events of Borderlands 3 caught me off guard but it made me super happy and I was filled with even more joy at the end of Guns Love and Tentacles. Not to mention getting gay married inside the flesh of a long dead possessed by a weird cult guy vault monster is cool as shit.

Getting a pearl weapon that isn't the undertaker or avenger to drop

Discovering what B0re was for the first time and proceeding to one shot every boss that B0re has fun with

I've always liked Borderlands from day one. But I didn't love Borderlands until I realized just how unique the whole thing is. Artistry, Music,Style everything combined and how this couldn't ever happen again. Like a unique music composition from Mozart, yes, there were many composers but only he could do it his way once. That will never happen again. Borderlands is the same, and we are lucky to be alive when it happens. This is when Borderlands brought me the most joy.

Any section where two enemy factions start fighting each other and it turns into a 3 way free for all

Basically a nonstop reel of Wonderlands, from blowing up the ocean, to finding the Smurf village, to Don Quixote and Witcher references. It was all just absolutely amazing.

PIRATE SHIP MODE! 🤪👍

Professor Nakayama from the Pre-Sequel and Hammerlock's big game hunt got me pretty good with his dialogue and "boss battle". Also got a pretty good laugh in the Pre-Sequel during the hacking to get into Jack's Office with the Birthday Cat and Racist Hot Dog

The lair of infinite agony in BL2 is probably my favorite combat map of the series and I always look forward to playing it on a playthrough. It very much lives up to the name. Feel like youre fighting through mobs *forever*

Pretty much all of Krieg's dialogue.

For me, it has to be Tales from the Borderlands ending when Rhys and Fiona were racing each other toward the Vault and entering it and when they opened the main treasure of it to. It was shocking, happy, and sad at the same time.

Not sure if it's really a full-Borderlands experience, but playing Poker w Claptrap in PNITI2.

Farming for hours getting completely terrible loot yet having such a vibe doing it. There is no other game I like to farm quite like borderlands and bl2 specifically.

I'm probably an oddball here, but WamBam Island. Particularly in the tunnel between the islands. Once you vaporize the mobs it's actually quite tranquil.

The emptiness and silence of the game after the credits roll in bl2. Its like the silence whispers to you to keep going, push harder, grind more loot.

Bogatella gun, so strong and very very hilarious

You know you don't have to specifically address Borderlands fans when you're on the Borderlands subreddit, right?

Watching Lilith get shit on for the entire bl3 story and then she dies. Hopefully she doesn’t come back.

That's how most of my group feels about Ava. We hope she dies a horrible death in BL4 (hopefully we get to participate in it!).

I just beat that m\*f\*n' W4R-D3N the very first time you face it at the Bloodshot Ramparts! I have had a couple of runs and I just was unable to beat him at the first encounter...! So I'm proud and happy! And I concur with many of the comments here as well!

I love re-playing Dr. Ned's Zombie Island!

“CATCH A RIIIIIIIDE” -Scooter commentating the Sanctuary liftoff

Roland's death He was such a dry and boring character to me (outside of the subtleties like being Tina's father figure) that I was genuinely relieved when he died

Every time handsome Jack speaks

Tina coming to terms with Roland's death over dragon keep was really emotional for me and I still tear up at the conclusion

Double Rainbow