There are some pretty good characters in the sidequests. But from the main cast, and especially from the villains, Callis was pretty much the only one who was even somewhat memorable. The other two bad guys were super generic "I'm using humans for my experiments, look how evil I am"-type of bad guys, and the Timekeeper had absolutely zero personality.
Before i went back and replayed TPS and 2 i would have disagreed with you. My opinion has changed. Jack genuinely was the good guy, then the vault hunters come and fuck everything up. I HATE Lilith at this point, i can't stand the bitch. she should have just fucked off after 1. 2 ruined her, not to say anything of the later games which screwed her over even more. Jack kills a few scientists to save a whole planet and Moxxi and Lilith get pissy and both kill thousands of hyperion workers?
voice too, such a fun detail. i think only time they ever did anything else close to that was Amara's tattoos growing as she leveled up.
That, and even his voice changes the further you spec in the cyber commando tree to sound more like the weird robotic monotone voice he had in Borderlands 2. This, the fact Fragtrap both doesnt need oxygen and takes less damage from fire and more from corrosion as if his base health was armor, Aurelia starting with 20k money and purple guns, and just various other small but impactful differences between vault hunters makes TPS in my opinion have the absolute peak class system. It's impressive how unique each character plays in even the smallest details being fitted for each individual character. Randy Pitchford could only DREAM his games had that much soul to them these days.
The Timekeeper for me is a Vault guardian that protects the Elpis vault that leads to the end of time. I dont think he is inherently evil, he is just following his order of protecting the vault. Also doesnt help that he encountered the siren from the evicarium logs which cemented the idea that humans are a chaotic variable that needs to be kept under absolute control or they will reach and open the vault. The game does imo a bad job to describe/show the timekeeper as a character which puts him below the Twins.
Did you like BL3? These consensus I'm seeing is that it's slightly better than that. I hope you have a 5090 though and equally powerful CPU if you're PC master race because according to basically every review that's the only way you can run it fot some reason.
I enjyoed it mostly becaues I liked BL2. But as I am recalling all the story stuff now I was frustrated, specially with the ending, the choice of song was so bad and lots of the writing choices lreading you on felt dumb.
I would strongly caution you to wait until it goes on sale for like $10, which it always does. That's what I'm doing. Because number one I don't like the idea of spending $80 on a fucking video game, and number two whether or not the game is bad I will consider buying four for so cheap as a "retroactive refund" for how bad Borderlands 3 was.
Which one? The "We had to bring Jack back as a way to apologize for our story being dogshit" dlc or the faggot wedding dlc?
Personally im having fun with the gameplay but i would advise to wait until a deep sale or just get the game when it comes with all dlc. Story wise they attempted...something, but doesnt quite hit. The gameplay is the highlight for me, but it is offset by the open world aspect of the game and all the collectibles. Cant speak about performance on released because i got the game after the patch, but for me has been running good on a 4070S. Personally i would recommend you trying BL2 if you havent.
Lmao get fucked
Tannis becoming a siren was bullshit and whoever wrote that i hope gets fired or have their writing privileges revoked. She should have died at the peak of her technological prowess sacrificing herself while showing a hint of care of her friends while proclaiming that she's the smartest being entity while laughing maniacally. Scooter got a badass ending, they should have done something similar to that to Tannis.