take her on a roadtrip for a weekend or overnight to see an architecture place preferably one she hasn ' t seen before . <| sep |> In regards to the story question , I can ' t comment on the balancegrinding of the first game as I played through it with two players but it seems other people are covering that anywayI heard of Tales of the Borderlands being in development before I touched Borderlands 2 , but after I ' d played through the first . I couldn ' t understand how they could stretch the storyline of the first game out into an adventure game as I felt the storyline was very weak . When I played Borderlands 2 , my opinion changed . In terms of plot I found it waaaay better than the first game . More interesting characters , better writing , better presentation etc just in my opinion of course . I would especially recommend Tiny Tina ' s DLC after completing the main game . There are references to characters from the first game scattered in the second , how integral recognizing the references is to the plot is debatable but I would play through the first once just for completion purposes .