While I ' ll agree with you his sound is much more main stream , this is certainly LIGHTYEARS better than BBTM . I found BBTM to be one of the most disgustingly Pop star bullshit albums I ' d ever heard . <| sep |> I would also recommend jumping straight to 2 . If you want to play to max level in any of them then you ' re going to be doing the story 23 times . Its tough coming from doing it in 1 then doing it all again in 2 . I ' ve about 450 hours in Borderlands 2 . Fell in love with BL after the first , second one was even better . If you had been playing Tales from the Borderlands then you ' ll connect to BL 2 even easier as most of the references are easily connected to the second game . If you are playing solo on 2 , Roland is a decent pick as you can toss out the turret when the fight gets heavy which can get you out of a ' Fight for your Life ' really handy when playing solo with no one else to save you . All three of his trees are pretty decent with his turrent tree being really usfull as an auto slagging machine saving you some weapomn swaps , don ' t worry this will make sense later DThere is somthing really satisfying about chucking out a powered up turret then going to town on a group of enemies , picking it back up when you are done with the fight . I think also playing to where you are on BL 1 will have given you an idea on some of the characters , namely Scooter , Doc Ned , Marcus and decent overview of Firestone . You ' ll see why Firestone is relevant in BL 2 soon enough . But yeah , if you ain ' t feeling one that I defo go play 2 . I ' d hate to see it put you off trying BL 2 which I think is much more fun for someone coming in new without having played BL 2 when it was ' its time ' so to speak