The fans at the time actually liked Borderlands, but the sequel built on the infrastructure so much its impossible for me to look back at the first game with how much it improved. BL1 didn't even have a minimap at first, that was added in the GOTY edition. The final boss is so ass too, The Destroyer is such a joke despite being... The Destroyer. The Destroyer in Terraria is scarier than that thing, I think its so bad because the Destroyer was like the last thing they made for the game though, really close to the deadline.