LogFAQs > #922526033

Borderlands 2 is a massive improvement on the first in every conceivable way. I'm playing through 1 with a friend and I legit don't know what would lead a person to say it's a better game. The story is nonexistent, the world is bland as all get-out and the encounter design is largely thoughtless. Borderlands 2 fixes all of that and adds so much more it's kind of mindboggling.

To answer the question though you miss almost nothing by skipping 1 because 1 has almost nothing in it. You'll just miss a personal connection to the vault hunters from 1 you may have played as, but their actual characters don't really even exist until 2 so you're not missing much there either.
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