I disagree with a few things here....

Humor-

Borderlands was a riot. One of the funniest games I've ever played and we all know how hard it is to do comedy in video games. Clap Trap, Scooter, Patricia Tannis, Marcus, Zed, Crazy Earl...all fantastic characters that kept me laughing...particularly the Tannis tapes. It only got better with with the DLC...especially the Knoxx DLC.

Hardened soldiers singing about "Oh I'm in the mood for ICE CREAM DAYYYYY!". Shank and his various prison lovers. The Claptrap in the prison that will do "anything...seriously..an ything if you let me out of here. Think about it". Scooter's mission to assemble a new vehicle...Smokin Jesus titty cinnamon that is a monsterrrr! And of course, General Knoxx himself. He hates mondays...

Elemental damage-

Yeah...shooting a badass Firescag with a Volcanic weapon does nothing. While it is possible to kill the Crimson Lance with ANY weapon, it's a breeze with corrosive weapons because corrosive weapons corrode armor? Fire weapons burned flesh and were perfect for bandits. Electric weapons murder Eridians, shielded enemies and pretty much everything else. Explosive weapons are there purely for Bricks talent tree.

There was nothing wrong with Elemental weapons.

Samey weapons-

The bodies were usually the same for the most part because there's only a handful of manufacturers. A Maliwan elemental weapon should look like it's made by Maliwan, right? As long as the stats on the guns were different, who cares about the cosmetic differences.

I will say this, however. Eridian weapons were largely worthless. By the time you reached your first Eridian weapon, you were in your 30s or 40. So there's no time to build up Eridian skills because a) the weapons damage output is 10 to 20 levels lower than you are, and b) because your skill is low, you'll run out of energy before a single target dies. The exception would be if you used Roland's Shock trooper mod for +44% shock damage...but who plays with Roland?

My own issues with Borderlands-

Certain Action Skills became worthless late game. Brick is a beast in co-op, but unless he has Roland shooting him health or a friend to help him up, his Action Skill was a joke, especially on flying enemies or large bosses.

My favorite character is Mord, but his Bloodwing Action Skill is Awful at high levels and does almost nothing to the Crimson Lance and Eridians.

Both Roland and Lilith have extremely useful action skills.

Quests and quest areas don't scale well enough to keep the game challenging...Unless you're playing as Brick, of course.

Most Assault Rifles were awful, which means Roland was pretty much a shotgunner.

Rocket Launchers are shit without Bricks talents..

Borderlands had flaws, but is was one of the best shooters this gen.

One thing I hope is in there from the start despite what they said on the PlayStation blog is multi-profile sign in. I remember reading there it wouldn't be in at launch but they were looking to add it down the line like with the first Borderlands. I know on the 360 that's a given, but it's something on the ps3 that needs to be added. :/

Edit: For those interested where I read it. http://blog.us.playstation.... It's the second question answered.