I just got this game, and its good. Very satisfying and much better than a WoW meats Halo should be. Skill accounts for something, the shield part is used in tandem with the HP part, giving you incentive to play smart, and the RPG aspects feel like they add to the experience rather than being tacked on.

Complaints, the first is the second wind, because if you get knocked out just before you kill the enemy you can't resurrect. The second complaint is the driving, which is really really awkward.

Mordekai is a golden god, and I cannot imagine playing as anyone else. I guess his disadvantage is that he doesn't have a action thing that saves his ass like the others, but that would imply that there is a situation where he hasnt already killed everything before it got within revolver distance, of which I don't believe occurs.

I'm still playing.

I was playing as Mordecai exclusively, but I just suddenly got the bug at about 30th level to try a siren, and now I keep darting around three characters and never quite getting them leveled up. Here are my thoughts-

Roland-Haven't played much as him. He's a socially inclined class, and uses a lot of shotguns and combat rifles, meaning I don't feel a powerful need to try him out. I've heard he's good, but then I've heard that about everyone of them.

Mordecai-I've said it before. In the game of shooting its distance and stopping power that rule the day. I've also heard someone at my gamestop made him a hawkmaster and that the choice payed serious dividends, which is crazy because I wrote that option off as a novelty and moved on. My only complaint is that his talent tree is pretty well divided evenly, so there's not as much thrill in tweaking him.

Lillith- I kinda like lillith, in that her talent tree gives you a broad range of ways to build her. The obviously nasty one is just focusing on her phase walk to the point where you can practically phase walk again right after she comes back, meaning you can phase when your shield goes, let it recharge, and inflict damage on the exit, entrance, and the electric aura. Later in the game I want to try a respec where she focuses on melee attacks, but for right now just making her a good SMG bunny is working just fine. Get the healing phasewalk and the skirmisher shield. Tis worth it.

Brick- The problem is his action command doesn't work with his guns, so your strategy ends up revolving around his rage or ignoring entirely. I got bored pretty quick. There was also this weird situation where I would have lost health after the battle, so I would activate my rage and just sit there, which in turn doesn't sit right with me.

In general:
-Getting some kind of healing on the talents is important both from a tactical standpoint and a "I don't want to have to pull a goddamn healing shield out and sit on my ass after every fight" standpoint.

-Shotguns disappoint me. It just feels like its always missing and it never has quite the stopping power you were looking for. Launchers don't hurt as much as a missile should, so that too.

-The second wind thing is nifty, I like its presence, but there's a weird vampire vibe of keeping angry skag whelps or midgets around to bring yourself back to life. Also, if you don't take a single shot after the second wind kicks in, you should come back free of charge.

-There are only three women living on this planet. Thats it. Ratio-wise, thats worse than Final Fight. Just sayin. In fact, you really just end up killing everyone you meet, not much of a economy to speak of.

-Is there a name for a put-upon declared mascot in videogames? Like a slime but not endearing or a moogle but worse and bloody everywhere? If not, I'm nominating Claptrap.