The character that immediately reached out to me when the first "Borderlands" dropped was Brick -- a loud, explosive meatloaf of a man whose solution to all of life's problems (including difficult math) was punching it in its stupid face. Admittedly, not the best character in that game to solo but definitely right up my ally as far as playstyle is concerned -- run in, rage out, punch everything to death, and (sometimes) get revived by more prudent players. Learning that the original four characters wouldn't return, I was a bit dissappointed by the loss of my favorite vault hunter and his successor -- Salvador the Gunzerker -- just didn't quite click with me.
Here's where Krieg comes in to play. As the second DLC character, Gearbox goes out with a literal bang with a psycho killer that has a taste for blood. In my mind, he is the very essence of how "Borderlands(2)" was meant to be played -- balls to the wall, spitting in the face of sanity, and generally not giving a flying f*ck about life or death!
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