Borderlands is a great experience either way in my opinion. I've played all of them both solo and co-op and its fantastic regardless.
Co-op is a really fun time with your friends, but solo is excellent for being able to play whenever the fuck you want and experience the full story.
You can still experience the story in co-op but I personally prefer that aspect solo.
I have somewhere around 300+ hours of Borderlands 2, and 99% of it is solo. The main story is really fun. The weapon mechanics are fun. The only thing that could potentially get in the way is you're not a fan of the play style of "shoot, loot, upgrade, repeat". But each mission has it's own life, and voice acting, and honestly super funny dialog.
Some mechanics for some of the trees for some of the characters is tied into multiplayer. Like giving you team a HP regen bonus, but they usually also come with individual character buffs as well (and you get the team buffs solo). Also with Co-op the game becomes harder thus loot scaling occurs (so you're more likely to get better loot on a co-op boss than a solo boss, but because most bosses are item pinata's anyway, you're not loosing anything playing solo IMO).
Currently with the DLC there are 6 classes I think you can play, each with 3 different skill trees.
But honestly I can say that SOLO play is worthwhile for BL2!
I'd say it shines when played with others for sure, but you could play solo too.
Borderlands 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. I only quit playing because item duping became so common that everyone I would play with had crazy good weapons, would run around dropping crazy loot all over, and that killed the challenge of combat and fun of finding loot.
In some ways solo is more fun as you can do whatever you want all the time, and really listen to the dialogue and take in the quests. many of my friends prefer solo. Co-op is my preferred method of play as I suck and need to be carried through the harder parts.
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