Tiny Tina's Wonderlands combines everything you love about Dungeons and Dragons with all the shoot-and-loot gory glory of previous Borderlands games. Not only is the dialogue and voice acting hilarious and incredibly well-written, but the combat is addictive and so very satisfying.
Between the various worlds to visit, side quests, and random encounters, you would have a hard time running out of things to do. In all the splendor that is Tiny Tina, we would wager that you have fallen to the same vices so many other players have.
10 Spending Hours On Character Creation
Sure, we all end up spending too much time in any character creation menu. But have you ever created a whole new character sheet from scratch? Harkening to the character creation of Dungeons and Dragons, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands not only bombards you with loads of cosmetic options, but then you have tons of cool classes, character backstories, and even attribute points you must decide on.
Might as well call out of work, because creating your character in Tiny Tina's Wonderland is a full-on job.
9 Getting Overly Attached To One Gun
Any Borderlands game is literally the embodiment of "shiny object syndrome". You pick up one gun and swear your life by it, promising that it shall never leave your side. Just for another to come along and kick your first love to the curb.
Yes, technically you can carry two guns at a time. But why use two guns when you can just use a pistol that is also a sniper? Or a sniper gun that doubles as a shotty? I mean, c'mon!
8 Forgetting That Action Skills Exist
You spent all that time waffling between different character classes just to literally never touch your action skill key or button. Who could really blame you, though? As cool as magic is and all, who really needs magical ice cyclones or spinning ghost blades when you have guns? Big guns, at that.
All jokes aside, remembering to use your action skills during large rushes of enemies can be the deciding moment of losing a fight or starting from square one.
7 Looting More Than Shooting
It is a Borderlands game, after all. They might look like treasure chests and gilded magical safes, but fantasy world or not, it's still more of a "loot-and-shoot" than a "shoot-and-loot."
Chances are, once all the skeleton gunners are re-killed and the battlefield is cleared, you find yourself doing loops of the entire area to make sure you have grabbed every single ounce of gold. No new gun or shiny spell book must go untouched.
6 Forgetting To Melee
If you forgot what an action skill even is, we bet you haven't swung an ax since the tutorial level of the game. Again, swords are cool and all, but once you put a magical shotgun in your hands, it's all over.
Keep your eyes peeled for rare melee weapons that deal maximum hurt, however, as these can certainly help you in that rare scenario when you run out of ammo.
5 Missing The Health Barrels
The first time you accidentally hit a poison or a frost barrel during a fight, you probably drew a very simple conclusion. Shooting plus barrel equals a bad time. We would not blame you for being traumatized and never wanting to look at a barrel again. Well, you might want to look twice, because you might be overlooking health barrels.
These are barrels to be found in any battle area with glowing red hearts on the side. Shooting them causes them to explode and heal you as long as you are in the vicinity. Just remember, anything with Queen Butt Stallion's likeness carved upon it is probably good.
4 Skipping Every Random Encounter
Random encounters are half the fun of playing Dungeons and Dragons. Will you and your entire party perish to a giant diseased rat before you have even finished your first campaign? Random encounters are a mechanic included in the Overworld section of Tiny Tina's Wonderlands.
As you walk through any patch of tall grass, you have the chance for a random enemy to spawn and challenge you to a battle. This opens up an instance to a battle room that will reward more goodies once completed. You can also simply punch one of these suckers square on the nose and dismiss the whole encounter, and let's be honest, isn't that way more satisfying?
3 Missing All The Lucky Dice
We all miss our fair share of collectibles on our first pass through a game, and you no doubt have overlooked quite a few Lucky Dice on your adventure through Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. You won't want to miss Lucky Dice if you can help it, however, because these are far more than collectibles.
Discovering Lucky Dice hidden through the various maps and the Overworld increases the quality of your loot every time you find one.
2 Accepting Way Too Many Side Quests
The Overworld and many areas of the Wonderlands are just brimming with side quests. Soon enough, you will have worn your finger down to a nub just trying to tab through all those quests to track the correct one.
Welcome to the fantasy experience. Completing side quests is an essential mechanic for looting extra goodies and often unlocking whole new areas of the Overworld.
1 Longing To Play Dungeons And Dragons Again
If you have not played a campaign in some time, we bet you will have texted your Dungeons and Dragons group chat before you even made it out of the tutorial. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands encapsulates a facet of playing TTRPGs that even the licensed Dungeons and Dragons video games have not been able to capture.
The chaos. The silliness. That one player who wants to roll charisma to romance every inanimate object that stands in their way. Tiny Tina's Wonderland is bound to inspire you to fill out another character sheet before your playthrough is complete.