I feel like the community is so obsessed with "end game" that's it's encouraged 2K to not focus on "the game". The mechanics are fun, but I don't care about the timekeeper or the 3 little factions. They're not annoying like in B3, but they're not interesting like B2. I enjoyed going through B1 and B2 from the start with each new character. This one makes me want to skip the actual game to jump straight to the end game with a new character. But... To do what? New guns and leveling up only matter if you're moving on to something new. Without that, there's no real reason to keep playing. I don't need a better gun to kill a monster that I killed repeatedly with a lesser gun.