As someone who only ever played (and admittedly REALLY enjoyed BL 1 and 2) will I enjoy 3? I don't really go in for all the season pass stuff so would I be "satisfied" with just the £13 edition from CD Keys or do I need the...sigh..."Complete" experience?
I think for that price it would be hard not to get your money's worth. Think I paid £6 in an Epic sale
In terms of getting enjoyment from the game I've more than had my money's worth. But it wasn't the amazing experience BL2 was. The story is just plain bad, but some of the side quests are fun/funny. The main story just feels "forced" and the humour really doesn't land. The characters range from forgettable to downright annoying.
There's a stupid British girl, for example, who prefixes every word with "slagging". Why? I guess Gearbox think it's funny to portray Brits as idiots. Whilst I'm not salty about that in the slightest, it's an example of how bad the writing is in places. "That slagging guy, I hate his slagging guts, would you grab a slagging gun and help clear out his slagging lackeys? I need a slagging coffee." In the most horrific cockney accent you can imagine. Far from being funny, it was painful. Another character spends entire minutes asking if you like his moustache. An Irish guy spends minutes talking about his addiction to alcohol. Honestly, is this supposed to be funny/zany, because it's just naff. Lazy stereotypes stand in for actual humour. And no, I'm not saying BL should be politically correct, of course not. But this is a really poor attempt at humour. BL2, on the other hand, was effortlessly funny/witty/zany and stupid, and it all just clicked. BL3 feels like a bad fan fiction in terms of the writing.
The returning characters like Claptrap are also not nearly as well-written. Apparently the main story writers left Gearbox after The Pre-Sequel, and, well, it shows. Their replacements just didn't hit the same stride. It all felt "off".
The other thing you might not like is how many Legendary weapons you will literally be tripping over. They drop about every 5 minutes, and that's not even an exaggeration. In fact if you cut out travel time it's probably more than 1 a minute in some places. You will literally be selling duplicates of your Legendary gear before very long at all. "Oh, another Storm grenade? I'll just put it over here with the others."