Claptrap shows up, hands you your ECHO device, and then immediately gets attacked by psychos. In Borderlands 1, you got to shooting right away. It’s also highly unusual for a Borderlands game to take this long to actually get to the shooting bit. A supposedly fast-paced looter-shooter should NOT take this long to get to the first gunfire exchange!' 'Can we PLEASE have a skip option or button somewhere?” TheRealBoz wrote in obvious despair. We have Redditor TheRealBoz to thank for taking the time (pun intended) to literally hold a stopwatch while going through the new character process. From clicking “New Game,” it takes 13 minutes to go through the various intro cinematics, to having Claptrap provide you with a slow, laborious tutorial that most people probably don’t even need, to finally, blessedly being able to pop a cap in someone. We know because someone actually timed themselves. It takes a full 13 minutes for players to go from the start menu to actual shooting in Borderlands 3.