Borderlands 2 Half-off on Steam

[Kaden]

Yeah, I found rifles consistently underwhelming through the whole game. The only time I ever used one was when they came with interesting shot types like a grenade launcher or rocket launcher.

Otherwise, I never found a reason to use one over an SMG -- for rapid fire (Hyperion SMGs are beast, btw) -- or a sniper/heavy pistol --for the longer-range stuff.