Warframe. Having played it for a good two hours, I don’t like it. Yes, it’s free. And it’s good that it’s free. Except I want something that can never be refunded; my time playing it.
The plot, is confusing. The upgrades are both confusing and make me facepalm. The only thing that could be good is the combat. Because chopping up someone in a game is fun (having played hack and slash games like Deadpool).
This game feels like a sequel of a game I’ve never heard of. Who the hell are these ‘Grieer’, and why are they so evil (and have taken over Earth)? Why do they want you dead, and why does everyone keep calling you ‘Tenno’ (when I picked Excalibur as the one of the three options)? You seem to be an android of somesort.
I gave this game a chance. I really did. So here’s what I liked;
– Classic slashing someone with a sword in a game action. It felt wild hitting my R2 buttom and feeling my controller jolt. I was going “DIE DIE DIE!!” everytime I swung it.
– The view from space between missions, and occasionally seeing a large ship flying by.
– The ship has an interior, which of course is bigger than the outside.
– The fact you can somewhat fly your ship during loading screens.
So yeah. But those are just light thoughts. The heavy ones are the hates. Infact there was so much, I uninstalled without even thinking about it;
– Some of the upgrades are quite questionable. One especially, involves going to their online store where you can pay to win all you want.
– The game has a chat room in the game between missions, with real people. Hello! I thought this was a Single Player game! Do I have to put this in neon for the devs to see?
– The ‘life’ system. You start with 20. Everytime you die, you can respawn. You lose this ability on the 21st death and go back to before you started the mission. I know of no way to get more. Maybe with a bit of real money…
– This is the first time I’ve ever complained of a game not using checkpoints. They would had been damn useful.
-I had to wait two hours just to play the game. The first hour went to downloading. Another hour went to updating. Though this is just a minor thing as it only happened once.
-At times the framerate gets bad during big battles, or even not battling at all.
This is a bad game. A bad P2W game, like most games with microtransactions. The devs should feel ashamed, but they’re not.