the initial hours were not great, no, the story is also kind of completely nothing until you get out past saturn and jupiter
once you hit neptune and uranus they actually start trying to have a real story which is pretty interesting
Warframe is about the goofy bullshit you can do with your absurd OP gear an powers, so yeah, the first like, several days of play are pretty meh because you don't have any of that yet.
I have a lot of fun clearing out the planets for the first time, anything after that just gives me diminishing returns in terms of effort spent over enjoyment gained
That is already like a couple hundred hours of game though
I think the thing that hooked me to keep playing before the story really kicked in was taking a look through all the weapon blueprints I could get off the market and build with only a little effort. And I could get fun new Frames like Rhino and Mag by just pushing a little further too. At some point some friends taxied me through some rewarding high level content.
The Fortuna trailer did a lot to hook me on the world early on also.
Anyway, I got the last-because-I-don't-have-10M-for-a-castle Barn Find, and it's the infamous Peel P50. The kind of car that's so small, you can take it into the office with you after you drive it to work. The kind of car that in the game, tops out in 3rd gear at about 45mph/72kph on a slight decline. This being a racing game though, you can get better parts and tweak the car's stats. How much you ask?
Now it tops out in 6th gear at 177mph/284kph. I also can't turn otherwise it immediately devolves into uncontrolled spinning due to the wheels being about the size of a lawn mower's.
It is so very hilariously fun.
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See, mostly warframe's a podcast game for me.
Lots of checkboxes to tick, lots of bars to fill, lots of numbers to make go higher
and the gameplay is fun enough in a tactile, instinctive way; you just shut your brain off and engage with the mechanics
mostly
because when Warframe does decide to actually invest in its lore, its setting, the dividends it pays are immense. I wont get into the details for spoiler reasons, but the devs found a way to make the thoughtless grind mentioned above make sense within the narrative structure of the game. You dont find out how right off the bat but when you do it re-contextualizes the whole game, breathing new meaning to the however many hours you've invested in it. I think that's a tremendously smart maneuver they managed to pull and in practice I found it incredibly satisfying
The actual lore and aesthetics are also pretty unique, relying on inspiration from the works of french artist Moebius and eschewing the general sci-fi visual designs that mainstream games seem to follow (e.g. 40k hyper-masculine grimdarkness, Destiny-esque plastic materiel, etc.) it's refreshing and novel and pretty well done when they get to it
Even before you get very far in the game, if you slow down and pay attention to things like Nora Night's radio broadcasts or check out the Leverian exhibits, there's some really intriguing writing there.
Even before you get very far in the game, if you slow down and pay attention to things like Nora Night's radio broadcasts or check out the Leverian exhibits, there's some really intriguing writing there.
Some of the writing in the story quests has some legit excellent command of language
There are lines that don’t make any real sense but they sound and feel perfect for the character and their meaning
My issue with war frame was I got to a part where I couldn’t beat the next like story missions solo, and it never found me randoms to play them, so I just eventually had to give up. But I did enjoy my time with it as a podcast game
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honestly I found that changing which zone it auto-assigns you really helps with finding random players; it seems to only associate you with players with a specific ping range from your region exclusively, so if you want to make sure you always get some gaming friends I recommend going to options and changing the location to europe, asia, north america. warframe's big enough that there's almost always someone, somewhere, playing a level for some reason
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Anyway, I got the last-because-I-don't-have-10M-for-a-castle Barn Find, and it's the infamous Peel P50. The kind of car that's so small, you can take it into the office with you after you drive it to work. The kind of car that in the game, tops out in 3rd gear at about 45mph/72kph on a slight decline. This being a racing game though, you can get better parts and tweak the car's stats. How much you ask?
Now it tops out in 6th gear at 177mph/284kph. I also can't turn otherwise it immediately devolves into uncontrolled spinning due to the wheels being about the size of a lawn mower's.
It is so very hilariously fun.
Hayabusa swaps, absolutely incredible when they go right, and nightmare-fuel death traps when they go wrong!
Yeah, Warframe had some dude make them a rad intro cinematic, but haven't done anything with it. They haven't even put it in the game. They said yesterday they didn't want to just have that and then drop players into the current tutorial because it has nothing to do with that badass cinematic they'd have just seen, so they completely redid the intro tutorials so that they'd help the cinematic make sense as well as introduce you to Warframe. After 3133 hours in Warframe, it's safe to say it's been my favorite game for the past 7 years, and I'm still excited to go back and play through the new upcoming tutorial.
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I got into Warframe when it looked VERY different, and it basically just dropped you into a starmap and said "Alright have fun", but moving through the ships shooting and slashing dudes was fun enough to keep going, and enough that for a long time I farmed up every frame and gun in the game
Back then Excalibur (my most used frame due to Excalibur Prime) had it's first ability just zoom you across the room and cut everything your hitbox touched in half, so that was pretty cool too.
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I am currently downloading the beta for the game I kickstarted years ago made by the Space Quest guys. I'll report back how bad it is.
A movie that is basically The Last Starfighter but 5D chess.
Every Terminator movie at once and at the same time.
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Update: Space Venture is very rough. You play as a plumber who is definitely not Roger Wilco, though you get to a ship at the very start and in the supply room is a janitor passed out and the Roger Wilco outfit is drying on a line.
Also the narrator from Space Quest 6 is here, which is very strange to hear again.
Update: Space Venture is very rough. You play as a plumber who is definitely not Roger Wilco, though you get to a ship at the very start and in the supply room is a janitor passed out and the Roger Wilco outfit is drying on a line.
Also the narrator from Space Quest 6 is here, which is very strange to hear again.
Rough as in a game design standpoint, or "this is very obviously a beta" rough? I have the beta but haven't bothered to download it yet.
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Update: Space Venture is very rough. You play as a plumber who is definitely not Roger Wilco, though you get to a ship at the very start and in the supply room is a janitor passed out and the Roger Wilco outfit is drying on a line.
Also the narrator from Space Quest 6 is here, which is very strange to hear again.
Rough as in a game design standpoint, or "this is very obviously a beta" rough? I have the beta but haven't bothered to download it yet.
Obviously Beta. The humor is very similar to the Space Quest games.
MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Ah yes, Space Quest
The game where I needed a jet pack, looked it up and realized that I missed my chance to get it earlier in the game, and went "Oh right, Sierra" and never played it or any other Space Quest game again
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@timspork's ghost was it you that was playing Beyond a Steel Sky? Did you finish it?
I played some Warframe and I think I remember why I stopped. There's a million things you can do, but there's very little guidance for what you should do.
As part of finishing up the few things on the star chart I was missing I did the Ropalolyst boss fight. It had multiple unique mechanics that weren't communicated at all, so I looked it up on the wiki to figure out how to beat it. I was doing it in public matchmaking and it seemed like none of the other people in the group knew how to fight it either.
I tried the first two missions of the recently added hard mode and it is not fun solo. Maybe a build where you use aoe warframe powers is more effective than guns, but my guns were definitely not fast at killing anything.
I played some Warframe and I think I remember why I stopped. There's a million things you can do, but there's very little guidance for what you should do.
As part of finishing up the few things on the star chart I was missing I did the Ropalolyst boss fight. It had multiple unique mechanics that weren't communicated at all, so I looked it up on the wiki to figure out how to beat it. I was doing it in public matchmaking and it seemed like none of the other people in the group knew how to fight it either.
I tried the first two missions of the recently added hard mode and it is not fun solo. Maybe a build where you use aoe warframe powers is more effective than guns, but my guns were definitely not fast at killing anything.
the ropapolyst is incredibly easy if you know what you're doing, and an absolute fucking nightmare if people don't
or sometimes it just bugs out
hard mode is only meaningful if you are unbelievably decked out, and the rewards are incredibly mediocre
having had very poor luck farming ropeadopealyst for the bits of the warframe it drops, I can say with authority that it bugs out... a lot
their design vision reach exceeds their technical grasp with boss fights often
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Several more quality titles(and also Shaq Fu) were added to Twitch Prime.
Chroma Squad
Blazing Chrome
Treachery in Beatdown City
WARSAW
Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn
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I love that they were so adamant that shaq fu was "not going to be bad like the original" and wound up making something that is not only exactly as much a product of its time as the original, but also somehow even cornier
I love that they were so adamant that shaq fu was "not going to be bad like the original" and wound up making something that is not only exactly as much a product of its time as the original, but also somehow even cornier
Product of its time is... one way to put it, sure. There was even some dialogue that even Microsoft said no to, because they're present on the PS4/PC versions but iirc completely cut from the XBox version.
I love that they were so adamant that shaq fu was "not going to be bad like the original" and wound up making something that is not only exactly as much a product of its time as the original, but also somehow even cornier
It has both transphobic and homophobic jokes within the first 15 minutes and the first boss is a Chris Brown analogue complete with abuse jokes. It’s real bad
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once you hit neptune and uranus they actually start trying to have a real story which is pretty interesting
I come back to it occasionally to play with friends then get bored of it, wait to updates, n' repeat!
But it's a whole lot better with friends. And if you like being a slidin' flyin' space ninja.
That is already like a couple hundred hours of game though
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
The Fortuna trailer did a lot to hook me on the world early on also.
Anyway, I got the last-because-I-don't-have-10M-for-a-castle Barn Find, and it's the infamous Peel P50. The kind of car that's so small, you can take it into the office with you after you drive it to work. The kind of car that in the game, tops out in 3rd gear at about 45mph/72kph on a slight decline. This being a racing game though, you can get better parts and tweak the car's stats. How much you ask?
Now it tops out in 6th gear at 177mph/284kph. I also can't turn otherwise it immediately devolves into uncontrolled spinning due to the wheels being about the size of a lawn mower's.
It is so very hilariously fun.
Lots of checkboxes to tick, lots of bars to fill, lots of numbers to make go higher
and the gameplay is fun enough in a tactile, instinctive way; you just shut your brain off and engage with the mechanics
mostly
because when Warframe does decide to actually invest in its lore, its setting, the dividends it pays are immense. I wont get into the details for spoiler reasons, but the devs found a way to make the thoughtless grind mentioned above make sense within the narrative structure of the game. You dont find out how right off the bat but when you do it re-contextualizes the whole game, breathing new meaning to the however many hours you've invested in it. I think that's a tremendously smart maneuver they managed to pull and in practice I found it incredibly satisfying
The actual lore and aesthetics are also pretty unique, relying on inspiration from the works of french artist Moebius and eschewing the general sci-fi visual designs that mainstream games seem to follow (e.g. 40k hyper-masculine grimdarkness, Destiny-esque plastic materiel, etc.) it's refreshing and novel and pretty well done when they get to it
I would be very surprised if it isn't, with the way things work atm, Gamepass and all
Some of the writing in the story quests has some legit excellent command of language
There are lines that don’t make any real sense but they sound and feel perfect for the character and their meaning
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Hayabusa swaps, absolutely incredible when they go right, and nightmare-fuel death traps when they go wrong!
I'm so stupid, I was dying from dehydration and couldn't find matches which would allow me to light a fire and melt snow
So I lit a flare to provide light and kept looking for matches while it got dark
As the flare slowly fizzled out, I realized I could've used to light a fire
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Here's the cinematic, it's really great
Back then Excalibur (my most used frame due to Excalibur Prime) had it's first ability just zoom you across the room and cut everything your hitbox touched in half, so that was pretty cool too.
Every Terminator movie at once and at the same time.
Also the narrator from Space Quest 6 is here, which is very strange to hear again.
Rough as in a game design standpoint, or "this is very obviously a beta" rough? I have the beta but haven't bothered to download it yet.
Obviously Beta. The humor is very similar to the Space Quest games.
A looooooooooong time ago.
The game where I needed a jet pack, looked it up and realized that I missed my chance to get it earlier in the game, and went "Oh right, Sierra" and never played it or any other Space Quest game again
As part of finishing up the few things on the star chart I was missing I did the Ropalolyst boss fight. It had multiple unique mechanics that weren't communicated at all, so I looked it up on the wiki to figure out how to beat it. I was doing it in public matchmaking and it seemed like none of the other people in the group knew how to fight it either.
I tried the first two missions of the recently added hard mode and it is not fun solo. Maybe a build where you use aoe warframe powers is more effective than guns, but my guns were definitely not fast at killing anything.
the ropapolyst is incredibly easy if you know what you're doing, and an absolute fucking nightmare if people don't
or sometimes it just bugs out
hard mode is only meaningful if you are unbelievably decked out, and the rewards are incredibly mediocre
their design vision reach exceeds their technical grasp with boss fights often
I did not. I stopped to try and play the original since there were so many callbacks but I got distracted. What I played of it was good.
It's free y'all! The OST is not out until tomorrow, y'all!
Hop's Iconic Hat DLC is currently 20% off making it only $7.99 y'all!
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
[Screenshot per Rock, Paper, Shotgun]
Videogames, man. Videogames.
There's so much neat stuff in that game. Argh.
this seems very speculative
what do you think would change?
ngl, I fuckin love JNCO jeans. Always have
Chroma Squad
Blazing Chrome
Treachery in Beatdown City
WARSAW
Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn
Product of its time is... one way to put it, sure. There was even some dialogue that even Microsoft said no to, because they're present on the PS4/PC versions but iirc completely cut from the XBox version.
For example 1:10
It has both transphobic and homophobic jokes within the first 15 minutes and the first boss is a Chris Brown analogue complete with abuse jokes. It’s real bad