Warframe
Played the free Destiny 2 trial a month back and really enjoyed the experience, finished the entirety of the story available in those 2 days and even had time to have a bit of fun with farming and grinding. Since I saw all the praise and comparisons vs D2, plus all the hype on various media, forums etc, decided to give Warframe a go. Besides, it's free.
Finished first planet, ok, not bad. Nothing spectacular, but for a free game, not bad. Played mostly solo, from time to time in a group.
Finished second planet... okaaay. Still the same, but at least I got a new weapon, some new stuff to experiment with. Sure, I'll see how it goes.
Third planet. Nothing happened. Stuck on same weapons and frame, everything almost maxed out. No possibility for any type of upgrade (unless you're willing to spend premium currency). But hey I got a blueprint for something that will probably take me 200h to make... or spend $100. Story literally non-existent. Some bits and pieces here and there, but nothing to pull me in.
By the time I hit the 5th planet I realized that the game consists of 3 different repetitive missions, 4 different enemy types and 3-4 of the same recycled environments.
Not to mention a bunch of random factions, an insane amount of different crafting materials accompanied by tons of random cosmetics (that you have to grind hard for, or just pay up those $$$).
Probably for the first time in a game I thought to myself -Why is this game so oversaturated with so much info and "stuff" so early in the game-
Basically a lot of stuff to craft and make (the majority of which are useless), but same uninteresting missions to play in order to do so.
Dont get me wrong, I love grinding games, played Diablo (all of them) and its clones (probably all of them) my entire life, I know what it's like to have repetitiveness and grinding... but this? This takes everything to the extreme.
It might (or might not) get better once you progress more through the game, but the enjoyment would have increase 100-fold for the game to keep me occupied and/or interested...
The devs should probably look at Path of Exile to see how a good "repetitive + loot" FREE game looks, feels, plays and handles microtransactions on top of it all.
After raking in ~30h (if Steam is to be believed) and playing for a bit over 2 weeks, decided to uninstall it and never look back.
). I think I will try Teleglitch: Die More Edition in the mean time.
