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Not a fan of Warhammer, but this game is fun. It's just a shooter game with a relatively long, engaging story campaign, crazy enemy numbers, and lots of well-realized, fun mechanics to keep the combat fresh and fun.

I will say, however - this game is SIGNIFICANTLY better when in co-op. It is designed as a co-op experience first and foremost and the AI bots at your side when playing solo are... uninspiring in their performance. Highly recommended if you have a couple of friends to jump into it with, hesitant recommendation if you intend to play it totally solo.

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Warframe is a game that gets better with age. Unlike some of its competitors, all major content releases (with the exception of limited-time events that usually rotate in and out,) remain in-game permanently. The devs are constantly working to add new content in the form of new Warframes and weapons and frequently revisit older, outdated mechanics to bring them more into line with newer game mechanics. This is also one of the few Free-To-Play games that you can *actually* play to its fullest without spending a dime of your own - although you *will* need to trade for premium currency that someone else purchased in order to do so, as item slots are woefully limited unless you pay this currency to get more slots.

With all of this said, the tradeoff for getting all content in the game for free is that you will have to wait out many long, arbitrary time gates. Warframe parts take 12 hours real-time to complete, and combining them into the full warframe takes an additional 3 days of real time afterward. The aforementioned trading system is limited by your account level as you only have one trade per level per day, meaning there is a hard limit on how much premium currency you can trade for each day depending on how valuable the items you get are. You can also only level up your account once per day, and the highest level attainable at the moment is 34 - and you level by obtaining more warframes and weapons, which eat up your very limited item slots very quickly unless you spend premium currency to purchase more.

Overall, however, the game is fair enough to me to be worth playing. I am very optimistic for the future of the game and expect to put thousands more hours into it as more content is released.

As much as I want to recommend this game, I really can't. At least not yet. If you have a group of friends rearing to go to play this game with, change my review to a thumbs up, but if you're a solo player looking to see what all the fuss is about with this game, it's in enough of a rough state that I'd say to wait a few months down the line for things to get ironed out. Too many bugs (not just the terminid kind,) crashes, connection issues, and weird UI interactions at the moment, plus lots of time wasted on immersive cutscenes and end screens for everything.

I will change my review to positive once things are smoothed out, though!

I tried out the butcher knife

I had a visceral reaction and immediately threw it in a shipping crate tucked away in my base never to be used again.

Unless...

Beginning to end, an absolute delight. Even after beating it, I'm still eager to play through it many more times, making different choices and bringing friends along with me.

Every companion is well fleshed out (except Halsin, unfortunately) and has significance to the plot, each major choice you make matters even through later parts of the game, and combat feels tactical and rewarding... if a little too RNG heavy. But that's just DND for you!

I named the protagonist Enchilada.

I am so familiar with them as Enchilada now I sometimes casually think of them as Enchilada before realizing that this was a dumb name that I gave them and that they are not officially named Enchilada.

They should be named Enchilada officially tho tbh.

Anyway game is good, play, is free, enjoy

An improvement over the original in almost every way, the Dead Space Remake is an amazing return to the universe of Dead Space. Aside from some performance issues, including occasional crashes, and some frustrating Kinesis interactions, the combat, the horror, the attention to detail, the new dialogue and more fleshed-out story and backstory... it's all top-notch!

If you are interested in playing this, but are hesitant because you haven't traditionally played horror games, don't worry; the easiest setting in this remake has a unique regenerating health mechanic and allows you to kill most enemies in just a few shots from even basic weapons. On the other hand, if you want a challenge, try Impossible mode - you have one life and one save slot (you can save in this slot as many times as you want, though, so feel free to attempt this difficulty over multiple sessions), no autosaves, fresh game only (no NG+ for a head start on equipment), and the game is permanently set to Hard for that save.

The worst part of this game is Denuvo. If you can stomach such a heavy-handed anti-piracy maneuver, though, please give it a shot!

Used to be a massive Destiny fan, but I can't support the way this game is going. It wants me to spend hundreds of dollars on temporary content that will be deleted once Bungie deems it old enough.

I took a break and tried to return only to be forced into a story mission I was given no chance to try and understand that was 50 levels over what I was. New characters were presented with no context and the ability to gain context was removed from the game.

Bungie stated in their design philosophy that they want Destiny 2 to be a "You had to be there" experience. They have succeeded. If you're reading reviews for this game as an indication of whether to play it or not, you missed your chance. Bungie has no respect for your time, your commitments, or your wallet and demands you to fork over all three to get a proper game experience. If you're thinking of returning to Destiny after a long break to check out all the cool, new stuff, just keep in mind that it's *all* behind a paywall that costs significantly more than any other brand-new game, or even most other MMO's, and you missed out on so much of the story that you'll have no idea what's going on.

This game needed a sequel years ago.

Edit: A friend wanted me to get back into the game to play it with him, and after a few months of deliberation and a couple sales (managed to get deluxe+30th anniv for under $60 and beyond light for $20, still way too much money just to get all content in the game,) I finally decided to see what made Witch Queen so good.

After finishing the campaign and getting to hard cap, I still don't know. Best for Destiny? Debatable, I enjoyed The Red War and Forsaken more than this one. Best art? As subjective as the topic is, the new expansion does make a solid showing on the art side of things. Best story? The entire story is "The Hive get ghosts." That's literally it. Those four words and a bunch of fluff that all kind of just pads that out so it doesn't feel as boring as it would otherwise. Legendary difficulty is a joke, but at least it boosts up your character progression to a mere 30 levels below powerful cap, so the grind is minimal this time around*. (*further edit, after looking more into it, even hitting hard pinnacle cap does not make you powerful enough for "endgame" content; grinding out artifact levels is required for entry into most LFG groups, so no, grinding power is actually the worst state it has been in)

The game itself is still just... Destiny. Solid shooter mechanics marred by dozens of bugs, a downright sickening monetization scheme, a terrible new player/returning player experience, and a broken story that can't really be followed anymore.

Also, after finally experiencing Beyond Light, I haven't the faintest idea why Bungie didn't take a chronological exception and delete it instead of Forsaken. Forsaken was actually good, Beyond Light has zero redeeming qualities.

Updated review. Changed from negative to positive review for a combination of reasons;

343 has GREATLY sped up the rate at which you can level your battle pass, making the insulting grind at launch more or less a thing of the past. Your first six matches will be guaranteed to give enough xp for one full level of the battle pass, and this is achievable simply by playing the vs bots mode if you want to chill out and get some xp. This is on top of your challenges, which still aren't perfect, but usually allow you to get another level or so within those first six matches. A casual player can complete the battle pass in a couple months of about an hour of playtime each day. Since the battle pass never expires, I feel that this is a reasonable rate of progress.

The campaign is the real juicy part of the game right now, though. It takes the equipment system leaps and bounds further than what the multiplayer allows and the open world sandbox lets you run wild. The characters are well fleshed-out and well-performed, the missions are all fun and engaging, and there is a significant amount of content to dig into if you take your time to explore the map. Little secrets and collectibles are speckled all throughout the map and only take the willingness to look for them to find. I played through on Legendary, and some boss fights are nightmarish on this difficulty. As far as I can tell, Heroic is significantly easier and likely much better balanced in the boss department. I was not having fun with them on Legendary.

There are strange map quirks at the moment. Some regions have killzones in areas that you should be able to traverse (at one point I was walking on solid ground and suddenly just keeled over - no enemies anywhere nearby, just an awkwardly placed killbox,) and attempting to use the grappleshot to scale the walls in-between "islands" will result in your grappleshot just... arbitrarily not working. It'll fire, but you won't be pulled to it and you'll just drop down because... well... for no real reason, actually. There aren't even any barriers to traversing these islands, you can go wherever you want from the get-go, 343 just *really* doesn't want you using the grappleshot to get across the gap.

Overall, the game has its quirks, but it is well worth the purchasing price - and with the multiplayer component being free*, anyone can jump into it.