I liked this game a few years ago when I pre-ordered it with some colleagues at the time, but it's just not fun anymore and I don't mean the burned out "not fun" where you want to enjoy a game but when you play it it bores you, I mean the kind of "not fun" where the new content is not only bland, it also introduces gameplay mechanics to old missions that are designed to punish players for... well, basically no reason. Looking at you, escape missions.

One time I launched this game and got distracted by an empty granola bar box on my desk and wound up spending my time reading the french side of the packaging instead of playing, which I think says a lot more about how I feel about Payday 2 than I could write up.

If you have a fiver to spend on Payday 2, do yourself a favour and just hide it in a winter coat or something. I guarantee you'll get more joy out of finding a fiver in your pocket one day than spending it on this game in its current state.

I liked this game a few years ago when I pre-ordered it with some colleagues at the time, but it's just not fun anymore and I don't mean the burned out "not fun" where you want to enjoy a game but when you play it it bores you, I mean the kind of "not fun" where the new content is not only bland, it also introduces gameplay mechanics to old missions that are designed to punish players for... well, basically no reason. Looking at you, escape missions. One time I launched this game and got distracted by an empty granola bar box on my desk and wound up spending my time reading the french side of the packaging instead of playing, which I think says a lot more about how I feel about Payday 2 than I could write up. If you have a fiver to spend on Payday 2, do yourself a favour and just hide it in a winter coat or something. I guarantee you'll get more joy out of finding a fiver in your pocket one day than spending it on this game in its current state.