can i interest u in a box of friend??
It was especially funny since I was very verbally excited and invested in the segments that @fru1tycak3 had had the most friction with.
No major spoilers: the unit-control segment near the beginning was a pretty fun switch up and was really neat in how it contextualized the way Corpus military works. The stealth segments were a blast, and Fru1ty told me I got through the most frustrating parts much smoother than their experience. The stuff I struggled most with was the railjack segments, because I strongly felt like the feedback I was being provided to in completing objectives was unclear.
I really loved the way everything came together by the end, and the experience was really cool. Very much made appreciate the highs of the pre-2022 Warframe experience, as well as highlight the things in the game that don't resonate with me.
Just spent most of the night watching @mintyfreshka play through The New War quest in Warframe, mostly to share in the frustration. He had gone through the Sacrifice the night earlier, watching him really getting thrown by the Umbra encounters foreshadowing what would come in The New War. Although, to my surprise, it went much differently for him. That is, having frustrations in completely opposite places.
It is still the perfect example of what a mixed experience is; amazing concepts marred by bad execution. Pre-2022 Quest Design is an exercise in frustration where your reward is being able to with your Warframe and Weapons.
reblog to slap her bald head
There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.
A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.
I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.
Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)
Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.
please do
one of my coworkers has this sticker on his water bottle and it sends me into hysterics every time i see it
Art by • Frank Frazetta