What's with all the Warframe hype?

d_20

I played it a while back and it was pretty fun. But recently I've noticed an explosion of gushing praise coming from a lot of youtubers and other places. I saw it after TennoCon, but they've had TennoCon in years past. What's the deal? 

rojoArcueid

The game keeps getting better with every major update. From in depth story campaigns to open world maps and space gameplay to new gameplay mechanics. Warframe is doing for free everything Destiny failed to do at full retail price.

TheScavenger

Honestly didn't like it. But its good so many people enjoy it. This will probably be "WTF" or "LOL" (if it was reddit I'd be so downvoted)...but I honestly like destiny 2 WAY more than warframe. But people partly like warframe cause its free, is actually good quality for a free game, and can unlock everything by playing the game

I still play destiny 2 since its been on humblebundle. but got pretty bored with warframe in only a few hours. Most people seem to hate Destiny 2 though, and instead play warframe if they want that style game. But hey, if people have fun with warframe thats good for them. 

skullhead51

d_20 said:

I played it a while back and it was pretty fun. But recently I've noticed an explosion of gushing praise coming from a lot of youtubers and other places. I saw it after TennoCon, but they've had TennoCon in years past. What's the deal? 

This time at tennocon they announced 3 expansions consecutively: a new open world area 4x larger than the first, a WIP multi-crew space battle with boarding, and a continuation of their cinematic storyline.  On twitch, 400k people were watching it and they sponsored a bunch of large and medium streamers to promote it at the same time.  They keep one upping themselves and the rate they create new content incorporating completely new mechanics is basically unrivaled.  And it's all free, so that is what the big deal is.

I don't think there is any other game where they introduce new game mechanics on this scale that would be outside of it's original genre without releasing a new game.  You could say it's Warframe 3 by now compared to other franchises.

d_20

I have about 100 hours in, but like I said haven't played for a while. I liked it enough to buy some platinum (at 50 or 75% off) because I felt like I wanted to give them some money, but I couldn't find anything I needed to buy. Maybe I will jump in again when they open the prime vault or when it comes out on the Switch. 

VengeSunsoar

There is Warframe hype?

dave6660

I normally dislike shooters and rarely play them.  But Warframe is a really fun game.  Building new weapons and warframes, plus collecting mods gives you plenty to do.  The combat is not a one trick pony so it stays fun over time.  I've logged about 300 hours before quitting.

Grunty

You mentioned why in your first post:  Tennocon 2018.  Digital Extreme's annual player convention where they reveal what's going to happen during the next year.   Several thousand players on site; 400,000 live viewers of their Twitch stream covering Tennocon.   Ash Prime giveaway. Jupiter open world area announcement.  Railjack multiplayer manned space combat.

Kajidourden

I should try it again, I couldn't get into it last time I tried.  The physics seemed like they were turned up too high which made everything feel floaty and very artificial.  Almost like early* Ps2 physics where ragdoll physics was WAY overused and exaggerated lol.

Edit: A word.

Asm0deus

rojoArcueid said:

The game keeps getting better with every major update. From in depth story campaigns to open world maps and space gameplay to new gameplay mechanics. Warframe is doing for free everything Destiny failed to do at full retail price.

Sounds about right.  Also many of us hadn't tried warframe yet and are quite enjoying it, started playing  about one week ago...just missed getting the free Ash prime frame dammit!

RemyVorender

Not sure. The keybindings make it unplayable for me. 

AzurePrower

I loved Warframe until they released POE last year. It has since lost its charm for me as POE wasn't really interesting and yet they're hard focused on 'open landscapes' for some reason.

Though the latest Tennocon shows a new multi-player ship to ship PVE battle that looks really interesting/fun to play.

klash2def

its good so more and more people are finding out?

it's not just hyping the game is actually really good. Also, I think lately a lot of Destiny exclusive players are trying it out and actually liking it. 

anemo

It's the F2P game that is winning the price war, least obnoxious monetization.   And is actually a good game.

Mikeha

What hype?

Theocritus

I thought it was a pretty good game and I can see where some players gush over it....it's all about being extremely powerful, but I found most of the players were too powerful. I felt like I wasn't needed and didnt need to do anything, and I don't like having that feeling in a game.

Anthur

Seems to be a good shooter with one of the more fair F2P systems.

But I couldn't get into it. Have to admit I only played several hours and maybe 5 scenarios and I am not the greatest shooter fan. The choices of warframes, weapons, modules and possible configurations were a bit over the top for me. I ended up watching videos explaining all that stuff and got a headache. Then I thought, man, I just want to blow up some stuff, and not study videos about a game. And as the scenarios got repetitive quite soon and were easy with any weapon anyway I just lost interest. The story didn't caught my interest too.

Maybe it was also my mistrust against anything F2P. I saw lots of things hidden behind pay walls. You can probably grind your way through that but I am not really into mindless grinding which only motivation is to make you buy ingame currency also.

Kajidourden

RemyVorender said:

Not sure. The keybindings make it unplayable for me. 

You can change those. 

Darksworm

Anthur said:

Seems to be a good shooter with one of the more fair F2P systems.

But I couldn't get into it. Have to admit I only played several hours and maybe 5 scenarios and I am not the greatest shooter fan. The choices of warframes, weapons, modules and possible configurations were a bit over the top for me. I ended up watching videos explaining all that stuff and got a headache. Then I thought, man, I just want to blow up some stuff, and not study videos about a game. And as the scenarios got repetitive quite soon and were easy with any weapon anyway I just lost interest. The story didn't caught my interest too.

Maybe it was also my mistrust against anything F2P. I saw lots of things hidden behind pay walls. You can probably grind your way through that but I am not really into mindless grinding which only motivation is to make you buy ingame currency also.

That's a bit problem with games, these days.  Many are getting to the point where they require so much of your RL investment doing "research" outside of the game that they aren't worth playing at all.

FPS aren't the only offenders.  Path of Exile, for example, is a pretty blatant offender.

I'd rather read a RL book in that time, without feeling like I'm falling behind because I'm not treating my entertainment like a college math course.

Darksworm

Kajidourden said:

RemyVorender said:

Not sure. The keybindings make it unplayable for me. 

You can change those. 

That's a huge PITA because changes often chain, so you end up having to change a ton of key binds, and then all of the documentation for the game references the defaults.

Developers simply need to come up with a great set of defaults that work for most people.

This is part of the reason why I tend to prefer playing FPS on consoles, and not PC.  The controller makes it quite ergonomic.  Many FPS (nad even MMOs - like ESO) on PC have absolutely awful default keybindings.  I have to use a Naga + Tartarus to play them, so that I can just map the keys to the mouse/gamepad without going through hours of chain-shifting keys in the settings...

d_20

Darksworm said:

This is part of the reason why I tend to prefer playing FPS on consoles, and not PC.  

I wish that worked for me. I guess it's ok if I start on console, but if I start on PC first and then try to play on console, I can't do it. The difference in aiming precision is huge for me.