fastbilly1 wrote:1. Day of the Tentacle Remastered - PC
2. Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide - PC
3. Final Fantasy VII - PSX
4. Zelda Breath of the Wild - Switch
Since I am terrible at keeping this updated
5. Warframe - PC
I logged well over 100 hours into this over the last six months. As a free to play game, there is fathoms of depth here. Thats free like beer, its not ad supported or wallgardened, you get the full game for free. The catch is with a free account you only get enough of the ingame real money (platinum) for another frame (character) and a handful of weapon slots, or three frames and very few weapons. Since there are 30ish frames and a couple hundred weapons, you end up wanting to pay for the game to get more slots. You can also spend money on player made cosmetic items or just straight up buy weapons/frames though that gets expensive quick.
But everything in the base game world is possible to obtain in game. Want that fancy gun that looks like a AVP smartgun that the heavy gunner enemy carries in the first world, kill enough of them and the blueprint for it will drop. You will get some blueprints through out the story line, side quests, or the random encounter enemy that will show up. You may also get a part for a "prime" version of a weapon or character through an event. Randomly prime characters and prime weapons will be vaulted (like Disney) and the value of their parts on the second hand market skyrockets. Case in point I got a blue print for a Nova Prime Chassis on my first night playing. If I wasnt foolish and built it, it currently sells for 500 platinum - roughly $25 USD. Every day you have a chance for free crafting materials, xp/resource boosters, or a discount for platinum on the real money store. I got one of the 75% off discounts and made one purchase of platinum about 50 hours in. I am still using that same platinum pool. So yes, it is free to play. Prime versions have better base stats or have slots in the weapons with different configurations for mods. They do not break the game but are better than base versions.
But enough about how the economy works. The game is best described as Space Ninjas the Third Person Shooter. Your character moves very quickly and has the ability to jump, double jump, wall jump, wall run, glide, and "bullet" jump (a primed jump with alot of distance and can be chained into the others). The maps can be sprawling or claustrophobic. The world map is our solar system with some liberties and each planet has a dozen or more locations. Each location is a specific mission type and will be made out of a set of modules for that planet. Think of it this way, each planet has 1000 modules, each mission type will use 500 of those modules, each location may use 300. It leads to maps feeling samey, but there are enough different ways the RNG uses the maps for them to be different. They do kinda address this in the story with how the races built up their ships and bases.
But what about this game is so enthralling? Well it is a 4 player murder up with enough variance in the maps between planets and between mission types that every match is interesting. Your missions vary from the basic "exterminate" or "assassinate" to far more complicated "sabotage" which will involve getting into a location, solving a puzzle then getting the hell out of the map changes. My group enjoys exterminate since it allows everyone to try out new things, and Ack is part of it... So when you build a new gun and want to test it, or a new frame and want to see what its powers are like we run a quick exterminate. There are a couple types I do not like for example Excavation has you hold a point while grabbing batteries off of fallen enemies to power a drill. It takes forever and if the map is big the enemies get lost in the middle. But the Digital Extremes is forever tweaking the game so a fix for that will come out soon enough.
There is also a character for everyone. Like to play Defense? Lets get you frost early, so you can put up bubbles of ice that deflect bullets and slow enemies that get close to them. Prefer to be a real ninja, attacking from the shadows against giant enemy crabs? Lets get you Ash where you can disappear and then sneak attack everything. Or do you just want to tank? Start with Excalibur, we will get you Rhino, then eventually Atlas. Or are you more of a support player, well Nova can be built to speed up or slow down enemies in a stupidly large area while damaging them. Or Ember can release a world of fire around her for a large area that on even some mission maps will one shot the base mobs (I may have cheesed the final mission with my over powered Ember).
I went into it soso on third person shooters, and have enjoyed the game thoroughly. There are some stupid choices that havent been fixed yet, but since I started playing they have added three new characters and several dozen weapons. There is always something going on in game. It also helps that Goons are big into it (the founders of the Goon clan were some of the first users) and whenever I am online I can always get a full party. Even though I beat the storyline, my user account is only level 10 out of 23. So I still have lots to do in game.