Warframe is a free to play 3rd person shooter with none of the pitfalls of standard free to play. You can complete the entire game without spending a cent by yourself. Platinum (the ingame currency for real money) can be obtained by trading prime (aka rare) parts to other players. I know people who have logged over 1000 hours in the game on PC and never spent a dime. I have over 300 hours and have spent about $30 (I wanted more character slots early on). Gameplay is frantic 3rd person shooting with wall climbing and the ability to double jump, air dash, and do all sorts of crazy "ninja" moves. Their is an overarcing story about the Tenno and the Warframes, but you dont have to worry about that, just pick a frame and go kill things. I will likely hop into the Switch version even if I cannot carry over my PC stuff. It is a perfect game to play for 30 minutes.
That Toki mini cab for a Switch looks pretty nice, but I wonder how much that entire package is going to cost as they really went all out.
And those other 2 games I've heard of them, had my eye on it when that news popped up and I'm interested. I wasn't so much into the second, but now with that bit above how it's easily done without suffering for it without paying up makes me more motivated to want to try it. I see that as kind of the Pokemon Go/Nintendo general model where F2P really is that, and the only stuff held back is only your urge to advance faster. Pay and you can get it over with quicker buying your way through, but it's never necessary if you apply yourself. If you can put in 300+ hours or over a 1000 and not pay up unless you want to reward the creator that's so amazingly ideal. I've done this on a few other games before where I've enjoyed it enough I felt it morally right to give back so I paid a little here or there when I could (game worked best that way vs a one time drop in) as I felt it was earned. It's a reverse of the years, pay first and hope for the best, or play first and reward good work. It can't always work, but when it does it's very rewarding.
I think it's cool that Warframe is getting ported, but I'm not all that interested. It's like how I feel about Fortnite... I just can't really get into games like that that are third person. If it was first person I'd be much more interested.
I dont think you could play warframe in first person at its current speed. But I understand the issue, I was the same way until I played Warframe. I will not advocate it is the best game ever or anything, it is just alot of fun and the developers listen to the fans. They also post patch notes that as are detailed as Dwarf Fortress's.
fastbilly1 wrote:I dont think you could play warframe in first person at its current speed. But I understand the issue, I was the same way until I played Warframe. I will not advocate it is the best game ever or anything, it is just alot of fun and the developers listen to the fans. They also post patch notes that as are detailed as Dwarf Fortress's.
God no. Imagine space ninja-ing in first person. It'd be like the alien from AvP Gold, only faster and without the wall to guide you. You and I are used to spiraling down hallways and capping flags while conced, but a first person Warframe would probably turn into a quick vomit comet for most people who play.
As of right now, this may be a EUR exclusive. The only place I see it for pre-order is Amazon UK. It's listed at 45 pounds, which seems rather good considering the wooden arcade cab thingy. But Amazon UK won't ship this to the US.
alienjesus wrote:Did literally anyone ask for or want a Toki reboot/remake?
haha, not really. I just think the little arcade stand is cool. If it was available in the US for $45, I'd prob buy it just for the stand. But I wouldn't pay extra to import it. It looks like a nicer version of the generic $15 ones you see on Amazon or whatever, except it has nicer artwork. Still, it's not as cool as the Japanese 2P one I linked a few pages back.
alienjesus wrote:Did literally anyone ask for or want a Toki reboot/remake?
There are dozens of fans! Dozens!
Haha. Seriously the amount of love going into that collector’s edition is nuts for a game that most people don’t know at all and the ones who do remember it mildly fondly.
I’m sure there’s one person out there going nuts for it and I’d like to hear from them (Iwould wager that this one Toki superfan belongs to this forum, so speak up). It would be like if they did this for Trog. I’d go crazy over it while the rest of the world went, “Trog?”
I hate to admit it, but as much as I find collectors editions with all their pack in fluff expensive and useless to me, in this one solitary case outside of maybe (never got them) the COD night vision goggles and remote control car the fluff is more desirable than the game for certain. At 45GBP that arcade cabinet holder for the Switch is very interesting given what those tend to cost anyway, and if the comic is even half decent could be amusing too.
I don't see any chance at getting it as already said amazon uk won't ship it, and that means brits and smart scalpers will order them and sell for a nice premium domestically if they feel its worth the effort.
