Even Moreframe: Warframe - The Plot Shows Up And I Don't Talk About It

So I promised I'd check in with y'all if the actual plot of Warframe decided to come downstairs and put in a showing, and much to my surprise it has actually kicked off its slippers and joined in the dance.

It's a good plot, but I kind of wish it hadn't shown up because of what it does to the gameplay.

I actually don't want to talk about the plot that much, but I do want to talk about those gameplay implications, so I'm going to beneath the spoiler cut. Main-quest-wise I've played through Natah, The Second Dream, and The War Within, so there will be spoilers up to that point.

( Seriously, spoilers. If you care about that, don't read on. )

Anyway I apologize for not getting super-in-detail on the plot, just the spoilers and spoilers and spoilers. That said, I'm still enjoying Warframe even if I'm still struggling with level/rank/whatever 30-ish missions and it just decided what it needed to do was crack open a carton of LEVEL FUCKING 100 NODES and sprinkle them liberally around the starchart ahaha NO FUCK YOU I'm not even TOUCHING THOSE.

It's still a great game, still eating up scads of my time. I feel weird about that, but I gotta ride these impulses out as I may.

Recordkeeping: Off-Peak COMPLETE

I feel like most of my engagement with Off-Peak was based in fascinated staring, and the rest of my engagement was based on trying to figure out what board games the dudes in the beer garden were playing.

Off-Peak is an interesting, surreal little wandering game. You're ... someone. You've arrived at a train station. You're going somewhere, but you don't have a ticket. One of your friends has a ticket for you, but it was torn up and scattered around the station. Go assemble it.

What this game reminds me of is those... early-90s sorts of Multimedia Experiences, where you get some music and some surreal animation and a big space to wander around in, and eventually you have to decide how Peter Gabriel feels about sex. (Spoiler: I believe he's in favor of it.)

Obviously there's a lot less of that HERE, in Off-Peak, the game I am talking about. But it's a free hour-long game where you explore a very interesting building and talk to some very strange people and nod thoughtfully and make mental connections and eventually find your damn ticket and leave.

You can leave directly to the sequel, "The Norwood Suite", which was given to me as a present and which I will be playing presently. I expect basically more of the same, from everything I've heard.