I never really understood why so many people are deathly afraid of snakes. Mainly because I think they're cute. Suppose it helps that where I'm from, the only wild snakes are harmless and docile. I also got to hold one when I was pretty young, and when they explained that it was wrapping around my arm because it liked warmth, I thought that was the coolest thing.
I don't think people are weird for being afraid of them, it's just interesting because for me they register on the level of a dog or a cat in terms of 'I just wanna be friends with that animal'. Of course I've met people who are extremely terrified of dogs, but I'd imagine those are very very rare compared to snake phobias.
Anyways, yeah, I could never play this. But SOMA looked absolutely fascinating and I might pick it up since it has that no-death mode. I love creepy narrative games but zero patience for chasing and instant death stuff. Hell even just watching Abby get chased stresses me out.
You know that movie you saw as a kid and were probably way too young to be watching? Yeah, this was that for me...it's really not scary at all but at the time it gave me nightmares about zombies in walls.
On the subject of stuff the Warframe devs did that the community reacted badly to, when I first started playing the game they tried adding a stamina system to movement and it was awful. It turned the game into Walkframe. They hotfixed it out pretty damn fast.
Also the most bizarre thing about Warframe is that it's basically a sequel to Dark Sector.
This game is incredible and way easier to get into than Sunless Sea was. It completely devoured my weekend the first time I started it.
The difficulty was frontloaded for me, I died a few times early on but once I got rolling and upgraded my locomotive it's been quite manageable. Granted outside of one quick trip to buy advanced gear, I've only been to Reach/Albion and I play like an absolute chickenshit. But if you don't like the idea of restarting you can simply play it in the mode that doesn't have permadeath.
Also there's no limit on how many officers you can carry but you can only assign one at a time per role. It becomes important to swap them around based on certain skill checks you're trying to pass, since they buff your stats. Gotta remember to actually assign them though...I died 3 times before I even noticed you had to do that.
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