[[2026 Games]]  ## 2026-05-30 I am technically a **Warframe** vet, in the sense that I played it day one when it first came out in 2013, went, “this is ass,” and stopped thinking about it. As time passed, I heard how it got better and better, but subsequently became more and more impenetrable. I tried to jump back in multiple times, but just couldn’t do it. Maybe being unemployed was the missing ingredient, same with [[Diablo IV]]. Maybe it’s because it got a Switch 2 upgrade and dropped on Android, so I can play it basically anywhere. Or maybe it’s the fact that its onboarding got reworked (it’s probably this). But I’m locked in now. Don’t get me wrong, **Warframe** is still a heavy investment. It took about 20 hours for the plot to finally start clicking for me, and I admit to buying a Frame on discount so I could enjoy myself from the jump. [^1] But man when it finally hit, it *hit*. It’s basically all I can think about nowadays. The big mid-game twist was as interesting as everyone said it would be. The mods I picked up became more interesting and impactful, and I had to actually theorycraft some builds after hitting a bit of a wall. And the steady pace of progression makes it so that I can log in, do a few missions and feel satisfied with my time. **Warframe** is jank at times, messy always, and unintuitive frequently. But more than anything else, it’s *ambitious*. It’s a game that swings very high above its weight-class in ways that few games do. I mean as of this writing it’s now outlived **Destiny 2**. I know I’ve still just scratched the surface. Even as I’m confused about who Rell is, don’t get why my evil grandpa is planet-sized, and have no idea why we travel back to 1999 later in the game, bullet jumping and doing space ninja shit hasn’t stopped being entertaining. [^1]: Oraxia my beloved