Warframe

best way to play this game w/o burning out. Play the game, quit for a few years, come back and learn everything again.

Dealing 5 billion damage to a 100 health points enemy is crucial for the plot, trust me

Welcome to Warframe. Play the same mission 231 times for the peepeepoopoo blueprint.

Who needs a gf when Ash Systems have a 13.33% chance from Rotation A of Venus Proxima Survival

I've played for 220 hours and understand nothing.

Personal note:
“You have 4,300 hours on warframe. Would you like to write a review?” I would have written this sooner but I have had an odd relationship with this game. For a while I considered myself a video game addict and that there were 3 games that were my effective “drug of choice”. I went to an open minded Alcoholics Anonymous group that allowed me to participate as a person in recovery with a process addiction. Lately I’ve been in the mindset that I just have a lot of free time and a lot of mental struggles to deal with that is games to distract me from. I have gone in and out of believing and not believing that I have problems with this game and am still deciding how I feel about that.
Actual game review:
I have played warframe on and off (mostly on) for 8 or 9 years as of the day I’m writing this. I have always enjoyed grindy games like RuneScape or Adventure Quest or Cookie Clicker. Naturally, I like warframe. However I will admit the first ~100 hours of my gameplay experience was being an xp leech with friends who had god tier gear. Idk how the new player experience is nowadays but I doubt it’s as bad as it was for me so long ago.
When I describe warframe to people who are unfamiliar with it I say, “Space ninjas with guns and magic”. I feel that’s pretty accurate (to a certain extent for the sake of brevity). The movement is fluid as hell and unmatched by pretty much any other game I have played. It really makes you feel like a nimble, agile ninja. And if you’re more of a “run in and explode everything” kind of person in games you can do that too. The amount of power warframes and their arsenal have is absolutely absurd against the enemies in the game. No other game has made me feel like an absolute god tier powerhouse like warframe has.
The community is ridiculously silly and better than any other I’ve seen in any mmo. I think this is due to the game being almost 100% PvE. There are certain sources of toxicity (Eidolon hunters and their elitist attitudes on builds) but I would say that less than 1% of my experiences with the warframe community have been negative which is an astounding track record for an mmo.
I love warframe. I have seen it change from having a stamina bar and making you equip your abilities as mods to the amazing piece of art it is today. I have high hopes for this game to bring me many more hundreds of hours of entertainment.
TL;DR
Grindy PvE game about space ninjas with guns and magic.

I should go touch some grass