There’s just so many characters whose entire presence makes me go “please shut the fuck up” that it’s hard to pick just one. Like yeah pretty much anybody would sell Preston Garvey to Satan for half a donut, but there are just so many other annoying characters…

What’s the controversy with Yandere Simulator? I missed it.

What? You don’t enjoy getting mapped by Cabal rockets in patrol zones?

Major expansions with missing content and glaring plot holes?

PvP with all the “balance” of a sledgehammer to the face, and whatever the hell is left of Gambit?

Recycled D1 strikes that you now have to run even more of every week for the same rewards?

If Final Shape sucks as much as Lightfall did, it will, and should.

I really want to like D2. I used to, in Beyond Light and Witch Queen. Even playing through Forsaken long after it wasn’t new was still awesome (and honestly, the gunshot at the end of that campaign’s story might be the single most cathartic thing I’ve ever heard).

But holy fuck did Lightfall suck donkey balls.

The difficulty spike was hilariously bad. (Anyone else get real sick of getting one-shot mapped by Cabal rockets? Killing those bastards became an act of public service.) The new subclass felt like Witch Queen leftovers crudely shoehorned in. Gambit has gotten nothing but worse since I’ve been playing; I have yet to see a single change to that game mode that I could even partially say made it better, not once. PvP feels like suffering, and wow do people take Trials too goddamn seriously for how bad D2 PvP is.

That one expansion with it’s piss poor writing and terrible gameplay changes has largely put me off the game entirely. I’m still undecided whether I will play Final Shape or watch a stream of it for the story. I want to see how this storyline ends, but I’m just not convinced it’s worth playing the game in it’s current state, and even less sure it’s worth paying money again to do so.

Stardew Valley

I’m torn, even now.

I was super hyped for Lightfall. And then it sucked. A lot. The writing was awful, the gameplay changes were worse, you’ve all heard it all before.

I want to like it. I used to, during Beyond Light. Witch Queen was kind of awesome.

I’ll probably play Final Shape just to see how this storyline ends, but I’m more skeptical than hyped now.

Today on “things that were obvious even before science proved it”…

$35 Early Access with unfinished story but polished cash shop really shows you where the devs priorities are.

Wait, they finally got around to explaining what the veil was? What was it?

And yeah I 100% percent wish we had gotten poison instead of janky parkour. (I will admit that baiting the Sorrow Bearer into lunging off the map with Strand jumps was fun though.)

The writing was bad. I played through the campaign four times (three normal, one … whatever the hell hard mode was called) and I still have no idea what “the Veil” even is, why we cared about it, why we did literally anything that we did, etc.

The new Darkness element was fun but the way it was introduced made it REALLY OBVIOUS it was supposed to be in Witch Queen and just got delayed.

Game balance went out the window, to the point where people were getting one-shot mapped by Cabal rocket launchers in patrol zones.

They introduced a new raid that, while thematically fun and visually gorgeous, was un-fun to play.

Eh… the more I Think about it the more everything Chozo said covers it more eloquently.

Edit: I don’t remember if it was with Lightfall or Witch Queen but they managed to make Gambit worse. Gambit was already neglected and damn near unplayable. They made it worse.

Seriously. Lightfall was such utter schlock it turned me off to the game entirely.

Too expensive.

The most recent one to make me cry was…

“I Was a Teenage Exocolonist”

Because we need more ways to exclude young people…