Valorant

I checked this out as soon as it ported over to Xbox and spent around 4-5 hours playing. While I enjoy shooter games, the most important aspect for me in gaming is that the games are fun. Valorant unfortunately seems uninspired, bland and tedious to play.

The match format is too slow, before the plotted matches even complete half the players on either side have dropped out of the game. Reducing the game to 5 wins per side would likely fix many of those issues. The map design is below expectations. There are no destructible environments, it's in essence a corridor shooter with very minimal bells and whistles. The characters are balanced the gun play is subpar. This feels like a game that very well could have been released in 2010-2012.

This game has too many mistakes that make it more irritating to play, the community is the most disgusting and toxic, better play CSGO, that community is not so rotten and the game is better.

I hate this game the passes suck the guns just why the gameplay the maps everything about this game I don't like the abilities are kinda cool that is really it.

The game is advertised as this fast paced, her action shooter with unique abilities. Although the harsh reality is it's a disappointment of a game. The game play is weak, rounds lasting up to 5 mins 13 rounds to win EACH MATCH. Yes exactly, you can't imagine how draining that must be for such a slow pased shooter. Not only that, in fast paced shooters it's all about actions and combos, but in this game they insist that pre aiming and being extremely precise is the way to be the best. Definitely not my favorite game, if you want action play overwatch instead of this mess.

The artists did a really good job on visuals, UI, voice acting, animations and customizations. But the game itself is like a CS:GO mod with terribly designed abilities.

The gameplay is a mess, it's clunky, it feels very slow, the shooting and movement mechanics are outdated and missing modern features, like vaulting, climbing, sprinting. Although the visual artwork is great, the game tries to run on all PC's that run CS:GO, so everything looks flat and low poly, especially the environment.

And the microtransactions, they are very expensive, and they sell skins, their animations and variants separately. The season pass has very low value imo, the skins there are very tamed compared to overpriced premium skins in the shop. And as of this moment, there are no character skins in the game, just weapon skins, animations and sprays.

Devs are constantly updating the game with new skins, but new maps and characters drop very slowly. Even when I liked it, it was boring.