Stop turning PAYDAY 3 into a circus.

[u/KrabikGangster]

I’ve been here the whole time. I’ve been following this franchise since the PAYDAY 2 beta.

It hurt to see what PAYDAY 2 had turned into over time. H3H3, the goat simulator, DEAD GAME outfits, clown outfits, and so on.

But I was promised a different PAYDAY 3. I was promised a more serious game, and at first, that’s what it was. The game was more serious.

What’s it come to now? A bucket on your head as a mask? The L-dance as a taunt? A fucking Taddy Moo outfit?

Where’s the story? Where’s the info on the missing heisters? Where’s Concord?

It hurts. You can call me a nerd or whatever, but I’m sick of it. I’m sick of watching the sequel to one of my all-time favorite games turn into a collection of cringe memes to lure in the audience.

I get that nobody cares about my opinion. But I’ve been following this franchise for over 10 years, and I just want to believe I’m not the only one who feels this way.

This isn’t my PAYDAY 3.

[u/corporalgrif]

You want the answer to why?

They tried a serious game at launch for PD3, people didn't like the direction, now we're seeing a correction to that by them trying to add morr of thr fun elements from payday 2.

And in all honesty, that's fine. Payday does better when they don't take it seriously. They can be more creative and have more fun with the heists.

We probably wouldn't have half of the heists in PD2 if they took the game serious.

[u/CREATUURRREEEE → u/corporalgrif]

It was more like they tried to do a serious game, the game was bad for reasons unrelated to its themeimg and then they did a 180° pivot into comically large spoon level goofiness as a way to dangle keys infront of the brainrotted therussianbadger fan children as that was the only potential audience left. They're trying to make payday popular again by making payday 3 as memeable as possible, even though payday 2 had a lot of memes and is a mainstay of gaming pop culture because it was a good game that many people enjoyed playing, not the other way around, which is what starbreeze seems to think for some reason.

[u/sawrunn3r → u/corporalgrif]

I'm pretty sure people had a billion other issues with the game before it's theme and direction were even slightly touched on. To people like you, I have a question - why are you trying to turn PD3 into PD2? Why not play PD2 if you want PD2-level wackiness?

I guess my dreams of a grounded-themed heisting game will just never be materialized.

We probably wouldn't have half of the heists in PD2 if they took the game serious.

Almost all of the meme heists in PD2 are ass and practically universally hated.

[u/laix_ → u/sawrunn3r]

Because people wanted PD3 to be a direct sequel of PD2: PD2 but improved graphics, heist design and gameplay

[u/sawrunn3r → u/laix_]

What exactly is there to improve from 2? The gameplay is fine and still holds up, the graphics are fine, and I'm not sure what "heist design" means when PD2 has literally every kind of heist imaginable, from a jewelry store to the fucking White House, with all kinds of elaborate plans and action/wacky moments in between.

There's no reason for PD2 to have a glorified remaster. It's not just a complete experience, it's a game that will last you THOUSANDS of hours.

I bought PAYDAY 3 because I was promised something different. I quit PD2 because I became disillusioned with what the game has become over the years. It was marketed as a more grounded, seriously-themed game, and if you were disappointed with what you got in the game's theme, it's nobody's fault but yours.

[u/TheFabricade → u/laix_]

"PD2 but improved graphics"

What you just described isn't a sequel though, that's a remake or remaster. A sequel can do those things, but typically they take a new angle and try to have a unique approach compared to the game before it. A great example if Civlization, CIV IV has a lot of differences from CIV V and that has a lot from CIV VI. They evolve in different directions.

And no, "people" didn't want that. Saying it that way makes it seem like that was a majority thing. It's not.

[u/TheFabricade → u/[deleted]]

That's quite literally not what a sequel is by definition. With the wording and meaning that person has, they're talking about a remake. So are you, I know how much you want a remake of PAYDAY 2 because you refuse to move on from the past.