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9/22/2014 8:31:52 AM
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I just had my best gaming experience in years

There's a lot of negativity on here since Destiny launched. A lot of people are unhappy about a lot of things, and are remembering "back when Bungie made good games." It reminds me a helluva lot of the Reach forum back when that existed. And the ODST forum before that. And the Halo 3 forum before that. And the Halo 2 forum before that. Never change, BNET community... Well I just had one of the best, most positive, most fun gaming experiences I've had in the last several [i]years[/i] tonight, and I had it in little ol'e Destiny. I thought maybe someone would like to hear about it; some Light in the Darkness, if you will. I logged on as my Titan. I'm trying to get my Vanguard Reputation up at the moment, so I decided to take a look at the PvE bounties. They all seemed pretty easy, so I took as many as I could. I went to look at Mars, to see what I could do to get some tears. I realized that I could do a Level 26 version of the story mission introducing the Dust Palace and I'd get an Ascendant Shard. Naturally, as a Level 25 I said "Enemies one level higher than me and I'm not allowed to die or else my bounty will reset? Challenge accepted." I strolled on into Mars and made my way down into Freehold to scout it out. I carefully dispatched a few Cabal upon entering the city, and just as I was getting ready to enter the skyscraper, a Public Event started. Nobody else was around to help me, so I planted my Titan boots and kept a Cabal leader from advancing to any of his checkpoints while I waited for backup. After a tense few minutes of holding him back, a Hunter came flying in on his Sparrow and helped me outgun the beast. With our rewards claimed, we had a parted with an interpretive dance and I went back to my mission. At this point, I hit the Darkness Zone and things actually went up to Level 26. It was much harder, but it made me play [i]tactically.[/i] I couldn't stroll through Freehold, wading past the Cabal as they hopelessly shelled my Relic Iron armor. The Cabal played smart and used their shields, but careful use of grenades and precise aim lead me safely through the Dust Palace. I eventually made it to the chamber where Rasputin was, and carefully dispatched the remaining Cabal. That's when the boss showed up. I got cocky; overly confident. I got shelled by Psion Operants and Bracus Tha'aurn's missiles. Some quick use of Lift and some elevated cover just barely saved me from wiping on my bounties. I had a Psion Operant, two shielded Cabal, and Bracus all closing in on me though. I was almost out of ammo, and had nothing in Special or Heavy. That's when I remembered I had bought some Heavy Ammo Synths a few days ago. I quickly used one and sent a payload of fiery death down on the Cabal. It took out Bracus and I was able to quickly mop up the leftovers with grenades and some accuracy. I got my Ascendant Shard and finished up all of my bounties. I went back to the Tower, feeling pretty proud of my accomplishment and went to turn in all of my bounties. In quick succession, I turned in all 4, and got a prompt I very nearly missed. "Guardian, the Vanguard have personally requested your services. They would like to extend an Exotic Bounty to you." It took me nearly an hour to decide which one I wanted. It was so unexpected, and such a huge decision. To give a little context, I saved up all of my Strange Coins from both of my characters and finally had just enough to by Gjallarhorn about 10 minutes before Xur split town last night. It was really exciting getting my first Exotic, but I went to Venus and almost immediately ran into someone using Thorn. I was immediately hit by a kind of empty feeling. "That guy [i]worked[/i] to get his Exotic. He completed a quest and [i]earned[/i] his. I just bought mine..." Now I was being given a chance to [i]earn[/i] an Exotic. After a lot of deliberation, I decided on A Dubious Task. Fast forward a little bit, after doing a Strike without dying, I realized I'd need a lot of Glimmer to buy the special weapon ammo packs a little later in the quest, and I had spent all of mine on those heavy weapon ammo synths a few days ago. I would need to get some more. I decided to try my luck at the Treasure Cave. Now contrary to what you braindead white knights may think, farming is not cheating, and is not an exploit. Hundreds of thousands of players in any MMO or RPG will tell you the same, and with more than 300 hours in Borderlands 2 and quite a bit more in Borderlands 1, I can [i]personally[/i] tell you it's just part of the game. Furthermore, as I'm about to explain, it is also not robbing myself of any fun. The "best gaming experience in years" I mentioned was about to follow. We shot at the hole for maybe 20 minutes or so and I made a bit of Glimmer, but something happened that I had never have happen before. A Legendary Engram dropped from one of the Hive! I'd gotten two or three before, but never from the cave. This was turning out to be a pretty profitable night. After a short while though, I was starting to run out of Black Wax Idles and wanted to go do something else, so I resolved to leave after the next time we all ran up to collect the current batch of loot. Before I could do that however, the Public Event where the Hive and Fallen mass against each other started. Chaos quickly ensued, but it didn't overwhelm us. Every time I've seen that event occur before, it overwhelms the group and ends up just being a cacophony. This time, [i]we[/i] were in charge. An endless stream of Hive started spawning in the room to our left. Me, a Defender Titan, and a Bladedancer Hunter charged in and began wrecking shop. As a Striker Titan, thunderpunching everything in the face which has a face to be thunderpunched is my greatest joy. It was non-stop, everywhere-you-look thunderpunch-to-face action. When my grenades were available, I'd chuck one; when my super was available, 6-7 enemies would go down. The Bladedancer was cleaning house, and the Defender kept throwing up shields to keep us safe. I kept thinking it was eventually going to end, but [i]endless[/i] hordes of Hive kept spawning for a good 10 minutes. It was the most fun, exhilarating, laugh out loud funny experience I've had in a video game in years. It didn't need to be hardcore and edgy, it didn't need to be an insane challenge, it didn't need to be the great humanitarian drama, it was punching undead aliens in their bitch face for 10 minutes straight, and it was [i]awesome[/i]. As the 100th Acolyte exploded into dust beneath my gauntleted, crackling fist, I thought to myself that Bungie has remembered why we call these "games." Eventually the event subsided and everything went back to normal. A second Legendary Engram had dropped in the fracas, but I didn't care. That was such an intense, heart-pounding and just fun experience, I was more focused on that. I popped back to the Tower to claim my spoils, but I knew whatever I got wouldn't top that. In the end, one Legendary turned into two Motes of Light, and one turned into a sweet Legendary Auto Rifle, Shadow Price, which I transferred over to my Hunter. Eager to try it out, I popped over to him. Ending my night the same way I started it, I decided to take all of the PvE bounties as a testing ground for my new toy. It handles perfectly, smooth like butter, quick as greased lightning and hits like a truck. I did a few patrols on Mars and the Moon to finish my bounties, and after a little while went back to turn them in. +50 Vanguard Rep, +100, +150, +200, +250, "Guardian, the Vanguard have personally requested your services." "[i]No way,[/i]" I'm thinking to myself. "[i]Did I just get...[/i]" Low and behold, the same three Exotic Bounty options were now being presented to my Hunter, same as my Titan. I had been deliberating between the bounty I ended up taking on my Titan and Toland's Legacy, so I decided to take the other option on my Hunter. That choice that had antagonized me for over an hour was now being made moot, by giving me my cake and letting me eat it too. Soon I'll have three Exotic weapons, and a rad story for two of them. With that, I logged out and went to start writing this. [b]TLDR[/b], the Bungie forums have always been a toxic cesspool where hating on the newest Bungie game is what all the cool kids do, and remembering fondly how great latest game minus one was and how "one of these days, Edna, I'm gonna just get fed up and go back to it" is the constant threat. Nothing has changed in the 4 years since Bungie's last game. This place is still a giant circle jerk for hating on the new guy. I know nobody will read this giant blob of text, and I know it'll get lost, but like each individual Guardian, you need a little Light in the Darkness to eventually overwhelm it. Bungie, if any of the hardworking engineers, designers or artists who just spent the last 5 years of your lives slaving over this thing are tired of people shitting on it because of the Cryptarch or shotguns or whatever the -blam!- is the thing we've all got our pitchforks out for at this particular minute, I just want to say thank you and good job. You still make the best games in the industry, and Destiny gave me the most fun in a night I've had in years.
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  • Glad you had fun! That /is/ what these games are for, after all!! :) Really enjoyed reading your story (aside from the obvious aggression towards people who don't like the cave). I do find it funny, though: You felt like you hadn't 'worked' for your Exotic (even though obtaining that many Strange Coins is a pretty big feat in itself), yet you're okay with grinding out the cave for Legendaries... Interesting. :p

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  • SO FRIGGIN RIGHT!!!!

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    I'm not gonna read all that, but at least SOMEONE else is enjoying Destiny.

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  • Best thing I've read in awhile. Your post is the light in the darkness. Thank you for that.

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  • Edited by heaverbill: 9/23/2014 7:46:16 PM
    Since when was Destiny bad? Its a great game. What a great story by the way!

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  • Day 27: I have scaled much of the wall, but with so little water, and no break for food, I am afraid that I will soon perish. My only regret, is that OP is incapable of inserting paragraph breaks...

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    • Is this a teaser for your up and coming critically acclaimed novel?

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    • I can't hear you over that 6/10. Enjoy a game that has terrible AI, constant server issues, piss poor design choices, absolutely no story, random number generated loot, horrible unbalanced multiplayer, and repetitive missions. You are either new to video games, or are blinded by fanboyism if you honestly think that Destiny is anything above mediocrity. 6/10 - Polygon 7.8/10 - IGN 6/10 - Gamespot 6.5/10 Metacritic user review ... and the list goes on and on. Some people enjoy it, and that's fair, because different people have different tastes, but this game is not widely critically acclaimed. If anything it is decisively hit and miss. Claiming that this game is only hated because we're some sort of cesspit community is just plain wrong. It is hated because it has very little depth, and the depth it does offer is heavily made up of pure chance. If you invest three hours in a single mission only to receive ZERO loot while some lucky -blam!- in MM goes 3 and 18 and gets uber legendary gear, you might be the victim of BAD GAME DESIGN. Could Destiny be fixed? Yes, maybe, I hope so? -blam!- it, I don't really care. It's a bad game, and I'm not going to support it with any more purchases. I bought a copy for my girlfriend, and she loves it because she literally hasn't been gaming longer than a few years, so the thrill of grinding over and over is still lots of fun to her. If you've been gaming for any substantial amount of time, Destiny was never meant for you anyways. Face it, it's an Activision game, and it was made for people who have NO sense of actual gaming progression. It is the Guitar Hero and Call of Duty version of Halo, and it is about as satisfying as you'd expect [i]that[/i] kind of cluster-blam!- to be.

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      • "i just had my best gaming experience in years" The Last of Us? Skyrim? Scrabble?

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      • Edited by Gohlar: 9/23/2014 4:47:44 AM
        I liked the part where he pretended every trivial thing was an amazing adventure.

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        • Love it !

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        • I agree that destiny is a wonderful game. I truly do. I am addicted. I love it, but there are a few very serious issues. Most importantly, some of the issues can be fixed very easily. I also agree that the BNET community normally complains too much instead of picking their fights and addressing the real issues. Real issues being imo: 1) Activision owns blizzard -> get some of the guys from diablo and wow to fix Destiny's loot system. I swear they could do it in a weekend. People will say/have said that diablo and wow still aren't perfect. The thing that matters is that their loot systems currently are miles ahead of Destiny. We need to have incentive to do raids rather than shoot a black cave. 2) One other major issue that is potentially easy to fix, but not as easy as the loot... add other objective game types to Crucible. People need variety and things like CTF and pure king of the hill have been around for decades... so put them in the top game on the market. All the other complaints people have can be addressed later down the road, but the 2 listed above need to be dealt with before the initial surge in community size fades too rapidly to recover from. I am hopeful that the story will develop in the future. The end fight of the basic story was underwhelming, but the potential is there and I still have faith that bungie will deliver. Truly excellent feeling game. Just fix these MAJOR but EASY to fix issues and I think it's a god-tier game.

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          • [quote]Destiny gave me the most fun in a night I've had in years.[/quote] So sex isn't fun ? Ok ...

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          • 'Parted with an interpretive dance' hahaha

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          • Woah thats a lot of text dude. Can you just summarize in like 2-3 sentences? Thanks bro.

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            • Well, if you live grinding why don't you go back to Warframe instead, by your definition of "fun" that must be the unparalleled experience

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            • Well said.

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            • Im looking for new members...

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            • Edited by ARTESTE: 9/23/2014 8:16:21 PM
              Doc B, Thanks for the awesome read. I agree on all of it, the crapfest of the forums, the "last game was the greatest" mentality, AND the fact that this game freaking rocks! I do take issue with the Cryptarch, but that is my own personal problem. He will find himself in a dark ally one night and I'll appear out of the shadows. "Do you remember me?" I'll ask. "I'm the one whose first 3 Exotic drops were for Hunters and Titans. I'm a freaking WARLOCK! " It is at that point that I'll kneecap him!

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              • Was this on ps3?

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              • HEY MAN NICE STORY.

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              • Thanks for sharing this story with us! I've been looking forward to seeing posts like this on these forums for a while now. If there is anyone else out there looking to make more of these positive gaming experiences possible, send me a FR on PSN at CleverShot. I primarily play as a Titan Defender and am always looking for new people with mics to play with on PS4.

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              • I remember when Halo 2 came out and Bungie came up with Matchmaking as we know it. Up until that time, online gamers were more-or-less used to using server lists to join games. Well, that all changed with Matchmaking and a lot of people were PISSED! To be fair, so was I. I was a PC gamer and I hated having my experience coddled to that extent. In hindsight, however, it's kinda funny how one day something so silly is such a big deal and years later people hardly remember the controversy anymore. I'm not saying Destiny's features/systems/mechanics/whatever are going to be as important as Matchmaking in the coming years, but a lot of the bile is just hyperbole. I mean, a lot of people have fair criticisms. However, a lot of people are simply on the hate train because they deluded themselves into thinking the game is something it isn't. No game is for everybody, and chances are if you're that pissed off about Destiny this game isn't for you, no matter what you thought before its launch. That's life. Have a hot dog and get over it.

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              • Amen. Amen.

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              • Edited by CHlPPPY: 9/23/2014 4:15:46 PM
                [quote] The "best gaming experience in years" I mentioned was about to follow.[/quote][quote]Before I could do that however, the Public Event where the Hive and Fallen mass against each other started. [/quote]Oh my God. Seriously? [i]That [/i]was your best gaming experience in years? First things first, that is not a public event. You know when you enter a public event because a giant ass message appears on your screen telling you you've joined a public event. What happened to you has happened to me multiple times on different planets, if you've been in an area long enough you'll see a message at the bottom of the screen saying 'the enemies are moving against each other' and then the game will spawn loads of enemies that fight each other, it's not difficult, and well, it's the same stuff that happens throughout all of Destiny, you know, you kill waves of enemies. [i]That[/i] was your best gaming experience in years? Not The Last of Us? Not Uncharted? Not even Skyrim? But spawn-killing enemies in an environment in the game where they're only level 4? Sorry, but I think I just coughed up my spleen laughing. What an amazing, breath-taking gaming experience you had. You don't work for Bungie by any chance? Oh, and you got an exotic bounty, and now you have an exotic weapon. Whoopty do!

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                • Edited by OmegaVendetta: 9/22/2014 10:13:12 PM
                  I'm going to to create a new term right now for gamers just like you. I'm going to start calling you sparklers. You're like this blast of bright positive energy that's completely pointless and needs to burn out as quickly as it came so as to not cause injury. You're what the adults give to little kids because they can't handle real fireworks. I don't care that you like this game. I don't care that you had fun in fact I'm happy for you. What I DO care about is you're overly delusional happiness towards how amazing this game is where you won't acknowledge it's obvious activision given bs (praying it was all activision). This is a half a game. That's not acceptable for a 65 dollar price tag.You can find joy in the little content you were given, great good for you. That does not mean you should thank or praise these assholes for getting lucky that they didn't get the Sega treatment. Sega pulled this exact shit and got sued for false advertisement and LOST. Yet no one will sue or threaten bungie for the same shit just because they promise the game will become a full game in the future. That's not justified and you sparklers are the reason that this game will never get fixed. A game should not be "OH it has a few major problems but will all the time they had I'm sure they are aware of them and will fix them in future costed DLC down the road." Why the -blam!- is the core so weak? MMO's have expansions sure but they tend to come out before you can even finish the core content of a game. Destiny can be finished if you're extremely lucky with the RGN in a matter of 15 hours. And i'm talking about everything but raids. You finding fun with friends in this game is like giving a kid a box and he uses it as a race car. Sure you're having fun and great you think it's a race car but it's still a -blam!-ing box. Stop thanking bungie for a half ass job all you're doing is expanding their ego and it's going to justify them fixing the game with duct tape and bandaids over giving problems an actual work over with consideration for people who aren't ok with having a borderlands lite call of duty experience.

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