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Discuss all things Destiny.
Edited by Display Name: 10/31/2014 8:38:53 PM
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When was the last time...

...you were excited to play some Destiny? I don't really feel like I play Destiny out of a sense of enjoyment anymore, so much as a sense of commitment. I'm committed to hitting 30 on the characters I made so I keep playing. In attempting to actually follow through with that (arguably arbitrary) goal, I've come to realize everything about the game seems stale. I don't really enjoy playing as, or identify with, any of my characters. They're all kinda cool and have their unique abilities but none of them are awesome. I feel like I'm holding out for "something" all the time on this game, as if it'll miraculously get better. Even new weapons seem like just another chore to deal with. I have a ton of legendary and exotic weapons but they're mostly not upgraded and each upgrade seems to take far too much time. I have three characters, all level 29. I recently got the drops necessary to make my third character into my first 30, but I'll have to completely upgrade 3 pieces of gear from scratch before I'll hit 30. All the tasks in the game are beginning to look like boring prospects. It's all RNG at this point. The last two pieces of gear I need are RNG raid drops. I've done the raid countless times and it's not fun anymore. The shader I'd like to get is an RNG faction rep reward. I'm tired of building rep beyond rank 3 for random rewards, most of which I don't want or need. The DLC isn't due out for another month. There's no transmog so my characters are just going to stay the same as every other 30 once I hit max level. There are no challenges that even require a 30. Even the hardmode raid is a waste of time once I hit 30 since I have all the hardmode drops, including 3 Mythoclasts, 3 sparrows, 3 ships and helmets for every class. Once again, hardmode isn't fun. Especially now that Atheon's timestream is randomized, it's just one big glitchy frustration. PvP has no competitive playlists or elements of competitive play. There's no ranking and no rewards for consistently performing well. There's very little skill curve as well, although lots of people somehow manage to go negative all the time. I go positive by a 2.0+ KD more often than not and it doesn't matter at all. Numerous times, I've watched people I literally just carried get exotic/legendary rewards and I'll get nothing at all. So why play? The gameplay itself is rife with cheap shots and no-skill-required one hit kills. Streaks also earn nothing, so getting 10 kills without dying is... basically meaningless. Point is, Destiny lays a great foundation to what could easily be one of the best games ever made. The only problem is, it's stale already. Bungie is proving incapable of recognizing, prioritizing and implementing universally desired community driven features and content. Most of which should have been in the pipeline prior to launch, released shortly after. As it is, all of the things I've wondered about and wanted them to implement since release have not changed. There's no music volume options, no "Go to Tower" option, no transmog system, no increased inventory/vault space, no player trading, no glimmer or marks cap increase, no new purchasables such as shaders, no vote screen for strike playlists or crucible maps, no rep tracking in the character menu... the list goes on. And on. And on. Actually, rather than make "improvements" or "additions" that have benefited anyone who actually plays the game, all updates have altered the game for the worse so far. Can you name one good thing that Bungie has implemented since launch? Neither can I. I'm not even eagerly awaiting the DLC, since what I know about it already seems kinda disappointing. In the meantime, I'm finding myself compelled to get on some other games. Even PC games are a decent alternative. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of positive things to say about Destiny and Bungie. I just had to voice--reluctantly--how I've succumb to the reality that this game is just not fun right now. Maybe it's just me.

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  • playing destiny is like that wife who gets beaten by her husband... no matter what, i come back even though i know what waiting for me

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    • I was loving the game until level 24, now it's just constant farming and maybe some pvp. : (

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    • Today :)

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    • I can name 1... the Raid :P 'cause it wasn't there in the beginning

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    • I quit the other day. The game just had little replay value after playing every strike and raid 6-7 times.

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      • Today, quit being so damn dramatic. What are ya? A girl or something?

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        • It litterally is like a second job. In just on here grinding out bounties and patrol missions to level up my gear. And for what really? Pvp? Not. Everything is an instant kill weapon and I can't even play crucible without a bee error unless I use my wireless hotspot on my iPhone. Which makes no sense because my internet is 100x faster on my router.

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        • Week 2

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        • Always. [spoiler]but especially when xur arrives [/spoiler]

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          When was the last time… you had sex?

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          • I'm too excited to play Destiny right now to read a post of that length! I honestly am excited to play it - I just came onto the app to check the bounties and the daily heroic, and had a quick look at the forums before I turn the game on.

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          • Destiny for me now is only on wed after reset ,, sometimes some crucible thats it ... Destiny is good but u cant imagine myself playing this game next year ...

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          • In 1.5 hours when my work is complete.

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          • After reset. Once the weekly missions are done...it gets old again. I like the raid the most, but getting a group together is difficult.

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            • That's rough, I waited quite some time to hit the raid. And it still feels like a challenge to me. Every time I get in a group with mics, the game feels alive. It's just playing alone that feels...dead. And I still have the knowledge that if I get bored, I haven't made my third character. I've never played a Titan. What an adventure it will be. But, you've probably put in double my hours.

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            • Today. Got Insurmountable Skull Fort from an engram, hopped on my Titan for the first time in awhile and proceeded to go about the daily tasks and missions in a different style than I normally do: using almost exclusively melee and shotgun. Not only was it fun to play with a style that is wildly different from my usual tactical sniping with my Hunter, it was actually [i]really[/i] effective. Completed all of my daily tasks on a minimum level of 24 (aside from patrolling for materials and the city tasks) and didn't die once. Even managed to level up my shiny new skull fort up a bit. [spoiler]If the game's starting to feel stale, try doing something new or different from what you usually do... It may just work[/spoiler]

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              • The last time I had fun playing destiny? Reset day. I'd already done the nightfall and raid and was angry about the constant kicks to orbit. Then I noticed that this weeks heroic had the void burn modifier. I figured I'd try and run through it quickly before I went to bed. I landed on Venus and ran to the starting room for the strike. The moment I started shooting my maxed atheon's epilogue I was just amazed at how fast it ripped through everything. I don't even know how I killed one of the servitors. I spent the rest of the strike all the way through until the boss room just casually strolling through room after room, anything foolish enough to stand in my way exploding in a hail of purple streaked bullets. And that's when it hit me. I was having fun. All that time grinding through patrols and crucible playlists. All those tiger strikes and bounties. They were just a pale shadow of fun. Enjoyable maybe but not [b][i]fun.[/i][/b] The vault of glass was [i]challenging[/i] yes, it made you concentrate and try your hardest. But a challenge is not always [b]fun.[/b] I'm not sure how much longer I'll be playing destiny. But at least I had some fun.

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                • It's not just you, I feel the same way. I've got a Titan and a Warlock to level 25 each, and while the gameplay is fun I do ask myself - why am I doing this? I'm used to playing games that have an end game, working towards completing my characters story. Fallout, Skyrim, Mass Effect, these are the games that get me invested in not just what I'm doing, but also why I'm doing it. I realise that Destiny doesn't compare exactly to those kind of games but it does share certain RPG/levelling elements. The difference is that, unlike those other games, Destiny has no payoff - it's all about the RNG grind. I've got to the stage where only two things matter - Tiger strikes and Crucible, both with the primary intention of completing bounties. I do admit that PvP is more fun than I thought it would be. I came to Destiny without any intention of playing PvP but find that it's unpredictability always keeps you on your toes. Strikes, on the other hand, are few and far between - there really needs to be more. In summary, it's still fun. But I do ask myself - what am I working towards?

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                  • Although I am playing, the game does feel lifeless in a way, as if it's soul was ripped out before release. Hopefully Bungie finds a way to bring it back. There is nothing really that a player can emotionally relate to. (Granted I am speaking only for myself here) As a Mass Effect fan, those games get you relating to the chars one or another which is why I got so much replayability from them.

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                  • It's not just you. I've put the game on for the last 3 days and just left it in orbit while I watched Netflix or surfed the Internet. Today I tried playing and realized this shit is boring

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                    • Today .. happy to do sword of krota bounty

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                    • 12/9

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                    • Reset day

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                    • thank you for this

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                      • When the Nightfall came back this week.

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                      • Edited by Joaquin Dead: 11/1/2014 1:48:01 AM
                        Nope it's everyone. Only Bungie seems to be ok with it. You played X amount of hours so you're welcome. Who cares if customers are disappointed by your product and openly complain about the lack of content and the overly eagerness to tweak gameplay in a more restrictive manner. Because we're not playing a game the way the dev's designed it to be played. If that's the case maybe the design is the issue. The patches being released add nothing to Destiny only take elements away like strategy and team work. Leading the VOG to a very linear and boring path. This game didn't even have 4-6 weeks of content how can you expect it to be a 10 year game? You obviously didn't design this game to have a satisfying end game so why then did you sell it as a game only begins when the "story" ends? Or that Destiny doesn't have DLC we have expansion packs. Um 3 maps 3 story missions and 1 strike and 1 raid 2 level cap raise is barely a DLC let alone an expansion pack If you want a forum full of sycophants you're about to get it. We need an outline a plan of coming patches/releases ASAP If only thing we have to look forward to is another DLC like the dark below and just tweaks of existing weapons and armor and raids or real time altering of enemy health bars this will be the only Destiny game that will make a profit.

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