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Edited by Razzupaltuff: 11/28/2014 1:33:05 PM
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Where Destiny fails

This thread is a (incomplete) list of where Destiny fails in a way or another, and of course expresses my personal opinion. A bit about myself before I start: I am over 50, have been working as software dev for 25 years, and now work as software project manager. I have been maintaining and modernizing an old 3D shooter game from the beginnings of 3D shooters for around 10 years, and have been contributing to various other open source projects. I have also been playing computer games for over 30 years. I therefore tend to believe that I am having a certain competence in the areas I will be talking about here. I am not a native English speaker, so please forebear with me if I do not satisfy your standards of proper English language and grammar at all times here. :-) [b]TL;DR: Destiny doesn't even deserve the rating "mediocre". It is a plain bad, repetitive, bug ridden game the developer of wich rules over the game and his customers with an incredibly arrogant high-handedness.[/b]

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  • Edited by Razzupaltuff: 11/28/2014 1:27:37 PM
    [b]Interface[/b] Destiny's game interface is lackluster, and despite fixing that being a simple task, Bungie refuses to do so (which takes me back to the arrogance Bungie is displaying in their attitude towards their customers). [u]In-game chat[/u] The random team chat is a feature that I do not perceive as being widely used, and one that I never missed. I cannot see how you would need it, be in during a strike, nor in the tower. Yet, Bungie chose to implement that instead of fixing the dire issues Destiny has e.g. in the raid. Something I would find very useful would be to send text messages to other players (friends) who are online, because I cannot reach them via voice chat unless they are in the same tower instance as I, or already are in a fireteam together with me. This is something Bungie did not deem worthy their apparently rather limited resources. [u]Vault[/u] It would be a piece of cake to increase vault space (and make the vault better structured in the process). Instead, Bungie is giving us a new sparrow we can do tricks with to "satisfy our desire to express ourselves". This is so ridiculous that it is outright stupid. Personally, I give a flying f*ck about being able to do summersaults or barrel rolls with my sparrow. I'd rather have a better, bug free game. [u]Music Volume Controls[/u] There is no way to tone down music volume in Destiny by means of an external mixer, since music and game audio get mixed together before being streamed to the console's audio hardware. Game audio often is obnoxiously loud to the extent of drowing game sound and fireteam cheat during boss battles. You can decrease the overall game volume in favor of chat volume, but that is not a real solution, because the music will still drown out other game sounds. Players want to hear fireteam chat and important game sounds helping them to localize enemies. There also is a player group that simply doesn't like to constantly hear music, or hear music while playing a shooter game. Bungie stubbornly refuses to that group of players, although that would be an easy to implement and small patch to the game. I can only interpret this as yet another expression of the arrogance Bungie believes they can rule over their customers and force them into everything they deem suitable for Destiny. Bungie is patronizing the Destiny players in a really bad way here once again.

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