I play and stream D2 due to it being a game I can withstand playing for long periods of time without wanting to throw my keyboard out the window - not touching crucible cause thats broken (meta fest) rn.
Am I thrilled about season of the drifter?
Not really, was wishing for it to be more PvE focused however its not even a week after release.
I play D2 due to enjoying the playstyle of the game and not due to me enjoying the new DLCs. Not enjoying something is one thing but my thing is why would you spend this much time playing a game you dont enjoy instead of finding a game you sincerely enjoy playing for long periods of time?
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Since this blew up I have became for the most part strictly a destiny 2 streamer, if you are feeling sexy feel free to follow me on twitch at [url]https://twitch.tv/yaboyicon[/url]
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I play almost every day. I enjoy all aspects of it. For me there is no other game like D2 out there. D1 was great but the graphics and how the story is developing in D2 just keeps me hooked. Yea I get burned every now and then but I always come back. D2 has a lot of flaws but the shooting feels so rewarding and to me is just plain fun to play. I've being playing since D1 beta. I will probably leave the game when Bungie stops making it.
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2 RepliesI have just spent 40 minutes rushing a couple of milestones and picking up engrams from Hawthorne. 4 sets of legs and 2 secondary weapons all lower than What's their from power engrams picked up before . Any other slot would have increased power but nope rng is rigged to extend play. Shut application, bitch on forum and load up Anthem. Fuk you bungo, so glad your game is shit now, much easier to not play it and not miss it
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2 RepliesEdited by GSXHeckler: 3/11/2019 12:17:29 PMBoth. The content, lore, and my love for Halo brought me to the table. I took a hiatus from October of '17 till Forsaken. I didn't enjoy the content during that period so I played other games in the meantime including other shooters. In my personal experience, even though I'm not pleased with all the content, the Destiny franchise still remains my top shooter. I've played, Ghost Recon, Battlefield 1 and 5, Star Wars, and the list goes on. Nothing feels as tight when it comes to control in a shooter. That alone brings me back more than the content. EDIT: Grinded all of D1 from day one and D2 Y1 was the first time I walked away from lack of enjoyment, because I hit 305 real quick, but I did not enjoy the raid. I watched a lot of friends walk away from the game for good during that time.😥 Forsaken set the game back in the right direction. Hopefully they continue to fix other flaws and move forward without repeating the beginning of D2.
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Edited by Tis-but-a-scratch: 3/11/2019 12:25:29 PMI enjoy the game. (D1 by the way is still more enjoyable than D2) Not the chore, don’t mind a grind within reason. Not the milestones Not the cores Not the titles reliant upon RNG Not the re-release of exotics I already earned Not the abysmal matchmaking and lack there of Not the catering of pup stomping to streamers in qp Not the blatantly artificial extended way to increase playtime Not the drop rate or duplicate protection on exotics Not the lack of communication from bungie Not Gambit. Not one itsy bitsy bit. Not every boss fight an arena style fight Feel free to add on to this.....
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I used to love this game, then that went to like, then it turned into just a time filler, now I've stopped playing. For me Bungie have slowly killed their own game, with rinse and repeat bounties, loot solely dependant on some invisible RNG God, and constant Nerfs that makes hard earned loot sometimes almost useless.
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2 RepliesStill here playing daily, having fun. These forums are always a bummer to come and read.
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1 ReplyIf half the people on this thread made a clan it would be a pretty active one
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1 ReplyEdited by Ogma: Destroyer of Worlds: 3/12/2019 12:11:48 PMI used to. They really don’t seem to want to lean on the open world aspect of it though. “Shared world.” 🙄 Instead, they want to heavily dictate player experiences and really want people to play some kind of PvP element right now. They seem to be trying SO HARD to make the players fit the game, instead of making the game fit the players. It makes no sense to do this in a game with several VERY different kinds of activities. That’s how you alienate and lose players. People want options. They want to be able to play the things they like to progress and earn gear. Not be told what and how to play.
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It was fun for 2 weeks at launch then sucked for pretty much the next 11 months. Foresaken drew me back in and kept me around until Bungo dropped BA on us. I've been gone since a week or so after the release of BA. I reinstalled D1 and that is a fun game. D2 not so much. If I needed the HD space I'd delete D2, but I don't need the space yet. I'll wait and see what Y3 brings but I'm not hopeful. Won't be playing D2 anytime soon. The yearly pass was a scam. That's why they required you pay for the year up front. The content drip and content itself is garbage. It's just grinding old content to be able to play the "new" rehashed old content. Bungo stil lcan't balance their own game and they can't seem to figure out what to do with all of the broken content they removed at the beginning of Y2. Now they don't have Activision to lean on for money. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised to see Bungo sell off the franchise or fold up and disappear. If they manage to stay afloat and release a D3, I'll bet my mortgage that D3 is hot garbage.
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I enjoy the game. I play for content as well no content I get booted and move on. I still have stuff to do. Just made a lock. Gotta get the Izzy sniper. Get my gun skill up in the crucible
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Yeah, this is really the only game I'm playing. Nothing else interests me that much right now, and I gave up running out and slapping down $60 for a game I'll spend less than 20 hours with on day one a loooong time ago. I actually had a copy of Destiny 1 sitting on my PS3 for a couple years, got it in a Black Friday sale but never got around to opening it up. Last year when I finally broke down and got a PS4 I spent about a month with D1 then migrated to D2 because I wanted to be in the 'active' game, and I didn't care to have to try to negotiate a raid group outside of the game itself just to progress the storylines to see what happened in D1. Since Forsaken dropped I can count the number of times I've played another game on one hand. It's not that I'm super-picky or hard to please, I'm just enjoying this particular experience and the rest can wait. For me, it's about the sense of sticking with a game long enough to feel like my personal skill level as a player gets better and better. Like when I started, I used to favor auto rifles almost exclusively because I was sloppy as hell and hadn't really touched a FPS since Halo 3. I was always more of a bullet hose kind of player, I hated when any gun-based game forced me to use a sniper rifle. Now, several months later of playing at least a couple hours almost every day, I can drop a crowd of mobs with precision shots with a hand cannon without even trying. Some of the things I used to struggle with had nothing to do with power level, gear or weapons, I just needed to put enough time in to become a better player, and that's really satisfying to recognize that you can do something that you couldn't before. It's not *all* about crunching numbers: you can give one player a whole inventory of the 'best' weapons in the game and another player will still kill them with a simple melee or grenade toss. I don't try to conquer this game at 100%. I don't lose sleep because I *have* to be walking around with the latest quest Exotic strapped to my character 24 hours after the quest drops. I'll get a weapon, try it and decide I'm not really into it, then turn around a month later and use it every day for a week straight. I try to tailor my loadouts around what works for me as player and not force myself to use something that's not fun to run around with and shoot because its the 'meta'. Some weapons do have a steep learning curve and sometimes I accept that challenge and sometimes I don't. Haven't done a raid yet and not sure that I will any time soon -- my schedule doesn't always make grouping easy, and I kinda of prefer to just play at my own pace, take breaks when I want. I'll probably never have Luna's, 1K Voices, and so on, and that's fine. I'll probably tackle Whisper of the Worm because I want to see if I can get it, even though I never use snipers. I'll probably go for Thorn because I enjoy hand cannons, even though Gambit is a dumpster fire right now thanks to trying to impose 'roles', and I'm sure that'll be a big part of the chase. The game's not perfect by any means -- my friend and I both did Strange Terrain about thirty times for the Osprey, and I got four of them, and he got none, so yeah, the RNG is frustrating, but we still had fun. Sometimes the chase and the challenge is more rewarding that the actual thing you end up getting. Probably at least thirty hours to get that Osprey: number of times I've actually used it: 1. Waste of time? Maybe, but I enjoyed slogging it out. I decided I wanted the Wayfarer seal and kept at it until I got it. I could've 'beaten' another game in the time it took me just to finish that one goal off, but I got more satisfaction out of seeing those notifications pop than I did out finishing an entire stack of games and seeing the end credits roll. When the game stops being fun, I'll stop playing it and go find something else and not mope here. And honestly, when it stops being challenging I'll move on -- and challenge means some degree of frustration, comes with the turf.
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4 RepliesNot gambit or other PvP, but for the most part yeah. I'm the type of person who doesn't try to rush through everything, the person who actually kills the aliens in strikes instead of just running past them, and the one who actually does public events just for the fun of it. The issue is that it becomes difficult to enjoy such things when you share the same environment with those who'd rather just rush past it all for the sake of the lootbox at the end of it. Really hard not to let those few spoil the fun(believe me, it isn't fun just sprinting through an empty strike.) I usually just leave/avoid them as they're plenty capable of doing things on their own, and I don't want a couple bad bananas to spoil the whole bunch. I do wish they'd add more strikes though. I genuinely enjoy doing them with the right groups. I avoid crucible and gambit because...well...it's just too much. It might be because I'm playing on PC, where FPS-styled environments are naturally quicker-paced, but the few times I tried crucible, I couldn't even get a shot off. It wasn't fun, so I never played it again. Because gambit has invaders, and therefor similar PvP, I don't play it either. There are PvP games I enjoy on PC, but they are more tactical. Not based so much on the combination of reflex and precision as they are planning ahead and exploiting a tactical weakness of the whole team. Rewards patience over aggression, in a sense. Destiny 2, or any other FPS-styled environment, doesn't have this.
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Yup still playing!
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I still love it. Same with D1. I just hate the pvp and the new hybrid mode, nothing else. As long as the pve stays great and it has I'm still gonna play. Just not my season. Its fine there are people that actually play destiny for the pvp for some reason and not the pve and I guess its good they get stuff too. Just chilling back in D1 and doing the same pve stuff in D2 until next season.
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1 ReplyEdited by CatMan: 3/11/2019 11:05:20 PMVery strange tittle...very. Edit: then promos his Twitch lel.
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Kinda has to be now, right? Because there ain't much content these days lol
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I haven’t played in a bit, but I might start playing again here soon. The gameplay is still pretty awesome, just like it’s always been. The missions aren’t half bad either, I just wish there was more new stuff other than gambit to play. Gambit is good an all, I just want a bit more variety.
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I still Play Daily, I still Enjoy the Game. I enjoyed all of the DLC (even though the content was a little lackluster). I will continue to play because I enjoy the game more than most games currently on the market. As for the Forums, don't even get me started...
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Most of this game is still fun. Most of these forums are still nonsense. OP post is a breath of fresh air in a swamp of jaded rants.
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i somewhat enjoy the pvp. it can be frustrating but for the most part i like it, especially on pc.
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That is exactly why I play the game. I love the gameplay.
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This game is fun, challenging and rewarding. There is so much to do and discover. The characters are interesting, the story lines deep. There is something for everyone. Enjoy it.
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No i only play because i bought the pass awhile ago, id get to max power cal after a week or three then go back to other games, runescape etc
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[quote]why would you spend this much time playing a game you dont enjoy instead of finding a game you sincerely enjoy playing for long periods of time?[/quote] When people start asking this they should quickly at the very least consider all of the design in the game to get players [u]addicted[/u]. It's not a mystery.
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I enjoy the game. But Bungie has so badly mismanaged the game that they've essentially broken it. Season of the Drifter is an extremely narrow offering that has little to appeal to the player that doesn't like Gambit. The levelling system and in-game economy are both so badly broken...that its damaged the fundamental reward loop of the game: kill stuff....get powerful loot....use that to kill more powerful enemies...get more powerful loot. With the damage that they've done to that reward loop....they've sucked a LOT of the enjoyment out o the game for a lot of people. IMO, because someone realized that the loot pool was shallow....and thought that they could condition us to grind the game for withheld and throttled vertical progression (levelling up) instead of chasing after loot (horizontal progression). Its not working....because its damaging the formula that made this game successful.