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Items? Engrams are horrible. I have no idea why I keep getting Blues after hitting level 20. All they do is get dismantled. Once a player hits level 20, its pointless to equip anything that isn't a Legendary or Exotic, so you literally make every Green and Blue in the game automatically obsolete and serve absolutely no purpose. And I love when I get a Legendary Engram and end up with Shards instead, cause that was really what I wanted. (*Sarcasm*) That being said, the amount of Legendary and Exotic Weapons and Armor in the game is laughable. What's MORE laughable is that with each new DLC/Expansion, you actually think its a smart idea to rez out all the old gear. You remove ALL the stuff from the vendors instead of just expanding their stocks. So instead of adding MORE weapons and armor to the game, you actually remove stuff. And in TTK you say you'll be adding a crap ton of NEW stuff, but that doesn't change the fact that you still got rid of all the old stuff. And if you aren't going to let people ascend their Year 1 weapons and armor into Year 2 and beyond? Then its a repeat of the Dark Below and you effectively killed, once again, all player progression for the game.
Customization? Do you not see how more and more games are adopting the same in-depth Character Creation system of games like Dragon Age or Elder Scrolls? Look at how detailed those systems are, and you're telling me that Destiny goes the route of cookie cutter KOREAN MMORPG GAMES where you can't actually get detailed with anything. You can't have a legit unique character, because the only options you get are the ones given to you to choose from. How do shitty games, FREE TO PLAY shitty games, have more character customization options than a game that had $500 million for a budget? And its already well known that it also went into the marketing for Destiny, but its ALSO well known that the game had AT LEAST half of that poured into its development. And then what was it, Day 1 the game made up the entire cost, selling well over $500 million worth of games and yet WE STILL SEE NO ACTUAL IMPROVEMENTS TO ANY OF THIS!? A YEAR LATER!
Cosmetics? Look, -blam!- the Shaders, alright? Just -blam!- 'em. Let me manually go into my character details and actually customize my own god damn color scheme. This is 2015, why the -blam!- do I still need to bother with pre-rendered color schemes? The Emblems are alright, I like most of them.
Mounts/Vehicles? Dude, why is the ONLY form of transportation in this game the Sparrow? You're telling me this is a Post-Apocalyptic Future and everyone is just zipping around on the exact same kind of hover bike. Why? And better yet, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE EXACT SAME ONE!? When I first heard there was a "Legendary Vehicle" in the Vault of Glass, I expected something different from the Sparrow. NOPE! SAME THING WITH A DIFFERENT COLOR SCHEME! Its the damn shader nonsense all over again. Bungie... You guys made the Halo series. You more or less wrote the book on vehicles in games like this, and yet there are literally only 3 other vehicles in the game which you can't keep and that can only be used in very restricted areas for the planet they are on. How is this even possible? What about Old Russia? I'm pretty sure those old ass tanks sitting around would be a hell of a lot more effective than a Sparrow, can't I just crack open the hatch and hop down and have my otherwise useless Ghost kick start them suckers so I got me a effing tank to blast aliens with on Earth? And the ships...don't even get me started on that shit... We all know you can do "Space Battles" because we've seen ya do it back in Halo: Reach. It was cool then and it would be WAY cooler now in Destiny, and yet the ships are nothing but glorified loading screens?
So no, Destiny is not worth the amount of money that has been sunk into it nor is it worth anyone throwing money at the screen. The only people foolish enough to keep getting fooled by it are those who have nothing else better to actually compare it to. So to them they think this is the pinnacle of gaming, when in reality its not.
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I remember when I had these crazy ideas of what destiny could be from since they announced A new game (Destiny) to the day before it was released. So much hype so much potential!
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Edited by BigheadedJedi: 7/18/2015 6:03:53 PMYeah...I thought is was going to be Halo meets WoW meets Borderlands. Needless to say I was off by a few 100 feet.
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I remember the biggest hype aspect of it was that it came from Bungie. Every single person at the Midnight Release for Destiny were all Halo fans, and they even had Halo Reach setup on a 360 at the GameStop for people to play while waiting for the magic hour.
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Thanks bud, lol Sadly I doubt Bungie will ever actually read/see this thread.
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Wow. You put some thought and passion into this post...agree with much of what you said. Great post OP and hope someone at Bungie takes a look at it. Frankly, I think this game is surviving due to the Social aspect of the gameplay and the fact that they've designed it to be addictive...I'm not talking about in the good way either. I'm referring to the way the casino gaming industry uses game design to manipulate the player like an animal in a Skinner box. How else could you explain why a game with so little content and mediocre reviews has become and continues to be so successful? Shit...I know I want to move on to another game but I find myself coming back week after week. Kinda disturbing ...maybe Fallout 4 will save me :)
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Its funny you mention that, actually. Earlier I found myself comparing Destiny to how free mobile games work. Its like that one episode of South Park. *Points at the Video* XD
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Ha! Perfect.
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That clip is probably worthy of its own thread. Title it "The Destiny Problem", lol
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Really hope this doesn't fall on deaf ears, you make some one happy they tell 5 people, you make them mad they tell 20. Its the basics of customer service. Is it too late to save destiny? Guess that is up to bungie
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It probably will. They're real good at trying to censor negative feedback.
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Agree