I love destiny but I just wish I had a reason to keep playing it after 3-4 weeks of grinding.
To me destiny 1 was the perfect game. It was the only game I consistently played and thoroughly enjoyed. Literally never a dull moment. Never had a break from it. That was because the game constantly had a new feeling to it. It never got old. There was a good amount of enjoyable strikes that had a more even rng - the only strike I ever get is the hollowed lair. And to also further enhance the pve aspect, D1 had strike specific loot. That in itself boosted the amount of potential grinding heaps.
In destiny 2 whilst there is stuff to grind for, once you’ve grinded and got your gear and played all the activities you can’t do anything. Strikes are repetitive and to top them off they don’t have useful/exciting strike specific loot.
There’s also no trials to play where we can put our skills and new gear to the test.
Gambit is repetitive and again unrewarding.
Normal crucible is pointless. Competitive is the only good mode tbh - it’s actually a challenge and you can slowly work towards rewarding pinnacle weapons.
All in all, me and my friends have grinded the game for about 2-3 weeks and have obtained all the guns we want (Luna’s howl, revoker, recluse, outbreak, wendigo, loaded question etc), now we don’t know what to do. We’ve already started playing other games. I occasionally hop on to play a couple games of comp but now there’s nothing to look forward to (such as trials) and nothing new to do. I just really wish the game felt like D1 again.
Edit: I’m sorry for being so negative. Wasn’t really my intention. The game is very good atm. It’s the best destiny 2 has ever been. When there is exciting stuff to grind for and obtain, the game is great, however, once you’ve obtained all the stuff you want, that’s where the problem occurs.
Edit 2: I also just remembered the exotic engram farming in Destiny 1. That was dope. Although it was broken it still added a level of excitement and grindyness. The fact that you could repeatedly kill a boss and know that you had a good chance of getting an exotic was exciting. Now in destiny 2, even after all the bosses I’ve killed, I literally get no exotics. Just seeing the exotic engram fall on the ground after killing something was so exciting :(
Destiny 1 year 3 post Rise of Iron was the best Destiny ever was. There were activities, weapons and goals for everyone of all skill levels for casuals, hardcores and everyone in between. All of the systems, including infusion and glass needles, worked flawlessly.
Why they decided to regress rather than improve upon said system? Who knows? They've spent 3 years in Destiny 2 trying to get everything similar to Destiny 1. Imagine how far we'd be in D2 if they never regressed?
When people say that D1 was the better Destiny, they aren't talking about vanilla or anything that happened in between. Those times were horrible. They're talking about year 3 Rise of Iron/post Rise of Iron. Christopher Barrett was leading at the time. He did good. Deej? Not so good.