Here's why it's worse. (Destiny)

by Funkmon , Thursday, August 11, 2016, 20:05 (3035 days ago) @ Kermit

EDIT: I agree it's a better game than Destiny, but Reach didn't have raids, and I've heard Bungie devs refer to Destiny 1 as Halo: CE, implying that it will mature like Halo did.

See, and that's where I hope they are wrong, in my opinion.

I think Halo was the best Halo game, but it didn't have XBL, so I normally put Halo 2 at the top of my list then. Assuming they all have XBL (and they do now on MCC, so I can rank this reasonably I think), Halo games have been on a steady decline since 2001, each one being worse than the last, with the exception of Halo 5, which I thought was better than Reach and Halo 4, on par with Halo 3.

However, the quality level of Halo games was so high, it's like Sgt. Pepper's versus Abbey Road, with a brief dip to Yellow Submarine/Halo 4. I understand why each person has his favorite Beatles record, and I understand why each person has his fave Halo game. If Destiny can continue Halo's track record, then I'm all for it, but I expect, considering the updates to Destiny so far, to see it in a slow decline, albeit with some ups and downs, from what I consider to be near perfection at launch. Doesn't matter. Will still play and buy as long as they're even similar.

I can't tell if you're serious. I think the game is better than it was at launch by miles, but maybe we'll have to agree to disagree here.

Nah. Nobody believes me. I legitimately think the game was best literally at launch, up until they made purples turn into purples, which ended up being awesome, but forced the start of what I consider the bad patches (read: every one that didn't buff shotguns or gunslinger). It was the most fun. The vendor guns were good, I liked Queen's Wrath a lot, the armor was good, the RNG made the guns that you'd get actually worthwhile, I thought it was awesome.

All the new updates have done good stuff, like adding in story missions and new gear, but the gear has gotten worse and worse, with the exception of House Of Wolves Trials armor. And, not only that, but the old gear has gotten worse as well. Not even just with new missions, but they nerfed it all anyway. The reason I continue to play Destiny is because it's fun, and by making the guns worse, they're making the game less fun.

They have to make the guns worse because they playerbase whines constantly about getting drops. I played heroic strikes for 90 minutes last night and got 2 exotics and 5 legendaries, plus filled my postmaster with blues. All worthless. That's insanity. Bingle's pacifying the whiny players by making it appear that they are fixing the problems, but they're actually making the problem more annoying, and they have continued to do this.

"We want good loot!" Fine, here's tons of exotics and purples. By the way they're all the same and they all suck.
"We want guaranteed quest based loot!" Fine, here's some and it all sucks except for the swords or is highly conditional.
"We want levels to reflect our experience!" Fine, now they do. By the way, levels no longer matter and now the only important stat is hidden.
"We want cloaks to have a purpose!" Fine, we gave them a purpose. Now you're stuck wearing only one with nice perks. lol.
"We want ghosts to have a purpose!" Here you are, we made an unbelievably grindy quest step for the swords so you have a benefit for them. Also glimmer is now nerfed from consumables.
"We want more heavy ammo!" Great! Xur sells it every week. Good luck carrying more than 6 rockets at a time, and it's now more expensive.

Every time this happens, the game gets worse in my opinion, and it happens frequently. I have less fun playing this game.