Anti-fun or sloppy hacky secondary systems? (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 02:11 (2791 days ago) @ unoudid

The vault is anti-fun, but more because it appears to be just completely slapped together from garbage by an unpaid intern than because it was intentionally designed to be anti-fun.

PvP is definitely anti-fun though. Advanced movement and player control is gone. fixed builds is lame. the guns for pvp are soooooo boring and uninteresting. 4v4 only is lame. No custom modes is lame. "competitive" and "casual" are gross misnomers which in no way reflect the real game. Control remains a grossly imbalanced game mode where one side of the map is almost always at a distinct advantage. The lag from D1 has not been addressed in any meaningful way and you still die to guys around corners or who don't fire until after you're hit by the bullet. Matchmaking takes upwards of 3 minutes to match 2 pre-formed teams of 4 players each. That's absurd. There's a youtube video someone took of the game disconnecting them for inactivity while they were waiting for matchmaking. That's shameful.

Power level isn't anti-fun, but it's meaningless, so why have it at all?

Lost sectors aren't anti-fun, but they're meaningless, so why have them at all?

The chest loot timer that makes your 2nd cayde chest empty is absolutely anti-fun. I'm genuinely curious why this was implemented at all.

Whatever mechanic is used to determine which strike you do next or which pvp map you get next is terrible and frequently rolls the same level two or even three times in a row. hard to say if this is anti-fun intentional design or (more likely) a terrible oversight.

There's other examples, but my point is that some of the stuff is just weird or sloppy looking, and some is certainly anti-fun. The main, core game, was pretty great, imo. Some of the later levels especially shine and I wish that the other guardians streaming through your missions was implemented more throughout the game, as well as integrated more into the core story of the narrative. It's so great; I want more of it!