On one hand, no co-op and all these other launches makes me want to hold.

On the other, I'm 100% sure the zeitgeist's on-point meme game will cross my path ASAP, so holding would make me miss some really high quality content...

I have nothing to add here other then I find your motivation of "but what if I miss a meme" to be mildly hilarious.

Meme on!

Already getting hit by memes. Joke's on them, though, I'm already knees-deep in the game!

I suppose it's kind of like our differences in vault capacity (,and this is so my brain doing what it does) in the requirements we have. I, ever seemingly forever 500, and you with your mad brilliance of "F*ck it!" and deleting everything.

Even my vault is growing. Ever since that armor picker site was posted, I’ve been keeping way more stuff, on the off chance it will help some theoretical build in the future. Even that sort of sucks, honestly. It’s just another example of missing out from not paying Destiny full time.

I still have mixed feelings. Destiny is a totally fun and acceptable casual experience, but that experience is so much less than what I’d like to get out of the game. It’s forever in this disappointing limbo where I want to keep playing, just not as Bungie thinks I should, and it’s a far lesser experience for that.

I’m not dumb enough to think I’ll ever quit Destiny at this point, but sometimes I really wish I could. If it wasn’t for this community, I probably would.

Ya can't play everything brother!

Watch me!

You can’t fool me, you just want to free up time to watch the new Matrix movie on endless repeat…?

Haha, you know me too well! I know you're not gonna believe this—hell, even I can't myself—but to tell you the truth, I'm not really psyched to see The Matrix Resurrections. I wasn't really happy with the ending to The Matrix Revolutions, but it was finished. Things were wrapped up, loose ends were tied, and the final piston CLAAAAANGED. Y'know? Things were done.

The original Matrix is twenty-two years old. The sequels are 18. I doubt I'm the only person in the world who loved the sequels, but it certainly feels like it. There are people out there who were(are? I dunno) petitioning to have the two removed. The Matrix Universe was expansive, comprehensive, and one of the most fulfilling experiences that a fan could ask for. Three movies, incredibly detailed BTS assets of all three, an anime collection that at the time was revolutionary, comics, multiple games(of admittedly...controversial quality), music, mythos, lore, tie-ins(I STILL want that Matrix phone) and piles of accolades as one of the greatest achievements in cinematic history.

The fact that they're bringing this up again after two decades boils down to one thing: money.

I just know that this is another short ride on the remake train(even though this is technically a sequel). And it was full of red flags from the faintest whiff:

• Twenty years later(meaning only Gen X'rs will have any clue what the hell is going on)
  
• Starring only the dead people
  
• Only one Wachowski
  
• Pretty much everyone else has moved on
  
• Neil...Patrick...Harris.
  
• in fact, even the name—Resurrections—has that unsettling pit of desperation scent.

I wish them the best (seriously, the craziest thing about all this is how Carrie-Ann Moss still looks THAT. DAMN. GOOD. a quarter of a century later) but honestly I doubt I'll be watching this one. Certainly won't be shaving my head again, lol

I will admit though, hearing that Don Davis™ string swell again sends a shiver of pleasure down my spine. Felt real good. ;-)

I'll be first in line for.

I had fun the last couple of times we played. Take care!

I may get back on every once in a while, but thanks for the well wishes regardless! You were always a blast to play with. And it may have been almost a decade ago, but those days when you and Rellekh always linked us all up together to absolutely decimate Court of Oryx—AND Archon's Forge!—were the most fun I've ever had.

I'll never forget it.

Okay….one more, and then I’m done, I swear

And that’s before we get to the writing, which is fucking atrocious. It’s seriously fucking awful. It’s like try hard Borderlands. Was this written by an eleven year old? The fact that a grown ass adult wrote this, thought it was good, and put it into a video game makes me question everything I like about the story and presentation of Destiny.

I thought it was funny, but maybe that's not the best endorsement.

I was grinding out Strange Coins to get horse bounties so I could start the Forerunner quest . . . after my fifth run I had the epiphany that I was having zero fun and was fantasizing about playing Warframe instead. I was doing an activity I actively disliked in order to get a gun just so that I would have it. What the fuck am I doing? And that’s the experience I’ve had every season while working through the seasonal activities.

I agree we are forced to overplay the seasonal activities. I personally really make an effort to avoid grinding single activities for too long - it truly makes you hate things. This of course sometimes delays receiving the loot you are coveting.

I already bought Witch Queen, and I’ll play it, but I think I’m done with the Destiny day to day. Maybe I’ll play the big expansion every year and call it there.

Did you get the Dungeon? I'd recommend it, our blind run was really fun last night.

After playing the new anniversary activity, I think I’m with you.

I don’t want to be a downer, but last night was the sudden realization that Destiny largely isn’t a game I want to play any more. The new activity is . . . it’s fine. It’s just like every other seasonal activity in Destiny, which means it’s mindless shooting with absolutely no sense of urgency or agency, there is no fail state, no challenge, no point in even engaging. And that’s before we get to the writing, which is fucking atrocious. It’s seriously fucking awful. It’s like try hard Borderlands. Was this written by an eleven year old? The fact that a grown ass adult wrote this, thought it was good, and put it into a video game makes me question everything I like about the story and presentation of Destiny.

I was grinding out Strange Coins to get horse bounties so I could start the Forerunner quest . . . after my fifth run I had the epiphany that I was having zero fun and was fantasizing about playing Warframe instead. I was doing an activity I actively disliked in order to get a gun just so that I would have it. What the fuck am I doing? And that’s the experience I’ve had every season while working through the seasonal activities.

I already bought Witch Queen, and I’ll play it, but I think I’m done with the Destiny day to day. Maybe I’ll play the big expansion every year and call it there.

Lots of thoughts are still in the air, as I really only got to scratch the surface yesterday.

It's far too early to say, but I have this one part of me that thinks that the game is now far less fun. That "Go Fast" was Destiny for me despite the flaws, and now it's gone. It's far too early to say. I too went all in with Witch Queen, so hey, there it is... but... I don't know. Suddenly what was a sure thing is now so much less sure. I just, I just look at how long the base time for Supers are now, and despite all the different ways you can use to reduce that time, it makes my heart sink a little. It's like (or in fact, as this is probably an apt description now), the power fantasy is now burdened with new terms and conditions. On the surface it's a real kill joy for me. Burdened upon the experiences of which I knew that before was so (and indeed too much so at times) effortless.

It's far too early to say. Plus, to me the real telling tale will be the coming patch notes. How stock is my initial feel, if it is correct at all? I need to play some of the baseline activities so that I can get a real feel of how things are with out the boosts and perks certain activities have. I have no idea what PvP is going to be like.

The New Seasonal is... well, like all the seasonals frankly. Best consumed at pace. Don't grind. It is a "something to do", a mindless run around of slaughter. Sometimes it's nice, but it's really only surface deep. It's something you play for hijinks.

Then we 180, and I get to tell you about how I (just to see how far I could go) lone wolfed some of the Grasp of Avarice Dungeon. Didn't finish, but only because I ran out of real world time. Still have a checkpoint. Even so, even with the little I saw, this might be my favorite Dungeon. This is why I play Destiny. AAA content. Atmosphere, Mechanics, and all the story telling you can say with such. It's a three man raid and I am all here for it.