I'm right there with you (Destiny)

by Durandal, Friday, March 28, 2014, 15:30 (3901 days ago) @ Fuertisimo

The biggest thing I hated about Spartan Ops, (which overall was the part of Halo 4 I ended up liking the most) was the "go here, push this button, kill the spawns" gameplay that it devolved into.

The idea that you had these missions, that you and your buddies could do and it revealed more of the plot was cool. However it really ruined it when it became a race to see how fast you could push the buttons and shoot down all the knights and elites.

I thought Skyrim's quest generator was a little better, because sometimes you would be in the middle of nowhere and this woman would run up to you and shout "help, i've been bitten by a vampire!" or "I just escaped from bandits and I'm lost", and suddenly, fetch or escort quest. It made it feel like there were things happening in the world outside your latest quest lines. (You could totally blow off the people too, with sometimes hilarious results.)

I'm hoping Bungie will fill the world with these more emergent type quests, rather then a field of exclamation points at the area landing zones.

Also, killing mobs for a 1% drop rate item AKA farming, I hate it. Nothing ruins fun like having to kill 1000 firbolgs so you get that critical class item. Watching them all respawn and wander aimlessly around, waiting for you to kill them all again just really breaks the immersion, even more then having to kill 6 rats every time you go to a new area.