Long/Too Long

Common/Frequent

Long. Infrequent.

You don't mind it when playing the strikes or story missions, since it's a long load time but then a huge stretch of play without it. The tower is the worst, since it takes just as long to load, but half the time you're just getting your engrams identified and then leaving.

Get it on PS4? Load times were long, but they were under a minute. Alternatively, it would be nice to be able to open the menu and do stuff during loading, like set abilities and weapons.

Or do Tower tasks. The Tower seems like a deliberate inefficiency. Well, at lot of Destiny is--the whole investment system, right. But while the investment system seems investy and part of the game, the Tower just seems like a tedious ceremonial task.

Already got you covered my man.

The tower is nice an all, but in reality all it does is make the mundane and cleanup tasks you have to do take longer. You get weapon drops you need to identify before using them, and this can only be done at a certain dude in the tower. There’s a reason Diablo did away with this and now just lets you right click to identify an item anywhere: it basically just adds unnecessary steps and strings the task out. You should be able to enter the menu, and hold square to identify the item. You can dismantle items anywhere, so why not identify? It’s the same thing with commerce. It’s just time consuming needlessly to walk around from person to person. A better solution would be a store menu you can access while in orbit, that has everything from everybody. It would be way easier. Look at Final Fantasy XIII, even they realized the convenience of menu shopping, and that actually traveling to your merchants doesn’t add anything to the experience. Need to buy something? Select the tower, wait for it to load, travel to the merchant (if you can remember who has what you want), buy it, then leave. Or do it my way, go to orbit, open the shop menu, and buy, leaving more time for strikes. I get that the tower is probably supposed to have character progression and story details happen there, but that could still happen. Just move the commerce into something more streamlined.

Get it on PS4? Load times were long, but they were under a minute. Alternatively, it would be nice to be able to open the menu and do stuff during loading, like set abilities and weapons.

Or do Tower tasks. The Tower seems like a deliberate inefficiency. Well, at lot of Destiny is--the whole investment system, right. But while the investment system seems investy and part of the game, the Tower just seems like a tedious ceremonial task.

I haven't played it, so I don't really know, but it sounds like there are a lot of different things to do in the Tower, and there are going to be more when the game is done, and I could see them feeling like that's a better way to handle that many disparate things than a big huge menu system.
Even discounting talking to people to get missions, get weapons, get upgrades, etc., people have shown you could catch NPC conversations that might be enjoyable, and there were dead(?) Ghosts you could revive, and there was a soccer ball that some people had some fun with, and I wouldn't be surprised if they added a few more little things you can do in the Tower.
More than that, though, I don't think they've done this so much recently, but they were talking about the City and the Tower as this social space, so a) having everyone need to go there reinforces that and b) well, the social aspect is a feature, you can go there and try to get a group together to do something or just people-watch. It's too bad you can only hear people in your party and your fireteam, half the enjoyment of people-watching is actually people-listening, but I'm sure someone will enjoy it anyway. On the group-gathering side, you can get people together for any of the game modes or start a dance party or bump around the soccer ball. All in all, I'm looking forward to spending some time hanging around the Tower.