More ... (Destiny)

by Avateur , Monday, October 13, 2014, 18:22 (3938 days ago) @ Kermit

I can't get my head around the massive amount of time people have spent with this game, and how so many of these same people are surprised or disappointed that their interest level has dropped off. I mean, it's fine that your interest level has dropped off. That's your brain telling you to find something it finds more stimulating for you to do. Go play Shadow of Mordor until you get bored with that. Better yet, read a book. My bet is that when you come back to Destiny, it will be better than it is now, and even if not, it will feel better because you took a break.

The amount of time I put into Halo games absolutely demolishes what I've put into Destiny, and it wasn't until the disaster of Halo 4 that my Halo interest was turned off (and even then I found plenty of time for Reach). It's not that I've played Destiny so much in such a short amount of time. It's that the game seriously has run out of things for me to do or to find interesting. I can still have fun with it, luckily, but there's no real draw anymore.

Part of what kept me replaying H1 and H2 over and over and over was the amazing story (especially in H2's case because campaign gameplay and linearity really sucked in many, many ways). Destiny's replayability comes almost entirely based on friends, in my opinion. And my friends have all come to these same conclusions. There's nothing secret or mysterious left to uncover. There's no real story here. Just a lot of empty promises and non-events that pretend to be events. Crucible is great, but it's severely lacking in draw-power after a while (Schooly Was Right). No custom games (Schooly Was Right). I could continue, but it's obvious. Halo was a complete package (not Halo 4). Destiny is not.

No thanks to Shadow of Mordor (even though I'm hearing awesome things about it). Believe it or not, I'm actually reading through three books right now, and that's been happening while I've been playing Destiny so much.

I'll come back to Destiny later this week. It will be a blast. That blast will basically be my "fill" for a week or two. Like I said, the game is tons of fun, just not fun enough to keep coming back to daily or potentially weekly at this point. And MCC is on the horizon, and while I'm seriously not looking forward to multiplayer right now (believe it or not), I can't wait to get campaign co-op on with buddies.