"I keep touching Destiny and I don't know why" -RANT- (Destiny)

by Revenant1988 , How do I forum?, Thursday, October 29, 2015, 22:20 (3580 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

I've read through this thread and I'm pretty bummed about it. I'm about to word vomit everywhere but I haven't posted in a while either so....eh!

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I loved Halo before I found HBO.

I like the people on DBO (most of them are former HBOers, after all!) but I don't like Destiny nearly as much.

I have not had the opportunity to play Halo 5 yet, and recently had the plot spoiled for me (well meaning co-worker, but oops!) but I still don't think Destiny is a step up from Bungie's Halo.

Maybe 343's Halo, but Bunige's Halo is better than Bungie's Destiny, for me.

This, is what Destiny is to me:

And before half of you get your panties in a bunch, I know the mobile games that they are lampooning are not the same as Destiny, but they are just enough.

To me Destiny is just *barely* fun.

In each Halo game and that includes Halo 4, I can name off a campaign mission that I can play over and over and over again because I genuinely enjoy it.

I cannot, for the life of me, even with TTK content, name a -single- campaign mission that I've replayed for pleasure.

Not one. Can you? Honestly? Daily missions aren't the same- there are rewards tied to those. I mean has anyone reading this in the last 24 hours fired up a mission just for the fun of the mission?

To me Destiny is a non-mobile but mobile game.

And I don't have problems with that (or mobile gaming in general) because after I've had my 30 minutes or hour of fun and say, completed my daily vanguard bounties I can hop off and I'm done.

But a lot of people don't play like that. Some of you here don't play like that. In fact, I legitimately wonder sometimes if certain people here even have jobs, or a career because if I didn't know any better I'd swear THIS was their career :P

With TTK I wanted this to be good. And to be sure, Bungie has made numerous improvements but Year 2 feels like year 1 to me still.

New content came out.

You all rush rush rush to consume it. Things to chase! Gotta be first to find the things before Reddit spoils it! Timed events! Timed missions! Oh you missed it! Darn!

I felt like I had to keep up with you guys but the reality of it is that I would probably enjoy Destiny more if I didn't come here so often (which sounds harsh or cry babyish, but I don't mean it that way). The things I've had the best fun with are the ones I discovered myself, and I fully admit that it's my fault for coming here and other sites to read about my friends exploits at the cost of mine.

My wife and I have missed the opportunity to do an unspoiled raid with you guys. If we want that experience, we're gonna have to an LFG or something. I appreciate the offers that some have given to do it with us and not say anything, let us figure it out, but we tried that with Crota and it just made our party frustrated until they just gave us ultra-hints hahaha.

{If you are still reading at this point, bless you}

There is this unconscious urge that destiny has on a LOT of people, me included, to keep playing it with how it is designed. It is very much the south park video above. Thankfully, i can say that the micro-transactions in Destiny are not like mobile, at least not yet. And if it does go that way, I am confident that it will be because players allow it because they want it to, and that's ok too.

But what's ironic about it all is that while I could play solo and try to catch up to you guys, Destiny TTK in it's very nature discourages this!

It is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE that I can't load up a Strike from the director and do it solo.

I just want to explore this world that Bungie wants me to play in, but I want to do it on -my- terms.

You know what my first Strike experience was with TTK? Doing Darkblade with a couple of rando's that sprinted the entire thing, while I wanted to go slow, look at things, maybe explore for ghosts (because god knows I'm TRYING to get invested in this thing, despite their attempts) and that sort of thing, but nope! It was not to be.

I was apparently too far behind and got warped to my teammates. Fuck this game, for that right there.

I shouldn't have to subjugate two of my friends to my wanting to stop and smell the roses, you know?

Sometimes you just want to do things solo. Bungie said I'd be able to do this. Have they lied to me? Patrols and crucible are not enough, friends. All content should be there for me to digest at my pace when I feel like it, and it is not. It's such a paradox. I spend time waiting for things to happen like public events when I want to do them -now- and on the flip side I get rushed along for trying to take time to explore strikes that have really good content to them.

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I know what I want in gaming and I can't get it anymore. Not with Destiny and Halo at least.

I want LANs forever. I want MM nights online with 16 of my community members forever. I want 2001-2007 era Bungie forever. That time has passed.

I want what I know I can't have.

You can't LAN destiny. Fuck, you can't even play it offline, or with more than 6 people.

You can't LAN new Halo. You can't do 16 player HBO MM nights because there's only 6 people left and I can't stand 3 of them.

So I'm at an impasse.

I would have enjoyed TTK more had I not tried to keep up with players here.

I can't say the same for Halo, that's a different animal. But I can't read posts about Destiny VS Halo either.

They're not the same game. You guys want this apples to apples line up of them when all your doing is comparing oranges to giraffes.

So, I think this is what's going to happen for me:

• I'm going to play Destiny way, way less again. Just get on when my wife wants to get on.
  
• I'm going to rent Halo 5 and cross if off my list (and maybe buy it should I love it)
  
• I'm not ever going to worry about playing Destiny content day 1, ever again.
  
• I'm going to stay away from these forums until I've played through things myself. No matter what.
  
• And most importantly, I'm going to go play the games I've bought but not finished.

And for what it's worth, I'm happy that the you guys are enjoying Destiny so much. Just keep it in moderation, ok? Ok.