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[KennyLinder]

Destiny is an amazingly addictive co-op game with very high quality gunplay, weapons, enemy AI, and world design. I love how the same areas always feel different because how the enemies react to you in them, meaning encounters often always feel fresh. I love the modifiers that get added to events which really makes the game feel different, and give you a huge advantage, or a new challenge meaning you have to play differently. The boss fights are generally all good fun too (despite them often being bullet sponges). It's also a good podcast game

The Strikes are great, the Vault of Glass (first Raid) is really fun (with the right group of people, who you'll find all live in the community thread), I like the PvP a lot and it really is just a damn good game to play.

I've gone back and tried out a few other shooters from this year recently, and they just don't feel as good. Bungie have absolutely NAILED the combat, it really is incredible and makes it beautiful to play. That, and excellently implemented Co-Op is kinda enough for me really, and I am very happy with it. My time with the game so far

Character 1: 7 days 10 hours
Character 2: 1 day 1 hours
Character 3: 1 day 3 hours


Having said all of this, if you want a deep story, well written and voiced dialogue, meaningful ending and lots of different environments which you constantly visit, and a game that has a really excellent single-player experience, I would say you probably won't like Destiny much.

All of my friends who only played the game solo gave up really early. It's only the guys that bought it as a co-op shooter still play (and love) the game.

 

[disastermouse]

It's a cynical, soul-destroying Skinner box.

Return it and play some less visciously vacuous video games.

 

[geordiemp]

When doing missions do it for maximising your XP to level up as quick as possible.

Collect as many bounties as possible and try and do them in a mission - that way you can often kill 3 or 4 birds with one stone.

When at 20 just keep collecting bounties each day and do Vanguard strikes, level vanguard shop to 2 and then BUY your legendary gear you need.

You will eventually after 1 week or so if you are thorough get to a decent level to join in higher level content and play with other levelled players.

Best shooter mechanics this year, period.

 

[StrongBlackVine]

Return it. You bought it digitally like I did though so you are stuck with it...

 

[TheBlueBomber]

Return it.

This was LITERALLY the first thing that popped into my head when I clicked the thread hahaha

 

[Gintamen]

Don't expect to get much enjoyment past the first world or story.

 

[Shining Sunshine]

Make some friends and party chat.

The ingame chat has some weird effects going on that makes it hard to hear anything.

 

[Sojgat]

-Play co-op with as many friends as you can.
-Don't get attached to any low level weapons or bother levelling them up. Just use the best thing that drops, until you're getting blue and purple loot/armor with light.

 

[MMaRsu]

Gotta love Gaf!

Why? The game is garbage. Call Sony and try to get a refund. Otherwise have fun playing a mediocre game that totally doesnt respect your time.

P.s I also got a refund from Sony for that horrid game. They really are the best .

 

[Rebel Leader]

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=956707&page=1

Go here in the 13th (!) OT and Hawkin will have all the tips you need. And seriously, F*&k all these guys; Destiny has the largest and fastest growing community on Gaf. Don't let their "I don't like it, therefore it is the worst game ever!" BS stop you from having fun.

Just because it's popular doesn't make it good.

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It's up to you OP

 

[TedNindo]

Level through the game with 2 friends on the hardest difficulty. Made it an amazing game.

This from someone who did the same in Diablo 3 but got really bored because of the brainless gameplay. Even on the highest difficulty made available on the first playthrough.

While I felt experiencing Destiny under the same conditions was far more intense and rewarding from a gameplay standpoint. Dying a lot and figuring out our best approach made the game. It isn't the most efficient way of leveling. But the mechanics shine far more. Which is Destiny's strong point. The combat is some of the best first person shooter combat I've had in years. With teamwork being very important. Alone on higher difficulties you end up feeling like you try to find exploits in the game to survive. With other people you do it through teamwork instead.

 

[Steel]

My co-op GOTY.

So much backlash, but the OT is almost on 13 (and even if you removed all the lfg posts we'd still be at least half that) and there are many, many people who love playing the game despite its glaring flaws.

Man, you know it takes almost no time to get to level 20. The real grind begins at 20. That's where the game falls off a clfif with only one decent point to be seen when you hit level 28 and meet a few other conditions.

 

[Come With Me]

My biggest tip would be constantly aim for the head. Headshots make a lot more damage and always look for the weak points for critical hits, usually the head, but Vex have it on their stomach sometimes.

Also, don't underestimate Elites and never try to melee Knights. You'll lose everytime.

 

[Freshmaker]

Destiny is an amazingly addictive co-op game with very high quality gunplay, weapons, enemy AI, and world design. I love how the same areas always feel different because how the enemies react to you in them, meaning encounters often always feel fresh.

They're tethered and spawn predictably. You can just run past them and you're fine.

I love the modifiers that get added to events which really makes the game feel different, and give you a huge advantage, or a new challenge meaning you have to play differently.

In short, you might have to equip a different weapon for a rehashed mission you've already played.

The boss fights are generally all good fun too (despite them often being bullet sponges).

Enjoy those scaled up versions of standard enemies.

The Strikes are great, the Vault of Glass (first Raid) is really fun (with the right group of people, who you'll find all live in the community thread), I like the PvP a lot and it really is just a damn good game to play.

Good luck assembling a team.

I've gone back and tried out a few other shooters from this year recently, and they just don't feel as good. Bungie have absolutely NAILED the combat, it really is incredible and makes it beautiful to play.

Shame they didn't give you decent reasons to keep playing after level 20.

That, and excellently implemented Co-Op

So long as you don't expect matchmaking.

 

[Gintamen]

And seriously, F*&k all these guys.

Hey, f you too. You have to accept that opinion differ.

Spoiler

This is an allusion to yesterdays thread.

 

[N30RYU]

Just play without an armor, weapon or equipment in mind 'cause the game will drop you whatever it want... just play for fun... and when you feel you don't want to farm anymore just trust that feeling and delete it from your HDD to kill the need for Xur or weekly content... (or you'll be lost forever in a greed spiral) 'cause at that point the game isn't worth your time anymore, and is better to move on to better games.

 

[MMaRsu]

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=956707&page=1

Go here in the 13th (!) OT and Hawkin will have all the tips you need. And seriously, F*&k all these guys; Destiny has the largest and fastest growing community on Gaf. Don't let their "I don't like it, therefore it is the worst game ever!" BS stop you from having fun.

Lol i played till lvl 26 and grinded a shitton. fuck that game and it saddens me to see people defend the crappy game..

 

[Derpcrawler]

Lol i played till lvl 26 and grinded a shitton. fuck that game and it saddens me to see people defend the crappy game..

Mate, I grinded to level 30 in vanilla on 3 different classes through raid (no Iron Banner shortcuts), got every single exotic game has to offer except for Gjallahorn. And when I say game is waste of time, I get surrounded by Scientology Destiny adepts telling me I am wrong and I don't know nothing about fun.

Worst 300 hours spent of my life, and I played Korean MMO grind fests like Lineage 2.

Destiny adepts remind me Scientology and Jehovah Witnesses fused together.

 

[Shining Sunshine]

Lol i played till lvl 26 and grinded a shitton. fuck that game and it saddens me to see people defend the crappy game..

You played up to 26 and still got a refund?

Holy crap, the game industry is going to go out of business.

 

[DeadManWalking]

Game isn't for everyone but if game clicks with you you will have great time.
Best thing to do is bounties to get rank for thous legendary armor pieces.

 

[FrontalMonk]

Lol i played till lvl 26 and grinded a shitton. fuck that game and it saddens me to see people defend the crappy game..

I played 'til level 26 too and stopped playing, but I didn't grind hardly at all. I got a couple purples from marks, and a couple from grouping up for Queen's Wrath missions in its first wave. I spent all of 20 minutes at the loot cave before I said "fuck this, I want to play the actual game" and did something else.

Maybe it's because outside of a couple weekends I only played a couple hours a night, long enough to do the daily stuff plus a little extra, but I don't really feel burned out on Destiny, and I would probably go back to it if that didn't mean having to buy all the DLC first. That's the only part that kinda annoyed me, when they lumped in the DLC quests into the daily queues.

 

[Rebel Leader]

You played up to 26 and still got a refund?

Holy crap, the game industry is going to go out of business.

If it prevents another destiny like game, it's a good thing.

 

[HiredN00bs]

I've never had a lower opinion of gaming side GAF. We should praise games that excel in special ways and Destiny certainly does.

OP, just enjoy yourself. Go to the community section and subscribe to the latest OT. I just hit 32 yesterday and have a huge collection of Exotics. There are lots of ways to be inefficient at this game, but the community will help you avoid them.

Don't play above your level. If anything, you want to be a level or two above your current activity. The guns and gear that matter most are the purples and golds, and you want to start chasing them as soon as possible.

There are a lot of fun activities in this game, so don't get down because of the shorter story missions and anorexic narrative. The cutscenes are more about admiring your ship and armor than anything. destinylfg.net is an invaluable resource once you start doing the highest level stuff, and you will be raiding quite a bit if you wish to hit the highest level. The raids are the premiere activities in this game.

Furthermore, this game gets regular patches, and a good amount of Bungie employees regularly play it, so make your complaints and suggestions known to the community. It is an experience that is transforming as we play it.

Destiny adepts remind me Scientology and Jehovah Witnesses fused together.

:-|

 

[soxinthebox]

Friends don't let friends grind rep in Destiny

 

[StaffyManasse]

My advice is:

- Get some friends together, or try to find someone to play with from OT in the community section. Missions and strikes are fun co-op (for the first couple of times)

- Enjoy it for what it is, try everything once or twice. There's nice locations to be seen and some decent music. Raiding can be fun, check the OT for newbie friendly raids.

- If / when the game starts to feel like more of a chore than something fun, bail.

This is pretty much what I did.

 

[DryvBy]

It's called opinions. It's not like we never played it, I gave up after level 23 or 24 since I hadn't acquired a Legendary or Exotic by then, and after trying to save up for them by grinding bounties and playing PvP I just had to give up out of sheer boredom.

The reason I made it that far is that admittedly the gunplay is fun while it lasts.

But someone here mentioning "deep and meaningful story and the excellent use of top tier Hollywood voice actors." - to me that sound like pure sarcasm. It has neither of that. I never heard so much nonsense delivered in such a flat manner...

The missionaries that go into every Destiny thread is what I'm referring to.

A member is asking for tips, not "Destiny sucks. You shouldn't like it too.". That's not a tip and those people are simply derailing a thread. There's threads for talking about hatred for Destiny.

 

[cilonen]

Choose a hand cannon whenever you can. Aim for the head (or glowy white thing if it's a Vex). Learn it, love it. Branch into the other guns from there.

 

[Omotesando]

The missionaries that go into every Destiny thread is what I'm referring to.

A member is asking for tips, not "Destiny sucks. You shouldn't like it too.". That's not a tip and those people are simply derailing a thread. There's threads for talking about hatred for Destiny.

Some people like to grind in a game, others like to grind in a online message board.

 

[Rebel Leader]

Some people like to grind in a game, others like to grind in a online message board.

Friction is loved by everyone

 

[Trickster]

I played 'til level 26 too and stopped playing, but I didn't grind hardly at all. I got a couple purples from marks, and a couple from grouping up for Queen's Wrath missions in its first wave. I spent all of 20 minutes at the loot cave before I said "fuck this, I want to play the actual game" and did something else.

Maybe it's because outside of a couple weekends I only played a couple hours a night, long enough to do the daily stuff plus a little extra, but I don't really feel burned out on Destiny, and I would probably go back to it if that didn't mean having to buy all the DLC first. That's the only part that kinda annoyed me, when they lumped in the DLC quests into the daily queues.

Everything I tried in destiny felt like grinding to be honest, I might have been doing different activies like strikes or bounties or...eeh...patrol mode?

But really none of it feel very interesting. Strikes are incredibly simplistic and is basically no different from what you find outside of strikes, there's just more of the enemies, and they have more health and the bosses deal more dmg than normal mobs. No unique mechanics or anything, that's reserved exclusively for raids.

bounties are the definition of grinding. "kill 100 of these mobs" "complete 10 patrol missions". Now do it again tommrow, and the next day, and the next day...

 

[Crossing Eden]

Why? The game is garbage. Call Sony and try to get a refund. Otherwise have fun playing a mediocre game that totally doesnt respect your time.

P.s I also got a refund from Sony for that horrid game. They really are the best .

Holy hyperbole. The game is not garbage, the gunplay is fast and responsive especially for a 30fps game. The framerate drops are minimal. The pvp maps are well designed, the tried and true Bungie enemy AI is also great, The worlds are pretty gorgeous etc. If I was the OP i'd be pretty frustrated with actually trying to receive gameplay tips and being hounded with "don't even bother" posts when he hasn't even played the game yet.

 

[daammyy]

My advice is:

- Get some friends together, or try to find someone to play with from OT in the community section. Missions and strikes are fun co-op (for the first couple of times)

- Enjoy it for what it is, try everything once or twice. There's nice locations to be seen and some decent music. Raiding can be fun, check the OT for newbie friendly raids.

- If / when the game starts to feel like more of a chore than something fun, bail.

This is pretty much what I did.

This. Exactly what i did, havent touched the game since.

 

[Rebel Leader]

Holy hyperbole. The game is not garbage, the gunplay is fast and responsive especially for a 30fps game. The framerate drops are minimal. The pvp maps are well designed, the tried and true Bungie enemy AI is also great, The worlds are pretty gorgeous etc.

No argument, the game play is good.

 

[Trickster]

Holy hyperbole. The game is not garbage, the gunplay is fast and responsive especially for a 30fps game. The framerate drops are minimal. The pvp maps are well designed, the tried and true Bungie enemy AI is also great, The worlds are pretty gorgeous etc.

The game does some things well, yes. But overall the game is terrible at what it tries to do.

 

[panda-zebra]

Return it.

throw it in the trash

Return it while you can.

Take it back if you still can. Biggest waste of time ever, and not even that fun (horrible writing, voice acting, no story, endless grinding, RNG...)

Read the policy on returning digital games.

A. A ha. A ha ha ha. A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

What tips would you give to a complete Destiny novice? Anything is welcome. Things to do first? Best weapons? Armour? Etc. That sort of thing.

Hawkian got you covered as others have said, see OT13 in Community. There's around 1/4 of a million posts in those, even some that aren't whining and moaning.

The advice above is a little out-dated in parts, the grind can be a lot less than it was, for example, a friend took his Hunter from 23 in the a.m. to 29 in the afternoon as he bought a few things and tagged along for a wee bit of raiding in CE, that was without any real farming/grinding - finding nice people to help and play with is key - GAF is blessed with many such individuals.

 

[Kocolino67]

This video explains everything anyone needs to know about Destiny - the video title is bad, though...

http://www.cracked.com/video_19204_6-ways-gamers-have-taken-fun-out-gaming.html

 

[neotokyo360]

Play with friends and you'll have a lot of fun for a while. ,

Yes
Solo score 5/10
with friends 9/10

 

[ethomaz]

OT thread have everything you need.

It is my personal GOTY 2014... congrats for the purchase.

Fucking amazing game.

 

[Twilight Gap]

It's getting old seeing every single gaming side Destiny thread shit on the game.

The game has problems - very obvious and very annoying problems - and it'll be a while before that course is corrected (if it ever is). Very few people will defend this game's glaring flaws, of which nobody faults others for being disappointed by.

And yet, by some fallacious, ass backwards space magic, we've reached a point where other people's disappointments are contagious and applicable to everybody else. GAF has gone from criticizing the game to criticizing the people still playing the game, as if it's impossible to like the game in spite of boneheaded decisions like releasing a lame ass story or recycled DLC.

The people still playing Destiny either enjoy the game for what it is or are stuck grinding for what it could be. Whatever their reasons, they're probably getting their money's worth out of it. I don't see anything wrong with people enjoying a flawed game, especially when most of them actively participate in the community to help others and offer feedback to improve Destiny.

This projection needs to stop. By all means, call the devs out on the bullshit, but please keep some of those vitriol opinions about the people doing that very same thing while playing the game in check.

 

[GlamFM]

Abandon this thread and come over to the OT.

You bought this years best game. Congratulations.

Rest of unfunny people in this thread: which part of the op's question was challenging for you to understand?

 

[Trickster]

Abandon this thread and come over to the OT.

You bought this years best game. Congratulations.

Rest of unfunny people in this thread: which part of the op's question was challenging for you to understand?

OP said "I havent seen/read up on much about the game"

So people tell him it would be a good idea to try and return the game since it's a pretty bad game. I don't see the issue tbh.

You can argue people are being asses about it. But honestly, "return the game" is my first advice if someone tells me they bought Destiny knowing little about the game

This section of the forum is filled with peopled who hate the game just to hate it, the OT is up to 13 (haters will spin it into 'because no matchmaking' but it's a 'community' thread for a reason)

Feel free to call me a hater all you want. But pretending the lack of ingame social features isn't a big reason for the inflated OT's is denial. No one should be surprised that the Community threads for the game are as big and active as they are when people are practically forced to find ways outside of the game to communicate and organize events like weeklies or raids.

 

[kroosmarin]

Tip: loot-chests and materials like spinmetal can be detected by sound. Just get near to a chest and listen. Keep that sound in mind and yeah....happy grinding!

 

[BokehKing]

Return it.

throw it in the trash

If you want to talk about Destiny you must go to the OT in the community section. Here you will only get people hating on the game. Yes Gaf is bad sometimes.

This section of the forum is filled with peopled who hate the game just to hate it, the OT is up to 13 (haters will spin it into 'because no matchmaking' but it's a 'community' thread for a reason)

As far as tips, do bounties and story missions until you hit level 20, ask someone higher level to run you through some of the heroic story missions to get more xp.

You need faction xp as well. Vanguard and Crucible mostly. This can prevent the frustration of RNG as you can buy new gear and weapons.

Get into the first page of the OT and devour knowledge

(if dude with the kermit the frog avatar did not shit post by the time I post this, give it another 5 minutes, he never disappoints with his drive-byes)

 

[Blakynt]

Return it.

i won my bet

 

[Alucrid]

Lol i played till lvl 26 and grinded a shitton. fuck that game and it saddens me to see people defend the crappy game..

And you still cried and got a refund

 

[BokehKing]

Why? The game is garbage. Call Sony and try to get a refund. Otherwise have fun playing a mediocre game that totally doesnt respect your time.

P.s I also got a refund from Sony for that horrid game. They really are the best .

And there he is, can't have a destiny topic derail with out the ring leader
You would think the game slaughtered his family, kicked his dog and walked off with his girlfriend by the way he slanders this game.

 

[ethomaz]

OP said "I havent seen/read up on much about the game"

So people tell him it would be a good idea to try and return the game since it's a pretty bad game. I don't see the issue tbh.

You can argue people are being asses about it. But honestly, "return the game" is my first advice if someone tells me they bought Destiny knowing little about the game

How can you advice somebody to return a game without play it lol

He can like the game even if yo didn't.

 

[T.O.P]

Return it.

*slow clap*

 

[GlamFM]

OP said "I havent seen/read up on much about the game"

So people tell him it would be a good idea to try and return the game since it's a pretty bad game. I don't see the issue tbh.

You can argue people are being asses about it. But honestly, "return the game" is my first advice if someone tells me they bought Destiny knowing little about the game

So I've just bought Destiny for PS4 from the US PSN store while the Flash Sale was still on.
I havent seen/read up on much about the game as I've been trying to make my through my backlog for the last few months, but I think I'll have a pretty good time with Destiny.

What tips would you give to a complete Destiny novice? Anything is welcome. Things to do first? Best weapons? Armour? Etc. That sort of thing.

Thanks! (First ever thread too!)

Yeah sure.

 

[Jinjo]

Lesson 1: Don't tell anyone on gaming side you're playing it.

Lesson 2: Go to community OT for guides and tips or just people to play with. DestinyGAF is always helpful.