So, I got back to D1 tonight because I'm on Xbox and I wanted to try the "new" content we got last week.
I was really surprise to go back to D1 and actually loving it compared to D2. I started simple by giving the "new" strike a try, found some people and we started playing. The Strike was actually really fun, really a shame we didn't get a chance to play it a featured strike for the week.
I ended up unlocking a legendary auto rifle, nothing fancy, but I noticed it had somehow explosive round, which was surprising. I needed to level up the weapon before using this perk.
So, I got back to the Tower to take some bounties, for Patrols, Strikes and PvP. I achieved every bounties I took, so I leveled up my weapon and got gun with it. While I was trying it in the Cosmodrome, somehow, a quest unlocked and I started on a journey.
I went to the Plaguelands for this quest, where I met a lot of players, surprisingly, and we played A LOT of Archon's Forge, we could chose when we wanted to play and how we wanted it to be.
Without noticing it, I played during 5 hours tonight, having fun and doing great things without feeling my time was wasted. I got plenty of engrams, lot weren't useful since I'm already 394 LL, but I had a ton of things to decrypt when I was back to the Tower.
From there, I ended up going for some fun into the Crucible, and dude how fun it was!
I don't miss grinding for materials to level up my weapon, but I do really miss leveling my weapon. The weapon was already good, but the more I played with it, the more it was getting better and powerful, so I feel really satisfied when I unlocked everything thanks to the bounties & cie.
The thing is, Destiny 1 let me play the game the way I wanted to play, thanks to bounties, Archon's Forge, CoO, etc..., and it didn't force me to do anything. It has a really decent amount of content, but more than this, it gave me a ton of excuses, and reasons, to play it again and again.
I don't really care about fixed or random perks, but the fact that when you got a weapon you can't really good further beyond with it is really bad, as I really don't get a sense of progress in D2 with any weapons.
Also, my PvE experience in D1 was crazy thanks to the weapon system. Having a primary auto rifle, a special shotgun and a heavy rocket launcher gave me ton of opportunities to play every encounters I was in in a very different way, something I really can't feel with the D2 and the two primaries system.
Weapons having good perk effects during PvE games was a blast of fun, crazy & chained explosions everywhere. Sometimes I was playing with a sword, sometimes with a shotgun, sometimes with a rocket launcher, and sometimes with a sniper. Something I really don't do in D2.
The gameplay loot was incredibly simple but really effective. I digged from activities to activities without noticing it and having fun. Sure, the game has more content than D2, but it was mostly because D1 was giving me a ton of excuse to play the game. This wasn't really grinding to me, it was just a good reason to keep playing and having fun while don't feeling my time was wasted.
If we can't get good perks and leveling up weapons in D2, at least give us more slots for mods and crazy mods we can go after to make our weapons unique, fun and exciting to use again and again!
I really feel bad D1 didn't get the good formula from the beginning so the game could have evolved over years with new expansions and DLC. Destiny 1 should have been the only Destiny, with a revamped formula thanks to the DLC like Taken King, and good improvements like RoI gave us, like Scored Strike, Moment of Triumph rewards, etc... D2 gave us a ton of QoL improvements, but the gameplay loop really feels weak compared to D1.
I used to call Destiny 2 "Destiny 1.5", but in the end, I'm not even sure it's Destiny 1.5... It's Destiny 0.5. They went back on some many good things it can't be called a Destiny game like the first Destiny was.
I can only hope they will change Destiny 2 like they changed Destiny 1 for the better using DLC and expansion, but I feel like the team working on D2 didn't even look at what the live team was doing on D1. And, I don't want to pay for things I already have in D1, at a much better polished state.
I was really surprise to go back to D1 and actually loving it compared to D2. I started simple by giving the "new" strike a try, found some people and we started playing. The Strike was actually really fun, really a shame we didn't get a chance to play it a featured strike for the week.
I ended up unlocking a legendary auto rifle, nothing fancy, but I noticed it had somehow explosive round, which was surprising. I needed to level up the weapon before using this perk.
So, I got back to the Tower to take some bounties, for Patrols, Strikes and PvP. I achieved every bounties I took, so I leveled up my weapon and got gun with it. While I was trying it in the Cosmodrome, somehow, a quest unlocked and I started on a journey.
I went to the Plaguelands for this quest, where I met a lot of players, surprisingly, and we played A LOT of Archon's Forge, we could chose when we wanted to play and how we wanted it to be.
Without noticing it, I played during 5 hours tonight, having fun and doing great things without feeling my time was wasted. I got plenty of engrams, lot weren't useful since I'm already 394 LL, but I had a ton of things to decrypt when I was back to the Tower.
From there, I ended up going for some fun into the Crucible, and dude how fun it was!
I don't miss grinding for materials to level up my weapon, but I do really miss leveling my weapon. The weapon was already good, but the more I played with it, the more it was getting better and powerful, so I feel really satisfied when I unlocked everything thanks to the bounties & cie.
The thing is, Destiny 1 let me play the game the way I wanted to play, thanks to bounties, Archon's Forge, CoO, etc..., and it didn't force me to do anything. It has a really decent amount of content, but more than this, it gave me a ton of excuses, and reasons, to play it again and again.
I don't really care about fixed or random perks, but the fact that when you got a weapon you can't really good further beyond with it is really bad, as I really don't get a sense of progress in D2 with any weapons.
Also, my PvE experience in D1 was crazy thanks to the weapon system. Having a primary auto rifle, a special shotgun and a heavy rocket launcher gave me ton of opportunities to play every encounters I was in in a very different way, something I really can't feel with the D2 and the two primaries system.
Weapons having good perk effects during PvE games was a blast of fun, crazy & chained explosions everywhere. Sometimes I was playing with a sword, sometimes with a shotgun, sometimes with a rocket launcher, and sometimes with a sniper. Something I really don't do in D2.
The gameplay loot was incredibly simple but really effective. I digged from activities to activities without noticing it and having fun. Sure, the game has more content than D2, but it was mostly because D1 was giving me a ton of excuse to play the game. This wasn't really grinding to me, it was just a good reason to keep playing and having fun while don't feeling my time was wasted.
If we can't get good perks and leveling up weapons in D2, at least give us more slots for mods and crazy mods we can go after to make our weapons unique, fun and exciting to use again and again!
I really feel bad D1 didn't get the good formula from the beginning so the game could have evolved over years with new expansions and DLC. Destiny 1 should have been the only Destiny, with a revamped formula thanks to the DLC like Taken King, and good improvements like RoI gave us, like Scored Strike, Moment of Triumph rewards, etc... D2 gave us a ton of QoL improvements, but the gameplay loop really feels weak compared to D1.
I used to call Destiny 2 "Destiny 1.5", but in the end, I'm not even sure it's Destiny 1.5... It's Destiny 0.5. They went back on some many good things it can't be called a Destiny game like the first Destiny was.
I can only hope they will change Destiny 2 like they changed Destiny 1 for the better using DLC and expansion, but I feel like the team working on D2 didn't even look at what the live team was doing on D1. And, I don't want to pay for things I already have in D1, at a much better polished state.
