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Destiny - Review Thread
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XANDER CAGE
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Not strictly true. Halo 2's campaign is the negative product of a hard deadline (albeit with some self-imposed project restarts).
Fbh
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Damn I was ready to buy this game today but seeing this thread I think I'll wait a bit.
I enjoyed my time with the Alpha/Beta but asumed it was just a small glimpse into something much bigger, from what I read here it isn't.
Reading all these comments make me wish they had just continued with the Halo formula. A fun single player you can play with friends and a strong competitive multiplayer mode.
From the reviews and users comments this sounds like a it wants to be a hybrid of a regular action FPS with a MMO but in doing so it lacks what makes both of those genres fun.
PS: As for the year in general and the gen, It hasn't been that bad. People now act as if the Ps3/360 had 10/10 titles every month
I enjoyed my time with the Alpha/Beta but asumed it was just a small glimpse into something much bigger, from what I read here it isn't.
Reading all these comments make me wish they had just continued with the Halo formula. A fun single player you can play with friends and a strong competitive multiplayer mode.
From the reviews and users comments this sounds like a it wants to be a hybrid of a regular action FPS with a MMO but in doing so it lacks what makes both of those genres fun.
PS: As for the year in general and the gen, It hasn't been that bad. People now act as if the Ps3/360 had 10/10 titles every month
I'd be wary of purchasing the game since the best content will most likely be paid DLC, which would compound an already uneasy purchase.
This is my thinking, at least. This game's environments are gorgeous, but as soon as I saw the absolute linearity of the game's level progression, it became clear that there is a core problem in the game's design.
I enjoy Destiny more than I did Halo 2's campaign, that's for sure. That Halo 2 multiplayer though. Superb.
But the shooting is the only thing good about it.
NullPointer
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Brains. Venus is all about brains.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Um go watch the vidocs from Halo 2.
They ran out of tine because they spent all their time LANing and goofing off.
XANDER CAGE
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Soren_lost
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The game's metacritic is right where it should be around 7.0 for missing basic features, but that doesn't mean its not fun. PvP is awesome and i'm still optimistic about the upcoming raid. I'm still having a blast and can't stop playing.
out0v0rder
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This guy got sent home crying.
Neuro
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Bordelands rewards me at the end of each encounter...different enemy types react very differently to different sets of weapons, since i am not too far in the game does this happen with Destiny too?
That's the worst excuse to build massive environments and leave the player to do absolutely nothing there...humanity isnt completely dead i assume according to the lore..just to give an example i walked to the other end of a map since there was a long and winding road only to hit a dead end
Player engagement is far too low right now in the game i hope there is better loot across the worlds because i scampred all around and have only found 2 loot boxes so far
That's an understatement. D3 vanilla was hot garbage. I picked up the ultimate edition only because a couple friends who moved far away were looking forward to it. Didn't expect it to improve this much. Definitely worth the $60 this time.
-tetsuo-
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I'm guessing Bungie wanted to give players a chance to grab gear and level up before opening these events up to players, but it feels odd to hold back these things so close to release. Were they tied to a pre-order/new copy access code or something?
Lucent
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Yeah. Having a hard time seeing how this was thought to be a good idea. You don't have to have set pieces exactly, but come on. Most of the enemies are palette swaps and they react the same way. I also think because the enemies don't really say anything, it kinda loses that sense of intensity that Halo had at times where the covenant and other soldiers were yelling out stuff as they were directing attacks.
I'm somehow still compelled to try to make it to where I can take on the Raid, but I will be waiting to see if Bungie makes any comments based on the negative feedback and reveals their plans for the short-term. As the game is now, I'm glad I didn't immediately drop down the money for the DLC. And I'll definitely wait for reviews to see how that DLC will be. If it's more of what you described and bosses that aren't interesting to fight, I'll probably be done.
Rolodzeo
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GreatestHits
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I wasn't on review embargo or anything, but I have played this for two days and love it, and I don't love too many bad games.
The press or the review space has become something else. Almost egotistical. This is a great game, and I think this might be what gets me to actually truly stop caring about 'Reviewz', and metacritic. Seeing how harsh the critical reception for this game has been an eye-openeing and experience. Seriously
The press or the review space has become something else. Almost egotistical. This is a great game, and I think this might be what gets me to actually truly stop caring about 'Reviewz', and metacritic. Seeing how harsh the critical reception for this game has been an eye-openeing and experience. Seriously
XANDER CAGE
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There was at least a skeletal version of a much more ambitious, insanely detailed Halo 2 that we never got to see outside of that original E3 demo. Supposedly, the team pretty much unanimously agreed it sucked (I believe the quote from the making of book is "I don't want to play this. None of us want to play this" but it's been a while since I read it). The project restarted and we got a pretty half baked game.
Destiny seems eerily similar, honestly, just without the incredible multiplayer suite to back it up.
Duxxy3
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Of all the problems with the beta, that was my most consistent. Could not stand that voice at all. I think they are setting it up for special guest voice over packs for DLC. Probably one for each of the actors already in the game.
Weekend/monthly events aren't tied to an internal online pass (obviously you need to buy into PS+, XBL, whatever). You're fine once you have the game. I think you have to be the appropriate level for heroic strikes and raids, though.
GreatestHits
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I thought you guys were being sarcastic then I see you're being serious. Guys are blowin' my mind lol
ProvenDeadly
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All I know is I'm on Venus and there are really generic robots attacking me.
The point about all of the content coming in the form of paid DLC makes me even more uneasy, great point.
But ultimately, going back to MMO comparisons, I guess it could be analogous to a monthly subscription fee.
I don't even own a next gen console yet. I have tonnes of stuff to play still in my backlog.
-tetsuo-
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lulz
I don't really get the hate either. But I also didn't mind the Pawns talking to me in Dragon's Dogma so what do I know?
But they named them Goblins! Venus gameplay was a serious step back, those enemies are not even remotely fun to fight.
Watching that Destiny vidoc I have no clue how Bungie employees could make such claims knowing what the game had to offer.
"What I believe will be the most exciting for people playing destiny will be the social experience of colliding with other people in this big world."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1OjUWw43co
Yet the game lacks basic standard social features, you can't even text/mic chat with ease.
It's funny hearing Joe Staten saying that, considering he left Bungie and now works for Microsoft.
All of that is in the game, just less exaggerated.
Neuromancer
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I was having a lot of fun at the beginning, but with each new sub 80 score review I can feel my enjoyment of the game diminishing bit by bit.
You can go to Saturn... what?
If you're enjoying the game it shouldn't matter what other people think.
NullPointer
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Those aren't generic robots. Those are goblins and hobgoblins.
Get it right dude.
*pushes glasses back into place*
MightyHedgehog
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There clearly looks to be some kind of hold up at the bottling plant because I see no lightning.
I feel like Destiny was largely conceptual up until about 2 or so years ago.
The major work only seems to have started leading up to E3 2013. A lot of the early interviews are entirely about the vision and scope and ideas of Destiny.
out0v0rder
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its the frequency of voice samples the announcer spits out, not the actual voice. you can barely hear the gunshots over the voice in control point mode. POINT A LOST, POINT A CONTESTED, POINT A NEUTRALIZED, POINT A TAKEN, YOUR TEAM HAS TAKEN POINT A, POINT B LOST..........
its too frequent in a 12 player game with 3 points in small maps. a flag is always having something happen to it.
I ain't falling for this one, Neuro.
I still enjoy Dark Souls 2 and Destiny despite any negative things said about them. Tying your enjoyment of media to other people's opinions on the internet never does you any favors.
So where's Saturn?
ethomaz
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That the game I'm playing
GreatestHits
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You *are* like... Diving down into earth, running across a huge map, and participating in all this crazy shit right? Or are you... just going to ... talk about the voice...
You act like it's like God in your head or something. It just seems like you're looking for something to hate.
I think this shit is fresh, and it is put together well. They did not get too ambitious, I think their ambition was spot-on, for the time being. Crazy fools
Neuromancer said:
10/10
what the, why let review scores affect the way you like/love the game
ViewtifulJC
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I have front-row seats on The Evil Within Hype Train.
But it's lonely here.
The Evil Within seems like the opposite of Destiny in a lot of ways. Destiny seems like this big budget game designed to be as accessible and attractive and unoffensive to as many people as possible. For all its big talk and marketing, its actually pretty damn unambitious. Nothing weird or unexpected(well there was that one part with the sword), no humor or style that might offend sensibilities, or cool out of left field gameplay concepts that people might not like. Sci-fi but not TOO sci-fi so bullets for everybody There's even a T-rating so everybody can play it. Vanilla, bland, competent.
The Evil Within has a lot of weird ass idiosyncratic Japanese game design elements that aren't really in fashion, will be called "archaic" and "clunky" in many reviews, maybe some rough edges that a lot of people aren't gonna be able to swallow...but its gonna have fuckin' personality and style of its own. Lot of "LTTP: uh this game rocks what the hell guys" in the future. Quirky, B-movie feel, INTERESTING.
Chaplain
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I agree and am in a similar dilemma. I bought the game but its unopened due to this thread. After reading that the game is basically the beta in disc form (single player content last 6 hours, the story is hard to follow or non-existence, locations that should have been in the retail game have been put behind a pay-wall, etc.), I have decided to return the game and wait for the inevitable finished product a year from now (hopefully). I would rather support another developer than have the game go back on the shelf after a few hours (since I am not interested in the repackaged Halo Multiplayer modes that I played 10+ years ago).
It's probably not the reviews. You're just exiting the honeymoon period of the game. You are starting to look at it for what it is. Some will enjoy it, others won't.
Destiny will be a better game 3-6 months now. Unless you really want to play it now, you can afford to play it at some point in the summer of 2015. You could probably get the core game for cheaper, too.
I see what you mean but I can't really empathize as it doesn't bother me at all. Announcers in multiplayer FPS just blend into the background for me.
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