Trickster
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"backtrack
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verb
gerund or present participle: backtracking
1.
retrace one's steps."
Destiny The Taken King Review Thread
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"backtrack
ˈbaktrak/Indsend
verb
gerund or present participle: backtracking
1.
retrace one's steps."
Backtracking is going to the same exact location you were previously at. Often to do something that's only marginally different from what you originally did there.
It's present in a lot of games so they can simply reuse environments and assets.
Ok, second to ARR
geordiemp
Member
Its the same environment only, new mechanics, enemies and gameplay. Its not marginally different to play.
The Crota raid is now a stealth mission, its great and a totally new play mechanic. Destiny MGS5 lol.....Things like this people who play Destiny will cheer, people who want to 'do what they do' will call it back tracking. Its pretty obvious.
The best fighting level I played yesterday was the VOG quest, the fight was intense, tethered enemies you had to kill shield generator and taken captains with blinding black balls making you have to jump around the map, with some raid VOG mechanics in there later ......Its why I play destiny.
My perspective for gaming is backtracking is playing again mission chapter 14 with difficulty modifiers.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Launch FFXIV deserved every one of those 0s. It was like a paid pre-alpha of a bad game. At least they didn't have the nerve to collect the monthly fee.
Winter John
Member
Your comment was unhelpful and unwarranted. I did not post anything that was "anti Destiny." I simply posted my impressions of the time I spent with the game and asked a simple question. That was all. I don't care how many posts you've read. I don't care how many people are on your friends list. I don't care what system you play on. I am not going to go and read posts from people who don't like the game. That is not going to help me at all. I asked a simple, straight forward question and you jumped in with your condescending, unhelpful, snide little swipe. Embarrassing.
What's the point in even posting this? You're obviously just looking to start another argument.
geordiemp
Member
You made 2 points, the first was the year old destiny complaint which is no where near valid any more, it changed during the expansions never mind Taken king.
Second point was you could not do any raids, but it takes minutes to team up with Destiny GAF, but you say the content was DENIED.
OK, It takes 2 minutes to team up on GAF, but that is denied to you because ? The whole point of RAIDS is a team play mechanic.
Its the same stuff, its tiring I agree. Read every Destiny thread on GAF...its the same things said usually by the same lot. Maybe we need a destiny troll chalk board ?
wesleyshark
Banned
TTK is pretty much a love letter to fans of destiny and a much better launching pad for new players (via the legendary edition).
Got to disagree, or maybe you just like the typical Michael Bay-isms... Which hey, whatever rocks your socks off.. But to me, due to prior experience in the game, I found the funeral refreshing and fun (introducing a new mechanic) as well as the frantic escape in the other mission where things go wrong and they introduced a new way to open doors. Imo I don't need a cut scene between every mission, they still had nono explaining stuff before missions, fleshing it out more
Looking really good, I'm happy for Bungie about this. (Edit: even though I really hate Destiny, this is coming from an anti-fan)
Dat 4.1 user review score on MC, though! What's that all about?
I'm am in full agreement with you there
Dat 4.1 user review score on MC, though! What's that all about?
I'm am in full agreement with you there
gbpackers25
Member
I agree with you 100%
Triggerhappytel
Member
Glad to see it's reviewing well. I don't think I'm going to get it just yet, but I definitely will pick it up down the line - and I didn't play House of Wolves or The Dark Below, so there should be a lot of new content (I only played the vanilla game).
Sounds like they've ironed out most of the flaws from the first release and have now really hit the ground running. This stark improvement makes me pretty excited for Destiny 2 proper.
Sounds like they've ironed out most of the flaws from the first release and have now really hit the ground running. This stark improvement makes me pretty excited for Destiny 2 proper.
Phreakuency
Banned
I enjoyed the game before and after but I feel these reviews are giving a false impression to those who were never previously interested or who didn't like the game after playing originally.
It is not even in the same ballpark as some like FF ARR.
Yeah it's tweaked, polished and the new content is great but it's the same game it was before for the most part.
It is not even in the same ballpark as some like FF ARR.
Yeah it's tweaked, polished and the new content is great but it's the same game it was before for the most part.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Did anyone ever claim it would be? FFXIV was a game completely rebuilt from the ground up, wasn't it? While TTK has tweaked a bunch of stuff, changed some minor things and added some new content. They're not vaguely comparable.
FF realm reborn is cool, but the combat imo does not touch the satisfaction level of Destiny
Is this really that good? My complain with the first Destiny and both add-on was how restrictive Bungie is about not letting you play the content you paid for.
For example weekly hardcore strikes. I dont have friends who owns Destiny. They have matchmaking for strikes but those hardcore strikes? No you cant play. I felt like I was literally playing almost same strike over and over even though I had both the add-ons. I honestly did not even know what I paid for after a while. Whats new whats old.
And Raids lol fuck couldnt play either.
For example weekly hardcore strikes. I dont have friends who owns Destiny. They have matchmaking for strikes but those hardcore strikes? No you cant play. I felt like I was literally playing almost same strike over and over even though I had both the add-ons. I honestly did not even know what I paid for after a while. Whats new whats old.
And Raids lol fuck couldnt play either.
geordiemp
Member
Thats fair enough, value is subjective. I value a great shooter with what I consider the finest mechanics I have ever played. And I played allot of shooters.
I would pay $ 60 just for the new raid, I will play that more than most shooters I buy just for that 1 element.
I would not pay more than 20 $ for a platformer, normally I only get them free with PSN but that is my perception of value for what I like.
The weekly strikes are now match made, just not for teh nightfall option. Yes you can play, just ask Neogaf community, 2 minutes hard work typing a line.
Also strikes now have massive variability, different enemies (fallen and next time cabal and taken on same map)...
But if you want to solo things and not be sociable, a social coop game maybe is not for you.
geordiemp
Member
If they really wanted people to play with they could of done so.
I think every poster who raises this point knows the answer...
They say they want to do a highly co-ordinated team coop raid, where everybody has some role to play in getting through it, and surprisingly dont want to team up or put any effort into it.
GlamFM
Banned
Play a matchmade weekly strike once and see for yourself how wrong you are.
EDIT: Sorry, I think I read you completely wrong.
Within mins lol way to be ignorant guys. And not even complaining about raids, why the fuck some strikes does not have matchmaking.
Why is everyone hating it on metacritic?
Probably because overall to get to this point it's cost them (the consumer) $60+$35+$40. $135 for a game that you should have gotten a year ago for $60 is tough for people to stomach.
I look at it this way, shit happens. They brought out a sub par game but I still played it for 240+ hours. Bungie listened and fixed the game, It's what it should have been from the get go. But for them to take Destiny and turn it around in a years time well, that's actually pretty impressive imo.
geordiemp
Member
You do not want help, you just want to moan. You can play every strike match made.
Just not the nightfall difficulty level of that strike.
Anway, I give up, you dont seem to be looking for help, thats clear.
And here come more ...OK I am outta here.
While I mostly agree with you, I never had to pay someone 40 to write me a love letter...
Oh dear.
The base game and solo-experience are 'improved', but that's mostly because of the 2.0 update and not the just TTK. But yeah, you`ll lock yourself out of a lot of great content by playing only solo. The whole game should 'open up' a bit earlier so it should be a more diverse experiences, but don't expect that it's suddenly a Mass Effect-ish story-heavy game. Bungie made a lot of things more 'rewarding' for the player so it feels less like a grind, but all the content is still aimed at being played times and times again, it's just that with TTK certain missions have cutscenes and a bit more of a meta-narrative happening overal (more dialogue, Ghost can scan stuff for more lore-exposition, etc).
I feel like I'm in Reddit philosophy lol
This man knows what's up. I'm also holding my breath.
I have, it was called Diablo 3 reaper of souls, and it was a $60 love letter
Id agree with this. My friends and I played everything on hard and had a super fun time 3 manning story missions and the daily. Nothing compares however solo the game would be a lesser experience for sure.
It's an amir0x post, did you expect anything less?
Okay? Then dont reply to my "moaning". Way to help by saying you will find players here within mins. I have spent days on bungie forums to find fire teams to complete raids, but timing never works out at the end. But here I am not even complaining about raid anymore. I want better gear, more xp, more vanguard points. Want to do strike on nightfall difficulty. Thats all. You are telling me if I want to play its not impossible. Well ya nothing is impossible. Its just inconvenient and and redundant fucking step (not talking about raid) i get why they dont implement matchmaking for that.
As a Xbox Player, GAF destiny thread isnt much help. Trust me.
MiamiWesker
Member
The shortcut to level 20, how do you do that, is that part of the taken King. I want to start a new character.
You get a consumable that you can use to get any one character to level 25...you can use it even when you are level 1. It will only get you to 25, meaning you can play Vault of Glass or TTK story missions but your subclass will not be unlocked so you won't have any of your abilities until you level them up.
Are people hinting they're judging the release game via the made up versions of Destiny that don't exist and that Bungie never promised again?
It's one thing to dislike a game because you dislike the game. However, it's a waste of time to buy into gossip. It's like people just don't want to admit the Destiny we got was the one we got.
It's one thing to dislike a game because you dislike the game. However, it's a waste of time to buy into gossip. It's like people just don't want to admit the Destiny we got was the one we got.
Xbox does have a harder time for sure. Have you tried r/fireteams? Between gaf and r/fireteams I see quite a few Xbox posts.
You're right about matchmaking in essence however it's just not that simple and I think will be very hard for bungie to implement in a meaningful way into destiny. The average match made player in destiny is TERRIBLE. The weekly strike matchmaking was so bad for me at times I wish I could just solo it. Now take that into a raid or nightfall strike and yeesh.
All that being said I hope bungie does something for people like you who do want matchmaking.
If you are on ps4 we have tons of gaf bros waiting for you. I literally have 180+ destiny bros on my psn. If you want message me I'll add you to the neogaf group chat.
That's interesting. I wonder if the average Xbox owner is a more shooter oriented gamer. There would be times I'd get so frustrated I'd just start gjallahorning everything to move the group forward in my experiences on psn.