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[def sim]

I got back into Destiny over the past month. It's actually a good game with decent content now and significantly better with TTK.

It deserved every criticism at launch, for sure, but I think it's a game worth checking out in its current state. If you don't have friends to play with and are unwilling to use LFG sites, I probably wouldn't until a good discount shows up though.

 

[Data West]

I am so glad I don't have this irrational desire to see bars fill and numbers go up.

I would think by 2015 and its oversaturation of bars filling, people would be sick of it.

 

[Myggen]

I would think by 2015 and its oversaturation of bars filling, people would be sick of it.

Nah man.

 

[skLaFarebear]

Numbers are old news

It's all about the fashion now.

 

[Mister Negative]

Numbers are old news

It's all about the fashion now.

tf2, game of the year

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

mobile gaming would be dead if people got sick of bars filling.

and to be fair to even shit year one destiny, that game felt really good. Coming from Borderlands as my last shlooter, the difference in enemy AI and gunplay is fucking night and day. And i got that much just from the alpha and beta alone, i just picked up my copy of TKK for dirt cheap during my lunch break

 

[Antiwhippy]

It kinda sorta is, it's still Destiny underneath but Bungie has done solid work trying to turn it around from what it was at launch,

Pity that you have to pay for so much more than the price of a regular game to get to that point.

 

[Liamc723]

Pity that you have to pay for so much more than the price of a regular game to get to that point.

$60 for the legendary edition with everything included. Done.

 

[daydream]

oh, destiny is out of early access now, coo'

looks like something i'd consider playing now

 

[TheMrPliskin]

Brad cursed me, I just got a Monte Carlo.

 

[strafer]

is that female voice Cate Blanchett?

 

[jaina]

Phobos. really really pandering to rudds

 

[Antiwhippy]

$60 for the legendary edition with everything included. Done.

I'm talking about people who started from the beginning.

 

[Chance Hale]

Will play when it comes to PC in 2017

 

[Mister Negative]

North as the ghost sounds a little TOO guilty spark-ish in some of his delivery.

 

[skLaFarebear]

God damn look at all that money.

 

[Archaix]

North as the ghost sounds a little TOO guilty spark-ish in some of his delivery.

I don't know what that means, but I watched that comparison video posted last week and he didn't sound like somebody being held at gunpoint to read bad lines, so he was a huge improvement.

 

[strafer]

Illidan mixed with The Lich King

 

[tuxfool]

North as the ghost sounds a little TOO guilty spark-ish in some of his delivery.

I can't get past that MMOs still use words like I and you and treat each player character as the only person that matters in the world, when the illusion breaks as soon as you see another PC in the world.

It was one of the things that they originally promised for Destiny, that the game would get away from those notions in clever ways.

 

[skLaFarebear]

That cutscene already looked more interesting than everything I've ever seen from Destiny.

 

[repeater]

I don't know what that means, but I watched that comparison video posted last week and he didn't sound like somebody being held at gunpoint to read bad lines, so he was a huge improvement.

Yeah, someone reading all those bad lines with the right kind of pathos really makes all the difference.

 

[Archaix]

Yeah, someone reading all those bad lines with the right kind of pathos really makes all the difference.

It does. Most games have terribly written dialogue. You're a fucking actor, act. Act like an annoying sarcastic robot that was programmed to think it is funny, not like a confused man who doesn't want to be in the room who is now stuck in my headphones for the next 500 hours of shooting things.


edit I imagine it wasn't all his fault, a VA director should have been there to give him some sort of idea for the character and to not accept the terrible performances. But god damn. Microsoft Sam would have been more convincing and cheaper in the role.

 

[strafer]

have the game always had these celeb voice actors...it's the black dude from Fringe and Galadriel?

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

The enemies are called "Taken"? Destiny x Alan Wake?

 

[A Pretty Panda]

the thing is, I think there are exactly 6 companies in the entire world that do podcast ads.

Square space
Stamps.com
Loot crate
Fantasy draft
The mattress one?
Audible

That's all I got

I heard Stone Cold shilling a deal on Croissandwiches ok

 

[KC Denton]

It does. Most games have terribly written dialogue. You're a fucking actor, act. Act like an annoying sarcastic robot that was programmed to think it is funny, not like a confused man who doesn't want to be in the room who is now stuck in my headphones for the next 500 hours of shooting things.


edit I imagine it wasn't all his fault, a VA director should have been there to give him some sort of idea for the character and to not accept the terrible performances. But god damn. Microsoft Sam would have been more convincing and cheaper in the role.

"Confused man who doesn't want to be in the room" describes my mental state when I used to play Destiny perfectly. Dinklebot was far more relatable to me than Nolandroid.

 

[Archaix]

"Confused man who doesn't want to be in the room" describes my mental state when I used to play Destiny perfectly. Dinklebot was far more relatable to me than Nolandroid.

I'd be all for some sort of meta-commentary on what the game became through the ghost character, but if that were the intention they should have left in the parts after his lines where he asked for a smoke break and repeatedly wondered out loud when the check would arrive.

 

[tuxfool]

have the game always had these celeb voice actors...it's the black dude from Fringe and Galadriel?

Supposedly he is a Destiny fanatic too.

 

[Myggen]

Supposedly he is a Destiny fanatic too.

Yup, I remember a story about that on 8-4 Play...I think. He's hugely into the game and asked to hang out and help in the booth at E3(?) if they wanted him around.

 

[GavinGT]

Brad just name dropped Hot Coldman's name on the Bombcast for no reason.

 

[Myggen]

Brad just name dropped Hot Coldman's name on the Bombcast for no reason.

It's one of the greatest video game names of all time. Easily the best thing about PW.

 

[DamnBoxes]

It's one of the greatest video game names of all time. Easily the best thing about PW.

Skull Face wishes he was as much of a badass as Hot Coldman was.

 

[alr1ght]

Jeff "I will run to this thing and hit square, then run to another thing and hit square." /destiny

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Yeah, none of this makes me want to give Destiny a go again.

 

[GavinGT]

It's one of the greatest video game names of all time. Easily the best thing about PW.

Oh, I figured the name was too dumb to not be something a GAF member came up with.

 

[tuxfool]

Still reusing content. Still is Destiny.

 

[oti]

Yeah, no. No interest in going back. 80h of vanilla Destiny was enough. Still looks cool though.

 

[daydream]

Still reusing content. Still is Destiny.

hm, yeah, seems like they fixed stuff around the game but not the core gameplay loop

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

Yeah, no. No interest in going back. 80h of vanilla Destiny was enough. Still looks cool though.

hm, yeah, seems like they fixed stuff around the game but not the core gameplay loop

But the shooting feels good!

...


Destiny is bad.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

press square to pay respects/get fire hammer/advance plot

 

[Liamc723]

They haven't been to the Dreadnought yet, things get far better.

 

[oti]

But the shooting feels good!

It'll still do when Destiny Year 8 hits. And it will have Space Combat. And Farming!

 

[Bacon]

Wow destiny looks great

 

[tuxfool]

, things get far better.

Yup. Still Destiny.

I want to see good stuff now.

 

[Zornack]

Did Leno kick Alex's dog or something?

 

[Piston Hyundai]

Just tuned into the Destiny quick look and it's great to see them in a firefight on Earth, in an area I've already been to.

I can't wait for the enemies to adapt to his grenade play and start showing up in full riot suits. That's where the game shines, I think- forcing you to use tactics outside your comfort zone.

Here's the thing about that, though: My gameplay style is "move in on dudes, hold them up, then choke them the fuck out after getting intel from them." There's nothing to deter me from that specifically.

I would think by 2015 and its oversaturation of bars filling, people would be sick of it.

we're in the double-digits of call of duty releases for a reason

 

[jaina]

Did Leno kick Alex's dog or something?

I just don't want to talk to my cab/Uber driver, period.

 

[Liamc723]

Yup. Still Destiny.

I want to see good stuff now.

Because every game throws its best content at the beginning, right? No.

 

[tuxfool]

Because every game throws its best content at the beginning, right? No.

We're not at the beginning of the game. The good stuff comes later is said too much in Destiny.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

"Maybe I'm giving it more credit than it deserves."

More true than you even now, Brad.