Mister Negative
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Mannnn
I kinda want to buy destiny
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I kinda want to buy destiny
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Glitchesarecool
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Youtube stream went dark, went to the GB side, saw they were back in the hub and thought they quit.
Warnen
Don't pass gaas, it is your Destiny!
I love destiny but I can't play video games for that long enough to do the raid. Always thought I was missing something great till I watched this, seems tedious as all hell.
I'm glad they put in a way to get to max level without doing that now. My guy is 295 Light level and I mostly do strikes and other small group stuff.
I'm glad they put in a way to get to max level without doing that now. My guy is 295 Light level and I mostly do strikes and other small group stuff.
Sleeping Lesson
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Despite me poking so much fun at Destiny, I do find these streams to be entertaining enough.
However, imagine how many other, better games they could have been playing in all this time.
However, imagine how many other, better games they could have been playing in all this time.
I just did it. $60 for the whole thing. You should do it too.
They could have done new episodes of Demo Derby, Old Game Show and Ranking of Fighters
Yeah these were the kinds of things that kept me in an MMO. Leaving the client open, chatting with randoms, treating the cities as a glorified chat rooms.
In the same time they're spending on this, we could have gotten one of each of those shows.
Yep. With Brad taking raid mechanics this week on the Bombcast as well.
Which makes it all the stranger the tools for matchmaking are as limited as they are.
Yeah that's what I meant, I don't think I worded it quite correctly.
BreezyLimbo
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To be fair, watching this stream, do you think a group of randoms would be able to complete this in a sufficient time? Keep in mind a group brought together, 3 with raid experience, and working together(Which you can't expect randoms to cooperate) have spent a good 5 and a half hours already.
Glitchesarecool
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Ok, but like, you all know they do stuff they want to do right? Maybe they don't feel like doing those particular shows these days.
I was afraid this would come up since have no staunch opinion for or against. I approach it like most things in life, with fearful reverence.
Absolutely. Bungie not allowing matchmaking for raids is insane. WoW had the same thing early on and it sucked in exactly the same way. They then invented a solution which worked great. That Bungie didn't copy the solution boggles my mind.
RE: the massive part missing from Destiny. I agree, it isn't a "Massive Multiplayer Online" game, but it absolutely has the gameplay from one.
I completely disagree with Jeff and Brad's assertion that it isn't the same kind of thing because it has guns. Just because they are aiming instead of of clicking doesn't make the gameplay unique. I'm glad they get to experience those feelings I had years ago raiding in WoW. It was lots of fun! More people should have fun! That said, pretending that shooting a gun makes it somehow a different thing seems crazy to me. Opinions!
TheMrPliskin
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They could give the option or at least implement a LFG feature. I've gone through FF14 mainly playing with randoms both through matchmaking and LFG and it's been fine.
If you're aware of the games problems but still tempted I'd say it's worth picking up.
Yes. I've been in pugs that have managed to clear Herioic Highmaul.
Now I'll grant that WoW is an imperfect comparison since it's a much older game where the mechanics are like second nature to many players, and that not every pug I've been in has gone well, but designing a game in that mould and not even making those tools optional seems incredibly bizarre to me.
I mean there are entire third party sites dedicated to Destiny matchmaking aren't there? The demand and supply appears to exist; it's just not in game.
Sorry, I don't mean to relitigate what I imagine is a very old argument in the Destiny community, I just find it strange this kind of content doesn't have that function.
ScaryShark
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It's Thursday. TNT was a cool ass thing. Although this would sort of fit the requirements.
Sleeping Lesson
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Chance Hale
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The raid and all the pretty gear actually makes me want to play Destiny past the beta over a year ago. Come to pc please ;-;
Imagine it's not on the PC because people would circumvent their loot drop bullshit which would destroy the game's drip feeding.
Imagine it's not on the PC because people would circumvent their loot drop bullshit which would destroy the game's drip feeding.
I suspect that Bungie just doesn't want the responsibility for dealing with the social elements of the game.
Sure and I don't have a problem with this stream but Jeff did say on his tumblr that he has been busy but he wanted to get back to the regular Wednesday streams next week, that was on September 10th.
Yet WoW has tackled this problem by making the raid encounters done by the randoms more forgiving than the ones done by preassigned parties. The solution Blizzard made works, I have no idea why Bungie didn't just steal it. You can scale the loot up and down because it's just numbers. Make the premade groups get numbers slightly higher (just a bit) and it all works out.
Glitchesarecool
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And how many times has he also said "we like to keep things flexible" to let them do what they want, also on his Tumblr?
Man, that Oryx wipes if anyone's not 100% on him, that's just shitty.
OdysseusVA
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Goldenroad
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Who else is playing with them?
Glitchesarecool
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Fuck that. How do you people not just throw a controller through the wall after that?
Sunk cost fallacy? Difficulty in organizing another stream to finish?
When working as a team, it is also harder to give up.
No one is chanting EDF though. Man, Starship Troopers is a great movie I need to watch that again.
ScaryShark
Banned
Have they said they are finishing no matter what or is there a ticking clock?
BreezyLimbo
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Probably 6 or 630
Sleeping Lesson
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Damn, I can't believe they're still going. It's going to be a bummer when they have to leave having not completed it.
TheMadMan007
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We are going to have to hear about this on the Bombcast again this next week too huh?
Piston Hyundai
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Not watching the stream because I'm smarter than that, but how is Jeff taking it?
CoolBatteryCharge
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Further solidifying Beastcast as Bestcast (Austin pls don't do it)
Sleeping Lesson
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Seemed to be enjoying much of it, but I think everyone's getting fatigued, players and audience alike.
funkystudent
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They are still going?
Is it really good or bad?
Is it really good or bad?
Sleeping Lesson
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Much closer to bad.
ScaryShark
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I feel like when they're done Jeff will feel a sense of accomplishment and be content that he has seen the content that he wants to see from this expansion.
Glitchesarecool
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Yes. On the final boss, to the last third of its health.
It's interesting. If there was some kind of user waypoint system to assign locations designations, I think this game would be much better.
Mister Negative
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It would have made playing the game a lot more enjoyable!
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