Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

So, I had a lot of fun last night and am just taking it as a shooter/diablo loot fest. With the hopes that some guns do some outrageous things.

But for Christ sake, they could have put more effort into the missions and the single player story. It's God Awful. The voice acting from Dinklage, and I said this before in Alpha, and Beta, makes me think he was half asleep and trying to take it seriously but rolling his eyes half the time he had to read aloud the horrible dialogue. The story missions: Please tell me it gets better than what I have seen so far, which has been fight to the shadow can't respawn thing, break through a few mobs, and defend your ghost against the same three fucking waves of mobs coming.

Holy shit tell me something better happens on the moon, Mars, or Venus. If not, that is a horrible and darn near un-excusable lack of effort for mission content. I mean, I get the premise of the game is to basically go around the universe and kill things and collect loot. The gun play is excellent, responsive, and the feedback on hits and such is great. But from what I have seen so far the loot itself doesn't have any remarkable individual qualities from a firing perspective with cool particle effects and unique explosions. I hope they have this later on.

What they did right was the gameplay and the smooth shooting mechanics and some good atmosphere. I also like the music.

Still on the fence about how long this game will actually last to their "10 year plan", but if they don't have solid/fun rewards at the end of the loot carrot with fast expanding content and a much better story line going forward (With better voice acting) to set the stage of the world, it isn't going to bode well for them.

Granted, I should preface that with I am level 7 almost 8 and finished Earth and still need to start the moon missions. For those that completed the story, is it what I have to look forward to? The same run, 3 wave, defend missions?

The problem with calling it a loot fest game (akin to Diablo, etc) is until level 20 - there is fuck all for loot. It's boring, unimaginative and stale - I've gotten a few decent blues, but nothing worth talking about. I've heard that post 20, it really comes into its own (loot wise) and I hope that is the case... because if that isn't the "hook", what is?? It is fun, no question but you've got to give people a reason to continue logging on. I get the "the game doesn't even start until 20!??11111" crowd, really I do - but if this WAS an MMO, the same people spouting that would be saying "well if the leveling to max level is terrible, why would I level?". It applies to both. There is absolutely no excuse for the story being as downright shit as it is, not with the money they're spent and more importantly, time they've spent.

I just can't really understand where all that time went. There is absolutely no "flavor" in the game (I'm not counting their lame attempt at flavor by adding a bunch of shitty dead ghosts) - they could have added simple shit like sparrow races (with timed achieves), crafting, gathering levels (the more you gather the faster you pick stuff up) etc. No fun side quests... I don't know. Just feels hollow to me. No sweet achieves for 100% completing a world, no rare spawns with loot tables....

Like I said, in spite of that - Its still fun to play, the gun play is terrific, the environments (all 5 of them) are well crafted and pretty to look at (think I like Mars the best), I just don't think it will ever turn into this 10 year franchise or whatever bullshit they're saying... I do think they can learn from it and make Destiny 2 a much better game ala Borderlands 1 vs Blands 2.

/\/\ Now that would be awesome. Just more activities. Races, a better loot structure (That sucks I won't see anything decent until 20) when leveling up, rare bosses... I heard even the public events aren't dropping anything good right now. Starting to wonder how much Activision had to do with this for what will no doubt include an online shop at some point in time. $4.99 for races, $5.99 for boss battles... I see them trying to aim for that

NoodleAnus_sl said:

I remember quite specifically saying early on that the single player was going to be far below most people's standards, good to see I was right.

Enjoying the game personally, graphics are awesome too.

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While this is fun, I would really like to see where the $500 Million went because as of now, Borderlands (with a few exceptions) has done about everything better to this point aside from the pseudo persistent world where random people (sometimes friends, sometimes now) show up on your screen, from my subjective opinion of this type of loot centric shooter. What was Borderland's budget? $45 Million if that? Seems a majority of the budget for Bungie went to Dinklage (Which they should get their money back) and Marketing.