These comments are so cringy. People will jump at any opportunity to get to say "Destiny is horrible, why would anyone play this filth!?!" Like Austin says in the fucking article, this is just an experiment to see what the "whale" players are willing to pay for so that the rest of us can get a years worth of content for free, and not have to pay for expansions.
I also agree that this is not the right way to go about it and I hope it fails, but it is in no way a fault of the game. Destiny has become an amazingly feature complete game with the launch of Taken King, and the way that people continue to turn their nose up at it despite never having played it, (or having not played it in over a year) is absurd.
People seem really pessimistic on this news, but I actually really like it. I've always liked the concept of episodic content, but for some reason it only caught on for adventure games. I absolutely hate it in adventure games because the story is the driving force of the game, and having cliffhangers for months on end is just stupid. But with game play heavy content it provides a nice consistent stream of content that is both manageable and fresh.
My favorite example of this was Dead Rising 2: Case Zero which was a joy to play, and 100% complete. If the main game had just been broken into 5 of those smaller games it would have been way better IMO.
There's so much cool experimental VR stuff out there, and yet I still haven't gotten a chance as an average consumer to even try one on. I love the concept behind all of this, but I'm starting to loose my patience on it.
Alex, please. For most of the Quick Look he was great, but once they got into the story mission he was backseat gaming so hard. "Your getting shot by something over there." "Don't jump the boat." "Go right." "you have another site to go to." It's an open world game dude, just let Vinny do his thing.
Am I the only one who thinks the UI, and dealing with the Pipboy is a nightmare?
Definitely not. This is the number one complaint around the internet, and boy is it a big one. The next closest complaint for me doesn't even come close. It actually makes what is otherwise an amazing game a horrendous experience. I'm sure Jeff used a controller for the most part so he probably didn't run into this issue, but if you were forced to use the keyboard controls I could easily see this score being a 3/5. That UI overhaul mod cant get here soon enough.
@alucitary: The campaign story/characters are stupid. If that bothers you so much you can't ignore it and just enjoy the mechanics of the game then that sucks and I feel for you, but do you also hate all 80's action movies?
80s action movies are fine, but the problem is that despite what people may think Call of Duty has never been toned like an 80s action movie. sure they have been Michael Bayed to oblivion, but they have always had strong undertones of how fucked up war is with PTSD, and war crimes being put on display, and Advanced Warfare painted a pretty nice picture of the possible future of PMCs, but this game goes completely off the raild not only for the Call of duty series as a whole, but for the Black Ops saga specifically which has always been the most self serious of the bunch. If they wanted to just have fun with this one I can't fault them for it, but having all of the characters act like assholes on top of that just makes me cringe.
Surprised there wasn't any mention of the 'Bro-iness' of the campaign. Seriously the first couple of missions in the campaign after you get your cybernetics are all "Hey look how badass we are" Ya, kill these terrorist scumfucks" "Aren't we cool as fuck killing all these people?" This is literally the first game I turned off out of embarrassment. After being told about the horrible experience of retrieving data from a living persons mind your comrade solemnly state "It's not a good way to go..." To which your horribly voice acted main character quips the most ridiculous thing imaginable "He's a dead man anyways" "besides he's a fuckin' terrorist." Who wrote this shit? 5th graders!?!
I get that it was meant to create contrast for the later parts of the game where they realize that their powers also make them vulnerable, and destroy there humanity, but it's just ridiculous. I don't care how powerful they are, they are goddamn soldiers so why do they act like college kids role playing with airsoft guns?
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