Kain55

His is pretty much the only opinion on this game I'm actually interested in hearing. His hangups with the first game matched many of my own at the time. I was never able to make it more than about 5 hours in due to having huge issues with many aspects of the gameplay, and finding out that many people hold that game in higher regard than Mass Effect 2 was actually one of the most surprising things I've ever come across. A game can have a fascinating world and story, but if the moment to moment gameplay turns me off I'll never manage to make it through it. Riding horses, the act of shooting and just general gameplay always felt off to me. I've always been kind of bummed about that because everything surrounding that framework seemed like an incredible achievement, but I just couldn't trudge through the way the game felt to me personally. That seemed to be how Jeff fell in a lot of respects at the time as well. If he finds even a bit of enjoyment out of this one while everyone else is singing its praises to the moon and back as I suspect they will I will probably try it, but without that I will likely just hear the story during the game of the year stuff.

I sent in a request to Cerberus Wolves. KainLV is my PSNID and Kain55XIII is the Bungie profile name. I've actually been in Cerberus Wolves in the past. There's a good chance I'll be switching from PS4 to PC when that launches but I'll just have to see.

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I just hit 30 in The Division earlier today. What I've played as of yet lines up exactly with your descriptions. Even vanilla Destiny stands out as one of my favorite gaming experiences, whereas The Division has been something I've enjoyed playing through, but nothing that I've viewed as spectacular in any way. I'm hoping to put more time into the Dark Zone now that I'm max level as what I've played of it has been super tense, interesting and fun, and that seems to be the best that the game has to offer.

The aim of the initial launches I would say were pretty different I would say. Unlike what the Giant Bomb crew always said, vanilla Destiny was way, way more WoW than Diablo. I love WoW and because of that was probably less irritated by many of the design decisions in Destiny that were grindy and WoW like that many people found unappetizing. The Division is Diablo to the core. Constant number upgrades without much in the way of specifically designed loot. I'm hoping the max level gear has a substantial effect on the ways the gameplay works in the game, but from what I've seen that's definitely not going to be the case. The gameplay in Destiny is substantially more interesting to me than in The Division. Due to being tied to some level of realism the abilities and skills are much less interesting to me than anything in Destiny. I also love the mobility all of the classes have in Destiny that just doesn't exist in The Division. I suspect that I'll be done with The Division by the end of the week until the new updates show up, whereas I'll be back to Destiny for the next Iron Banner and the announcement of new content coming in April for Destiny is extremely exciting to me. Overall The Division is quite fun for what it is, but I just can't see myself spending hundreds of hours with it like I have with Destiny or even Diablo 3.

All of that being said I do really hope that the Incursions end up being super exciting and that these two games push each other to be much more interesting and fun as they evolve over time. The Dark Zone has the potential to be some of the most interesting content I've seen in any game in a long time, and I hope they continue to enhance the ideas there to be even more interesting and fun.

I generally tip very well when it comes to delivery or dining in at a restaurant; however, I often order carryout specifically because tipping for pickup is not something I do and I refuse to not tip if someone delivers my food to me. My wife worked at multiple places where carryout was available and always thought it was quite strange if someone left a tip for pickup. I'll occasionally leave a few dollars if it's a small place that I frequent, but otherwise I do not.

I enjoyed it quite a bit when playing through the story missions by myself and I think the gear is fun and interesting. However, going into the Dark Zone by yourself is a miserable experience. Wandering around aimlessly while trying to hide from people and hoping then don't kill you for no reason sucks. Then on the last night I went into the Dark Zone with a friend and it was a completely different game. Wandering through the streets watching each other's backs is super fun and tense while occasionally deciding to be a dick and stealing other people's loot is pretty fun too. I will say that the punishment for going rogue should probably be more severe. I'm pretty excited about the game now, and my friend and I are planning on getting it the first week or so that it's out.

The actual gameplay is substantially less interesting than Destiny, but the systems and hooks seem cool enough to be worth messing around with. I'm more interested in the future of Destiny, but The Division looks to me a fun distraction as long as you have friends to play with. I have my doubts about how fun the game might be if you were playing purely solo, but with friends it seems very promising.

I play through the Mass Effect trilogy pretty regularly. The first in particular as I believe I have about 13 playthroughs of it at this point.

I go back to play Skyrim pretty regularly. Multiple hundred hour games and I enjoy it immensely every time.

Persona 4 and now Persona 4 Golden I try to play at least once a year. Persona 4 is my favorite game of all time, and it brings me great satisfaction every time I go back to it. I'll usually watch the Endurance run during my dungeon running while doing my new games just to double up on all of it.

And of course World of Warcraft is the biggest culprit for me as it seems to be for many others. I can't even begin to say how many hours I've played of it at this point. I've had multiple mains across multiple servers, and still go back to it constantly. WoD is probably the first time I've regularly stopped playing ever. I had a max level character in Vanilla, but put most of my hours in during BC. However, I drop in constantly during every expansion. My account is actually frozen at the moment which is not something I regularly allow to happen. I know I'll be back for Legion, and if they follow through on many of their endgame plans for Legion I'm sure I will put a stupid number of hours into it once again. I'm actually kind of bummed that I don't have more of a reason to play right now as WoW is generally the game I play to relax and unwind.

Request sent to Giant Beast. Should be nice to play some Halo with some people rather than on my own since none of my friends have gotten their Xbox Ones yet.

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Just sent a request. I mostly do stuff solo, but now that I'm max level again I might be looking to try at least some Nightfalls and maybe a raid or two. Strikes and stuff would be cool too.

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