Yes. (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 00:53 (3269 days ago) @ cheapLEY

Maybe I'm just staring a circle jerk here, but I was reading their their review of The Division, and a line in it absolutely blew my mind.

When you shoot enemies in The Division, damage numbers fly off as loot drops and experience is earned. Other games have tried this model with varying success, two of the best examples being Gearbox’s Borderlands and Bungie’s Destiny. Both of these examples often struggle to make their shooting feel properly responsive, meaty and powerful."

I'm sorry but what? Did we play the same games? Taking The Division completely out of the equation, but the shooting in Destiny feels better than basically any other FPS ever made. That's pretty largely undisputed, even by folks that absolutely abhor Destiny. I can maybe see the argument for Borderlands, but it doesn't feel that way for me personally.

Yeah, I was scratching my head at that particular paragraph.

Destiny isn't perfect, and has its problems, but making the shooting "feel properly responsive, meaty and powerful" is NOT one of them. If anything, that describes the Division, where hoodies are apparently bulletproof and people with high powered rifles are constantly in danger of being hit with baseball bats.

The Division's fictional construct means it can't have anywhere near the variety of Destiny's guns and enemies, while at the same time asking us to believe that people in street clothes can take a hail of bullets and keep running.