Wait... (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 02:49 (3268 days ago) @ Ragashingo

One of the few videos of The Division I've sat through was a guy hunkered down with an SMG just unloading on two or three AI guys rushing him with knives or clubs or something... It looked and felt odd to say the least. I figured the fiction had to be that the virus that cleared out New York made the survivors super tough or something. Is that not the case?!

Not as far as I can tell. Without taking the plunge and actually committing to buying the thing, it seems the scenario is that we should all be thankful for the fact that sleeper cells of secret police who are armed to the teeth are all around us every day in normal society (not causing any problems of course) because when a weaponized virus decimates the population, the army and police will be powerless and we'll need ordinary men and women with military weapons and secret training, hiding in plain sight, to stem the tide of hooded thugs who are going to start looting.

Nevermind that the competitive multiplayer aspect is basically being a looter.

You're supposed to be helping the city residents, as the Polygon review mentions, but mostly it's shooting.

Blackstar and I played. A homeless person asked for some water. We gave it and they called us part of the problem. Blackstar shot them.

There's a weird, inverted GTA sensibility to this. It postulates a world in which the breakdown of basic services leads not just to unrest or even anarchy, but what seems suspiciously liked organized, armed incursions inside American cities that can only be countered by a group that I have a really hard time not equating to a private militia.

It's like playing a GTA game as the police. You're wandering around like Dirty Harry, asking everyone if they feel lucky, and looking for any indication that that guy in a hoodie has a gun, as opposed to that other nearby guy in a hoodie, who just wants a soda.

There also appears, unlike in GTA, to be no consequence whatsoever for shooting unarmed civilians.