I still think . . . (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Thursday, March 31, 2016, 16:27 (3253 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

Destiny would 100% be a better game without Light Level and the current loot system. Bungie made arguably the best FPS ever, and nearly ruined it by making it an absolutely terrible loot game. That it's still an incredibly fun game is credit to its moment to money gameplay and despite its terrible loot mechanics. RNG sucks, running the same strikes over and over and over, no matter how fun they are, to get good drops sucks. Destiny would be a far better game if it was more straightforward.

I find it really difficult to articulate my thoughts on this matter. I'm not sure why. Partly it's because I don't actually have a better solution, but I can pretty confidently say the one they've implemented sucks.

In a lot of ways, I still wish Destiny was structured much closer to Borderlands. That's what I originally envisioned. Large interconnected areas with actual characters inhabiting them, interacting with those characters, getting quests from them. That still sounds so cool to me, and better than the way Destiny is actually structured.

Maybe that's just me though. I still really enjoy Destiny, but I've long ago accepted that it's not the game I actually wanted.