Some thoughts, then some questions for all you DBOers (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Thursday, March 31, 2016, 17:05 (3396 days ago) @ slycrel

destiny with no RNG would be a really short game.

Length has nothing to do with game quality. I know tons of great short games and tons of shitty long ones.

Point on that is that destiny, as intended, is not meant to be a short game. It's elongated by the RNG and light level systems. You may have missed some of the nuances of my post there. =)

Right, but they are simply aiming to make the game way too long. There reaches a point where it becomes too much, and making your game shorter would benefit. The good developers know this. The bad ones try to elongate the game so players have a higher hours played stat. After the influx of overly long JRPGs following Final Fantasy 7, I thought that the resulting backlash over time bloat in games would take. But it hasn't.

I think having people play as much as possible is exactly what Bungie wants. They want an MMO-style world that contains lots of random players at any given time.

So I guess, yeah, a different game could be different. But I thought we were talking about why destiny is what it is, not what it isn't or could be.

Personally, I'm coming at it from a different angle than Cody. I'm happy with Destiny being a game that I spend loads of time playing... I just wish there wasn't such a substantial portion of that time that felt needlessly frustrating to me. I could be totally wrong, but I don't think removing RNG or Light Levels would cause me to spend less time playing. I believe I would play just as much, but enjoy my collective time with the game even more.