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

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Thursday, March 31, 2016, 22:47 (3252 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

Of course, I can't think about leveling up and progressing in Destiny without thinking about RNG. So I ask myself:

"In what ways is Destiny better thanks to RNG?"

RNG is what prevents, or at least delays, every player from acquiring the same set of gear. It adds more variety to teamplay when variations are introduced not just by play style, but also by equipment used.

Think about how different the Skolas boss fight is between having no Gjallarhorns vs having three of them, or even two of them.

That creates two different kinds of equally memorable experiences-- one in which three Guardians talk about how hard it was and how it would have been easier if anybody had a Gjallarhorn, and another where one or two Guardians feel lucky they had a friend (or friends) who had a Gjallarhorn, who they can be jealous of because they don't have one.

(Before everybody got one, of course, at least for a few weeks.)

RNG in MMOs is like the passage of time: it stops everything from happening at once.