+1 (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Thursday, April 14, 2016, 20:16 (3239 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Why are points better? Because Cody's suggestions take teamwork out of the equation. Last night I told Funk and Stabbim that I was going to go for zero kills, and I worked to get nothing but assists and damage on the boss (the "no kill" thing didn't last too long once people started dying, but I was still contributing to the score with the assist points).

And why couldn't you do that without scoring? Your assists make it easier for your teammates to kill enemies. It's the same thing.

The boom line is that scoring is a considerable detraction to immersion, since you are focusing on some external number rather than the game world at hand.

I guess it's a personal thing, but I've never found Destiny to be in any way "immersive" in terms of absorbing me into the world and characters. Between the SUPER recharge display flashing across my screen, or the "Public Event" announcements, numbers flying off the bad guys' heads... Destiny is as "gamey" as it gets. I don't find the score counter harmful to the experience at all. I also don't think Bungie has leveraged it in a way that adds much either, but that's just me.