Going to have to disagree. (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 14:37 (3163 days ago) @ cheapLEY

I'd like this, too - and TTK did a pretty good job with this, but eventually you would reach an "endgame" state. What do you do then to keep the players interested?

You don't. You let the game end, and players move on to something else until the next expansion or release. You don't keep them chasing higher numbers.

I still just don't get it.

I've come to understand that for as much as I love Destiny, I still really wish it was a different game altogether.

No one complained about lacking things to do in Halo Reach. They just kept playing because it was fun, and then when it wasn't they moved on to something else, and that was okay. It's okay in Destiny, too, but not the folks that stick around just complain about how little there is to do. If they just took the stupid level mechanics out of Destiny, it'd immediately be a better game, and people wouldn't feel like they were getting fucked when they played the game for four hours and didn't get the right drops.

The key difference here is how fun the moment to moment gameplay of reach was. The halo games had great variations in AI weapons and tactics with really, really fun vehicles. I said it when destiny came out: The gameplay of destiny has all the feel of a first attempt at what would eventually become Halo. It's just not as good.