Am I totally crazy, or does this bug you too? (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, August 03, 2016, 21:10 (3127 days ago) @ Pyromancy

But having a record book for campaign progress feels different to me. it feels like unnecessary "gamification". I do understand the role they fill (I like the idea of being able to quickly and easily track my progress), but Destiny's UI already has several different avenues of progress tracking. The quest screen, bounties, the "mission" items in our inventory screen, the quest Kiosk in the tower. I'd rather see our RoI progress tracked through any of those avenues.

I think they are trying to make certain activities feel more special than others?
"We" told them that very few tasks or guns "we" have completed or acquired have been significant enough to re-tell the story of or made us feel like "we" have "Become Legend"?

Could be, although I'd say things like exotic quests and better storytelling + mission design is the way to achieve that (which Bungie, to their credit, has been pushing towards).

I see things like record books as a result of Bungie realizing "oh, people really like STUFF. Getting stuff, opening stuff, collecting stuff, etc". To be clear, I have no problem with the ostensible function of the books... It's the way that function is presented that is immersion-breaking to me.