Losing the plot. (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Monday, September 26, 2016, 21:11 (2979 days ago) @ Cody Miller

While I largely agree, my personal hope would be for Bungie to find more ways to make the "public" aspects of the game more compelling, rather than ditch them. Seeing other players on Patrol rarely leads to cool experiences, but when it does, those are the magical little moments that help make Destiny something special. I want more of that :)

There is a cost to the ability to run into random people on patrol. I don't think the benefits outweigh the costs. The coolest experiences are those that you go in to with your friends (in my view). Bungie should double down on THOSE. If that means ditching the 'public' aspect of the game, then they should do that.

At the very least, allow people you meet to join your fireteam without having to go back to orbit!

I'll totally grant you that running into random people adds little in terms of quantifiable gains... But there's something about it. I don't know if you ever played The Division, but one of my biggest problems with the game is that the open world was a privat instance and you never stumbled across other players out on the streets. There was such a huge disconnect caused by walking into one of the safe houses and seeing it filled with a dozen human players, but as soon as you step out onto the street there's NOBODY. I didn't even want to do anything with the other players, per say. Just knowing that they're there would have been enough for me.

I worry that removing the public nature of Destiny's patrol zones would have a similar effect. It just wouldn't feel right to me.

*side note*

There's something about this topic that goes deeper than it should for me. Destiny's "always connected" nature has actually affected my ability to enjoy games where I'm "alone" anymore. The only way I can enjoy a typical single player game anymore is if it pulls me into the world so completely that I really do forget that I'm the only person there. Games like that are few and far between. It's like I crave the feeling of a crowd, even if I'm just doing my own thing.