Just some more random thoughts. *Long post* (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Sunday, September 17, 2017, 12:40 (2629 days ago) @ Cody Miller

The answer is that I probably won't play super frequently. And I'm super okay with that. Again, I cannot stress enough how awesome it has been to not have to grind or otherwise do repetitive, poor activities in order to advance. If the 'grind' is eliminated except for cosmetics, I am all for that. That way the people who bizarrely like grinding have something to do, while the folks who don't can safely ignore that aspect.

I didn't like the fact that I had to do that Destiny, but I liked just jumping into the strike playlist for an hour and getting cool drops. I'd love for a cosmetic-based loot economy, I just don't think there's enough there to support that, and I don't think what is there is all that good.

I feel like for the first time Destiny is purely about enjoying the world, story, and challenge. So I will be jumping in and raiding for fun, and certainly tackling the prestige difficulties when ready. But, no doing things over and over for drops. The fact that many exotics are unexotic and 'lame' helps me feel better about not getting them all.

I agree with that in principle, but ultimately, I don't think that stuff is quite good enough. The campaign was fun to play through, but it was still a pale shade of any Bungie Halo campaign in terms of both story and mission/encounter design. There's still and odd mix of design goals in Destiny 2 that don't necessarily work well together.