No Bonus (minor CoO spoilers) (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Monday, December 11, 2017, 17:03 (2621 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I can't say I disagree with any of that. Maybe Bungie just still doesn't get visual storytelling. The thing is though, I think Bungie knew the messed up with the story in Destiny. They should have spared no expense in making Des2ny's story super compelling, especially given they are throwing out a lot of the lore from Destiny to simplify things. I am sure they wanted to. The fact that it is still in a bad place must mean they are unable to. And that's a huge bummer.

I honestly still think the way Destiny is designed fights against having a compelling campaign. Even trying to take it all in, take it slowly and enjoy everything, I ended up rushing through the campaign, because the "good stuff" is in the endgame. Especially after playing Destiny 1 so much, it all almost feels like filler until you get that first purple drop, then it feels like you're in the real shit.

It seems obvious that the adventures and lost sectors were meant to be played as players made their way through the campaign. I can see how this might make the Destiny campaign this sort of grand experience, but I just don't think it works that way in reality. I certainly did a few of them here and there, but then left a lot of them because I wanted to make sure I was raid ready, and I wanted to see the main story. I think there are still some here and there that I haven't done yet.

Destiny's loot and power level and all of that works against the campaign experience, for me at least. I feel like they tried to fix it by giving you some exotics throughout the campaign, but the fact is that, even if the weapons themselves are fun and good, getting green and blue drops throughout the story feels bad. It feels like you're getting garbage that you're going to replace immediately, and the fact that the drops come so often and so fast that you do end up replacing them immediately doesn't help any.

I really can't help but wonder where the power level system makes any sense in the context of Destiny 2. I honestly don't see how it benefits the game at all. All it does is gate content behind an arbitrary number, and, honestly, a difficulty setting could solve the same problem. The normal raid is the equivalent of Normal in Halo terms. Then just make the Prestige raid the Heroic equivalent, no stupid numbers required.