User error (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Friday, December 22, 2017, 12:21 (2471 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV

I just played Destiny. I didn't grind for stuff. I had a few things I would like to get, and then I played the game. Eventually I got them.

I understand a lot of people felt the pull to grind until they were burned out, but I never did. I just eventually got the stuff through playing.

And that’s definitely the best way to approach the game while avoiding frustration, but what I’m getting at is that the game was built in such a way that to care about chasing gear would create a frustrating situation. In other words, it was a loot game where the best way to enjoy it was to not care about loot.

For me, the problem was largely that most of the gear in the game was utterly boring to play with. D1 with most guns just wasn’t fun for me. But D1 with Fatebringer, Black Hammer, and Gjallarhorn was a riot. If gear wasn’t RNG based, I could have done what I needed to do in order to acquire the gear I wanted to play with, then spent the majority of my time with the game having fun with my new toys. But D1 just wasn’t built that way. D2 is much better in this regard, IMO, except they haven’t created weapons that are as fun or exciting to use.

I would say that you just haven't found them yet, or your are crazy (or both) :-D

There are a ton of guns I love using: Sweet Business, Raid Auto, Osiris Scout, The Colony, Raid Rocket, Saint-14 Shotgun and I know there are more I just can't think of them off the top of my head.

I would also say that a big thing that helped impact how much I love weapons in D2 is the way they added combo weapons, like Mida pair, as well as the exotic armor that helps your weapons out.

Sweet Business + War Rig = Bullet hose of fun

I have almost every gun in the game... for me, they are largely boring and mediocre, with a few notable exceptions. Sunshot is probably my favourite Destiny weapon ever. Tractor Canon is hilarious. There’s a handful of others that are effective, but not particularly exciting (Urial, Mida, etc). I did just get the new exotic grenade launcher that fires little robot spiders... haven’t tried it yet, but it sounds fun. At any rate, there are just hardly any weapons that have distinct and exciting personalities IMO.

That said, I do fully agree with you about the synergy aspect to some of the gear in D2. I wish they’d play that up a bit more.