A pet peeve of mine (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 13:31 (2348 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

But I’m not sure if I’d be invested on that level if I wasn’t already invested in the primary characters and plot.

That’s certainly part of it.

Part of it is also the way Destiny is structured. I can only go into the same cave so many times before it just stops being a gorgeous cave the Fallen are in and starts just being a different hallway the Fallen are in that’s just like every other hallway the Fallen are in. Part of that is on me fur just not paying attention, sure, but part of it is on the game for making me feel like I need to collect tokens as quickly as possible to move on to the next thing.

I started D2 on Xbox last week before God of War cane out, and I did a Lost Sector in the EDZ. You go into a cave with Fallen, and you emerge into this clearing with a domed building in it, and the sunlight is beaming in through an opening in the ceiling and it’s gorgeous. I had to stop and stare it at, and walk around it, and look at the map and tried to think about what was above and where that building used to be. I’ve probably been in that cave a dozen times before, but this was the first time I’d really noticed what it was. Maybe that’s not the game’s fault, but I think it partly is, because the only reason anyone goes in that cave anyway is to get the loot chest at the end of it, and the game is inherently built around loot and collecting those tokens. I don’t think the game is paced appropriately to give those spaces and moments the time to sink in.