The Forsaken Grind (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Monday, September 17, 2018, 17:40 (2263 days ago) @ TheeChaos

I agree about replaying content you aren't excited to replay, but I am not there yet. 2 more weeks maybe that will change, but for now there is not much I am not enjoying doing, even if repetitive. It rubs me the wrong way too, it just has not played out that way yet with Forsaken.

For what it's worth, that's where I am, too. I am loving everything I can do in Forsaken. The annoyance comes in because I want to do the raid, and I'm committed to do so on the 27th. That is actively at odds with trying to play the game for enjoyment. I have to forego continuing to do some activities that I'd rather do in order to chase down Powerful Engrams to make sure that I am leveled enough to do the raid. It helps that I enjoy those activities too, but it makes it feel that anything not rewarding a Powerful Engram is a waste of time, even if it's something I want to be doing.

Sure, that's partly a problem of a my own making, but the alternative is skipping out on this blind raid group and hoping another one just happens to come along when I'm ready, and we both know that's not very likely. The other alternative is for all of us to just agree to take it as slow as we want and do it when we're all ready, whenever that happens to be, but that's also not a real solution. That will end with someone either getting tired of waiting and getting frustrated, or someone getting spoiled, or any other number of things that might split the group up.

Bungie's secrecy implies that they feel the raid is best experienced blind, but their game design implies they couldn't give a shit less, at least about us common folk.