I just can’t do that. (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 11:42 (2293 days ago) @ Malagate

When I sit down to play a game, I intend to play a game. If I need to do errands, I’ll do that instead.

That said, the load times genuinely don’t bother me much. I constantly fiddle with equipment and shaders. I mostly use load times as a way to check out the gear I have acquired recently. I don’t pay much mind to drops while I’m actually playing unless it’s a new drop. So the loading times are a great time for gear inspection and comparisons.

The issue that I have with this is that I'm the kind of player who will ENTIRELY reconfigure their build and gear at least once a night, sometimes more. These long load times give me more time to fiddle, and I end up getting a wild hair to try something and I'm nowhere near finished getting dressed to fight and wait there's one perk on my pants that doesn't serve my weapons and--oh shit the game is starting.

This further underscores the idea that the game in its current state is nearly unplayable without external gear management, which I don't think was Bungie's original intent.

I have an idea to go back and do a no-vault, (possibly no-postmaster?) playthrough of D1, because I think that would result in a game that requires less prep time to play and also results in a more varied and interesting (if necessarily less complete and less powerful) collection of gear to play with, and more variety among fireteam members as players are forced to decide which pieces to keep and which to get rid of, plus allowing for empty slots for potential new gear to drop into.