Worse than I thought! (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Thursday, December 20, 2018, 20:22 (2234 days ago) @ EffortlessFury

Most of this dialogue hasn’t been particularly consequential. It’s just building the sense of frustration and desperation that the awoken in the DC are facing, trapped in a time loop. The meetings with Mara are usually just nice little bits of character development, but there have been a few surprises. On one occasion, our arrival interrupted a meeting with another visitor. And then this week, Mara herself was absent, but we got the cutscene (which is by far the most consiquential plot development so far).

Wow. That makes it seem even worse than I thought.

They've locked the character development behind a grind now.

I mean... kudos I guess for them being so meta about acknowledging all the repetition going on, but...

Listen, I hate the Destiny grind. A lot. I'm not happy with the Forsaken grind and I'm kinda hanging back a bit to "play catchup" every time the ceiling rises.

That being said, the Mara stuff was never behind a grind. On corrupted weeks especially, the Blind Well isn't hard to "matchmake" into and it really doesn't take long. Like, an hour a week for the lore isn't a grind, is it?

If you don't know it's there because the game doesn't tell you, if it requires a specific activity and that activity requires others, and if missing it one week means you don't ever get that content (I'm not clear if it works that way but it seems like it does) then perhaps "grind" is not precisely the correct word, but I would not call it a great experience to have.

Basically if you're fully engaged, playing on a daily or weekly basis, you have a chance to choose the activity that might lead to this and then you'd know to do it.

Otherwise read reddit and forum threads or watch others' videos and see what you're missing.

But if you're taking a break from the game and don't want what you're saving for later to be spoiled, it's sort of disconcerting to find out there's content you missed and is just gone.

It's sort of like online gaming now is the way live TV was back before you could record it. It's odd, is all.