Game preservation & a question for Cody (Gaming)

by cheapLEY , Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 17:43 (18 hours, 37 minutes ago) @ Cody Miller
edited by cheapLEY, Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 18:39

3. Enter Destiny & Destiny 2: these games are live service. When Bungie says 'no more' and shuts em down, that's it. They won't be the first games to go through that and won't be the last. So, let's say 10 years from now you're feeling nostalgic and want to play Destiny\2, you have the disc and whatever data is on your hard drive but the game never loads because the servers are gone. How does that make you feel today, after 10 years with the game?

For some reason I was looking at my Playstation Profile page the other night, and the cover photo was a screenshot I took ages ago during an Eater of Worlds raid and it really bummed me out. That raid was freaking fun.

The encounter before the boss is probably the coolest raid section ever. Dunno if anything surpassed it because I gave up this game six years ago.

I still think opening the shield and the boss encounter are peak raiding. There are enough mechanics to manage that failure is a real possibility, but there's also enough cushion built in that individual failures can be totally recovered by someone who is on the ball and paying attention. The enemy density is also just about perfect--enough to have to be managed without being overwhelming. I'd reinstall Destiny 2 tomorrow to play that raid again if it was an option.