No thank you. (Gaming)

by Vortech , A Fourth Wheel, Monday, April 14, 2025, 12:43 (2 days ago) @ Cody Miller

But this cinematic? Everyone died. They set up a story, for a character...and you think, that will be me!! But then he dies. Everyone dies. So already I'm expecting a game where....well, you're gonna die.

So… Mission accomplished?

Yeah. Cody snark aside, I think that's what's happening. As much as I like playing with my Destiny folks, there were a lot of Battlefield and Halo people who didn't want to play Destiny I had to leave behind (as those franchises went bad). It is, sadly, a thing that divides us, but is not avoidable.

Honestly I'm worried by how much people are talking about this game in a way I didn't get from the video I saw. Am I missing information or are they assuming it will be something Bungie never said it would be? I'm unsure. I guess I need to do more reading up.

People keep asking what is the point, but I feel like we have lost sight of the past when a game was played because playing it was fun. FPS more so than any of those. I thought when I saw a title in this thread about games just being fun, that is what people would be focused on. But they were talking about just enjoying the fun of grinding for accumulation even if the stuff accumulated goes away. I respect people who want something "more" but I'm hopeful Bungie is backing off of doing Destiny complications like progression and avarice. I just find it hard to believe they (really Sony) would decide to. Also, I deeply suspect I am old and want a thing that won't exist again.