Two cents (Gaming)

by CyberKN , Oh no, Destiny 2 is bad, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 16:14 (2 days ago) @ Kermit
edited by CyberKN, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 16:20

I’ve been reading through a lot of what people have to say here, and I think a common theme has formed in my head from all the discussion:

We just don’t trust Bungie anymore.

Exactly when the point that happened for anyone is going to vary wildly, but it’s been a reality for me since pretty early in Destiny’s life-cycle.

So I go into these media/marketing presentations with a pretty cynical mentality, and I can’t say that anything anyone has said- Bungie or otherwise- has done anything to help alleviate that. Quite the opposite.

I do think that the gameplay concept of “extraction”, and the risk/reward of betting your accumulated gear in a gameplay session is one that can work very well (I love Hitman 3’s Freelancer mode to death and it makes fantastic use of this). I just have zero interest in doing it against other players who are probably better than me.

I kept the hope alive that after the initial tepid reaction to Marathon’s reveal, Bungie would wake up and realize there’s still a sizable audience for a solid, single-player campaign in a cool sci-fi universe, but it appears that was naive of me.