Paddy was right... kind of (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Sunday, June 29, 2014, 15:30 (3799 days ago) @ petetheduck

Get it on PS4? Load times were long, but they were under a minute. Alternatively, it would be nice to be able to open the menu and do stuff during loading, like set abilities and weapons.

Or do Tower tasks. The Tower seems like a deliberate inefficiency. Well, at lot of Destiny is--the whole investment system, right. But while the investment system seems investy and part of the game, the Tower just seems like a tedious ceremonial task.

I haven't played it, so I don't really know, but it sounds like there are a lot of different things to do in the Tower, and there are going to be more when the game is done, and I could see them feeling like that's a better way to handle that many disparate things than a big huge menu system.
Even discounting talking to people to get missions, get weapons, get upgrades, etc., people have shown you could catch NPC conversations that might be enjoyable, and there were dead(?) Ghosts you could revive, and there was a soccer ball that some people had some fun with, and I wouldn't be surprised if they added a few more little things you can do in the Tower.
More than that, though, I don't think they've done this so much recently, but they were talking about the City and the Tower as this social space, so a) having everyone need to go there reinforces that and b) well, the social aspect is a feature, you can go there and try to get a group together to do something or just people-watch. It's too bad you can only hear people in your party and your fireteam, half the enjoyment of people-watching is actually people-listening, but I'm sure someone will enjoy it anyway. On the group-gathering side, you can get people together for any of the game modes or start a dance party or bump around the soccer ball. All in all, I'm looking forward to spending some time hanging around the Tower.