Inventory Hell (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, August 04, 2014, 10:06 (3764 days ago) @ kapowaz
edited by Cody Miller, Monday, August 04, 2014, 10:12

Cody; you're the last person to start preaching about who does or doesn't ‘get’ a game. Come back when you've actually played some of these games you're so disparaging about. You literally don't understand them. You don't understand investment systems or why other players would enjoy them, so again: come back when you ‘get’ those.

I play every game I criticize. Except in cases like Morning Star where I know it is bad because it embraces broken game design ideas. I feel like I understand the fundamentals of investment systems better than any journalist and most theorists writing about games, and certainly more than the developers themselves from a creative perspective (they have of course mastered the business perspective).

You're acting as if comparing it to MMOs is a crazy, out there idea. Funny then, that that's what most of the big games news sites are doing too:

http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/28/5661202/destiny-halo-bungie-friends-list
http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/19/5730492/destiny-bungie-multiplayer-trailer
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-07-21-five-talking-points-from-the-weekends-destiny-beta
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-06-21-destiny-how-to-save-online-worlds
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/11/e3-2013-destiny-gameplay-revealed
http://www.ign.com/blogs/rsg2033/2014/07/24/how-bungies-destiny-beta-compares-to-halo-and-world-of-warcraft

There are very few game journalists who are intelligent and can properly analyze a video game. None of the ones you linked are. Destiny appears to be an MMO with strong FPS elements. Those FPS elements are the key, and completely change the nature of the game. Just like Deus Ex is an RPG with Strong FPS elements, but it doesn't feel or play like any other RPG, does it? In fact, if Destiny did not have these strong FPS elements, but either had weak ones or none at all, then I would not even be interested in it.

Don't happen to have a good special weapon that does Void damage? Then you'd better go farm for hours to get one, or wait for one to pop up at the cryptarch! Given your aversion to grinding, I'm sure you can see the problem there.

This is 100% a problem. One of many.

If you don't believe there's both a skill and gear component in both of these games then that's just another statement of ignorance.

Never said that, learn to read. I'l make it clear for you: gear in WoW is a bigger factor than gear in Destiny, and skill in Destiny is a bigger factor than skill in WoW.