So... Halo must not have been for me... (Destiny)

by Doooskey, Kansas City, MO, Friday, August 08, 2014, 08:07 (3763 days ago) @ Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)

I think I have been playing Halo wrong for a while. I enjoyed the Campaign, and the Multiplayer just fine. Some of the best games I have played.

After playing Destiny, Halo feels slow and clunky. I love the pace of Destiny. A lot of your disappointments can be boiled down to pace. In Destiny the pace is at least 2x faster than Halo. Enemies go down faster, and you can mow down a lot of them quickly (until you get to stronger classes). Personally, I love it and I feel waaaay more powerful than I did in Halo, although I am still vulnerable.

Shanks will flank you, Invis Vandals will try to sneak up and melee you, Knights play D, Thralls run up and try to overrun you, or they hide around inside corners and wait. Captains sit back (and remind me a lot of low level Covenant Elites), Orge's were a whole other class altogether. We have seen less than half of the enemy types, and I am already having a blast.

What I read in your complaints was this: "I wish this were Halo and because it isn't Halo, it isn't any good, or fun." I had a blast, I think PVP is very balanced. I learned a lot in the 4 days I played the Beta at less than a third of the total level cap (I'm guessing 30 is the top). The people I played got better. The moon was amazing. I loved Old Russia. I have several friends in town that I played with and we all had a blast. We didn't win every game, we had some GREAT nail biters (more frequent towards the end). I felt like I could win even when I was seen first (switch to shotgun, maybe the fusion rifle? Drop my grenade and duck around a corner, double jump, sprint away, throw my super? I HAD TONS of options. In Halo, my only real choice was to re engage the person with the same weapons (unless I happened to have a diff weapon picked up - and there were good chances if it were one on one - the loser would just run away before dying).

I enjoyed Halo, but I LOVE Destiny's playstyle. They are very different. What cracks me up is all the journalists and reviewers complaining how Destiny is just "Halo with space magic." Are you kidding? These are very different games.

I am bummed you didn't enjoy Destiny. I hope you enjoy The Master Chief Collection and Halo 5.