Had an Epiphany in the Vanguard Room about this! (Destiny)

by CicadaOne, Saturday, September 27, 2014, 14:56 (3947 days ago) @ Postmortem

"there are very few places where the game really lets you pause to appreciate it. In the wilds you have maybe a minute or less before enemies start shooting at you again.."

I think that's a good way of putting it! Another way of putting it is that the world of destiny is claustrophobically small and dense.

Last night, for maybe the first time since I started playing, I walked up to the window behind the three vanguards and looked out to the rolling hills in the valley outside the city.

I realized that the game I was hoping to play is out there - if you could take on that vast space with a sparrow, alone or with a fire-team, speeding out over the hills and through the light forests, finding signs of enemy incursion and eventually recon parties of fallen, small outbreaks of hive... A space you could wander without constantly coming into contact with artificial walls and new clusters of enemies with no clear motivation for being in a given place except to shoot at you as soon as you come around the corner.

Here's hoping when there's a chance to design new "destinations" they actually try to make them "open". That free exploration and transit time is I think exactly what you're noticing as a lack of "downtime".