By that measure, I finished with Halo in 3 weeks. (Destiny)

by Jabberwok, Saturday, October 18, 2014, 14:53 (3927 days ago) @ Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)

But Bungie didn't make the same ridiculous claims about Halo as they did for Destiny.

HA-hahahahahahaaaa!.... (Hit #36 of 168 for a search for "bungie sold out" in the year 2001.)

-- Steve may have been around too long & finally snapped. That, or the weight of experience suggests to him that some element of every fanbase will be alienated by whatever a game developer does.

Even though Halo wasn't all I imagined from the first article I read about it, I still must've spent over half a year playing the single player on and off, because it was good. But admittedly, I had more free time, less options, and lower standards. The industry has changed since then, maybe for the better, and Destiny did imply an awful lot that it didn't really deliver. At least if you felt optimistic about those early videos.

Well, okay, so maybe this is the issue. Destiny's loot system is set up with the _expectation_ of grinding the same content repeatedly, so it's not unrealistic for players to expect that that should also be worth doing for its own sake. But in my opinion, it isn't. Those cool weapons and armors that I saw in their videos? I will never, ever see those without investing way more time than I am willing to. It's like there's bait on the hook that looks tasty, but not enough for me to enjoy being caught and gutted.