MMORPG is broken beyond repair (Destiny)

by Jabberwok, Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 17:44 (3914 days ago) @ Cody Miller

The problems extend well past Destiny, and really originate from the genre itself: MMORPG. Thankfully Destiny has strong FPS elements to allow for a bunch of fun, but you are right in that it can't be fixed unless Bungie abandons a broken terrible genre. To their credit, this is the only MMO I have ever enjoyed.

Destiny would have been better served as a proper FPS, or as an RPG (perhaps RPG with FPS elements like Deus Ex).

Once I realized this, I knew how to classify Destiny, so I stopped playing it entirely and went back to Diablo 3, because it's a better-executed version of the same grind.

I could maybe have respected Destiny's strengths more as a 'shared world shooter' without the progression system, and a more innovative (or at least less backwards) approach to replay value. The universe could make for a great RPG, as well, but Bungie hasn't had experience in that vein since Pathways.


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