I've written and deleted a few posts that amount to this (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Monday, March 23, 2015, 14:22 (3770 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

I just can't get in to a game if I don't enjoy the way it controls. That's a deal-breaker for me.

This is what's so damn frustrating about Destiny to me. It controls BEAUTIFULLY. But there's nothing else to the gameplay. The AI sucks ballsack. The boss fights are boring and repetitive (even in raids). The crucible lacks variety and the maps are grossly imbalanced. The story is a cruel joke. The web integration is almost entirely things that should just be in the actual game. The worlds are small, exploration doesn't exist, the missions are poorly planned and unfold in a disjointed an nonsensical fashion. I could go on, but you get my point.

It's so frustrating to me. I love, love the feel of moving through the space, lining up a shot, and taking a baddie down with extreme prejudice.

But I hate almost everything else about the game.

It's what gives me the constant sense of "they could change it and it would be AMAZING" but the fact of the matter is that Bungie is "evolving" this game at a snail's pace, and focusing on perceived exploits over bugs, and offering only minor improvements in the core play and design. When I play, I'm constantly asking myself if anyone at bungie has actually played Destiny. That's sad. They claim to make games that they want to play, but instead they seem to have made a game engine that they want someone with creative vision to turn into a full blown game.