My Rebuttal when I heard this. (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, 03:55 (3446 days ago) @ INSANEdrive

I think Deej was very revealing in a way I haven't seen Bungie be on the subject of inventory and guns in Destiny. It's a philosophy that isn't at all knew for Bungie, I'm just surprised I haven't seen them state it yet.

That philosophy is that yes, you will have to throw away good weapons, because Bungie want you to choose your favorite weapons for you. This isn't new for Bungie, as they made us choose two weapons in Halo, which, for the few of us old farts that remember it was painful at first. We were so used to having at least 10 weapons to choose from, game depending.

Personally, I *sort* of like the idea. What I don't like is that the influx of guns forces me to make decisions before I'm ready to. It's like if you forced me to limit my music library. Inevitably I'd delete an oldy to keep a new-hotness, only to realize it really isn't for me, and want the oldy back.

Then help me make that choice. I'm overwhelmed. There is such a thing as having too many options. :/
As it stands I try to have one of everything, because I have to.

I second the request to have help making the choice. Numbers instead of or along with bars would make that so much easier. If that was changed I wouldn't have to collect and shuffle my entire inventory of, say, shotguns every time I go to buy a shotgun or decide whether to keep one I got as a reward. I could just look them all one time and mark down the numbers somewhere, and then when I have something new I can pull that up, look at the item in question, and compare it to everything in the list all in one go. I know I could do a trick on b.net to get numbers but that's too time consuming to feel worth doing, especially on a slow computer, and especially when I want to compare perks from reforging to other weapons and their perks and decide if I want to reforge again. At the very least, why not have rate of fire be numeric? There are real world measurements for that and there's no way to change it.