Mini Rant: Big Problem! No two guns are ever the same. (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Friday, July 24, 2015, 16:19 (3647 days ago) @ slycrel

I get why Destiny bombard you with so much choice. It's all purposeful and manipulative.

There's a principle, where the more choice someone has, the less satisfied they ultimately are. Imagine you can choose from two Vacuum cleaners. You look at them, decide which is better, and buy the better one. You might down the line have second thoughts, but when you think back, you can clearly see you made the better choice.

But if you have a hundred Vacuum cleaners to choose from, you have second thoughts, but then go over the endless combinations of attachments and models from the other 99. You can no longer tell with certainty that 'this one I got is the best', because there is so much choice, and so many factors, you are always left with that nagging and uncertainty.

Thus, Destiny WANTS you to agonize over whether your rolls are as good as they can be, by bombarding you with meaningless choice to create uncertainty in your mind.

The more you examine the game, the more deliberately hostile you see the design ultimately is.