What happened with Destiny launch? (Destiny)

by scarab , Tuesday, August 11, 2015, 12:16 (3630 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

It looks like they are trying harder now. The original game attempts seemed desultory. But it's not just the story.

There wasn't a lot of thought put into non-shooting aspects of gameplay or into the, non-grimoire, world building.

We had characters in the Tower who were not characters (which is storyish).

But the Tower itself was half hearted in other ways.

• the armourer was mostly just there - he didn't have much purpose
  
• you buy shaders from a woman who lives next to a puddle at the end of a blind corridor
  
• everything is very anachronistic - WOW is legitimately medieval but Destiny is set in the future - have these people never heard of: websites, Amazon, email?

The vault was an obvious thief of time and effort drain.

The patrol missions undermined the attempt to build a hopeful world. Or maybe Bungie wants to show that something is rotten in Denmark - that we are fucked up psychos who would spoon out your eyes as soon as look at you. Guardian society and technology runs on harvested body parts. I don't know how Guardians would manage without a steady stream of organ donors.

Bungie needs to spend a lot of time improving the non-story parts of the Destiny world.

Destiny's mediaeval ways of doing things is just a lazy copy of WOW. It feels like things are done just because that's how everyone else does them.

Bungie aren't the only people who do this. Bioware is just as guilty in ME in forgetting that we can send emails and order stuff online. I understand that online ordering loses the human touch but our Tower 'shopkeepers' already lack that.

By the end of the tens years you might have spent hundreds of hours of your life running around the tower, turning yourself into the world's slowest cursor just do get trivial things managed in the world. Look at the tower interface on bnet. It is a top down view of the tower. See the cursor? That's you running from pillar to post.

If I was a bounty hunter I wouldn't want to have to travel into town and run up to a guy to pick up a bounty. I would rather go to https://psychomurder.com and see what was on offer.

I had hoped that Bungie would rethink all these MMOesque staples, streamline it, bin the dross and give us something well thought out, intelligent, and pleasurable to experience. They didn't do that but what's done is done. They now need to do the work to make the Destiny world make sense and be a place that you want to hang out in.

An example of the world making sense: we are told that the people of the city appreciate us. Yet we have to run around the Tower in our precious off-duty time performing maintenance (housework). I think I keep my stuff in my ship. Why do I have to run to the post office? Why can't it be delivered to my ship? talking of which: don't we have teleporters? They have tech that should be better than Amazon.

I know the idea is that we are happy to get surprises at the post office and from the cryptarch, But over ten years you will have had (hundreds?) of thousands of these surprises. Most of these surprises involve a session of junk sharding (if memory serves). When does the grind of picking them up outweigh the pleasure of receiving them?

It would be nice to see the City's appreciation translate into actual services for Guardians. Can't a non-combatant wash my laundry for me while I am off on some dangerous world fighting for the City's survival?