I'm still on the fence (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, September 09, 2015, 13:09 (3600 days ago) @ cheapLEY

... about this whole "questification" thing. I'll need to see how it plays out when I dive into the new content next week, but so far it just feels like a bunch of mundane chores and checklists.

I'm all for a system that adds more narrative cohesion to Destiny, but I'm not convinced a system is what is needed to do that. I never found the narrative flow of Destiny year 1 to be confusing... I just didn't think it was very good. The missions flowed clearly enough from one to the next. I always knew where I was and what I was doing, as far as the narrative content allows.

Luke Smith has mentioned The Dark Below as a turning point in a few interviews. He describes the quest lines introduced in TDB as being a major influence in the questification of TTK. Thinking back to my early time with TDB, I quite enjoyed Eris' side quests... but it wasn't because of the UI implementation. It was because the quest missions were cool! Cyber, Cody and I jumped in on launch day and had a lot of fun searching for the various targets. I loved that the quests didn't give you a waypoint or tell you exactly where to go. They just told you to search a general area, and the rest is up to you. It felt like a real "hunt", and it was different than anything else in the game.

I'm hoping TTK adds more quests along those lines. All my characters are level 34 already, so the quests I've seen so far are little more than glorified bounties with a more confusing and cluttered UI. The best way for me to keep track of my activities is to go to the director and see which planets have glowing icons over them: exactly the way I did before quests were introduced.

TL;DR,

I'm not sold on the new format, but need to see how it plays out with more substantial content.