NO SPOILERS PLEASE - how do people like the Raid so far? (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Monday, September 21, 2015, 17:54 (3447 days ago) @ yakaman

Still blind, so please no spoilers.

In general, how is it? Interesting? More of the same? Difficult? Not-so-difficult? Better than VoG? Etc.

Love love love it. Every encounter feels challenging and demanding without feeling overly punishing. Great mechanics that build in complexity as you go.

The pacing is really well done, too. Plenty of intense action, but nice stretches without gunfire as well. And the encounters themselves seem well paced. Nothing as long or drawn out as the Templar's Well in VoG, nor is there anything like the "standing around waiting for the boss to to move" that plagued the end of Crota.

In terms of the overall feel of the raid, I think it is closer to VoG than Crota. It feels vast in a way that Crota doesn't. I'm pretty sure it is substantially larger than VoG as well. You really get the sense that your fireteam is on an epic journey of Tolkein-proportions. The environment feels vast and ancient.

I do have a soft spot for VoG. Particularly the environment. Something about delving deeper and deeper into those caves really clicked with me. I'm not really a fan of the Hive aesthetic in general. I got tired of the dreadnought quite quickly (love all the activities to do in there, just don't like the playspace itself). That being said, I think Bungie has done a great job of creating a raid that takes place within a Hive ship without sending us down endless gross, gooey hallways. There is a lot of variety to the locations as you play through them.

My 1 complaint (if you can even call it that) is that many of the environments in King's End feel extremely "gamey" compared to VoG or even Crota. I kept thinking back to that moment in Galaxy Quest where they need to run down the hallway with the fire traps and pieces of wall slamming together and one of the characters starts complaining "why does this place even exist in a starship? What purpose does any of this serve?!" So in that sense it's not as immersive as the old raids (VoG in particular), and I could see that bothering some players who like to dive a little more deeply into the "role playing" side of things. But it didn't bother me at all because I found it all so mechanically fun and rewarding :)

TL;DR It's awesome :D