Is the Raid too hard? (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Monday, September 28, 2015, 21:51 (3438 days ago) @ Claude Errera
edited by cheapLEY, Monday, September 28, 2015, 21:54

As I've said before, I absolutely love the raid.

And while I feel like the challenge level is perfect, requiring the right amount of critical thinking, pattern recognition, and skilled play, is it also too demanding?

And what I'm thinking of here is mainly the length of time it takes to complete for the first time. Yeah, a lot of folks seem to be doing it in 8 hours or so. Our group is fastly approaching 14 hours according to my twitch archive, and we just made it to the Deathsingers.

I don't want to speak for everyone in our group, but I'm not even close to being highly skilled at the game, which is fine. Our group has struggled, but we've still found everything to be accomplishable so far. I like the level of challenge.

But it takes sooooo long. And it makes it hard to finish the damn thing without spoilers. Unless my group somehow manages to finish tonight (which I doubt), we have to start all over tomorrow.

It's becoming more and more difficult to find enough time to get through a raid blind, which, as this thread demonstrates, is the best way to experience a raid.

What worries me is that it'll only get worse. When promoting TTK, Luke Smith was always saying how this was the biggest, most complex raid yet. With each new raid, it becomes an issue of Bungie trying to top the last one, and before long, it's out of control.

I'm not really saying I have a problem with the raid, because I don't. I love it. It's been an amazing experience. I wouldn't change a thing.

I'm just wondering how they keep a balance of making each raid arguably bigger and crazier, but still keep it doable by the average fireteam.