Lack of Discovery (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, October 22, 2015, 20:12 (3415 days ago) @ Claude Errera
edited by Cody Miller, Thursday, October 22, 2015, 20:18

I like the idea of all these secret quests for guns a whole lot, but so many of them involve… waiting until the quest is given to you. Doesn't anybody else find that lame? Maybe it's just me, but in a game which is interactive, shouldn't discovery be brought about by my actions, rather than a popup on Tuesday?

Every step should be the result of something I do.

You and the guy at Forbes agree on this.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/10/22/bungies-destiny-timegates-are-tolerable-but-disappearing-missions-a...

He is talking about a different, but somewhat related problem. He mentions the waiting somewhat briefly, as it is tied in. I am not talking about small windows for quests however.

I am talking about the fact that you can't go in and say, grab those ghosts whenever you want. You have to wait for the daily heroic. Then, you simply have to wait again until the next step of the quest appears. Remember sleeper simulant? You get it by just… waiting for it to appear. One day out of the blue it's available.

Rather than go out and forge your own path to discovery, you are being spoon fed the steps based on time. I'm not opposed to time based missions necessarily. I'm opposed to time based missions in areas you could already explore with no reason to have the special thing happen on that particular day.

Fine: Today a big badass landed on Mars and is wrecking shit. Kill him for a prize.
Not fine: This mission you can do everyday now has items placed in previously accessible locations, and are only there today, when there's no reason why they can't be there everyday.

I hope that makes sense.

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Lack of Discovery - Cody Miller, 2015-10-22, 19:04
- Lack of Discovery - Kahzgul, 2015-10-22, 19:10
  - Lack of Discovery - slycrel, 2015-10-22, 19:18
    - Omnigul Pulse Rifle? - red robber, 2015-10-22, 19:21
      - Omnigul Pulse Rifle? - slycrel, 2015-10-22, 20:01
        
        Meh? - unoudid, 2015-10-23, 01:04
        
        I don't think so - ZackDark, 2015-10-23, 01:44
        
        Unique Archetype (in TTK at least) - someotherguy, 2015-10-23, 02:21
        
        Still not seeing it - unoudid, 2015-10-23, 12:31
        
        FWIW, no one said it was awesome :p - ZackDark, 2015-10-23, 12:50
        
        That's definitely not right - someotherguy, 2015-10-23, 12:53
- Sort of... - slycrel, 2015-10-22, 19:15
- Lack of Discovery - breitzen, 2015-10-22, 19:17
  - Lack of Discovery - dogcow, 2015-10-22, 20:05
    - Lack of Discovery - breitzen, 2015-10-22, 20:07
      - Lack of Discovery - Kahzgul, 2015-10-22, 20:32
        
        Same. I also never sleep. - CruelLEGACEY, 2015-10-22, 21:37
        
        I love my sleep & my sleep loves me. - breitzen, 2015-10-22, 23:26
    - Lack of Discovery - bluerunner, 2015-10-23, 00:10
- Lack of Discovery - CruelLEGACEY, 2015-10-22, 19:44
  - Lack of Discovery - marmot 1333, 2015-10-22, 19:53
    - Lack of Discovery - Cody Miller, 2015-10-22, 20:20
- Lack of Discovery - Ragashingo, 2015-10-22, 19:50
- Lack of Discovery - Claude Errera, 2015-10-22, 20:05
  - Lack of Discovery - Cody Miller, 2015-10-22, 20:12
    - Lack of Discovery - Kahzgul, 2015-10-22, 20:34
      - Lack of Discovery - cheapLEY, 2015-10-22, 21:07
        
        Except the things we do have to figure out... - Ragashingo, 2015-10-22, 21:55
        
        Except the things we do have to figure out... - Claude Errera, 2015-10-22, 22:26
        
        Except the things we do have to figure out... - Funkmon, 2015-10-22, 22:40
        
        Except the things we do have to figure out... - Ragashingo, 2015-10-22, 23:16
        
        Except the things we do have to figure out... - bluerunner, 2015-10-23, 00:19
        
        +1 (x1000) - breitzen, 2015-10-23, 00:25
        
        +1 (x1000) (x2 more) - Kahzgul, 2015-10-23, 01:32
        
        Oh, is that not what we were talking about? - Vortech, 2015-10-23, 21:40
        
        lol - Kahzgul, 2015-10-23, 22:42
        
        Well, that's the thing - ZackDark, 2015-10-22, 22:55
        
        Well, that's the thing - Ragashingo, 2015-10-22, 23:28
        
        Well, that's the thing - Cody Miller, 2015-10-22, 23:41
        
        Ew - someotherguy, 2015-10-22, 23:43
        
        Well, that's the thing - Ragashingo, 2015-10-22, 23:48
        
        Well, that's the thing - Cody Miller, 2015-10-22, 23:51
        
        Unless you are on 360. - Vortech, 2015-10-23, 21:42
        
        Well, that's the thing - ZackDark, 2015-10-23, 00:27
        
        Lack of Discovery - Pyromancy, 2015-10-22, 23:18
        
        Lack of Discovery - cheapLEY, 2015-10-22, 23:47
        
        Lack of Discovery - Pyromancy, 2015-10-23, 00:25
        
        Lack of Discovery - cheapLEY, 2015-10-23, 11:39
        
        Lack of Discovery - Vortech, 2015-10-23, 21:48
    - Lack of Discovery - breitzen, 2015-10-22, 23:38

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