^^^ This... Big time ^^^ (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 16:02 (3553 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

Destiny pits you against plenty of large enemies, most of them bosses. But most bosses in Destiny are bullet sponges and have 360-degree attacks that crush anyone who gets close. The "Hunter Dance" as I like to call it is classic Halo combat, and I hadn't realized how much I missed it until I played Halo 5. Getting up in a Hunter's face, jumping and dashing around like a madman to dodge the hunter's slams and plasma blasts... it's so much fun :D

It's a little funny (in a slightly sad way) that Bungie have sort of forgot the house they built with Halo, and some of the things that made Halo so much fun.

Just like what you described, and the lack of vehicles, and . . . the list could go on.

I mean, Destiny feels so, so good for gunplay, but it certainly lacks a lot of things that made Halo great, and things I would have expected Bungie to continue experimenting with, but it wasn't until another great Halo game came around that I really noticed the lack of some of those things.

The Warden's (and Hunter pairs) are interesting encounters (made awful if you're not playing with real people) that Destiny could certainly use the likes of. Destiny seems to mostly be a game of stand at a distance and pump bullets into it, where as Halo really encourages jumping into the fray and mixing it up.

As a side note, did Halo 5 seem easier to anyone else? I played through on Heroic, and other than the few Warden encounters, I breezed through it. Maybe it's on par with the other games, but I seem to remember Heroic being a bit more challenging than that.