"I haven't touched Halo 5 and Destiny is to blame" (Destiny)

by EffortlessFury , Thursday, October 29, 2015, 17:27 (3408 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Don't get me wrong, I play Destiny because I really enjoy it, but I have to admit that there is a small baseline of unhealthy addiction and unwillingness to stop playing for fear of being left behind that's not necessarily a good thing.

This is why I deleted Destiny from my Xbox. I really enjoyed playing the game, honestly, but there was this nagging feeling as you said to play 'keep up' or I'd be left behind.

- MacGyver10

The thing is, being behind isn't that big of a deal. I guess I see that now. When the next expansion comes, everybody kind of starts on equal footing anyway.

Like, I hit the lighthouse in House of Wilves what, 14 or 15 times. Yet, I didn't really get anything that I really ended up using a ton and relying on. My messanger adept kicked ass, but it was identical in PvP to a regular messanger, which is far easier to obtain. The experience of playing trials and visiting mercury was great, and I'll always love that! But I don't think not doing it would have put me behind, nor would doing it less have made the times I did play less important.

There's a pretty huge cliff you hit where you get very sharp diminishing returns in Destiny. More so it seems for the slow laborious process to 320 light.

I'd love to play trials with the PS4 crew here, but not if it requires me to go nuts with grinding. 365 weapons and level 34 were easy to get in HoW. Doesn't seem that way in TTK.

As I said elsewhere either yesterday or today, its not just being behind that's the problem, but being behind because you're pretty much running solo. Its not easy to solo a lot of TTK content, at least for me, and I just never got pulled in because there's a lot of pushback from the game with that difficulty barrier, partially artificially enforced by RNG. I don't want to loop around and reply a bunch of content just to get the stuff I need to move forward with the plot. That's not letting me play the way I want to, which is supposedly a core tenant of the game.