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

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Friday, October 30, 2015, 05:04 (3408 days ago) @ Avateur

Don't be fooled. I don't think Bungie cares at all about how you want to play or solo play. The new trademark from Bungie for Destiny should be "We make games for you to play how we want." It sucks for sure. Solo just isn't a thing, and they've gone to great lengths to try to discourage it imo. While I'd love to trash on H5 so as to tell you why you should Destiny it up regardless, I find it hard to trash a dead franchise. There's still hope for the future with Destiny. Unless microtransactions kill it. Slippery slope and such.

There's nothing wrong with making a game that's not supposed to played alone. The absolute best parts of Destiny are with 5 other people tackling challenges that you could not conquer by yourself. That's like saying Gears of War was bad because you couldn't just run and gun everything. That's just… how the game is.

Did you play Portal 2? You could only play half the game alone. The other half required a co-op partner. That doesn't make it bad. In fact, I thought the co-op mode was quite cool indeed. I can easily imagine someday a game which is only co-op. Provided it has split screen, such a game could actually be pretty cool. Look at the quality of the puzzles in Portal 2's single player vs the Co-op mode. Look at the quality of the raids in Destiny when compared to story missions. There's a bunch of experiences out there players could potentially be having that are impossible alone!