The Titanfall franchise deserves a Titanfall 3, and for it to be a massive success. I don’t think a shooter campaign has come close to matching TF2’s campaign, and that was… [checks google]… FIVE AND A HALF YEARS AGO?!?

Doom Eternal?

Haven’t tried Eternal, but i bounced off Doom 2016 pretty quickly (I recognize that it’s great in its own way, but just didn’t appeal to me).

The Titanfall franchise deserves a Titanfall 3, and for it to be a massive success. I don’t think a shooter campaign has come close to matching TF2’s campaign, and that was… [checks google]… FIVE AND A HALF YEARS AGO?!?

Doom Eternal?

Fuck no. The DOOM 2016 campaign, maybe, but Eternal is nowhere near it.

Shit, now I might have to replay DOOM and Titanfall 2.

The Titanfall franchise deserves a Titanfall 3, and for it to be a massive success. I don’t think a shooter campaign has come close to matching TF2’s campaign, and that was… [checks google]… FIVE AND A HALF YEARS AGO?!?

Doom Eternal?

We need Destiny 3 really badly. Or I do, at least. Destiny 2 is no longer compelling. SkillUp’s arguments about difficulty good true, and it means Destiny isn’t fun anymore on a fundamental level. I don’t blame Bungie completely—they’ve clearly found a formula that works for the massive number of people that still play, and it keeps them playing and probably spending money. Even if I think it’s dogshit, I can’t really be mad at them for developing the game the way they have.

I was actually curious and looked up the numbers. At least on PC, the number of players spikes with an expansion, then levels off and basically stays put. It seems like there in fact are a lot of regular players who stick around and do play constantly. It's kind of remarkable actually, given the quickly moving landscape of gaming and entertainment in general today.

I still play D2 frequently (not every day, but close to that). For me, it’s probably 90% down to the social experience at this point. D2 is where my friends and I hang out together most often. However, even that is starting to slip. Every season, there is less and less content in the game that anyone in my clan has any interest in playing, and the content we do still enjoy is becoming restricted by qualifiers.

For example, it used to be a given that most of my clan would spend most of a given weekend playing Trials. But now it’s only IF there’s no solo-Que playlist that weekend, IF it’s not the control variant of Trials, IF the adept weapon is one we care about chasing, etc. If any of those qualifiers are not met, we’ll probably still play a card, but that’s about it. This kind of approach is bleeding into many aspects of the game. We won’t touch the strike or gambit playlists unless it’s a triple XP week and we can knock out some seasonal challenges real fast, because otherwise we just find both activities mindlessly dull. We’ll do Grandmaster nightfalls IF the adept weapon is a good one. We’ll do regular crucible IF there are at least 4-5 of us in a fireteam together… any less than that, and matchmaking becomes hopelessly frustrating. Bungie has removed any reason to ever touch the competitive playlist, so that’s gone for us. The seasonal activities and missions tend to wear themselves out after the first week or two. We’ll do the latest raid once or twice per week, and we’ll really enjoy it for a little while, but that eventually turns into exhaustion and frustration as we run it week after week after week just because a couple people in the clan won’t get the raid exotic until their 75th completion or something nuts like that, lol.

For me, it’s a stark contrast from Foresaken era D2 when I genuinely enjoyed many different parts of the game (Forsaken even made me love Patrols!). My clan was poised and ready to jump ship and move over to Halo Infinite, but that game was such a huge miss for most of us that we’re still going back to D2. But I could easily see us switching to another game if something comes along that clicks with enough of us.

My problem is that I am trying to multitask other hobbies and side businesses and I can't find time to even focus on this one game, much less try others. I feel so far behind now. Maybe sometime in June I can finally finish this raid.

Just quit. You'll be better off. Believe me, I know!

Maybe sometime in June I can finally finish this raid.

And get the exotic, presumably.

Heh, yeah. I still have not ran VoG start to finish in D2, but I have had Mythoclast drop on both times I helped at Atheon.

Maybe sometime in June I can finally finish this raid.

And get the exotic, presumably.

That’s the hardest part of not playing.

Can’t we all just find something else to play?

I'm too old to multitask. :(

Multitasking is a myth regardless.

My problem is that I am trying to multitask other hobbies and side businesses and I can't find time to even focus on this one game, much less try others. I feel so far behind now. Maybe sometime in June I can finally finish this raid.

There’s an easy solution for that.

Remove power level and add difficulty selection. Boom. I fixed it.

Haven't they added difficulty selection, to a degree?

Remove power level and add difficulty selection. Boom. I fixed it.

I was actually curious and looked up the numbers. At least on PC, the number of players spikes with an expansion, then levels off and basically stays put. It seems like there in fact are a lot of regular players who stick around and do play constantly. It's kind of remarkable actually, given the quickly moving landscape of gaming and entertainment in general today.

It's just a good, fun, hobby that I play with a solid group of people on a regular basis. The amount of work I'd have to do to cover all the itches that Destiny scratches for me (that sounds weirder than intended) is gargantuan, so why bother?

This. And Skillup's review gave me an epiphany. My friend Prof Ozy and I have played video games together for a very long time (starting with Robosport, the only game I consistently won against him). He currently likes games I don't really like (e.g., Ghost Recon), and we've been struggling to find something we both want to play (while I'm struggling to find time to keep with Destiny alone). He's played Destiny off and on, but gets bogged down with it and loses interest as a mainly solo player.

Bounty hunting and the lower level playlists are something we can play together because basically he just likes to shoot stuff. He doesn't have to have kept up to join in, and I think that's part of what Bungie is doing. They're basically saying, walk-ins welcome. I'm not saying that criticism from Datto and the like are unwarranted, but Bungie is walking a tightrope here between keeping the game accessible to casual players and interesting to the hardcore. It's a challenge, I'm sure.

That’s the hardest part of not playing.

Can’t we all just find something else to play?

I'm too old to multitask. :(

Multitasking is a myth regardless.