I personally dont have any issues with the load time, wondering if that has to do with the SSD I have the game loaded on, or I am just not as bothered by the load times?
Maybe the SSD is helping, but the load times seem artificially long on the Xbox One. There is no reason it should take that long to load what little is being loaded, especially if I just came from that planet. With the amount of static stuff, it shouldn't take me 2-3 minutes between planets.
I'm enjoying it right now but just don't see the longevity of the game as it is now. There just isn't enough content to keep it going months from now without these expansion packs coming out every couple months.
I had another thought too. These are the same reviewers who gave games like Titanfall 9/10 scores. If ever there was a game that was light on story and heavy on repetition, that game is TitanFall. The jury is out on how well Destiny will do in the long haul, but at least it is many times better than Titanfall both as a pure shooter and a story driven game.
Reviewers need to not allow their expectations color their reviews. Destiny is a better game, but it gets worse reviews because it was expected to be an even better game than it already is. I'm not sure that after everything plays out with patches and additional content in the future that Destiny won't turn out to be every bit the game they expected it to be from the start, just doled out a bit more slowly than a journalistic deadline would allow the reviewers to appreciate.
Just something to think about.
I'm not sure what reviewers are smoking and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but this game is pretty damn good. It's a loot based game, with solid fps gameplay mechanics, good ai, and fun pvp. Most of all it's a video game, and I just feel like gameplay should trump everything else when it comes to reviewing a video game. Overall, it seems Destiny got scored based on it's hype curve.
I guess the main complaint is the story and background and such. In a game like this, who cares???? I played D3 to death, the story in that game is the silliest thing ever..imo, but I don't kill the Butcher, Diablo, Azmodan, over and over and over again because it relates to some story. I kill them to find better loot. So long as the gameplay is fun, somewhat challenging, and the loot is interesting, that's all that really matters.
I don't understand why people keep bringing up examples of other games that have weak stories - it's utterly irrelevant and I think it's fair to say that if the story in Diablo 3 was told better then the campaign would be considerably more enjoyable.
D3 is pretty much an arcade game with knobs on and it doesn't pretend to be anything else. It also has loot drops by the bucket load.
Bungie spent a fair chunk of cash on paying popular actors to do the voice acting, so they obviously thought the story was worth devoting considerable resources to. Unfortunately the loot in Destiny isn't particularly interesting.
Destiny
Available on: PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3
Worried about Destiny's longevity or level cap? You don't understand Destiny
David Houghton on September 16, 2014
There are two games called Destiny around at the moment. Both of them are by Bungie. Both of them released last week. One of them is a soaring, confoundingly large, dizzyingly ambitious, and seamlessly realised MMOFPS. Refined yet intricate in its systems, immensely, endlessly gratifying in its combat, it’s truly exciting in its long-term scope. The other is a short FPSRPG with a tiny level-cap, that you’ll finish in a day.
But only the first of these games really exists. The other is a hallucination, fabricated via a jabbering combination of under-researched misinformation, knee-jerk reactions, and standard-issue internet cynicism. It’s a hallucination that an unfortunate proportion of the gaming populace seems to have bought into over the last week, propelled seemingly in part by an unfortunate proportion of early (far too early) online impressions of the game...
...Because to judge Destiny’s story as short--and it really isn’t--is to surmise a game’s quality based on the experience you had playing through its tutorial. To appraise Destiny’s content as lacking is to determine a house to be small, having viewed its interior only through the keyhole of the front door. And to state that Destiny’s level cap is too low, and its scope for achievement and progress stunted, is to flat-out state that you haven’t bloody played the thing and should really shut up right about now.
Because Destiny really does only start once you hit level 20. Because Destiny is a far cleverer, far bigger, and far less finite game than some are choosing to give it credit for. It doesn’t communicate its full breadth of horizons to start with, but it ultimately bears very little resemblance to the standard, linear, AAA shooter. Nor do its RPG elements make it simply Halo with levelling. Its scope goes much wider than that. It isn’t a mook-grinding, loot-grabbing, Borderlands 2.5 either. Its focus is much more precise, and intricate than that.
white ammo blocks are available in abundance during every encounter.
I'm level 25 (almost 26) and have a few legendaries.
Yes, being able to hold a bit more scout rifle ammo is nice but it's not something that makes any meaningful difference to your game - white ammo blocks are available in abundance during every encounter.
It's the same with everything else about the gear. Some of it might speed up the cooldown on my grenades or melee attack, but so what? It makes little difference overall.
I saw that Games Radar article earlier and thought it was complete nonsense.
I'm level 25 (almost 26) and have a few legendaries.
Yes, being able to hold a bit more scout rifle ammo is nice but it's not something that makes any meaningful difference to your game - white ammo blocks are available in abundance during every encounter.
It's the same with everything else about the gear. Some of it might speed up the cooldown on my grenades or melee attack, but so what? It makes little difference overall.
I saw that Games Radar article earlier and thought it was complete nonsense.
Haha...cool down makes little difference? Have you any idea how useful it is to be able to toss a grenade and remove a bunch of fodder enemies that will swarm you while the shielded guys will shoot at you from afar? Also as a warlock a kill with melee will heal me so yeah I want that timer to go down. Also when doing some of the level 24 strikes I literally ran out of ammo and there was none to be found so what do you do? You use those ammo packs the weapon vender sells. They are invaluable. The strike against the cabal captain or general where you have to kill his guards really eats through your ammo when its set on level 24. Most of it taking out subbosses who remember, won't drop ammo until killed and they take many shots.
If all you are doing is patrol and bounties you will never see how difficult it is to keep your ammo count up. Especially when there is the juggler modifier in effect like mnewsham mentioned.
Haha...cool down makes little difference? Have you any idea how useful it is to be able to toss a grenade and remove a bunch of fodder enemies that will swarm you while the shielded guys will shoot at you from afar? Also as a warlock a kill with melee will heal me so yeah I want that timer to go down. Also when doing some of the level 24 strikes I literally ran out of ammo and there was none to be found so what do you do? You use those ammo packs the weapon vender sells. They are invaluable. The strike against the cabal captain or general where you have to kill his guards really eats through your ammo when its set on level 24. Most of it taking out subbosses who remember, won't drop ammo until killed and they take many shots.
If all you are doing is patrol and bounties you will never see how difficult it is to keep your ammo count up. Especially when there is the juggler modifier in effect like mnewsham mentioned.
This guy clearly got level 25 grinding the spawns in patrol.
Running out of ammo on is a think that happens a lot on real boss fights / sections of the game.
Having lower CD is invaluable on grenade and melee in tons of situations, as well.
And which of these strikes uses the juggler modifier? The only time I've seen it is when selecting a higher difficulty level for the missions, something that certainly couldn't be considered the main part of the game.
Weekly strikes, higher level missions?
I've ran out of ammo plenty of times. With cmddredd, as recently as last night ^^
The strike bosses are bullet sponges, I've had to use the reload ammo trick a few times during boss fights when ammo ran completely dry.
I like this article from gamesradar. It kind of speaks to how I feel about Destiny right now.
http://www.gamesradar.com/if-youre-...ity-or-level-cap-you-dont-understand-destiny/
Destiny = Diablo 3
The game that everybody in the Internet will find reasons to talk shit about. While sinking hundreds of hours playing the game.
I haven't been able to do the weekly strikes due to a lack of matchmaking but which higher level missions are you referring to?
I haven't had to use any reload ammo tricks on any of the strike bosses, I just go and look for a block if I get low on ammo.