Official Destiny Thread

[sze5003]

Liking it a lot. Decent story and the quests can be very challenging. Would probably be better with a dedicated group though.

Yea this wasn't that apparent except for raids in the alpha and beta. It's more leaned towards playing with a group.

 

[KentState]

Apparently today was the worst day I could choose to work from home. Everyone in the office is pointing to me as the go to person for a bunch of crap..hopefully I can at least install the game today.

Somewhat the same, except I have to be at work today due to some other launch. It's like the stars aligned and then crashed into each other.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Waiting to get off work so I can pick it up at Gamestop.

Metacritic user reviews aren't good, saying it short and for all we know it could be but how have people been able to see how short it is? The game hasn't been out long enough to know if that's true or not.

Bungie said all the day 0 reviews are BS. This proves it. Nobody has played enough to give it a proper review. Everyone should know metacritic is stupid and they may as well just remove the user review scores.

As far as the game really starts after level 20. That is when you earn motes of light and rank up. Your character stops at 20 but you get levels beyond that by getting better gear from the speaker by exchanging the motes. The gear will raise your stats above the cap. You will see a second number on the player card. Bungie said they are waiting to open the raid until there are more people level 25+(they said about a week). You can set some of the difficulties for the strikes and raid to level 30.

Everyone plays a little different and some may stretch out the story a bit and do a lot of explore and hunting for items to turn in for gear. So the time to actually complete the story could be a lot longer than what some people do. I mean think about it, Diablo is as repetitive as anything else but nobody agrees that you finish the story once and you're done. Yet it got some of the same BS reviews.

Example of BS review of diablo. Pretty much the same crap I see about destiny.

I had to write a review after so many praises for this game. For me this game is really boring and repetitive. After playing 5 mins there is not much new you can do. Sure you can upgrade your gear, get new skills but basically its just same button smashing all over again.

Even the graphics are so boring that in the crypt you might accidentally run backwards for 5 mins before realising you have been there before.
The only reason to get this game is same coach co-op. But I would wait that the price drops to 15$ or less

 

[mnewsham]

Yea this wasn't that apparent except for raids in the alpha and beta. It's more leaned towards playing with a group.

Yup. Ammo is also VERY important. Some of the boss fights can take 10 mins or more and you're gonna need a lot more ammo than you can carry so look for ammo drops.

 

[smackababy]

It is very hard to review MMO type games, simply because you can get so many different things out of it. Beyond a "the quests work and here are the types, here is how the game works, here is how it looks" there is little a reviewer can do on initial review. It takes someone willing to put in a lot of hours, get to endgame and progress to give a real, substantial review. And, ain't nobody got time for that.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Yup. Ammo is also VERY important. Some of the boss fights can take 10 mins or more and you're gonna need a lot more ammo than you can carry so look for ammo drops.

I found the ammo packs you can buy are very helpful. A lot of people in the beta forgot about them.

 

[cmdrdredd]

It is very hard to review MMO type games, simply because you can get so many different things out of it. Beyond a "the quests work and here are the types, here is how the game works, here is how it looks" there is little a reviewer can do on initial review. It takes someone willing to put in a lot of hours, get to endgame and progress to give a real, substantial review. And, ain't nobody got time for that.

Yeah but I think it is very unfair to play 5 hours then think you can write a proper review. I guarantee though that many of the reviews are from the same types who write CoD reviews and give it a zero. I hate CoD but it is better than a 0 or 1.

 

[SAWYER]

It's more leaned towards playing with a group.

That is what I was fearing. I wasnt impressed by the beta but was waiting on the release to see how much single player stuff there is and how good it was to decide if I was going to get it

 

[mnewsham]

That is what I was fearing. I wasnt impressed by the beta but was waiting on the release to see how much single player stuff there is and how good it was to decide if I was going to get it

I've played to level 16 in about 9 hours doing only solo (besides the strikes). So you can certainly play alone if you choose.

 

[sze5003]

That is what I was fearing. I wasnt impressed by the beta but was waiting on the release to see how much single player stuff there is and how good it was to decide if I was going to get it

It doesn't require a group. Heck the public events should want people to work together. I found randoms in the beta to do missions with. It is geared that way though, it's just going to be tougher if you want to slug it out on your own.

 

[chimaxi83]

That is what I was fearing. I wasnt impressed by the beta but was waiting on the release to see how much single player stuff there is and how good it was to decide if I was going to get it

You feared that a MMO game would favor grouping up? Stop the presses.

 

[SAWYER]

Favoring is fine, I just dont want the single player content to be lacking and not having a sp story that can be completed. As far as I know, Bungie never stated this was an mmo

 

[Tweak155]

Can you play 2 players on the same console?

 

[Subyman]

Yeah but I think it is very unfair to play 5 hours then think you can write a proper review. I guarantee though that many of the reviews are from the same types who write CoD reviews and give it a zero. I hate CoD but it is better than a 0 or 1.

I guess it depends. If you played 5 hours and it absolutely didn't capture you then you could write about your experience and why you didn't feel like continuing. It certainly wouldn't be an academic study on the game, but it could be important information to potential buyers. I agree that the main review houses need to play the game for days and days to get a feel for it so they can justify their score. But they have a different level of commitment to a review than the typical user review.

I haven't played the launch game, but, unfortunately, I found the beta rather bland. I think the problem I had was going into the game thinking it was extremely open like Borderlands where you can run around enormous maps, stumble into quests, and everything was directly connected. Destiny is set up like a hub world where you click on places to go to comparably smaller maps that do not interlink with others. It was also disappointing to have maps recycled so often as well.

My ignorance for the game drove that bad taste though. If it hadn't been compared to Borderlands so often then it would have felt extremely open compared to Halo. I'll probably end up getting it, but I've got other games to beat right now.

 

[Jetasis]

I guess it depends. If you played 5 hours and it absolutely didn't capture you then you could write about your experience and why you didn't feel like continuing. It certainly wouldn't be an academic study on the game, but it could be important information to potential buyers. I agree that the main review houses need to play the game for days and days to get a feel for it so they can justify their score. But they have a different level of commitment to a review than the typical user review.

I haven't played the launch game, but, unfortunately, I found the beta rather bland. I think the problem I had was going into the game thinking it was extremely open like Borderlands where you can run around enormous maps, stumble into quests, and everything was directly connected. Destiny is set up like a hub world where you click on places to go to comparably smaller maps that do not interlink with others. It was also disappointing to have maps recycled so often as well.

My ignorance for the game drove that bad taste though. If it hadn't been compared to Borderlands so often then it would have felt extremely open compared to Halo. I'll probably end up getting it, but I've got other games to beat right now.

So how big are the smaller, individual maps? Comparable to say BF4? How many players? I'm still rather confused as to how the PvP is actually implemented.

Jet

 

[Imported]

I got to town before I got too tired to keep going. Anyone have an error downloading the Vanguard Armory? It looks like I have access to it but there was that error..

 

[zerocool84]

So how big are the smaller, individual maps? Comparable to say BF4? How many players? I'm still rather confused as to how the PvP is actually implemented.

Jet

No the maps are huge. I haven't played the full game yet but in the Beta Old Russia was huge and still had places that you couldn't get to yet.

 

[dguy6789]

Bungie really needs to get their act together regarding the servers for this game. You can play a long mission and get all the way to the end and then the server drops you and you have to do the entire mission over again.

 

[Imported]

Bungie really needs to get their act together regarding the servers for this game. You can play a long mission and get all the way to the end and then the server drops you and you have to do the entire mission over again.

That happened to me on the intro mission.. Had to repeat it 3 times before I could go to bed.

 

[sze5003]

That happened to me on the intro mission.. Had to repeat it 3 times before I could go to bed.

Happened to me too in the beta. I haven't even installed the game yet. So Damn busy.

 

[mnewsham]

Bungie really needs to get their act together regarding the servers for this game. You can play a long mission and get all the way to the end and then the server drops you and you have to do the entire mission over again.

I've been playing 13 hours straight and haven't had it happen once. :shrug:

 

[cmdrdredd]

Favoring is fine, I just dont want the single player content to be lacking and not having a sp story that can be completed. As far as I know, Bungie never stated this was an mmo

The story can be done solo. Stuff after level 20 like the lv25 strikes and stuff no.

As for the reviews. My point is this. You know the game is going to be about loot and doing high level missions with people once you power up your character. Giving it a 3 line review that reads "it is boring and repetitive and generic" is really not even being fair at all. Like I wouldn't even do that to madden or CoD and I have expressed my distaste for madden in other threads. If I was going to do a proper review for the public like on metacritic I would not use the language I use on a forum. That's just me though. No game is a 0 or a 1 to me. At least nothing that is $60.

On the servers it can be hit or miss depending on your region. In the beta I was kicked a couple times from my session but everything I did was saved (not including mission progress). However there was a time when I did a 5 hour session in the beta including the strike two times and never dropped once.

 

[Adrenaline]

I was excited for this game. I didn't look at anything for it specifically and passed on the beta. I was just hoping to hear good things. I never thought to ask about multiplayer as I was just going to pass on that aspect. I have zero desire to play with other people. I was not aware that this required other people to finish all the content. With that said, I will have to pass on this game.

Best of luck to everyone.

 

[sze5003]

I was excited for this game. I didn't look at anything for it specifically and passed on the beta. I was just hoping to hear good things. I never thought to ask about multiplayer as I was just going to pass on that aspect. I have zero desire to play with other people. I was not aware that this required other people to finish all the content. With that said, I will have to pass on this game.

Best of luck to everyone.

The story and beacon missions can be done by yourself in each of the 4 or 5 planets. Only raids and strikes require a group and you get put in one if you don't get a group together anyway.

 

[mnewsham]

I was excited for this game. I didn't look at anything for it specifically and passed on the beta. I was just hoping to hear good things. I never thought to ask about multiplayer as I was just going to pass on that aspect. I have zero desire to play with other people. I was not aware that this required other people to finish all the content. With that said, I will have to pass on this game.

Best of luck to everyone.

It's an FPSMMO and has been touted as such for awhile....