Destiny

I can't be the only one who has their mind absolutely blown by how fucking stupid this game is?

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nope fuck this game

No, their decisions since leaving Activision have been consistently fucking retarded, it's a wonder their office hasn't caught fire and burned to the ground.

Luke Smith's a retard and the game will be shit until he's gone.

Has anyone downloaded it from Steam? It is actually so fucking bad I wanted to cry. It makes you power level through the first game for no fucking reason so you can play a little first mission of Destiny 2 before they make you buy it.

Fucking retards

>It makes you power level through the first game for no fucking reason so you can play a little first mission of Destiny 2 before they make you buy it.
I'm not sure what you mean, but I do think what they did to the new player experience is retarded.
The campaigns are now completely optional save for Shadowkeep. You can't access a lot of Forsaken's content without buying that as well.
They drop you in just before endgame starts, expecting you to know that you have to grind random drops to 900-odd Light, and then Powerful Engram rewards to 960 or whatever.

The intent was to normalise all content before Shadowkeep at a certain light level so all new players can try it, F2P has access to all the raids from before Forsaken came out, as far as I know. Thing is the system does nothing to ease people into it, my friend was constantly complaining that he's completely lost and the game expects him to know everything off the bat.

The absolute fucking clown in charge of Destiny needs to take a goddamn hike.

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i havent played it in months because its literally an early access game now, honestly bungie are a fucking JOKE now

I remember playing Destiny and going through all the planets with a decent pace and it was pretty fun. I just downloaded Destiny 2 on steam and it's literally the same game until you power level high enough to get to the "Destiny 2 content" What the fuck is Destiny 2? Is it just a DLC?

At least most early access games that actually progress with time introduce new content, Destiny is in a perpetual state of recycling old, reskinned content and drip-feeding it to the handful of people still playing.

>I just downloaded Destiny 2 on steam and it's literally the same game until you power level high enough to get to the "Destiny 2 content"
There's no need for hyperbole. They added the first mission from 1 wherein you're brought back to life, that's all the content from D1 there is in 2.
The "Destiny 2 content" has been relegated to optional side activity shit, you have to run to Amanda in the Tower to pick a campaign to play through. It used to be that you'd visit each planet in order, like the first game, and you'd get the story bit by bit while you do some unimportant side tasks for whatever NPC is on that planet.
Now upon creating your character you get 30 different quests labeled New Light, telling you to "Go here, do X, get a shader or some stupid shit".

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Name one thing that is hyperbole

Shadowkeep fucked everything up, man.
I started playing D1 when TTK released, and played D2 since it launched. Played it every single day. I quit shortly after Season of Undying launched. It's just so fucking shit now.
Fuck Bungie, fucking kikes. I hope your office burns to the ground and you go out of business.

It's highlighted for you right there. You can complain about things without acting like a manchild, the game is currently shit enough that it gives you so much ammo to work with anyway.

I don't think you understand, it is the same game as D1 until you power level to D2 content

I don't understand why you are being such a faggot. I don't think you understand the differences between each game

>the best characters are stuck being vendors
I want a buddy cop expansion where Shaxx and Drifter are forced to team up to solve a case while Zavala is breathing down their neck. In the end, Drifter gets his girl back and retires while Shaxx goes back to being Shaxx. Sex scene with Ascendant Mara and Shaxx somewhere.

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I wish D2 had D1's content.

how different was the content?

It’s because the asshats in charge of Destiny 2 believe the plebbit community will spoonfeed and figure out a way to teach new players, without they having to think of anything themselves.

It’s the same principle for why there still is no proper raid/nightfall matchmaking lobbies. Why put in the effort when autists will create a website FOR FREE and do exactly that?

>dude just lfg lol
LFG is not a substitute for ingame matchmaking. I hate autists who keep spouting 'LFG' as a response to everything.

I absolutely agree LFG is cancer. The concept of having to tab out to a fucking third party site to awkwardly share IDs with other autists to play a goddamn nightfall is just too fucking absurd to me. You know those fags at Bungie could deliver a basic lobby system in a fucking week, they just refuse to do it, they want people to magically talk to each other in-game when there’s no proper communication system at all, global chat is turned off by default.

>Play crucible
>Play raids
Guess I'm playing Destiny 1 because they are also in D1 but different

Not much different except it was a little bit more creative.

The thing is D2 is a literal retread of every single mistake D1 made, but with less charm to it. D1 had an awful first year, then TTK came and was cool for a month or 2, then back to being boring, and the game had a content drought for many months until they released Rise of Iron on Year 3 and it was better than TTK, then before the game could get boring again they decided to “go all out” and give away so much content you had to pick what you would do that week because you couldn’t do it all before reset. That lasted for like 3 or 4 months until D2 launched.

Shadowkeep was supposed to be the “Rise of Iron” of D2 but it absolutely sucks, and the whole seasons idea is beyond retarded.

YES, I always hated these faggots referring me to join Destiny 2 DISCORD just to be able to party up with randos.

It was so long ago that I don't remember, but didn't 2 either release with no global chat or was originally planned to not include one, until they got whined into adding the barebones shitheap the game now has?

>Shadowkeep was supposed to be the “Rise of Iron” of D2 but it absolutely sucks, and the whole seasons idea is beyond retarded.
What, bro? You don't like doing 20 bounties every day and grinding vendors?

>still play it every day
>still have fun
sounds like yall just need to have sex

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I forgot this game was f2p and on steam

how shitty is it? did they ever get over the abysmal story writing or is it still vogue trash?

Same as ever, the interesting stuff is almost entirely handed to you in lore cards while the up-front stuff is either irritating to listen to or just plain uninteresting.
Shadowkeep is on its third season now, and it still only has one raid. This season and the previous one are exactly the same, just in a different dress.
For the same price as Forsaken, Shadowkeep only lasts an hour, maybe two.

shadowkeep takes you back to the black garden? anything interesting happen there or do the writers not have a clue either? the raids seem cool but I watched forsaken one and lost complete interest.

"we wont release trials until it is absolutely perfect"
release trials with absolutely no changes, 1 armour set from d1, and like 4? guns.

the season pass is the only good idea they have had because you get permanent transmog, couple guns, high stat armour just given to you.

too bad the only realistic way to progress it is bounties

imagine doing a raid and getting a ton of experience, why the fuck not huh

Not really. Shadowkeep is about the black pyramids, not the Garden.
>the raids seem cool but I watched forsaken one and lost complete interest.
Last Wish was absolutely the best raid in the game though, and all the weapons and armour look fantastic.

Gave it a good chance when they released free on steam, it was ok. Then they announced the black history month bullshit and I uninstalled.

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>Then they announced the black history month bullshit and I uninstalled.
God, who gives a shit? I want them to fix the fucking game, I don't give a singular fuck whether they kowtow to the regime in their spare time.

It became a mobile ftp style game ever since activision left, and it's been consistently a swarm of bad decisions among decent gameplay and amazing lore
That's why people don't leave bungie to die in the dust. Every time something brings people back. Either the shooting mechanics, or the (not in game) lore. The rest is absolutely horrible, which makes D1 look like a masterpiece in retrospective

I pity you

coming from someone that played the first game and enjoyed it I think its safe to say I'm glad I didn't buy this travesty.

Fuck YOU bungie. You fucking idiots think I was going to spend another 3 years grinding gathering all my shit again just so you can nuke it when the third installment comes around? yea right.

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i wish the recoil wasnt neutered for mouse & kb, when i plug in a controller the guns all feel very nice and bouncy, much more tactile

It's retarded and misguided in a ton of ways, but I still immensely enjoy playing it casually with a couple friends.

Might be fun if the end game options weren't
>Do max level Nightfalls/Raids or don't get any upgrades outsides of Iron Banner (PvP)
or
>PvP, have fun with cheaters when skill based matchmaking inevitable places you against them
Fuck Osiris, fuck Trials, and fuck the Nine
Saint-14 is alright in my book though.

>Might be fun if the end game options weren't [PvE or PvP]
What the fuck do you want?

there are 1000s of stupid games, why are you bitching about this one?

Because this stupid game keeps floundering between good and terrible, just like Destiny 1 before it.

It's absolute garbage and every single time an update comes out the rush is not to see what the new content is or experience some new gameplay it's to see how these incompetent retards obliterated their own sandbox this time
The only worse game out there is Warframe

are there matchmaking raids yet or no

It was a failure before Activision left. That's why they canned Joe and Marty in 2013, the two guys who were no doubt telling everyone that it was retarded from the get-go.

The problem is that the game doesn't excel at anything. It caters to way too many kinds of players. Instead of committing to a certain genre and kind of player, it loosely ties several different mini-games into a single ugly screen called the Director. All their updates since D1Y1 have been to service this terrible design by slowly fleshing out each mini-game and giving players "aspiration" to play all of them, aka a reason against their will to have to slog through the mini-games they don't want to actually play, by locking access to gear they want behind daily and weekly grinds in specific mini-games at a time. It's awful, and the bullshit is fully transparent to everyone with at least half a working brain.

That said, I've been enjoying the f2p lately, because I love the art style and most of the mini-games are fun enough with some friends for like 5-10 hours. I don't think I'll get the DLC though, and I definitely won't bother with the season passes. I bought D1 when it launched and was extremely disappointed, and then I bought The Taken King and realized that it wasn't ever going to get better.

There's a "guided games" thing now, which I haven't used, but apparently it's like an in-game lfg browser for raids. Clans put up requests for players to fill their raid party. I'm not sure if you have to join them to play with them, but I don't think you do.

>Players constantly begging Bungie to change and revert every thing after every single patch
>Almost every item from raid isn't top tier gear
>Difficult or grindy gear is nerfed, the idea of good players being rewarded with the best shit is "toxic"

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I quit after the intro because it was like, I'm in a quest hub and these quests don't mean anything to what I just got done with. it left me with no direction, even if the story was shitty it was something I would've kept playing for awhile cause I'm a degenerate, but I was entirely disconnected from it. I wanted to have my hand held longer

>MMO game
>Has hub areas for players to get quests and interact with vendors
>The game dubs these "social" spaces
>You cannot actually socialize because somewhere some kid might say a no no word

This should tell you everything you need to know

>Difficult or grindy gear is nerfed, the idea of good players being rewarded with the best shit is "toxic"
Are you implying that people who grind are good? They are the worst and Destiny's biggest problem right now. Bungie listens to the streamers first and foremost and the streamers listen to the grinding autists first and foremost.

>the idea of good players being rewarded with the best shit
When has this ever been the case in Destiny? Even Luna's Howl and Not Forgotten, very few good players earned it. Most people just paid to have someone else grind it out for them.

This is honestly the most wasted part of the whole fucking thing,

Literally all of the cool shit is just LORE LORE LORE in the background and everything that involves fucking GAMEPLAY is front and center and a massive pile of shit. They keep downgrading awesome guns and Supers and the recent Trials launch is all style and no fucking substance and there's nothing to actually DO unless you want more and more "HERE'S A BUNCH OF TEXT TO READ I GUESS, BUT NONE OF IT FUCKING MATTERS"

Bungie can write the shit out of a fictional setting but evidently they've utterly lost the touch for gameplay. Fuck.

Please write for bungie

Samefag because I got more.

It's actually really fucking frustrating because there was a point after Forsaken launched where it was genuinely great to actually play this fucking game (all the Dreaming City shit was really cool) but mostly, D2 has just been so disappointing because even though it's a really fun shooter to play, most of the activities are absolute DOGSHIT to engage in.

It's fucked, man. It feels like it shouldn't be hard for Destiny to be awesome but Bungie sure makes it seem like it's REALLY FUCKING STUPID SUPER HARD for some reason. It's agonizing.

I always thought they wanted everyone to feel like an isolated autist with the no communication thing

Forsaken year 1 was really fun but everything about year 2 is fucking trash.

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Everything about this game falls flat on its face. It can't even get animators making porn.
There's like one or two guys that sometimes do some Petra & Mara shit once in a blue moon.

>Players constantly begging Bungie to change and revert every thing after every single patch
Yes because every single update they manage to do something flat out retarded
>the idea of good players being rewarded with the best shit
In D1 I got The Last Word by joining a Crucible match that had 10 seconds left
At literally no point in the entire history of Destiny were rewards properly graduated

The writing will never be that good because their philosophy is making everything as wide as the ocean but as shallow as a rain puddle to try and appease as many people as possible. That's why the story campaign is, in my opinion, the worst part of the whole experience, since by necessity a good story also needs a strong protagonist, a strong antagonist, and a strong cast, all which go against that philosophy by design.

>It caters to way too many kinds of players.
Correction. It tries to cater to way too many kinds of players, and ends up catering to spergs who just want to grind so they can grind to satisfy their grinding autism.

>spergs who just want to grind so they can grind to satisfy their grinding autism
Why the fuck are you looking at a game about grinding randomised loot and bitching that you have to grind?
If anything, the game does this poorly because there's so little variation in items. Everything falls into rigid archetypes and can only roll a handful of perks, and if it doesn't have a certain two or three for its weapon type it's garbage.

>It makes you power level through the first game for no fucking reason so you can play a little first mission of Destiny 2 before they make you buy it.

Wat? Play literally anything to go from 750 to 960 power, then do any of the challenges.

Right.

Also right.

It's a looter shooter with a narrow focus on what's good and what isn't, so you end up with interesting guns and satisfying mechanics, but 90% of it is garbage to the people willing to grind for the absolute best equipment, which most people aren't.

Bungie can't satisfy both groups for whatever reason so they try to satisfy the spergs, which ends up satisfying no one because spergs are never fucking happy anyway.