Part 2 was good too but I figured I’d start at the beginning John get off me
Destiny The Game
chapel
#85
With The Dark Below, Bungie has performed a bleak magic trick: They’ve transformed a meagre handful of story missions, a single strike, and a single raid into dozens and dozens of hours of gameplay, simply by carefully scraping the whole thing over a time-consuming leveling process.
Did you spend a week leveling up an exotic gun or piece of armor? Cool, now you can trade it in for an identical version with a bigger number on it and spend a week upgrading it all over again!
Did you already spend a bunch of in-game money on the gear you have? Too bad, everything you need now is twice as expensive, so you better get grinding.
Want to get to level 32? Good luck, you’re going to have to collect a full set of raid armor and 63 hard-to-come-by radiant shards to do so.
Oh, and you know those raid guns you spent the last few months winning and leveling up? Well, now they’re a bit underpowered, and they’ll be obsolete in another week or two. Sorry!
If you’re in it for the loot—and all of us are, to some extent or another, in it for the loot—it’s tempting to just throw your hands up and quit.
chapel
#89
Are you playing IB this week?
Also I know you’re down on Destiny ATM, but will you be jumping into HoW when it drops?
toku
#90
Yeah, I’ll probably jump back in for Crota next month I just needed a break. I bought the season pass so in for penny, in for a pound and all that.
Sibylus
#94
Retoasting what I said on Gaf, more or less sums up my thoughts:
It’s one of the most satisfying mechanical FPSes and an absolute joy in
coop, combined with some of the most nakedly predatory monetization and
treadmilling I’ve ever personally experienced.
So, uh, congrats Bungie? You’re both Jesus and Satan.