Person A: Someone who plays Destiny regularly with friends and / or with a group of regular players.
Person B: One of those weird people who is strangely obsessed with collecting every Exotic in the game
If you are one or both of those people then go buy House of Wolves, you'll probably love it. Everyone else? Just don't, really just don't. Here's why.
I sit here typing this mere moments after deleting Destiny from my PS4 Hard Drive for the second time. The first time was for a funny video I made for Youtube to express my frustrations with the game's shortcomings its only 3 minutes so watch, cause, it funny.
After that it was actually a few weeks before I started playing again. I had stopped because my one friend who I had actually played the game with had stopped playing because he'd gotten bored of the game and wasn't interested in the Expansions. I kept playing when Dark Below came out because I was listening to the IGN FireTeam Chat Podcast, their enthusiasm got me to keep playing. But I still never got into a regular group of Raiders because well, I kinda didn't care. If I wasn't playing with my friends then I really didn't care. The Loot didn't mean anything to me. In general I'm still flabbergasted by this modern shooter landscape where players have to be rewarded for every stinking bullet they fire. My fondest memories are still of Halo 2 and 3 multiplayer, where my friends and I spend hundreds of hour playing purely for the fun. We didn't need any level ups or weapon and perk unlocks. The satisfaction of victory from a well executed plan and our own skills (Not thanks a crutch like a killstreak or a super), or the drive to improve that comes from a defeat. But now apparently its all about playing the same thing over and over again in order to obtain a new piece of gear, which you then use to.....unlock more pieces of gear. You could argue that people are just playing for the fun like Halo MP and that the loot is a cool bonus to spice things up. If that is the case, then why does the entire Destiny community always swarm like ants to dropped candy whenever some exploit that removes the challenge but speeds up the loot acquisition process? Well that's for you to answer, because I just don't understand it. I won't lie, I just deleted Destiny again because I think I really was addicted in my own way. I'm not sure why, maybe because the controls are really good, and Crucible is sometimes fun when you're dominating the enemy. I was pursuing loot, trying to get a higher level, but then I stopped and asked myself...why? I knew I was never going to reach the level cap because I don't have friends to play with regularly so why was I still trying to level up? Burnie Burns has said on the Rooster Teeth podcast a few times that he didn't understand why people kept saying that Destiny was bad game, but that they were all still playing it. I guess its the same question one could ask of a gambling addict that keeps pulling the lever at the slot machine. I believe now that at the end of the day I really do think Destiny is a bad game with great controls and a good gambling hook, like a slot machine. I was hoping that Destiny would be Skyrim but with combat that was fun, its not, and that's ok, I'm just going to stop wasting my time with it.
