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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
PostPosted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:27 
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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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If I were to get it, ps4.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Yeah, why's it any good?

It's got some good shooting and nice combatants - like Halo did - what else?


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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I've got it on Xbox One.

I can't say if it's any better than any other shooter but I've enjoyed what I played and look forward to playing more. I can't say if it will have any staying power especially up against all the games coming up like Halo, new CoD, The Division, but I think it's great fun to play with friends (more so than call of duty I think) and I'm glad I got it. It's finally triggered my gaming again.


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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http://brkeogh.com/2014/09/14/notes-on-destiny/
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1. Destiny is a ‘well designed’ game in the way a chair might be well designed or a lampshade might be well designed. It is the IKEA Billy bookshelf of videogames: safe, sturdy, inoffensive; as a Billy bookshelf does a very competent job of being a bookshelf in the most generic, conventional sense so that there is not a home that a Billy bookshelf would look strange in, Destiny is a very competent game in the most generic, conventional sense. It’s the safest possible game Activision and Bungie could have created. Like some kind of ur-videogame object. Maddy Myers said on Twitter yesterday that it looks like the kind of videogame you would see in the background of a film, and she’s not wrong. It is derivative, generic, and conservative; but not in the sense that it fails to achieve some innovative greatness that it is aiming for. Rather, it is clearly derivative, generic, and conservative by intent. It doesn’t want to be something creatively progressive or imaginative. How then to evaluate it? I typically like to approach a game on its own terms. Not in some sort of ‘authorial intent’ kind of way. Rather: what does the game tell me about what it is striving to achieve, and how well does it achieve that? Destiny tells me it just wants to be a safe, competent videogame object, and it achieves that very well. So therefore it is ‘good’, I guess. But there is nothing here critically or meaningfully or thematically. There’s no depth. It’s a bookshelf. It’s an object. But it wants to be an object. Ok the


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5. So there is a lot of Halo here. But Destiny also lacks what made Halo interesting. It’s hard to over-estimate just how satisfying Halo‘s battles were with the explicit hierarchy of enemies: cowardly grunts, elusive jackals, and cunning elites. Every single elite felt like fighting an equal to Master Chief, and they felt that way, in large part thanks to the many grunts and jackals backing them up. Every encounter was a strategy of figuring out how to pick off the small enemies without being destroyed by the elite, so that then you could destroy the elite without being destroyed by them. It was a juggle of weapons, where individual weapons did not matter so much as what combination of weapons you had. There was so much moment-to-moment strategising that people often fail to appreciate, instead remembering it as the conventional run-and-gun modern shooter that it helped to normalise on consoles. Destiny lacks that. It has interesting-to-fight enemies, to be sure. But they are all the same except for a slightly different placed weak point. Some areas are satisfying to fight in, constantly moving and spinning and throwing knives and grenades. But it’s all grunts and no elites. Even the tougher enemies like wizards don’t require any real kind of strategy, just more bullets. It’s wrong to fault Destiny for not being Halo, but as its similarities help us detail its strengths, this difference helps us detail its weaknesses: Destiny is not strategically interesting. It is just running-and-gunning.


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
PostPosted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 21:50 
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Played a few hours of this today. The shooty shooty itself is pretty good, a total copy of Halo, but that isn't a bad thing. Did a PvP match and didn't come bottom of the table, which was nice considering everyone else was max rank or near that, and most likely decked out in a few legendaries. It was pretty fun to play, but nothing groundbreaking.

The rest though is just anodine nothingness. The MMO aspect is MMO-lite, the RPG aspect is RPG-lite, the loot aspect is loot-lite, the open world aspect is... you get the idea.
It's well made, but like other people have said, you've seen it all before.

I'll keep playing for the shooty, as that is good enough to drive you to push past the rest, but this isn't going to be a game that lasts the test of time I expect, unless they do some serious content generation and change it a fair bit.

One final thought, the load times are utter bullshit. It feels like you spend just as much time watching you (admittedly very pretty) spaceship flying to the next location, as you do on the ground shooting. Luckily they have made it so that you can dick around with your loot and character while the locations are loading, but I assume they did that because they realised the load times were atrocious.


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Destiny review - the problem with videogames : http://www.vg247.com/2014/09/15/destiny-review/


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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The problem with that review, is that it isn't a review.


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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The problem with that review, is that it isn't a review.


:-)

It says so in the title !

(I do think they took it a little far)


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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So my copy of Destiny from Amazon arrived yesterday, but I've already got a refund as it was late and I told them to give me my money back.
So that's nice.


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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My sister bought this for me for Christmas. I have done started playing it. It is quite fun.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Is it the kind of thing you'd value a Dave (Mr) to play with?


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Is it the kind of thing you'd value a Dave (Mr) to play with?

Without a doubt.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Well, I am now the posesser of the game in question, so if you see a Dave, you know what to do.


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Will do! It very much involves me not being at work though.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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No more Dinklage

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Pretty harsh to publicly announce it, ne c'est pas?

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Mr Dave and I are going to give this a go on Thursday evening if anyone fancies joining us. We're both n00bs so not really interested if you're a level 30 something or other. PS4.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Mr Dave and I are going to give this a go on Thursday evening if anyone fancies joining us. We're both n00bs so not really interested if you're a level 30 something or other. PS4.


Are you doing the new bits (Taken King) or the old stuff ?

I'm somewhere around level 12 or so I think - I played a little at the start and it did not grab me but I'll join in if its the original stuff your going to go through ?

(i'll be online from around 21:00)


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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zaphod79 wrote:
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Mr Dave and I are going to give this a go on Thursday evening if anyone fancies joining us. We're both n00bs so not really interested if you're a level 30 something or other. PS4.


Are you doing the new bits (Taken King) or the old stuff ?

I'm somewhere around level 12 or so I think - I played a little at the start and it did not grab me but I'll join in if its the original stuff your going to go through ?

(i'll be online from around 21:00)

Just the original stuff. We've barely played it. We'll be on most of the evening so just send me a message when you're online. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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First time I've really encountered the PS4's "smart" updating (*) - but if you plan on joining then make sure you launch the game first and let it do all its updates (17 gig waiting for me since the last time I had turned it on).

(*) - if you dont play a game it does not waste time downloading updates and patches for it but waits until you launch it - I dont know what the threshold is but it grabs updates for recently played items because i see them all the time.


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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It popped up the other day saying the update had been downloaded and installed. But I'll check it out when I get home.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Future Warrior wrote:
It popped up the other day saying the update had been downloaded and installed. But I'll check it out when I get home.

Did a tiny update when I booted up but apart from that we're good to go tomorrow.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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I'd not even put it in my disk drive before last week. It only needed about 4Gb of updates total...


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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I'd not even put it in my disk drive before last week. It only needed about 4Gb of updates total...

4 gigabits? That's nothing - UNIT LOLZ!

I had a little look at my character last night. Level 6. I've finished the levels in New Russia, but happy to do them again for your benefit.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Very interesting article about the 12 months of updates since Destiny came out.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... -of-gaming

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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I had a little look at my character last night. Level 6. I've finished the levels in New Russia, but happy to do them again for your benefit.


I started mine up yesterday and it downloaded another very small update (10mb or so) and then started - i was level 7 , and did one mission just to remind myself of controls and how things work and got to level 8 so not that much different to where you are.

Happy to re-do any of the earlier missions (I've done 2 on the 'next location' after New Russia)


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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I had a little look at my character last night. Level 6. I've finished the levels in New Russia, but happy to do them again for your benefit.


I started mine up yesterday and it downloaded another very small update (10mb or so) and then started - i was level 7 , and did one mission just to remind myself of controls and how things work and got to level 8 so not that much different to where you are.

Happy to re-do any of the earlier missions (I've done 2 on the 'next location' after New Russia)

Cool. Dave and I will probably start a bit earlier but just join us when you're ready.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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After dipping in and out of it for the last year: the shooting is soo good. The strikes are great. PVP is pretty good. The story sucks, there isn't and I think will never be any straight answers to a lot of stuff. The raids? Dunno. Never played them, never going to play them.

If you don't have at least 5 friends who play regularly then all the end game stuff is not going to happen.


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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After dipping in and out of it for the last year: the shooting is soo good. The strikes are great. PVP is pretty good. The story sucks, there isn't and I think will never be any straight answers to a lot of stuff. The raids? Dunno. Never played them, never going to play them.

If you don't have at least 5 friends who play regularly then all the end game stuff is not going to happen.

I've read that the story is fleshed out a lot more in the Taken King. Will see how we get on with the vanilla game before I'm tempted by the expansions though. The first two don't look all that great.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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That was a lot of fun. We should do it again soon.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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That was a lot of fun. We should do it again soon.


It was but I cant believe the normal 'story' stuff locks out once you have 4 people in your team - was that just for those few missions or can you really only do 3 players max ?


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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That was a lot of fun. We should do it again soon.


It was but I cant believe the normal 'story' stuff locks out once you have 4 people in your team - was that just for those few missions or can you really only do 3 players max ?

All the missions we've done so far say 'Fireteam 1-3 players'. Seems to be an issue for more than just us: http://www.dailydot.com/geek/destiny-th ... -fireteam/

Sorry you didn't get to play the story missions Zaphod. Blame the wookiee - he gatecrashed our party. ;)

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Sozzles. Pretty sure I've played 4 player stuff before. Raids maybe? Not sure. Probably unlock later or summat.


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Sozzles. Pretty sure I've played 4 player stuff before. Raids maybe? Not sure. Probably unlock later or summat.

No, it's all fair game. First come first served, etc.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Look its really simple.

Let the Wookie win.

Its probably just a case of getting some of the later stuff unlocked although I'm surprised it cant scale for 4 players and wants to stick with 3.


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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We'll just play as and when we can. Feel free to drop in and out as you please. The story isn't really all that much anyway!

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Actually I've got three characters at various levels of goodness to allow for playing with people at different levels which sort of works a bit sometimes. Really enjoyed playing again after ages off it :)


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Fire teams are 1-3 for missions and strikes, 6 for raids, not sure about patrols or PvP


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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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Us taking this game very seriously.

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 Post subject: Re: Destiny
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A ghost is a vehicle in Halo; in Destiny a ghost are the flying robot things that look after the guardians.
In Destiny the main characters are called guardians; the next Halo game is subtitled Guardians...

Hmmm.

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