Destiny (Bungie)

TheDoc wrote: »

I'd nearly question why are people suprised there is repetition?

How many mission types is there exactly, for a game based in space with a backdrop of a raging war.

I'm hard pushed to think of a big budget release in recent memory where "repition" wasn't there. To be honest not sure where this repition critique came into the gaming sphere from, but it's a pretty rubbish parameter to criticise a game for, when you consider most games, nay nearly all games, have large repetitive elements.

Funny enough all the comments and reviews I'm reading, they quickly brush over how the has top notch gameplay and responsiveness, to pidgeon hole on how the game isn't as big as some might thought, and how it's "repetitive".

Obviously I'll make my own mind up when the god damn game arrives, but beta provided me enough of a tease to know regardless of how long the game is, doing what I was doing there, will keep me interested plenty.

With the repetition in Destiny though there is no attempt to disguise it or give it a coat of paint. The game isn't small as such but what makes it feel small is that you have these vast areas to run around with dull side missions which involve shooting things that are there anyway. There are tonnes of NPC's in the Tower that could have handed out some interesting side missions etc and added reason for doing them, instead you have the same cookie cutter set of kill x amount of y and pick up the z they drop. So many times in destiny so far if stopped to ask why I'm that area and what my objective has to do with anything thats how bad the narrative is, there isn't even any lore in game to explain it, maybe there is on those card you unlock on the web site ?????

Unless things change by the time I get to Mars I'm calling the story an absolute joke, there is none, at the start you go to the tower and meet the speaker, after that we don't hear squat, the ghost fills in the narrative along the way by giving you little more than go here kill them because they are dark and bad.

The gameplay is good don;t get me wrong, but there are any number of other games you can do exactly the same thing in.

There are some silly things wrong with it too as I mentioned earlier,no in game map , having a clan system that you can't actually see in game or call upon members of it for co-op , you should have had the option to match make story missions , trying to form a fireteam in the tower is useless as the person you are inviting would have no idea as to what you want to play before joining the party. I mean if I can see this and call it crazy in terms of design it makes me wonder why they would thing it's a good system etc. I must go looking for interview to see if I can find them explain those things.