Destiny 2

Somehow I don't think Lightfall being bad was the main problem. I mean, SHadowkeep was bad too, and Beyond Light wasn't much better than Lightfall either.

I guess the real problem is people are freaking tired of seasons being always the same shit. Can't blame them. I sat out the entire last year, then I got Defiance and Deep, and they really were basically the same thing. The game is still fun to play (I still got to rank 100 for both seasons), but I don't see why one should pay for the seasons when you get nothing of value really. Again, I hope the DLC model will be more substantial at least.

This is true, but the whiplash was real - people had been talking up the great state of the game as recently as Season of the Seraph. It was literally a complete 180 in sentiment in the space of a few weeks.

Yeah Season of the Seraph was the point where it felt like all the pieces were finally moving into place after so long. The end cutscene, along with the LF trailer, felt like the promise the game had always had was finally going to be fulfilled.

For me personally, the game lived and died by not explaining what The Veil was in the campaign. That was the moment my Destiny Copium Reserves finally ran out for good. Sure, it was explained well over a month later in time gated audio logs and seasonal cutscenes. But that was an absolutely insulting way to deliver probably the single most important piece of lore that has been added in the 10 years of the series, AND the entire premise of the fucking campaign they expected you to stump up the price of a full game for!

That was the moment I knew Destiny would always be show but don't tell, string along the customer just enough that they hang onto a game the developer themselves stopped truly caring about a long time ago. This week has pretty much vindicated me giving up when I did. It's a shame as my time in the game probably outstrips the time I've spent in every other game I've played combined. It was as much a part of my life as it was a video game. So it's quite sad seeing what's happening, and I feel for the people losing their jobs that have brought an awful lot of joy to my spare time over the years.

I do think Bungie in hindsight definitely did seasons the wrong way; if you look at something like how Diablo handled it, Bungie has really attempted to commit to a lot and in many ways it's not beneficial because it results in piecemealing the story and that said story ends up having to go away.

A better way may have been to try and keep the approach they started with with smaller expansions leading into full size ones and keeping all the story stuff for those. Admittedly those weren't brilliantly received at first, but it was the content rather than the format of the content which wasn't great. They could have kept going with that and instead had seasons simply be a drop of a few new weapons and new exotics, and a new strike and PvP map etc.

Though that would still require some reconfiguration of stuff because ultimately losing the pinnacle grind has shown just how surface level Destiny's grind is. Probably why Diablo gets people to start a new character each season. But stuff like the seasonal challenges could have helped there, if the new guns where put behind various challenges to encourage recontextualising older content, etc etc. I dunno.

Like the old farmers say. If you only have one cow you can only milk it so much before it's tits fall off.

They have fun AI to fight against and best in class gunplay mechanics. They should have entered the competitive shooter market ages ago or jumped on the battle royale market when pubg was showing its money to be had.

The management should be the ones taking that hit in this situation and bungie and sony should be rallying round to protect the workers jobs until the ship is steadied.

It's not just them though it's every large company doing it all the time as profits matter more than people.

In a list of good ideas, "release another GaaS game that will cannibalise your own user base while you already have one of the most popular ones as a way to generate more revenue" is more or less at the bottom

Gacha players are a different breed in fairness.

so basically eris did some ritual to become a hive god and resurrected savathun and immediately killed her, absorbing her power and using it to sever xivu arath's connection to her throne world by crushing some hive run in her hand (?), making her effectively mortal now

savathun then got revived again and was allowed to leave but her ghost is kept as a hostage

then like weeks later our guardian is just like pondering over a table and suddenly realises that savathun had a pattern in her wings (??) and that it's actually the 15th wish () and the key to entering the traveler safely

the last part was just dumb as shit, savathun could have told people that in 100000 ways and they went for the stupidest

We're at that point you get to in most TV series where you realise there wasn't some grand overarching plan mapped out from S1E1 and the writers were, in fact, making it all up as they went along.

Tbf in this case, it was obvious from the start.

I've always wondered what the game would have gone on to be like, if they had continued with the romance sci-fi tone of D1.

Got the 421st clear of the new dungeon. Would have been even quicker if we'd not started 10 mins late.

I've just booted it up for the first time now. Riven's back. That's character number 81637 that has come back from the dead. If the Witness dies and never comes back it has to go down as the weakest character in the entire series.

I just can't be bothered anymore. Come back on to try the dungeon but the overwhelming feeling I'm getting is that the game's going back on ice until Final Shape after this weekend and I'll watch all the time gated story beats on YouTube at a later date.

So I've almost not played at all in the past six months. I went back yesterday to try the new Riven quests. The first one is just a grind for activities in the Dreaming City, except bounties and patrols don't count and nobody is running the Blind Well. Anyway, grind enough public events or the Corrupted strike, and you get a token which you can use for some uninteresting (at least to me) weapons, exotics with horrible stats, or a couple past mementos. Or ascendant shards, if you prefer.

I got the Dawning memento and put it on my Ragnhild shotgun. It said it unlocked trackers, but I already had a kill tracker which was all I needed. It also says it unlocked some shader but I can't find it.

Not very enticing stuff, I will say.

My shotgun is level 133 so it should be unlocked already. I did notice an extra generic shader in my list, which seems to bear the Dawning icon... but I hope it's not that. I was hoping for something more unique.