From his Halo 3 Review: "So if in the future we're all stuck playing captain bland's monotonous adventure between shifts mining for pixels on a Microsoft slave planet I want you to know I fucking called it." More prophetic than he might have even considered.
Yahtzee did hit it on the nose when he said you needed the expanded universe stuff to understand the plot of Halo, but if you actually play them in order(not start with three and not play the others) it still has a coherent story. Destiny has no story. it has backstory and thats it.
Destiny's story kinda feels like Dark Souls 2-- "Shit's old and we don't know why it's here", but with even less answered questions and more allusions to cooler events that we don't learn about. The Speaker even says "I could tell you of the great battle centuries ago", and I couldn't help but reply "Then do so, because it'd probably be cooler than listening to you being vague as fuck".
SilverARyuu Reminds me of Prince of Persia 2008. All sorts of lore about this big war between light and darkness, and we're cleaning up what amounts to a supernatural oil spill.
SilverARyuu Yeah I felt like that about ds2 as well. The lore behind it is really great but unless youre stopping to research every item and character you find in the game youre not going to have any idea what the hell is going on. Id group halo more with ds1 though because enough of the story elements are explained in game for you to know what youre doing and why youre doing it but if you really want to get into it the out of game lore can provide you with a lot more story and context.
Yeah, DS2 and Destiny seem to attempt to catch "lightning in a bottle" from their previous games. It's doubly bad with the "lore" of Destiny because you can't even access it in-game, which is a load of bunk honestly.
Remember when Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was going to be the 'Halo Killer'? Remember how Titanfall got all those 'Best in Show' awards? Hype. Not even once.
Destiny, so far, is the biggest disappointment of 2014 Edit: I didn't say it was the worst game, just the most disappointing. I didn't have much expectations for Watch Dogs or ESO...
***** "and they even charge for extra content? Damn." Not only that , the extra content that they are selling us is probably cut out of the game itself. Fucking activision.
G.N Exia If it was a rip-ff, then they would have actual character customization. I'm really pissed right now because I have a helmet I'm keeping around because it looks cool but it has a lower light rating than my legendary helmet which looks real stupid
"There once was a game called Destiny. Looked more like a graphical test to me. It's brown, there's a gun and it looks as much fun as requiring a double mastectomy"
I have ADD or ADHD and I love this channel. Always keeps my attention and humor focused for the whole length of the videos. Amazing. Keep up the good work bro. And don't forget to go home, before you fall asleep guys.
No fanboys, no arguements, rational people, people actually discussing things without calling each other gay........ this might just be the best RUclips comments section i've ever seen.
I thought the same about all the unanswered questions but then I started reading the Grimoire cards. You know, the ones you unlock but can't see unless you can go online with a laptop? They actually have some really good lore and much more detail about the shit your doing and why.... I'd recommend anyone reading this to actually read them. It really gets you hyped to play again and be like, "Oh! This is where such and such happened!"
So, the late game is broken right now. Not that's news but here's my problem. I'm a level 28 hunter who needs about 30 ascendant shards more to level up my gear to the max. The only way to reliably get those shards is to play one public event a day with all three of "characters". As a reward you can get ascendant shards, ascendant energy or strange coins. So if i say that 33% of the time i get that needed shard. That means that i can get 1 shard a day by playing 3 different characters to take part in 3 public events reliably. So, by my calculations i have to play this game for a month, maybe for an hour every day JUST to level my gear that i currently have. And, if and when i find gear that's better than what i now have? Another 1-2 months grind? No thanks Bungie. While i've enjoyed the gameplay and feel of the controls, the lack of story, the grinding and all the other problems, i've had enough. Maybe i'll return to it later to see if they've managed to clear the mess they've made, but now i'm just waiting for Shadow of Mordor to unlock on my PS4.
oryou could apply those frontal lobes, google ways to get them and discover that OMG doing the daily gets you 2 more =D then theres the weekly raid. + another 4-12 shards finally you can get them from engrams so for most thats another 1 mabye 2 shards OMG so many shards =D a whole 8-20 shards for one day =O
You can get them from doing more than one event. I've done 3 in one day each giving shards or energy. Theres also a daily challenge that will give two or one based on materials. And with the patch coming this week the chance of getting them or legendaries to break down is inceeased. Its still gonna take a while bo doubt and is annoying but it won't take a month. Unless the games rng hatea you
Kye Jarvis Yes i know there are other ways to get more, let's go through why they don't work for me. "OMG doing the daily gets you 2 more " Yes, 2 more shards or the useless energy that i don't really need to make my guns any better. And i can only play it on that one main character the other two are at level 7 and i won't be grinding them up anymore than they go up by playing the bare minimum. "then theres the weekly raid." That i've soloed ONCE, as i don't have friends to go do them with on PS4. "finally you can get them from engrams so for most thats another 1 mabye 2 shards OMG so many shards =D a whole 8-20 shards for one day =O" I've had about 10 purple drops over my 80 hours of playing the game. You know how many have given me purple gear? 2!!! One gun and one armor piece and i'm using both at the moment. Oh, how i would love to get gear that i could dismantle for shards, but not getting any is just another way of showing how the game is broken. So, the dailies with one character and the publics with 3 and with the chance of getting other materials on all of them the average amount of shards i can get in a day is about 1 or 2 at the most. So shut up about those claims of 8-20 shards a day. Maybe if the Queens rewards dismantle was in play, i could have seen such amounts, but now? No way in hell...
markotark heres ways to resolve those issues. make friends either in game or online, party up and have fun. the game was meant to be played with a team. its a basic shoot them up FPS no better than CoD on its own. there patching the cryptfag and his useless decoding skills so now purple engrams are defs purple or better gear or 4+ materials.a nd lastly consider the destiny now as less of a full game and more of the base on a 10 layer cake with constant layers and icing being added. you wouldn't judge a book by its cover and the first day release of destiny is just the cover of the book.
MRMONKEY232 " Unless the games rng hatea you" Like i said to Kye, i've had 10 purple engrams in over 80 hours including all the leveling rewards, out of those 2 came out purple and i'm currently using them. I've had no purple or yellow gear from blue engrams so yeah, maybe rng hates me, but that's just why the game is broken. I've had 2 of those purple engrams drop from hive thralls and i've received none from completing any missions or strikes. So, maybe the new update will improve the odds and make the game better to play, but i sure as hell have been burned out on it so much, that i have no interest in shooting anymore of the same enemies, running around in the same places and hearing the same comments in the hope that i have now 0.1% chance of getting good gear rather than 0.05%. I don't think i'm the only one who starts to feel ambivalent about a game that's supposed to have enough legs to stay relevant with it's current content until the expansions come out in a few months. And if the expansions are the same shooting in new places with the same lack of story, then Bungie has really messed up.
What happened too Destiny. > Bungie had an amazing story pieced together and a nice complete game > Activison came in/ Some 3rd Party > Chopped the game into piece's > Put it into DLC > Bungie defeated, put the actual story onto Bungie.net in pieced out Grimore Card's so you can read about what the game would of been as you cry onto your keyboard over how great this game could of been
Oh trust me, Yahtzee, you missed nothing from not playing those strike missions that require PS+. You guys like fighting through hordes of enemies that are significantly powered up to the point of unfairness? Want to fight them while defending Dinklebot again? How about fighting a boss which is a scaled up version of that enemy type you just shot in the face, only he has so much health you will be shooting at him for half an hour, and he will kill you in two to three hits? Oh, and he'll have waves of trash enemies to throw at you so you can refill the ammo you most likely just emptied on him. And if you use shotguns, sucks to be you! The bosses all have an aoe attack to prevent you from circle strafing around them or getting into effective range with the damned thing. Sounds like a fun time to me!
Got this today at Tesco for £15. For that price, and considering I'm going on with lowered expectations I highly doubt I'll be disappointed. Hell, I got Titanfall plus all its DLC for £10 and I absolutely loved it. My condolences to anyone who paid full price for either though.
I bet you were met with the DLC's to arbitrarily cut you away from everyone else, weren't you? Did you spent another $40 to be apart of the 'experience'?
If you're referring to Destiny, I don't have any. If you're referring to Titanfall, it all came in a sale bundle with the game. Still have no idea what your first comment is trying to say.
The store I work at bought about 4000 copies of Destiny for launch day. On launch day, I think I remember 3 people actually coming in to buy Destiny. That's it.
on the other hand, the blockbuster near my house got two 3X1.5 shelves full of used games (mostly gta V) and in less than 3 days every single one of them was sold (after Destiny's release date). Now, the funny thing is that people sold those games the first time so they could preorder Destiny and now you can find unsold and used copies of that game in those same shelves.
***** I wonder if people will still preorder a lot, so far Destiny and Battlefield Hardline have opened my eyes (Battlefield hardline is a mixed bag but there are some game modes that are M&M's and the conquest felt like neutered)
start of story:ball comes to earth, humanity is like yay!, ball gets jumped by aliens. humans kill alien heart, ball gets better THE END oh and the rest of the story is in the DLC youll have to pay for ;)
+That guy with the face Yeah, what a terrible thing to demand more money for more content. Everything should be free, and there should be no wars, and everybody should be rich and healthy and happy.
The Tallest Dwarf See, you're the kind of mindless drone that the industry just loves exploiting and ruins everything for the rest of us. Obviously you don't understand the subtext of my comment so let me explain. DLC is an amazing idea. I fully support it and it benefits both the community and the industry itself. But the common practice in AAA gaming now a days is withholding content for the game that was not only finished prior to the release but ready to be sold as day one dlc. Destiny's campaign for example was deliberately cut into three pieces for it to be sold separately which was obvious by their marketing campaigns. The first expansion was finished in fact, save for minor bugs that could be patched up within a week or two. There's also games like Evolve that had over 100 dollars' worth of day 1 dlc. Or games like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and the Arkham games with fully functional, on-disc day 1 DLC. Or retail games with microtransactions like MKX, Injustice, Dead Space 3 and AC: Unity Hell back to Destiny, in single player you still use a multiplayer server, but you're not allowed to play in multiplayer without yet another arbitrary pay wall. So if you have a particular fear of having money and wish to get rid of it ASAP then I understand your stance. But please don't scoff at those of us with a brain whom would rather not get fucked over by a system that's being blatantly exploited for profit out of sheer contempt for the audience. But what do I know? I only make a living out of knowing my shit
The Tallest Dwarf Did I say that? Or did I specifically say that DLC is a great idea for both consumers and devs as well as publishers? If you can't make a proper argument then at least retain your dignity instead of throwing a metaphorical tantrum. You know what REALLY hurts the industry and the quality of games though? Extravagance and poor management. Like the unrealistic claims of Peter Molyneux and Romero, the excessive marketing of Destiny and Watch_Dogs, the blatant contempt for the audience that the likes of EA and Ubi show and the horrible business practices of companies like Activision and Konami
And still this game is going to sell like hot cakes because idiot gamers can't ask for quality of a game over pretty graphics. Hate this time we live in.
I fucking laughed at "The Hunchback of Quattro Fromagio" because I didnt know anyone else knew that pizza existed. If you want a treat call Panago and order that pizza.
I'm a level 30 Hunter. 12 Exotic guns: Vex Mythoclast, The Last Word, Red Death, Thorn, MIDA Multi-Tool, SUROS Regime, Monte Carlo, Hawkmoon, Invective, Plan C, Thunderlord, and Super Good Advice. 4 Exotic Armors for Hunter alone: Achlyophage Symbiote, Mask of the Third Man, Young Ahamkara's Spine, and Lucky Raspberry. 2 Sets of Raid gear (helm, gloves, chest, boots) I've put in hundreds of hours into this game, but I have a love/hate relationship with this game. I love completing challenges with friends. Vault of Glass, Nightfall, Heroic, Crucible. It's fun completing them. Sure, it's repeditive, but I also love receiving rewards for things I can complete in my sleep. I also hate this game. Aside from the amount of hours I poured into acquiring all my gear because of stupid RNG's, the game is as fucking empty as my wallet was when I dropped $100 for the Digital Guardian edition. This game had so much hope, so much hype. Why doesn't it live up to its hype? It was cut. Cut so hard that the copy we purchased was probably just the big toe of the actual game. Bungie stated and I quote "Each planet is bigger than the entirety of Halo: Reach" when in fact, the spire mission, and Winter Contingency is bigger than any of these planets. The tower is useless. There is jack shit to do in the tower apart from handing in bounties and decrypting engrams. The tower is a mere hotspot you are obliged to go to because you need to get bounties, or get items. It's barely a social ground apart from dropping a couple soccer balls and floating purple balls here and there. The lounge (underneath the FWC area in the hangar) is completely useless apart from Xûr being there once every five weeks or so. I wont even bother explaining how cut the story was, as most of you probably said the exact same words when you finished The Black Garden. "That's it?" Why Destiny has such low scores for reviews, because it deserves it. I'd have much rather Bungie sell me the pre-alpha game before the senior writers left, before Activision had to shove their dicks up Bungie's ass and make everything DLC to milk everything Destiny's tits had to offer. If gaming companies are only releasing parts of the game to us, it's only fair that we should be paying them parts of the final price, right?
This is why I hate hype. I told everyone from the start that this, Titanfall and Watch_Dogs were gonna be shit, and only got attacked by hordes of drooling fanboys. Told you so.
Why is that something to be proud of? You were right about something that should have been blatantly obvious to anyone that's not blinded by the hype. Yeah, great job. Have a cookie.
Don't be such a downer, Titanfall would have been an awesome game for 30$ instead of 60$. Without a solid story it's not worth the 60$ price point, but it actually is a ridiculously fun fps. It's still my go-to for a twitchy good time. Don't drop such gross exaggerations.
I paused the video at 1:48 when I saw you put Firefall at the MMO table. I was honestly surprised with the large variety of MMOs out there and it happened to be one I was fond of despite it being released from Beta way too early.
In defence of bungie I believe they made a game with a lot more story and cotext but the activision showed up and said one for the game, two for dlc so they had to cut out two thirds of the story
Probably the most huge hype disappointments in a single year. Tbh, the games probably would have benefited having less hype behind them- Titanfall and Destiny have pretty fun gameplay (apparently- I don't own either, but this is just from what I hear and what I'd expect), and Watch Dogs does have an interesting premise and spin on the usual openworld game. But people worshipped them before they were even out...only to be disappointed.
I am trying to think of any good games so far this year. Umm maybe Shadow of Mordor. I really hope that Dragon Age Inquisition, Assassins Creed Rogue and Unity, Borderlands: The Prequel, Far Cry 4, and Civilization Beyond Earth are not disappointments. Those games are the only things keeping this year for gaming from being highly disappointing.
I didn't notice how much hype titanfall got all I know is that it was a full price 60$ game. I picked it up on sale, and was pleasantly surprised at how much fun it was. Not worth full price but one of the best competitive FPS games I've played in a long time. I watched some videos of CoD gameplay after playing it for awhile and was astounded how slow paced it was by contrast. Titanfall is just a twitchy good time imo.
Sometimes I feel like it's fun to just wiggle around a rooty tooty point and shooty with friends working for a common goal, and it was a nice surprise to be able to have a good bit of strategy to wiggle it around with, and there is a strange satisfaction to know that you are the greatest shooty wiggler, and that you can drop yourself into strikes (good part of the fun, the strikes). Might just be me though.
I actually enjoyed this game. Then again I did the raids for days without even eating properly so you should probably take that with a mountain of salt.
My theory on what happened with over-hyped games like Destiny and Wacth_Dogs: Devs: Alright guys, we are making a COMPLETELY AWESOME GAME! Heads: Yo! Everybody is extremely hyped. So hyped that we are guaranteed to make a huge profit. So this is the plan: Just make it a game, and that's it. Devs: Not an COMPLETELY AWESOME game? Heads: Why should we add anymore effort if we are already going to have a great profit?
More like: Devs: Alright guys, we are making a COMPLETELY AWESOME GAME! Heads: Yo! Everybody is extremely hyped. So hyped that we are guaranteed to make a huge profit. So this is the plan: Make it pre-order, make a beautiful trailer and then, when released, make it shit. Devs: Why would we do that? Heads: Why not?
That point that I want a warframe zero punctuation but that means he'll be confused as fuck and every point he says gets fucked by the constant updates
Yeah, i desperately want him to do Warframe {even though i'm liking it so far}, But since he is presumably on a schedule, he'd either have to postpone other videos to get a better understanding of it, or play for a few hours, then inevitably show that he's confused, hasn't played the game enough, or both.
you know, the beta didn't really impress me, but it seemed like it had potential, I mean you can't judge the end product just by the beta which was dry and had you killing the same dudes over the same landscape. I figured when the game was released it would have a fleshed out story, have more areas, and a bigger variety of dudes to kill, and reasons to kill them, and world events and such. I didn't buy the game and LITERALLY EVERYTHING I heard about the game so far seems to indicate it is exactly like the beta....... That would have been a massive disappointment if I had bought the game.
+Godzelda123 For free and not being able to get any good gear or new warframes unless you paid of them or grind for HOURS or even months for them. Warframe was boring to me in comparison to Destiny
I enjoy playing destiny, I don't think it's an amazing game but I enjoy playing it. Certain games are just like that. Like dynasty warriors, not really anything new, but its so fun.
I remember seeing trailers and gameplay but I never saw the 'hype' that others had for this game, it just looked like your average fps that was trying to be an mmo for COD/Halo kiddies.
It's sad because I feel like Destiny as we know it would never have been a thing if it weren't for Microsoft. Neither would Halo for that matter. Bungie's made it a habit to take the things it really likes from previous last-gen titles and use them again with shiny new polish. That's what made Halo so great; it was basically Marathon without the stinky rotten apple getting in the way. It had similar ideas but managed to perfect those ideas not just with a new coat of paint but with some variety of colors as well. Combine this with the more realistic sci-fi approach to human progress and a great story EU written off to the side by guys like Eric Nylund and you basically had the perfect house is the pride of all the neighborhood and the envy of the rest of the town. Unfortunately the mayor (Microsoft) got involved in liking this house, and since he wants the best house in the neighborhood he decides to make life a living hell for the current tenants. So in the end when Bungie decides to finally jump ship the mayor gets what he wants and suddenly he has the best house in town...until that house suddenly needs caring for summore. To ensure that he can take care of it, he hires another group composed of some of the former contractors of both Bungie and, to our great misfortune, Infinity Ward; the guys responsible for creating that amazing slum that everyone talks about but nobody with the right sense goes near yet still manages to make the town a huge amount of money regardless. Eventually just like the slum the house gets coated not in paint but in rusty tin, dust, and feces, and while it is still the talk of the town and makes the mayor lots of money it is hardly the jewel of the town it once was and anyone and everyone with half a lick of sense has long since abandoned it. Meanwhile Bungie, still wanting to outshine its former glory, decides to do what it can to make the next Halo. However there is a bit of a problem. Unlike Marathon which relied on the massive crutch that was a rotten piece of fruit to sell its game, Halo relied on Microsoft to help push it forward and it refuses to crack like bulletproof glass. So if Bungie decided to even try and make a fresh copy with a nicer coat of paint of its original design it would likely get sued and publicly ridiculed for not simply staying on board in the first place. So it instead takes the advice of someone into modern-architecture to help build its home and works from there; doing what it can to put the ideas it liked into the new design. As a result, however, it comes out hodgepodge and, while people say it's a good new thing, it quickly disappears into obscurity like all other modern architecture which over time wears down and falls apart. Now as a result both Halo and Bungie have become a laughingstock; its baby that we all loved and cherished has become the next CoD knockoff (to the point that I refer to anything past Reach as SpaceCoD regardless of what the label says) while Bungie becomes like the average British politician/'old blood', looking longingly over the remains of their once former glory and thinking, "where did we go wrong?" while still parading its long-lost superiority. The moral of the story? Halo should have died after Reach, and Bungie should have made a better game. Also 343i should be punted into the nearest star and be reminded that things dead should be left to lie instead of retconned to explain your game's missing plotholes.
TheKeyser94 Nope. Bungie made Halo; in fact Halo's basically a copy of Bungie's game Marathon. They've split from Microsoft many times over the creation of the Halo series. Microsoft's only real claim to fame for Halo was that they happened to have the console that it was published on. If anything it's thanks to them that Halo's been ruined, because if it weren't for their desire to milk their cash-cow out of every cent that it could churn up then abominations like Halos 4 and 5 wouldn't exist.
The Laser Beam123 Maybe not everything, but they did borrow a lot from the game. Guilty Spark's eye shape being a carbon copy of the Marathon logo, for example. There's nothing wrong with it, don't get me wrong, but it is a fact that Halo's a spiritual successor to the Marathon games.
The Laser Beam123 Arguably. It's a nicer way of saying that something that came after another has been influenced a lot by its predecessor and carries much of the weight of what made that predecessor great on its shoulders. Take System Shock 2 and Bioshock for example. On the outside they are two different games, but it just takes a simple peek into both to notice that Bioshock borrows heavily from System Shock 2's plot devices. Single overpowering villain who has control of an entire isolated community, a people who have gone mad from substance abuse, heavy use of tight spaces and tension etc. One could say that Bioshock is a copy of System Shock 2, but that would be a stretch as they follow two different genres of sci-fi.
Spending a day just downloading updates was another let down... Did the CD even have a use? because i feel like maybe i just downloaded the entire game during that.
*Spoilers* But seriously, has anyone beaten the Vex boss at the 'end'? It's some ultra-godlike entity or some such and you don't actually fight it, you just kill 3 statues and it disappears... Mind you that does seem awfully similar to the Hive's 'large blob of evil' boss at the end of their arc... The game's fun and all but Jesus! Couldn't they have done something slightly more for what is essentially the 'end' of the story?
you can't justuse some random word to describe observing bland shooters, cute is more like something you would use to describe the game itself,not the act of staring at the game that you think is aweful
I'm waiting for all the fanboys to come here, press the dislike button and proceed to tell us all how much they love their game. But they shouldn't leave the fine 6/10 grinding sim for a task like this right?
I like the game, although i don't know why. It's a perfect example of AAA bullshit and Yahtzee only lists like half the complains i have about it, yet i still find myself coming back for it. Guilty Pleasure i guess.
Even though I love destiny I'm not that stupid I don't see the flaws in it, Sure there are things that could be done better but with what we have already, I like playing it with my raid party.
Honestly I'm underwhelmed by Destiny. But at the same time I still love it for some reason. Maybe because it feels a bit like the older halo games back when bungie still made them, I don't know. I just love shooting stuff in this game so much more than in any other game. Honestly the only problem is the lack of story. And what's even worse is that the story IS there, but it's not in the actual game. If you look at the grimoire cards on bungie.net there's loads of things *like how the cabal altered the orbit of a freaking moon and have it ready to fire at earth.* They literally made an entire story for the game, removed it from the game, and hid it away on an internet page. Even extremely early versions of the game had cutscenes that weren't in the final game, and play testers said that there was a much deeper story in the early build. _Why did they change it?_
Original Story: The Traveler actually brought the Darkness and lies in a dormant state until reawoken by the Hive. So yeah, full copypaste of Halo and Mass Effect.
I keep posting this link here, but if anyone wants to read about the actually good backstory, check it out here: www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/69984189/0/0
Agreed on all points - some of them I thought to myself almost verbatim while I was playing. I will say in Destiny's defense though, that the Crucible and premium missions and whatnot do seem to do a good job of filling the XP gap between missions if you've got them unlocked. All in all, it's nothing special as far as these kinds of games go, but honestly I'd say it's worth it if you've already got your platform's premium paid membership thing, just for the sake of scratching that MMO itch without submitting to an additional monthly fee.
I still don't understand why people haven't rebelled against pay-to-play-online-system or something. I mean, if you want to pay to get VIP-exclusive deals, fine, kudos to that. Exactly how it was on PS3. But now you HAVE to pay for it if you want to play online? This is nothing but greed.
The first ps4 I had, I had 2. Kool aid spilled and went into the disc tray, completely ruining Destiny. I had the limited edition as well. Haven't played the game since and now I look at that day as an accidental but immediate victory.
Destiny is laughably naff in all sorts of ways. And yet, I cannot stop playing it, because shooting things is so much fun. Sigh, if only it had a compelling story and some feeling of importance to player actions and it would have been god tier. I mean, this is a game where there are something like 6 characters that get a speaking part (not including NPC vendors). One of them, I shit you not, is called "the Queen's brother". As in, that's his name, that's what he's listed as, that's what he is referred to as. Doesn't even get a name, just a tag that his sister (also nameless) is important. All the speaking parts have shit names now I stop to think about it: The Stranger - just a generic hunter who gives you a crappy gun and some crappy exposition at some point. The Speaker - Wears a stupid mask, gives stupid exposition. The Queen - Queen who rules 4 people and a throne room in space, because that's all you see. The Queen's Brother - Flunky and probably sex partner of the queen. Ghost - The Dinklebot himself. Could not sound more bored. Guardian - The player. No, you don't get a name either. So, only the NPC vendors get names. Huh.
As long as a game is fun that *SHOULD* be the most important part of it. I had a great time with destiny and got a solid 30 hours out of it. 60 bucks well spent. No it didn't live up to the hype and the story missions were for the most part very boring but it was still a fun game. Now that shadow of mordor is out, destiny has fulfilled its purpose and its on to the next game. Such is life.
Yeah, I love how random dudes like Valus Ta'auric have names, but everyone important has a general stupid noun or title with no detail, even in the so-called "backstory" in the Grimoir cards.
I was so excited for destiny, but it's left me unsatisfied and unfulfilled.. I have so many questions, who/what is the traveler? What are it's origins? Same goes for the darkness, who is the stranger exo? Who was she talking to? Why did Bungie cut out chunks of the game and turn it into DLC...? Don't get me wrong, I thought it was a great game, and still is. Though with all that said, there's still so many problems that NEED fixing. Also, if players were exploiting the loot cave, instead of simply patching it, why not FIX THE LOOTING SYSTEM SO IT'S NOT SO FUCKING FRUSTRATING THAT IT MAKES PLAYERS WANT TO EXPLOIT THE GAME? Why did they take away ascendant materials from the queens bounty rewards? There is literaly no reason to even do the queens bounties anymore.. C'mon Bungie, how did you fuck this up so much?
roxas1335 Titanfall is just Call of Duty with parkour, giant robots and the single most broken pistol weapon on the history of gaming. At least Destiny 'tried' to be interesting, insofar as it could be.
It's nice to know that most Yahtzee's problems with the game have either been fixed over the game's lifespan or are planned to be by Destiny 2. The only things that haven't been addressed are the PS+ subscription requirement and always online aspects but I guess that is due to Activision's deal with Sony for Playstation exclusives and the like in this game.
The hype for most games nowadays comes straight from the company because they're afraid the game won't hold up without it. The hype for cult classics like hl3 comes from the fans instead.
Playing the game offline is the right way to review a game. Because, when the servers inevitably die, the review will remain. So it makes no sense to review a game based on a temporary feature. Destiny (and 99% of all games that depend on online for that matter) is crap and people who defend it are blind fanboys.
+TheGrandRevo "It's fun if you like grinding" Grinding is, inherently, a time-waisting activity. It is a mechanic implemented by a developer to artificially lengthen gameplay and compel players to continue playing with the promise that the interesting bits are just a little ways ahead. I'd rather play a 4-hour version of Destiny and never touch it again than play a 400-hour version with the same amount of unique content as the 4-hour version. And even if one truly does enjoy the activity of grinding, I still don't understand why one would pay a subscription fee when one could do an equally repetitive task for as little obvious reward (for example, weightlifting) for free at the YMCA.
You do realize halo 2 servers only went down because it was on the original xbox correct? If it weren't for that I guarantee you halo 2 servers would still be flooded with people.
I've said from the beginning that Destiny would be overhyped. It's a console exclusive, overhyped, and didn't seem all that great. And guess what? I was right.
A , would help this sentence. I can't tell if you are telling people to keep defending it just because Bungie made it or if you want people to stop defending it just because Bungie made it. Here is why commas are good in sentences. Lets eat grandma. Lets eat, grandma. Same sentence, different meanings because of the comma. Sorry to be a grammar nazi but this may save you from confusion later in the future.
I agree with just about all of Yahtzee's points. For me, an Xbox player that begrudgingly dishes out the $70/year for Xbox Live, the online multiplayer was the main thing that kept me interested past the first 15-20 hours. I definitely liked how as you progress new things kept getting unlocked, although usually recommended for levels 2-3 about your own. It was a nice touch that kept me wondering what I was going to unlock after my next level up. However, shortly after the multiplayer missions required you to have a pre-made raid group of friends with zero matchmaking *coughhaloodstcough*, I stopped playing and haven't look back since. Fun while it lasted though.
Glad to see that nine years later this is still very much the case in Destiny 2. Still play it though, but it's honestly more like an idle game most of the time to give my fingers something to do when watching RUclips playlists on game design.
Are you serious? That game has had so many issues, and it's constantly updating to try and remove all the bugs, and that's not even mentioning how much of the game is behind a massive paywall. And add to that awkward physics that fling your character across the room, along with bullet sponge enemies and endless grinding.
scourge ks The game being updated and maintained is somehow a bad thing? Don't be stupid. Every MMO has bugs, it's part of the process - the fact that the devs are working to fix them is the key part here. Warframe is well cared for. That's a *very good thing*. Massive Paywall? There's no "massive" paywall. No gameplay content is walled off. They only things you can buy with store cash which you have almost no chance of earning in game are cosmetics. Everything else can be attained from normal gameplay and clan dojos. The physics aren't awkward, it's a game about space ninjas - anything is possible. In fact, the reason why the physics are the way they are is because they listened to the community and took what was essentially a community generated technique and absorbed it as a recognised gameplay element. DI listens to their community and learns from them. Very much a good thing. And your last two points? HAH! Destiny is the very definition of bullet sponge enemies with endless grinding gameplay.
Mezkal Muzings You're so full of it, you need platinum to even have more than 1 warframe, so it's impossible to get another without using it up or making a new account. Also, Kubrow's are made so incredibly rare, and the power core is massively expensive to force players to pay for it rather than deal with a mess of a loot system that almost never drops eggs. Oh and the egg can die if you don't have the core, so another couple of days worth of playing to fix that. And most of the gun blueprints are walled off by levels, and anything past 3 takes a massive amount of XP to get up another level. And it's not "being cared for" it's full of fucking glitches and every fix brings even more bugs in, not to mention the "fixes" they mention in the updates can still be broken. And no, saying "space ninjas" doesn't fix the game throwing you across the room into a bottomless pit when a character tries to climb a fucking wall. Oh and really? Does Destiny have a boss that takes 0 damage except from very specific spots that constantly open and close, while dealing an attack to fling you across the room? Didn't think so.
scourge ks "you need platinum to even have more than 1 warframe" lol, dude I have 5. "And most of the gun blueprints are walled off by levels, and anything past 3 takes a massive amount of XP to get up another level." That's called progression and unlocks. Part of being a game based around leveling up everything ever. "And it's not "being cared for" it's full of fucking glitches and every fix brings even more bugs in" Because there's bugs it's not being cared for? sure. "Oh and really? Does Destiny have a boss that takes 0 damage except from very specific spots that constantly open and close, while dealing an attack to fling you across the room? Didn't think so." Are you talking about the easiest boss in the game on mars with avoidable attacks and a simple mechanic that takes around 10 minutes to beat?
scourge ks . Stay on point. I too have many frames - almost 10 in fact. I spent nothing to get my first 5 and only recently started spending my kickstarted funds which earned me my Excal Prime on some more recent cosmetics - money I spent happily to support DI and the game. I still have over 250 plat and I spent much less than the cost of Destiny. Mastery Ranking is optional and has little effect on Warframes or any other gear Sure, it limits what bps and weapons you might have access to but it like unlike most levelling systems, you're free to ignore it once you've found gear that you like and feel no need to delve deeper. However, if you can't seem to manage to rank up in what are arguably the easiest missions in the game then I think we have a better understanding of your skill level. They are dealing with the bugs almost hourly. The latest update produced a bugged mission and they fixed it within the first hour of that update - redtext and an all telling people to stay in mission until the fix was pushed. ODD's raidboss is designed to be only hit at specific moments. It's one of the tougher fights for good reason. If you followed the lore (the codex is there for a reason, chump) you'd understand why. There are guides and videos explaining how to beat it quickly and what gear is most effective. On the other hand, you can pretend that Destiny doesn't have similarly tough and complex bosses which have specific soft points and are otherwise invincible elsewhere. You know, because you've already spent your money and have only received a half a game with no real story. Come back to me after all the DLC is released and your wallet has been emptied - I'd love to know what you truly think of your $300 "investment" then.
I mean. I like the Halo series purely for nostalgia yes, and later on for story (cuz they got better with time...I mean Half-life's story is an even more vague pile of ass), so I was kinda hoping Bungie was going to make a good game. That didn't happen. I no longer like Bungie actually. I couldn't care less that they made my teen years so awesome. They realse this pile of shit and expect people to still support them? Hell no. Goodbye Bungie. It was nice knowing you when you were good.
I feel i need to comment that there is no need to grind for levels in PVP or the patrol missions. If you accept as many "bounties" as you can carry from the bounty board before you go on any missions you can generally do most bounties while you play the story missions. Bounties generally give as much or more XP as completing a story mission does. Personally, i was over-leveled for for every mission without the need for grinding after i unlocked access to the bounties at level 4. I can only assume this detail was glossed over since it isnt unlocked immediately.
From his Halo 3 Review: "So if in the future we're all stuck playing captain bland's monotonous adventure between shifts mining for pixels on a Microsoft slave planet I want you to know I fucking called it."
More prophetic than he might have even considered.
+Whoami691 it's scary and disappointing how often he gets it right
oh how we have fallen
@@Whoami691 also when he predicted that the next paper mario was going to have a hole puncher boss fight
Not sure if you meant this (or if it happened that long ago), but microsoft owns minecraft.... where you mine for pixels.
Yahtzee did hit it on the nose when he said you needed the expanded universe stuff to understand the plot of Halo, but if you actually play them in order(not start with three and not play the others) it still has a coherent story. Destiny has no story. it has backstory and thats it.
Destiny has plenty of story, but pretty much no plot whatsoever. Don't fret, though; I'm sure they'll add it later as paid DLC.
Destiny's story kinda feels like Dark Souls 2-- "Shit's old and we don't know why it's here", but with even less answered questions and more allusions to cooler events that we don't learn about. The Speaker even says "I could tell you of the great battle centuries ago", and I couldn't help but reply "Then do so, because it'd probably be cooler than listening to you being vague as fuck".
SilverARyuu Reminds me of Prince of Persia 2008. All sorts of lore about this big war between light and darkness, and we're cleaning up what amounts to a supernatural oil spill.
SilverARyuu Yeah I felt like that about ds2 as well. The lore behind it is really great but unless youre stopping to research every item and character you find in the game youre not going to have any idea what the hell is going on. Id group halo more with ds1 though because enough of the story elements are explained in game for you to know what youre doing and why youre doing it but if you really want to get into it the out of game lore can provide you with a lot more story and context.
Yeah, DS2 and Destiny seem to attempt to catch "lightning in a bottle" from their previous games. It's doubly bad with the "lore" of Destiny because you can't even access it in-game, which is a load of bunk honestly.
Remember when this game was going to "change the face of gaming forever"?
Pepperidge Farm remembers..
Remember when Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was going to be the 'Halo Killer'?
Remember how Titanfall got all those 'Best in Show' awards?
Hype. Not even once.
Remember watch dogs?
oh yeah, that's right, noone remembers watchdogs.
Remember the tech-demo of Aliens: Colonial Marines?
remember duke nukem forever?
no one remembers it,not even the creators,they forgot it for 10 years
Remember Titanfall
oh wait, connection to the servers was lost again...
Spoiler: the darkness is actually the great and mighty poo.
And the below comment is "oh dear... shit's about to hit the fan." Priceless.
Does a huge supply of tish come from his chocolate starfish?
gnarkillguch How else could there be that much darkness?
... Now I really want to fix my Nintendo 64... I really need to play Conker's Bad Fur Day.
lcjr
I'm in the process of playing through Live and Reloaded atm. God I love that game.
The line from the game that sums up Destiny is when the random hunter lady says "I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain."
If I ever have enough money and people to make a famous game, I'm gonna use Yahztee's videos to let me know what I can improve on.
He and the folks at Extra Credits are my guidebook for video game design, believe me XD
@Irishwolf137 bruh u just replied to a 4 year old comment
@@spenceduggs This statement did not age well.
So, you're making Dark Souls 4?
@@deakkristof1818 why? am I missing something?
"My internet was dropping out like a military cadet with leprosy" ohhh im stealing this :D
Destiny, so far, is the biggest disappointment of 2014
Edit: I didn't say it was the worst game, just the most disappointing. I didn't have much expectations for Watch Dogs or ESO...
Don't fret, it was its destiny.
*Five days later*
Half Life Three came out!
***** "and they even charge for extra content? Damn."
Not only that , the extra content that they are selling us is probably cut out of the game itself.
Fucking activision.
Watch dogs would like to have a word with you.
Might be, but still ESO's launch was pretty horrid from what I remember...
sounds about right.
G.N Exia I imagine it would be better than his reaction to Destiny since it has a complete story unlike Destiny
G.N Exia If it was a rip-ff, then they would have actual character customization. I'm really pissed right now because I have a helmet I'm keeping around because it looks cool but it has a lower light rating than my legendary helmet which looks real stupid
Sorry, it was worded wrong, you dont have much control over how they look beyond physical appearance, armour is completely up to stats
I like that system where my aesthetics and armour don't interfere too much
Glaceon Frost I personally don't really like both games. Both seems to be dull, going along the same rails as call of duty...
"There once was a game called Destiny.
Looked more like a graphical test to me.
It's brown, there's a gun and it looks as much fun as requiring a double mastectomy"
lmao
That's actually a really good point. I hope less games do this "Story on the website" Thing otherwise I quit. At least Halo TELLS the fuckin' story.
I have ADD or ADHD and I love this channel.
Always keeps my attention and humor focused for the whole length of the videos.
Amazing.
Keep up the good work bro. And don't forget to go home, before you fall asleep guys.
No fanboys, no arguements, rational people, people actually discussing things without calling each other gay........ this might just be the best RUclips comments section i've ever seen.
Thanks.
DestructoGuy17 You're very welcome good sir/madame, it just wouldn't be the internet if we didn't call each other gay.
Darude-Sandstorm.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Mr.Yuargai Batty boy.
Master of unlocking I had to google "Batty boy". xD
I thought the same about all the unanswered questions but then I started reading the Grimoire cards. You know, the ones you unlock but can't see unless you can go online with a laptop? They actually have some really good lore and much more detail about the shit your doing and why.... I'd recommend anyone reading this to actually read them. It really gets you hyped to play again and be like, "Oh! This is where such and such happened!"
So, the late game is broken right now. Not that's news but here's my problem.
I'm a level 28 hunter who needs about 30 ascendant shards more to level up my gear to the max. The only way to reliably get those shards is to play one public event a day with all three of "characters".
As a reward you can get ascendant shards, ascendant energy or strange coins. So if i say that 33% of the time i get that needed shard. That means that i can get 1 shard a day by playing 3 different characters to take part in 3 public events reliably.
So, by my calculations i have to play this game for a month, maybe for an hour every day JUST to level my gear that i currently have.
And, if and when i find gear that's better than what i now have? Another 1-2 months grind?
No thanks Bungie.
While i've enjoyed the gameplay and feel of the controls, the lack of story, the grinding and all the other problems, i've had enough. Maybe i'll return to it later to see if they've managed to clear the mess they've made, but now i'm just waiting for Shadow of Mordor to unlock on my PS4.
oryou could apply those frontal lobes, google ways to get them and discover that OMG doing the daily gets you 2 more =D then theres the weekly raid. + another 4-12 shards finally you can get them from engrams so for most thats another 1 mabye 2 shards OMG so many shards =D a whole 8-20 shards for one day =O
You can get them from doing more than one event. I've done 3 in one day each giving shards or energy. Theres also a daily challenge that will give two or one based on materials. And with the patch coming this week the chance of getting them or legendaries to break down is inceeased. Its still gonna take a while bo doubt and is annoying but it won't take a month. Unless the games rng hatea you
Kye Jarvis Yes i know there are other ways to get more, let's go through why they don't work for me.
"OMG doing the daily gets you 2 more "
Yes, 2 more shards or the useless energy that i don't really need to make my guns any better.
And i can only play it on that one main character the other two are at level 7 and i won't be grinding them up anymore than they go up by playing the bare minimum.
"then theres the weekly raid."
That i've soloed ONCE, as i don't have friends to go do them with on PS4.
"finally you can get them from engrams so for most thats another 1 mabye 2 shards OMG so many shards =D a whole 8-20 shards for one day =O"
I've had about 10 purple drops over my 80 hours of playing the game. You know how many have given me purple gear?
2!!! One gun and one armor piece and i'm using both at the moment.
Oh, how i would love to get gear that i could dismantle for shards, but not getting any is just another way of showing how the game is broken.
So, the dailies with one character and the publics with 3 and with the chance of getting other materials on all of them the average amount of shards i can get in a day is about 1 or 2 at the most.
So shut up about those claims of 8-20 shards a day. Maybe if the Queens rewards dismantle was in play, i could have seen such amounts, but now?
No way in hell...
markotark heres ways to resolve those issues. make friends either in game or online, party up and have fun. the game was meant to be played with a team. its a basic shoot them up FPS no better than CoD on its own. there patching the cryptfag and his useless decoding skills so now purple engrams are defs purple or better gear or 4+ materials.a nd lastly consider the destiny now as less of a full game and more of the base on a 10 layer cake with constant layers and icing being added. you wouldn't judge a book by its cover and the first day release of destiny is just the cover of the book.
MRMONKEY232 " Unless the games rng hatea you"
Like i said to Kye, i've had 10 purple engrams in over 80 hours including all the leveling rewards, out of those 2 came out purple and i'm currently using them.
I've had no purple or yellow gear from blue engrams so yeah, maybe rng hates me, but that's just why the game is broken. I've had 2 of those purple engrams drop from hive thralls and i've received none from completing any missions or strikes.
So, maybe the new update will improve the odds and make the game better to play, but i sure as hell have been burned out on it so much, that i have no interest in shooting anymore of the same enemies, running around in the same places and hearing the same comments in the hope that i have now 0.1% chance of getting good gear rather than 0.05%.
I don't think i'm the only one who starts to feel ambivalent about a game that's supposed to have enough legs to stay relevant with it's current content until the expansions come out in a few months.
And if the expansions are the same shooting in new places with the same lack of story, then Bungie has really messed up.
What happened too Destiny.
> Bungie had an amazing story pieced together and a nice complete game
> Activison came in/ Some 3rd Party
> Chopped the game into piece's
> Put it into DLC
> Bungie defeated, put the actual story onto Bungie.net in pieced out Grimore Card's so you can read about what the game would of been as you cry onto your keyboard over how great this game could of been
www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2hqmkb/how_destinys_content_completely_changed_over_the
*****
That sounds like it could have been actually interesting. Best not include that anywhere in the game...
Oh trust me, Yahtzee, you missed nothing from not playing those strike missions that require PS+. You guys like fighting through hordes of enemies that are significantly powered up to the point of unfairness? Want to fight them while defending Dinklebot again? How about fighting a boss which is a scaled up version of that enemy type you just shot in the face, only he has so much health you will be shooting at him for half an hour, and he will kill you in two to three hits? Oh, and he'll have waves of trash enemies to throw at you so you can refill the ammo you most likely just emptied on him. And if you use shotguns, sucks to be you! The bosses all have an aoe attack to prevent you from circle strafing around them or getting into effective range with the damned thing. Sounds like a fun time to me!
now with destiny 2 right around the corner i come back to this video and i realize something. This is exactly how i feel about destiny
Got this today at Tesco for £15. For that price, and considering I'm going on with lowered expectations I highly doubt I'll be disappointed. Hell, I got Titanfall plus all its DLC for £10 and I absolutely loved it. My condolences to anyone who paid full price for either though.
I bet you were met with the DLC's to arbitrarily cut you away from everyone else, weren't you? Did you spent another $40 to be apart of the 'experience'?
Nope, haven't spent a penny on DLC.
Mr Grumpyface how'd you get DLC??
If you're referring to Destiny, I don't have any. If you're referring to Titanfall, it all came in a sale bundle with the game. Still have no idea what your first comment is trying to say.
Mr Grumpyface I was referring to Destiny....so, you're still a vanilla player??! No way you walked away with satisfaction. Even for $15.
The store I work at bought about 4000 copies of Destiny for launch day. On launch day, I think I remember 3 people actually coming in to buy Destiny. That's it.
TheKeyser94
A couple weeks later I think they reduced the price to 19.99 just so we would sell some fucking copies.
Tabula Rasa Gaming Quick where is that store? I want to see how bad it is
on the other hand, the blockbuster near my house got two 3X1.5 shelves full of used games (mostly gta V) and in less than 3 days every single one of them was sold (after Destiny's release date).
Now, the funny thing is that people sold those games the first time so they could preorder Destiny and now you can find unsold and used copies of that game in those same shelves.
Fools like me waited a few days, watched the reviews about how mediocre this game is, then said fuck it and bought it anyway.
***** I wonder if people will still preorder a lot, so far Destiny and Battlefield Hardline have opened my eyes (Battlefield hardline is a mixed bag but there are some game modes that are M&M's and the conquest felt like neutered)
The soilders being dead people brought back to life sounds cool if they did something with it.
start of story:ball comes to earth, humanity is like yay!, ball gets jumped by aliens. humans kill alien heart, ball gets better THE END oh and the rest of the story is in the DLC youll have to pay for ;)
...pretty much yeah ^_^'
the words "held for ransom" come to mind
+That guy with the face Yeah, what a terrible thing to demand more money for more content. Everything should be free, and there should be no wars, and everybody should be rich and healthy and happy.
The Tallest Dwarf See, you're the kind of mindless drone that the industry just loves exploiting and ruins everything for the rest of us.
Obviously you don't understand the subtext of my comment so let me explain. DLC is an amazing idea. I fully support it and it benefits both the community and the industry itself. But the common practice in AAA gaming now a days is withholding content for the game that was not only finished prior to the release but ready to be sold as day one dlc. Destiny's campaign for example was deliberately cut into three pieces for it to be sold separately which was obvious by their marketing campaigns. The first expansion was finished in fact, save for minor bugs that could be patched up within a week or two. There's also games like Evolve that had over 100 dollars' worth of day 1 dlc. Or games like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and the Arkham games with fully functional, on-disc day 1 DLC. Or retail games with microtransactions like MKX, Injustice, Dead Space 3 and AC: Unity
Hell back to Destiny, in single player you still use a multiplayer server, but you're not allowed to play in multiplayer without yet another arbitrary pay wall.
So if you have a particular fear of having money and wish to get rid of it ASAP then I understand your stance. But please don't scoff at those of us with a brain whom would rather not get fucked over by a system that's being blatantly exploited for profit out of sheer contempt for the audience.
But what do I know? I only make a living out of knowing my shit
That guy with the face
You really think that game development can be financed with hugs, do you?
The Tallest Dwarf Did I say that? Or did I specifically say that DLC is a great idea for both consumers and devs as well as publishers?
If you can't make a proper argument then at least retain your dignity instead of throwing a metaphorical tantrum.
You know what REALLY hurts the industry and the quality of games though? Extravagance and poor management. Like the unrealistic claims of Peter Molyneux and Romero, the excessive marketing of Destiny and Watch_Dogs, the blatant contempt for the audience that the likes of EA and Ubi show and the horrible business practices of companies like Activision and Konami
I think this was one of your best reviews. You said everything that needs to be said about Destiny in 5 minutes and in a very entertaining way.
The Darkness sang that one hit wonder "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" a while back so good reference out of 10
Normally i'd say yahtzee goes overboard...this time he hasn't gone far enough...
I fell into the ZP hole again. I'll see you all in a few hours.
And still this game is going to sell like hot cakes because idiot gamers can't ask for quality of a game over pretty graphics.
Hate this time we live in.
And so we scatter off to the indie market and begin the cycle again-the joy :)
Tried cave story? shitty graphics, but free and awesome gameplay.
I don't buy games that much any more. Though I'll be ordering a Wii U and Smash Bros. U or whatever it's called for Christmas.
It sells because it is an exclusive to consoles and gamers will buy anything to try and justify paying 700$ for these pieces of junk.
That's true, and after you've paid a lot for a game, you're more likely to defend your purchase even if it's not a good one. Vicious circle.wiias40
I fucking laughed at "The Hunchback of Quattro Fromagio" because I didnt know anyone else knew that pizza existed.
If you want a treat call Panago and order that pizza.
I'm a level 30 Hunter.
12 Exotic guns: Vex Mythoclast, The Last Word, Red Death, Thorn, MIDA Multi-Tool, SUROS Regime, Monte Carlo, Hawkmoon, Invective, Plan C, Thunderlord, and Super Good Advice.
4 Exotic Armors for Hunter alone: Achlyophage Symbiote, Mask of the Third Man, Young Ahamkara's Spine, and Lucky Raspberry.
2 Sets of Raid gear (helm, gloves, chest, boots)
I've put in hundreds of hours into this game, but I have a love/hate relationship with this game.
I love completing challenges with friends. Vault of Glass, Nightfall, Heroic, Crucible. It's fun completing them. Sure, it's repeditive, but I also love receiving rewards for things I can complete in my sleep.
I also hate this game. Aside from the amount of hours I poured into acquiring all my gear because of stupid RNG's, the game is as fucking empty as my wallet was when I dropped $100 for the Digital Guardian edition.
This game had so much hope, so much hype.
Why doesn't it live up to its hype?
It was cut.
Cut so hard that the copy we purchased was probably just the big toe of the actual game. Bungie stated and I quote "Each planet is bigger than the entirety of Halo: Reach" when in fact, the spire mission, and Winter Contingency is bigger than any of these planets.
The tower is useless.
There is jack shit to do in the tower apart from handing in bounties and decrypting engrams. The tower is a mere hotspot you are obliged to go to because you need to get bounties, or get items. It's barely a social ground apart from dropping a couple soccer balls and floating purple balls here and there. The lounge (underneath the FWC area in the hangar) is completely useless apart from Xûr being there once every five weeks or so.
I wont even bother explaining how cut the story was, as most of you probably said the exact same words when you finished The Black Garden.
"That's it?"
Why Destiny has such low scores for reviews, because it deserves it.
I'd have much rather Bungie sell me the pre-alpha game before the senior writers left, before Activision had to shove their dicks up Bungie's ass and make everything DLC to milk everything Destiny's tits had to offer.
If gaming companies are only releasing parts of the game to us, it's only fair that we should be paying them parts of the final price, right?
oh dear... shit's about to hit the fan.
Looking forward to that Magic Tournament.
This is why I hate hype. I told everyone from the start that this, Titanfall and Watch_Dogs were gonna be shit, and only got attacked by hordes of drooling fanboys.
Told you so.
Don't worry Yes Man , there will always be a New Vegas.
Titanfall isn't that bad though, in fact Yahtze said himself that he had fun with it.
Why is that something to be proud of? You were right about something that should have been blatantly obvious to anyone that's not blinded by the hype. Yeah, great job. Have a cookie.
munclesonkey Did I ever claim I was proud of it? I know it was obvious, which is why I'm enjoying laughing at those that attacked me.
Don't be such a downer, Titanfall would have been an awesome game for 30$ instead of 60$. Without a solid story it's not worth the 60$ price point, but it actually is a ridiculously fun fps. It's still my go-to for a twitchy good time. Don't drop such gross exaggerations.
2:00-2:12 NICE ONE XD also at about 3:33 that's a great illustration for the enemies, Cabal was a nice touch.
I paused the video at 1:48 when I saw you put Firefall at the MMO table.
I was honestly surprised with the large variety of MMOs out there and it happened to be one I was fond of despite it being released from Beta way too early.
In defence of bungie I believe they made a game with a lot more story and cotext but the activision showed up and said one for the game, two for dlc so they had to cut out two thirds of the story
Context*
And I'm just sitting here playing Skyrim.
Dunkey LongLostSon Fair enough.
Zachary Comstock Did you even have a dog named Bill?
Dunkey LongLostSon I... Well I... I mean... _begins to sweat profusely_
Dunkey LongLostSon Not sure if on purpose or not, but his OP post has some subtle humor
xxdomoxxkunxx his original post post?
Destiny, Titanfall, and Watch_dogs. 3 over-hyped and only average 2014 games that will be forgotten in less than a year.
I can somewhat see Destiny living a bit longer than those other ones.
Probably the most huge hype disappointments in a single year. Tbh, the games probably would have benefited having less hype behind them- Titanfall and Destiny have pretty fun gameplay (apparently- I don't own either, but this is just from what I hear and what I'd expect), and Watch Dogs does have an interesting premise and spin on the usual openworld game. But people worshipped them before they were even out...only to be disappointed.
We know that already
I am trying to think of any good games so far this year. Umm maybe Shadow of Mordor. I really hope that Dragon Age Inquisition, Assassins Creed Rogue and Unity, Borderlands: The Prequel, Far Cry 4, and Civilization Beyond Earth are not disappointments. Those games are the only things keeping this year for gaming from being highly disappointing.
I didn't notice how much hype titanfall got all I know is that it was a full price 60$ game. I picked it up on sale, and was pleasantly surprised at how much fun it was. Not worth full price but one of the best competitive FPS games I've played in a long time. I watched some videos of CoD gameplay after playing it for awhile and was astounded how slow paced it was by contrast. Titanfall is just a twitchy good time imo.
Sometimes I feel like it's fun to just wiggle around a rooty tooty point and shooty with friends working for a common goal, and it was a nice surprise to be able to have a good bit of strategy to wiggle it around with, and there is a strange satisfaction to know that you are the greatest shooty wiggler, and that you can drop yourself into strikes (good part of the fun, the strikes). Might just be me though.
That Limerick at the start just made my day
I actually enjoyed this game.
Then again I did the raids for days without even eating properly so you should probably take that with a mountain of salt.
My theory on what happened with over-hyped games like Destiny and Wacth_Dogs:
Devs: Alright guys, we are making a COMPLETELY AWESOME GAME!
Heads: Yo! Everybody is extremely hyped. So hyped that we are guaranteed to make a huge profit. So this is the plan: Just make it a game, and that's it.
Devs: Not an COMPLETELY AWESOME game?
Heads: Why should we add anymore effort if we are already going to have a great profit?
More like:
Devs: Alright guys, we are making a COMPLETELY AWESOME GAME!
Heads: Yo! Everybody is extremely hyped. So hyped that we are guaranteed to make a huge profit. So this is the plan: Make it pre-order, make a beautiful trailer and then, when released, make it shit.
Devs: Why would we do that?
Heads: Why not?
That point that I want a warframe zero punctuation but that means he'll be confused as fuck and every point he says gets fucked by the constant updates
Nuclear Orange I'll nev-
Fuck!...
Yeah, i desperately want him to do Warframe {even though i'm liking it so far}, But since he is presumably on a schedule, he'd either have to postpone other videos to get a better understanding of it, or play for a few hours, then inevitably show that he's confused, hasn't played the game enough, or both.
one of the few times I actually laugh is when watching these videos. I love you dude
oh how far destiny has come since i first saw this.
Got this game, played it for 1 hour. Gave it away same day.
you know, the beta didn't really impress me, but it seemed like it had potential, I mean you can't judge the end product just by the beta which was dry and had you killing the same dudes over the same landscape. I figured when the game was released it would have a fleshed out story, have more areas, and a bigger variety of dudes to kill, and reasons to kill them, and world events and such. I didn't buy the game and LITERALLY EVERYTHING I heard about the game so far seems to indicate it is exactly like the beta.......
That would have been a massive disappointment if I had bought the game.
Or y'know, just play Warframe
+Godzelda123 For free and not being able to get any good gear or new warframes unless you paid of them or grind for HOURS or even months for them. Warframe was boring to me in comparison to Destiny
+RevengerGecko its still free at least till some point and its jolly fun
Coldy Tm You find it fun, i don't
+RevengerGecko fair enough
+RevengerGecko Better than wasting money on boring Halo: Grinding Evolved.
I enjoy playing destiny, I don't think it's an amazing game but I enjoy playing it. Certain games are just like that. Like dynasty warriors, not really anything new, but its so fun.
*Fun Fact:* If you listen at 0.5 speed, you realize that Yahtzee records this drunk then just doubles the speed.
I remember seeing trailers and gameplay but I never saw the 'hype' that others had for this game, it just looked like your average fps that was trying to be an mmo for COD/Halo kiddies.
This whole review can basically be renamed to Destiny 2, and no-one would know.
It's sad because I feel like Destiny as we know it would never have been a thing if it weren't for Microsoft. Neither would Halo for that matter. Bungie's made it a habit to take the things it really likes from previous last-gen titles and use them again with shiny new polish. That's what made Halo so great; it was basically Marathon without the stinky rotten apple getting in the way. It had similar ideas but managed to perfect those ideas not just with a new coat of paint but with some variety of colors as well. Combine this with the more realistic sci-fi approach to human progress and a great story EU written off to the side by guys like Eric Nylund and you basically had the perfect house is the pride of all the neighborhood and the envy of the rest of the town.
Unfortunately the mayor (Microsoft) got involved in liking this house, and since he wants the best house in the neighborhood he decides to make life a living hell for the current tenants. So in the end when Bungie decides to finally jump ship the mayor gets what he wants and suddenly he has the best house in town...until that house suddenly needs caring for summore. To ensure that he can take care of it, he hires another group composed of some of the former contractors of both Bungie and, to our great misfortune, Infinity Ward; the guys responsible for creating that amazing slum that everyone talks about but nobody with the right sense goes near yet still manages to make the town a huge amount of money regardless. Eventually just like the slum the house gets coated not in paint but in rusty tin, dust, and feces, and while it is still the talk of the town and makes the mayor lots of money it is hardly the jewel of the town it once was and anyone and everyone with half a lick of sense has long since abandoned it.
Meanwhile Bungie, still wanting to outshine its former glory, decides to do what it can to make the next Halo. However there is a bit of a problem. Unlike Marathon which relied on the massive crutch that was a rotten piece of fruit to sell its game, Halo relied on Microsoft to help push it forward and it refuses to crack like bulletproof glass. So if Bungie decided to even try and make a fresh copy with a nicer coat of paint of its original design it would likely get sued and publicly ridiculed for not simply staying on board in the first place. So it instead takes the advice of someone into modern-architecture to help build its home and works from there; doing what it can to put the ideas it liked into the new design. As a result, however, it comes out hodgepodge and, while people say it's a good new thing, it quickly disappears into obscurity like all other modern architecture which over time wears down and falls apart. Now as a result both Halo and Bungie have become a laughingstock; its baby that we all loved and cherished has become the next CoD knockoff (to the point that I refer to anything past Reach as SpaceCoD regardless of what the label says) while Bungie becomes like the average British politician/'old blood', looking longingly over the remains of their once former glory and thinking, "where did we go wrong?" while still parading its long-lost superiority.
The moral of the story? Halo should have died after Reach, and Bungie should have made a better game. Also 343i should be punted into the nearest star and be reminded that things dead should be left to lie instead of retconned to explain your game's missing plotholes.
TheKeyser94 Nope. Bungie made Halo; in fact Halo's basically a copy of Bungie's game Marathon. They've split from Microsoft many times over the creation of the Halo series. Microsoft's only real claim to fame for Halo was that they happened to have the console that it was published on. If anything it's thanks to them that Halo's been ruined, because if it weren't for their desire to milk their cash-cow out of every cent that it could churn up then abominations like Halos 4 and 5 wouldn't exist.
The Laser Beam123 Maybe not everything, but they did borrow a lot from the game. Guilty Spark's eye shape being a carbon copy of the Marathon logo, for example.
There's nothing wrong with it, don't get me wrong, but it is a fact that Halo's a spiritual successor to the Marathon games.
The Laser Beam123 Arguably. It's a nicer way of saying that something that came after another has been influenced a lot by its predecessor and carries much of the weight of what made that predecessor great on its shoulders. Take System Shock 2 and Bioshock for example. On the outside they are two different games, but it just takes a simple peek into both to notice that Bioshock borrows heavily from System Shock 2's plot devices. Single overpowering villain who has control of an entire isolated community, a people who have gone mad from substance abuse, heavy use of tight spaces and tension etc. One could say that Bioshock is a copy of System Shock 2, but that would be a stretch as they follow two different genres of sci-fi.
Been waiting for this review for a long time.
"fight the darkness up until further notice"
yup, that pretty much sums up every plot of every mmo.
if something gets hype, it probably sucks
*cough* Watch_Dogs *cough*
I hope my comment didn't rustle your Jimmies, my almighty Gorilla Munch
Yahtzee: "Do you seriously believe your own hype?"
Destiny: "I AM THE HYPE!"
Half Life 2 Enough said.
Skyrim ... It didn`t suck .
GTA5...
Spending a day just downloading updates was another let down... Did the CD even have a use? because i feel like maybe i just downloaded the entire game during that.
*Spoilers*
But seriously, has anyone beaten the Vex boss at the 'end'? It's some ultra-godlike entity or some such and you don't actually fight it, you just kill 3 statues and it disappears... Mind you that does seem awfully similar to the Hive's 'large blob of evil' boss at the end of their arc... The game's fun and all but Jesus! Couldn't they have done something slightly more for what is essentially the 'end' of the story?
IT'S HERE!
Yahtzee"The big man"Croshaw
Pure gold
It's cute to look at bland shooters with $500 million budgets that are still leaps and bounds behind TF2
you can't justuse some random word to describe observing bland shooters, cute is more like something you would use to describe the game itself,not the act of staring at the game that you think is aweful
I'm waiting for all the fanboys to come here, press the dislike button and proceed to tell us all how much they love their game.
But they shouldn't leave the fine 6/10 grinding sim for a task like this right?
I like the game, although i don't know why. It's a perfect example of AAA bullshit and Yahtzee only lists like half the complains i have about it, yet i still find myself coming back for it. Guilty Pleasure i guess.
*complaints
only 5 dislike(so far) you will be here for a while
Even though I love destiny I'm not that stupid I don't see the flaws in it, Sure there are things that could be done better but with what we have already, I like playing it with my raid party.
Honestly I'm underwhelmed by Destiny. But at the same time I still love it for some reason.
Maybe because it feels a bit like the older halo games back when bungie still made them, I don't know. I just love shooting stuff in this game so much more than in any other game.
Honestly the only problem is the lack of story. And what's even worse is that the story IS there, but it's not in the actual game. If you look at the grimoire cards on bungie.net there's loads of things *like how the cabal altered the orbit of a freaking moon and have it ready to fire at earth.*
They literally made an entire story for the game, removed it from the game, and hid it away on an internet page.
Even extremely early versions of the game had cutscenes that weren't in the final game, and play testers said that there was a much deeper story in the early build.
_Why did they change it?_
Original Story:
The Traveler actually brought the Darkness and lies in a dormant state until reawoken by the Hive.
So yeah, full copypaste of Halo and Mass Effect.
I keep posting this link here, but if anyone wants to read about the actually good backstory, check it out here:
www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/69984189/0/0
Any chance for an update to this where we get the Taken King ZP?
Agreed on all points - some of them I thought to myself almost verbatim while I was playing. I will say in Destiny's defense though, that the Crucible and premium missions and whatnot do seem to do a good job of filling the XP gap between missions if you've got them unlocked. All in all, it's nothing special as far as these kinds of games go, but honestly I'd say it's worth it if you've already got your platform's premium paid membership thing, just for the sake of scratching that MMO itch without submitting to an additional monthly fee.
Disgruntled Destiny players! We here at Warframe wait to embrace you as a part of us with open arms!
Where you can do the exact same thing, except in third person. Although I do prefer the gunplay in Destiny.
no shit! After 3 days of trying to enjoy Destiny, I was back to Warframe, trying to forget the money I lost...
evan k at least warframe is free (don't carea really for either game)
"Free"
Kye Jarvis best f2p model out there.
I still don't understand why people haven't rebelled against pay-to-play-online-system or something. I mean, if you want to pay to get VIP-exclusive deals, fine, kudos to that. Exactly how it was on PS3. But now you HAVE to pay for it if you want to play online? This is nothing but greed.
The first ps4 I had, I had 2. Kool aid spilled and went into the disc tray, completely ruining Destiny. I had the limited edition as well. Haven't played the game since and now I look at that day as an accidental but immediate victory.
I like how you could just tell he was trying his hardest to say something good about the game.
3:57
I see what you did there Yatzee...we recognize that reference to portal adds...
get ps3
no cost for internet connection
⊙ω⊙ correct
At least it wasn't as bad as air control.
That's what you think. The main thing that brought this game down for me is the hype, and Air Control didn't have that.
I have to ask what's worse, a bad game, or a boring game thats a grind and chore to play.
I don't see a difference
***** air control is satan in his/her game form and destiny is a mediocre at best grind fest by bungie. There's the difference.
Air control at least made me laugh, and even then using an extreme to say something is "better than" is a logical fallacy and a shitty argument.
Shots fired. Here comes the fanboys.
I once heard Destiny described as "Halo with Scarves"
I 110% agree with you on all of these issues. Thank you for this video
They had enough budget to fund a small island nation, where the hell did it all go?
500.000.000$
gtb111 They should have given 1 million to 500 indie developers and seen what they came up with :P Would be 500 better games for sure…
KateTheAwesome true lol
What happened to all that money?
To copy a phrase from Yahtzee: "Maybe they pissed in it."
On the obscenely obnoxious omnipresent marketing campaign of course.
Destiny is laughably naff in all sorts of ways. And yet, I cannot stop playing it, because shooting things is so much fun. Sigh, if only it had a compelling story and some feeling of importance to player actions and it would have been god tier.
I mean, this is a game where there are something like 6 characters that get a speaking part (not including NPC vendors). One of them, I shit you not, is called "the Queen's brother". As in, that's his name, that's what he's listed as, that's what he is referred to as. Doesn't even get a name, just a tag that his sister (also nameless) is important.
All the speaking parts have shit names now I stop to think about it:
The Stranger - just a generic hunter who gives you a crappy gun and some crappy exposition at some point.
The Speaker - Wears a stupid mask, gives stupid exposition.
The Queen - Queen who rules 4 people and a throne room in space, because that's all you see.
The Queen's Brother - Flunky and probably sex partner of the queen.
Ghost - The Dinklebot himself. Could not sound more bored.
Guardian - The player. No, you don't get a name either.
So, only the NPC vendors get names. Huh.
don't forget certain enemies getting personal names. :D
As long as a game is fun that *SHOULD* be the most important part of it. I had a great time with destiny and got a solid 30 hours out of it. 60 bucks well spent. No it didn't live up to the hype and the story missions were for the most part very boring but it was still a fun game. Now that shadow of mordor is out, destiny has fulfilled its purpose and its on to the next game. Such is life.
munclesonkey holy crap. fancy seeing you here. o_o
Yeah, I love how random dudes like Valus Ta'auric have names, but everyone important has a general stupid noun or title with no detail, even in the so-called "backstory" in the Grimoir cards.
That sounds ridiculously thin for any game. Did they not put in any effort at all?
I feel like he wasn't as harsh on this one as other games he reviewed.
It's like the Soviet Space Program: constantly fucking up before becoming pretty good.
8 years on, and 6 after I quit the habit, I'll say that I did enjoy the coop grinding, but everything else is still spot on.
Lmfao, when you put in 0.5 speed it sounds like he's high.
Oh my god, he's so freakin' wasted.
Nathan Fraser LOL
Fucking great, lol.
Lol, this is hilarious.
And then The Taken King came and this review dropped down from being "completely correct" to "completely correct, minus like 2 things".
Just about yeah.
Rise of Iron is so awful that it reminded me why I hated early Destiny before Taken King dropped.
I was so excited for destiny, but it's left me unsatisfied and unfulfilled.. I have so many questions, who/what is the traveler? What are it's origins? Same goes for the darkness, who is the stranger exo? Who was she talking to? Why did Bungie cut out chunks of the game and turn it into DLC...? Don't get me wrong, I thought it was a great game, and still is. Though with all that said, there's still so many problems that NEED fixing.
Also, if players were exploiting the loot cave, instead of simply patching it, why not FIX THE LOOTING SYSTEM SO IT'S NOT SO FUCKING FRUSTRATING THAT IT MAKES PLAYERS WANT TO EXPLOIT THE GAME?
Why did they take away ascendant materials from the queens bounty rewards? There is literaly no reason to even do the queens bounties anymore..
C'mon Bungie, how did you fuck this up so much?
I agree with you by comparison Titan Fall is way better.
roxas1335 Titanfall is just Call of Duty with parkour, giant robots and the single most broken pistol weapon on the history of gaming. At least Destiny 'tried' to be interesting, insofar as it could be.
far enough but I was expecting at least a story to make me care.
..I just have one comment for you...what the hell is that avatar..
What is your profile pic...
Soo glad I didn't waste my money on this. Iquisition here I come...
just remember to check you privilege before loading up dragon age cisquisition.
Been waiting for Inquisition since it was announced, The hype is killing me.
Pierce Miller See the video detailing face customization. so much detail O_O
Gods yes. Will that come out already?
***** As in theres no gender for cancer?
It's nice to know that most Yahtzee's problems with the game have either been fixed over the game's lifespan or are planned to be by Destiny 2. The only things that haven't been addressed are the PS+ subscription requirement and always online aspects but I guess that is due to Activision's deal with Sony for Playstation exclusives and the like in this game.
THIS DUDE SPEAKS THE TRUTHIEST TRUTH IVE EVER GRACED MY EARS WITH
So many people are saying that hype = crappy game. But what does that make Half Life 3?
***** Well, you say that, BUT... Valve is really gonna put ALOT of time into hl3 so it should be pretty good. People are gonna understand
The hype for most games nowadays comes straight from the company because they're afraid the game won't hold up without it. The hype for cult classics like hl3 comes from the fans instead.
Effete Denizen I knw. I really want HL3. But I am not sure if it can live up to da hype
Diego Morales Yeah, me also, but I am talking about OTHER people
British Nerd Actually, hype = major letdown.
Well its a shame the only thing Yahtzee liked about Destiny (Dinklage) will fuck off in The Taken King
+InsertOnionHere He didn't even like Dinklage in this if you listened very carefully.
Dick Grayson I was saying he liked Dinklage himself, god knows everyone hated Dinklebots voice acting.
+InsertOnionHere Im glad they are bringing in an actual voice actor for ghost
Because Dinklage has that pesky common sense.
Playing the game offline is the right way to review a game. Because, when the servers inevitably die, the review will remain. So it makes no sense to review a game based on a temporary feature.
Destiny (and 99% of all games that depend on online for that matter) is crap and people who defend it are blind fanboys.
Taken King fixed it
But I'm biased because I managed to buy myself the core with an unused code for the price of a core game
+TheGrandRevo "It's fun if you like grinding"
Grinding is, inherently, a time-waisting activity. It is a mechanic implemented by a developer to artificially lengthen gameplay and compel players to continue playing with the promise that the interesting bits are just a little ways ahead. I'd rather play a 4-hour version of Destiny and never touch it again than play a 400-hour version with the same amount of unique content as the 4-hour version. And even if one truly does enjoy the activity of grinding, I still don't understand why one would pay a subscription fee when one could do an equally repetitive task for as little obvious reward (for example, weightlifting) for free at the YMCA.
Depends on what you define as temporary. Halo 3 servers are still up and that's a 9 year old game.
You do realize halo 2 servers only went down because it was on the original xbox correct? If it weren't for that I guarantee you halo 2 servers would still be flooded with people.
+Gorse Aurn So at least eight and a half years you mean?
So glad I came back to watching ZP.
The vex: "Gosh im peeved"
I fucking died from that XD
I've said from the beginning that Destiny would be overhyped. It's a console exclusive, overhyped, and didn't seem all that great. And guess what? I was right.
2014 - the year of disappointment and misgongy
2014 is the year of the horse according to the Chinese zodiac, but I like yours better ^_^
No, that was 2013
Master Yoshi No, 2013 was the year of new hotness consoles. Can we not come to some sort of agreement? One master to another.
plz dont stop defending this shit of a game just because bungie made it
A , would help this sentence. I can't tell if you are telling people to keep defending it just because Bungie made it or if you want people to stop defending it just because Bungie made it. Here is why commas are good in sentences.
Lets eat grandma.
Lets eat, grandma.
Same sentence, different meanings because of the comma. Sorry to be a grammar nazi but this may save you from confusion later in the future.
MysteriousTomJenkins Hey, sometimes you get stuck in a snow storm and gotta eat people. Grandma is the weakest link.
Brandon Dean
That got a chuckle out of me. XD
alright. The game has the best weapon mechanics to date. there you go. an argument not because it was made by Bungie.
Brandon Dean wouldn't you eat the youngest because the meat is the most tender?
I agree with just about all of Yahtzee's points. For me, an Xbox player that begrudgingly dishes out the $70/year for Xbox Live, the online multiplayer was the main thing that kept me interested past the first 15-20 hours. I definitely liked how as you progress new things kept getting unlocked, although usually recommended for levels 2-3 about your own. It was a nice touch that kept me wondering what I was going to unlock after my next level up.
However, shortly after the multiplayer missions required you to have a pre-made raid group of friends with zero matchmaking *coughhaloodstcough*, I stopped playing and haven't look back since. Fun while it lasted though.
Glad to see that nine years later this is still very much the case in Destiny 2.
Still play it though, but it's honestly more like an idle game most of the time to give my fingers something to do when watching RUclips playlists on game design.
Warframe is a better destiny in every regard. And it's free.
Are you serious? That game has had so many issues, and it's constantly updating to try and remove all the bugs, and that's not even mentioning how much of the game is behind a massive paywall. And add to that awkward physics that fling your character across the room, along with bullet sponge enemies and endless grinding.
scourge ks
The game being updated and maintained is somehow a bad thing? Don't be stupid. Every MMO has bugs, it's part of the process - the fact that the devs are working to fix them is the key part here. Warframe is well cared for. That's a *very good thing*. Massive Paywall? There's no "massive" paywall. No gameplay content is walled off. They only things you can buy with store cash which you have almost no chance of earning in game are cosmetics. Everything else can be attained from normal gameplay and clan dojos. The physics aren't awkward, it's a game about space ninjas - anything is possible. In fact, the reason why the physics are the way they are is because they listened to the community and took what was essentially a community generated technique and absorbed it as a recognised gameplay element. DI listens to their community and learns from them. Very much a good thing.
And your last two points? HAH! Destiny is the very definition of bullet sponge enemies with endless grinding gameplay.
Mezkal Muzings
You're so full of it, you need platinum to even have more than 1 warframe, so it's impossible to get another without using it up or making a new account. Also, Kubrow's are made so incredibly rare, and the power core is massively expensive to force players to pay for it rather than deal with a mess of a loot system that almost never drops eggs. Oh and the egg can die if you don't have the core, so another couple of days worth of playing to fix that. And most of the gun blueprints are walled off by levels, and anything past 3 takes a massive amount of XP to get up another level. And it's not "being cared for" it's full of fucking glitches and every fix brings even more bugs in, not to mention the "fixes" they mention in the updates can still be broken. And no, saying "space ninjas" doesn't fix the game throwing you across the room into a bottomless pit when a character tries to climb a fucking wall.
Oh and really? Does Destiny have a boss that takes 0 damage except from very specific spots that constantly open and close, while dealing an attack to fling you across the room? Didn't think so.
scourge ks "you need platinum to even have more than 1 warframe" lol, dude I have 5.
"And most of the gun blueprints are walled off by levels, and anything past 3 takes a massive amount of XP to get up another level." That's called progression and unlocks. Part of being a game based around leveling up everything ever.
"And it's not "being cared for" it's full of fucking glitches and every fix brings even more bugs in"
Because there's bugs it's not being cared for? sure.
"Oh and really? Does Destiny have a boss that takes 0 damage except from very specific spots that constantly open and close, while dealing an attack to fling you across the room? Didn't think so."
Are you talking about the easiest boss in the game on mars with avoidable attacks and a simple mechanic that takes around 10 minutes to beat?
scourge ks .
Stay on point. I too have many frames - almost 10 in fact. I spent nothing to get my first 5 and only recently started spending my kickstarted funds which earned me my Excal Prime on some more recent cosmetics - money I spent happily to support DI and the game. I still have over 250 plat and I spent much less than the cost of Destiny.
Mastery Ranking is optional and has little effect on Warframes or any other gear Sure, it limits what bps and weapons you might have access to but it like unlike most levelling systems, you're free to ignore it once you've found gear that you like and feel no need to delve deeper. However, if you can't seem to manage to rank up in what are arguably the easiest missions in the game then I think we have a better understanding of your skill level.
They are dealing with the bugs almost hourly. The latest update produced a bugged mission and they fixed it within the first hour of that update - redtext and an all telling people to stay in mission until the fix was pushed.
ODD's raidboss is designed to be only hit at specific moments. It's one of the tougher fights for good reason. If you followed the lore (the codex is there for a reason, chump) you'd understand why. There are guides and videos explaining how to beat it quickly and what gear is most effective. On the other hand, you can pretend that Destiny doesn't have similarly tough and complex bosses which have specific soft points and are otherwise invincible elsewhere.
You know, because you've already spent your money and have only received a half a game with no real story. Come back to me after all the DLC is released and your wallet has been emptied - I'd love to know what you truly think of your $300 "investment" then.
I mean. I like the Halo series purely for nostalgia yes, and later on for story (cuz they got better with time...I mean Half-life's story is an even more vague pile of ass), so I was kinda hoping Bungie was going to make a good game.
That didn't happen. I no longer like Bungie actually. I couldn't care less that they made my teen years so awesome. They realse this pile of shit and expect people to still support them? Hell no.
Goodbye Bungie. It was nice knowing you when you were good.
I feel the exact same and am highly glad Halo isn't in their hands anymore
RAGE was a better game than Destiny. More fun and better looking. I wish that was on PS4 instead of this tripe.
I feel i need to comment that there is no need to grind for levels in PVP or the patrol missions. If you accept as many "bounties" as you can carry from the bounty board before you go on any missions you can generally do most bounties while you play the story missions. Bounties generally give as much or more XP as completing a story mission does. Personally, i was over-leveled for for every mission without the need for grinding after i unlocked access to the bounties at level 4. I can only assume this detail was glossed over since it isnt unlocked immediately.
These are my new favorite reviews. :)