I put in like 8 hours before I said “fuck it.” Then I put in another 5 and said it again. At this point in time, the game can kiss dick. No, I do not feel like I got my money’s worth. There isn’t enough content, the game’s repetitive as fuck, every mission is damn near the same, I can’t play with my friends because they’re all on PS4 and I’m on PS3(lack of cross platform multiplayer was a real blow), loot/rewards system is fucked, etc…
Just picked up PS4 and this on Saturday. Still feeling my way around the game. Interesting shooter-MMO vibe.
Going to be leveling a Bladedancer Hunter primarily, with some type of Titan secondary. Should be up for some raids in a couple weeks.
Addme on PSN, include who you are on SRK in the request body: Utmost-Nutszo
I guess I should have specified that I was talking to XxX666bestXnameXeverxXx 
but I assumed that would be pretty clear since my post follows his lol
(Not that I don’t appreciate your feedback, or think that it’s invalid in any way. It’s just that I wouldn’t ask that same question to someone who quit the game before getting into what is considered the “meat” of it.)
edit: Even though all of my friends are already playing on PS4 and XBO, I wish there was cross-platform play too. I’m kind of surprised that there isn’t. It’s not like there are exclusive features to the next-gen consoles or anything, at least from what I’ve seen thus far. Silly omission on their part.
Literally every MMO I’ve ever played starts like this. MMOs in my experience don’t really hit their stride until a couple expansions have been released and patches have been added to stop exploits, etc. Repetitive mission tasks and limited content is the norm in the early days.
I’m not going to rush through and just take my time until the expansion hits I think in December. What you could do is hold off on this until 2 expansions hit and maybe then it’ll be different enough to interest you again.
I know lol… Just felt like giving my .02 anyway.
Even though I didn’t do the raid, I’ve watched MORE than enough of it and other things on stream. It’s one of those games that, though I’m not playing it at the moment, I’ll still watch it.
I was really close to saying it about 2 weeks ago trying to break Lvl24. I had already done all the strikes. Only thing I had to look forward to was the Nightfall and the raid. I probably wouldnt have kept going if I didnt get lucky and roll an Exotic chest and a Legendary helmet on engrams.
And according to my bungie profile, about 96 hours. Majority of my playtime is in Crucible. 2nd is Strike playlists. But if you subtract the time I spent fucking around in the tower, hanging around on a planet surface doign nothing productive, or farming materials for upgrades, it’s probably more like 80 something.
Oh yeah btw. The Nightfall strike takes about 40 minutes and nearly guarantees and exotic of some kind. I got an Exotic helmet twice, even though it was the same one.
Me and some friends spent 5 hours on the Raid, and had to restart the Atheon boss fight in excess of 20 times because our defense team either got wiped, or because the timestream ability fucked up and sent too few or too many people into the void. Not a single person got a legendary anything. We all got ascendant materials and fewer got an all white shader. Do you guys see anything wrong with this time+effort invested/reward ratio? Anything at all?
And no. I dont really feel like I got my money’s worth. I spent all that time telling myself “Yeah dude the really cool shit comes after 20. Keep going.”. But it doesnt. Cool stuff will come MAYBE after level 24. Half the exotics are garbage with random abilities. Knucklehead Radar, Lucky Raspberry, The Thorn is outshined by literally any Legendary Hand Cannon. Only thing those warlocks ever get from the weekend vendor is the sunbreakers. I finally hit my breaking point after that raid. I was in the tower restocking synthesizers. I was gonna go farm materials for upgrades. Then my mind said to me “Why would you do that? What purpose do you have to level up any further?” to which I had no answer. I just turned off the game at the point and right now I really have no desire to ever turn it back on again unless people invite me to crucible. Crucible is getting boring as well. I can just go in and get a 2.0 or higher K/D with minimal effort. Sure I could make a Titan to handicap myself but why would I put myself through all that trouble?
You can say “More shit is coming in the DLC though terrible name senpai!” all you want. Fuck you. No excuse for the lack of shit to do right now. 6 strikes, the same story mission on different planets with different shitty dialogue. Raid that gives no rewards. I mean christs, they put an entire location on the galaxy map for two fucking cutscenes. You can click on the reef and there is nothing there. Nothing. You go there to meet the queen. That’s it. The only reason I’ve been playing past 20 is because I had friends to play it with, which always keeps a game alive longer with me than it wouldve had I been solo.
You really have to enjoy PvP like gamers like CoD. The PvE portion, I guess, is like a lot of MMO’s except I don’t think the rewards are… rewarding.
yeah i mean it varies
we did the raid and my group got a shitload of items
well…some did
i literally just have 2 things left to do in this game other then have fun in multiplayer
do the raid again on hard to have a chance to get the vex mythoclast and then get a piece of raid gear to get the one level to 30 after that until new content comes out out im moving on
unless im helping out a select few on my friends list or its the raid some of this stuff is starting to get a little bit rough
i did glitch though and see the hidden areas on earth should be interesting
Yeah, i dunno. Maybe its not for you if you feel that way.
I personally feel like the game gives shit away a little too easy. The guaranteed Legendary Queen gear for instance. Those missions arent even hard.
I feel like theres plenty to do even if the missions are repetitive
Get full legendary and exotic gear
Level it all the way.
Get all 5 factions to level 3 to have access to any Legendary armor or weapons.
Have complimentary Legendary armor pieces to swap out with Exotics
Beat the raid.
Beat the raid on hard.
Get full raid gear.
Level the raid gear.
Yeah i got tons to do before the dlc drops
I just hit post game with a Bladedancer and I’m seeing that my gear just isn’t holding up in PvP. My AR is a Galahad-E. I know I need to get some legendary gear but I’m not even level 1 in Crucible yet. Question is do I just take my lumps there until I hit level 2 or should I focus more on strikes? I’m level 23 right now so I have to stick with Eagle or Wolf strikes atm. I’ve done a few of those and haven’t gotten anything really great as far as weapons go.
For this game you need to have an MMO mentality, not every single time you will get what you want or what you need. You need to repeat missions all over again if you want some big loots, hell, there’s people who ended the Raid on hard 10 times before getting the Vex mythoclast.
At least this is not a normal MMO where some bosses drop 1 single thing to a 20 person party and nothing else.
Thing is, most mmos have more for you to do starting out. I can see why people would say “fuck it.” The risk - reward factor isn’t the same as something like WoW or even Runescape. If you aren’t gonna give us stuff to do, at least give out pay proportional to work.
I’ve been playing this a bit recently, and really enjoying it. It’s the first FPS I’ve played since Turok: Dinosaur Hunter on the N64, though, so I’m as casul as balls (the target market?). And literally the worst FPS player on Earth. I think it’s the RPG elements that are doing it for me.
Been a nice surprise, though, as I had no intention of playing it or expectation of enjoying myself.
So why did I get it? 'Cause I was buying a PS4 anyway, and the Destiny bundle was 96p cheaper than the console by itself…
I can’t wrap my head around doing “nothing” for 96 hours. If I willingly put that much time into a game, I would definitely say that it’s worth the $60 I paid, but I suppose that’s a matter of opinion and not something I’m going to attempt to debate. To each their own, and all that.
It’s all new to me (only started last week), so I guess I’ll see in a couple of weeks how I feel. I should be 24 by tonight if I can manage to get the Queen’s Wrath missions down before they disappear.
Queens Gear is ass. Her weapons are the weakest out of all the faction weaponry besides the one sniper rifle. The only armor she gives is a Helmet and a Chest piece. Those are also sub par compared to other faction armors. They dont even drop anything good if you trash them anymore.
It’s not even about getting what I want from the raid. It’s just that the hardest thing in the game is not weighted for drops, while other shit literally throws things at you. The reward system is completely ass backwards. It’s like if you spent the last few years working your ass off in a cubicle job, and then finding out you could just make 200K a year by working at Burger King. It makes no sense, and BK does not pay that much, but that’s essentially what Destiny did to me. I got into the Raid after a ton of hard work meeting my pre-requisites. Good armor, near top of the line weaponry, all that stuff. While I was in there I stayed working my ass off, then at the very end of it, the boss comes out and says “You’re laid off and we arent giving a christmas bonus this year. Suck a dick.”. Why the fuck would I stay there when I can just go back to the Nightfall where it will literally shit Exotic’s on me until I see nothing but yellow? Why would the Nightfall be weighted so hard to drop ridiculous gear, but the most challenging thing in the game will only let you change your armor color with something that you dont get from the crucible 15 times over?
But you know what fine. Maybe I do have to play the Hard Raid like 15 times to get anything worthwhile. What do I have to be for that again? Level 30? Fine now I’m level 30. I get a Raid Gear gun. What the fuck am I gonna do with it? Now Im flying around in my spaceship with this firearm of impending doom. I can go do one of the 6 strikes the game has offered since launch day? One of the “story” missions? Maybe I can do the Raid for no rewards this time? More importantly, it’s just a gun. It’s not some retarded piece of machinery that makes enemies explode into confetti or something. It’s not going to be so absurdly OP that that it can one shot a boss like a Hadoken in MegaMan or something. Or that Laser Cannon you get for beating RE4 on hard that instagibs literally everything. It’s just a gun with slightly higher default stats.
I dont want some ridiculous piece of weaponry even really. I just want something to show that I conquered the feared Vault of Glass. Something cool that I can look at it and go “Man that was a long day, but it was worth it.” Fuck dude even a Ghost skin wouldve cut it honestly. You know since those dont even exist anywhere else in the game? Just fuckign something besides “Lol I look like the White Power Ranger now!”.
You know what no. That isnt even my problem. It’s that I exhausted everything this game had to throw at me in a little over a week because they basically pushed it out as a paid Beta. Then the Raid came out. “Oh man it took the first group 16 hours to beat this? Shit man this is gonna be a trip!” and you know what? It was. The raid was a blast of coordination and teamwork. A shared struggle to be remembered. It deserves praise for that. But I worked so hard to get to the point that I could participate in it. That I could stand among level 28’s and be like “Yo we got this shit!”.
Then after all the gear grinding, resource grinding, weapon and armor upgrades, taking down the Weekly at Level 28 for strange coins and motes of light to buy things from xur, finding appropriately leveled people to arrange enough people for this raid, figuring out how to get past the gorgon’s, arranging defense and away teams for the Atheon boss fight, calling out which timegate to open, keeping the gates clear so the away team doesnt come back into an instant death scenario, learning how to play both sides incase the timestream fucks up and sends the wrong guys, one manning the defense team because my other two guys got nuked by supplicants and there is a 30 second timer before you can revive, making sure all the oracles get killed so we dont get hard wiped, and burning countless ammo synthesizers because the supplicants werent dropping enough. Then FINALLY. Atheon falls. All the ammo we spent. All the harsh exchanges of words and finger pointing because of a squad wipe. Nearly broken friendships. We did it. We beat the raid.
BLOOP 30 Gamerscore, here have a shader and some ascendant energy phagget. Shit even the fucking achievement is underwhelming in reward.
Fuck this game. Fuck this thread. Fuck all of you for defending this mockery of game design and premature product release. I’m done.
Meanwhile I’m swimming in Shards and shit
I lol’ed
You cant say you didnt get good experiences tho. Look at the story you wrote before even going in.
Maybe nightfall shouldnt drop guaranteed stuff. Its probably a by product of fixing purples. I have no doubt that it gets fixed tho if it isnt weighted correctly as of now
96 hours of play and you don’t feel like u got your money’s worth? Fucking cheapskate lol.
I dunno what the complaining is about, do you need the game to up the quanity of completely useless shit you have to spend half an hour breaking down like Diablo 3 or Borderlands? Since they updated the loot system and just doing vanguard strikes and bounties, I’ve gotten 12 legendary engrams that were Legendary items from Vanguard/Cryptarch, 8 more from random in game drops, 3 exotic bounties in 1 day, and by simply doing 1 public event a day and daily heroic level 28 for Ascendant Shards/Energy with all 3 characters I wind up earning 12 shards a day. Need upgrade items, go fucking roam around on any planet for less than an HOUR and have 50 of w/e in your inventory.
Wat u expect? play 96 hours and end up drowning in pussy for your efforts?
“It gets repetitive” Do gamers seriously use this shit as an argument anymore? LoL
Yes
That was the argument tossed around the Destiny sub-reddit. Some of the threads/comments made after the Loot Cave was patched were SUPER cringe-inducing and makes Gamers seem like the most entitled people in the world.