Well, played it for a bit yesterday. Game is pretty decent. Graphics are not bad.
Gameplay (movement, shooting, powers, weapon variety, weapon modding, etc.), feel like a poor man's Warframe. I do like that there's an element of variety in wardrobe vanity in types of clothing. But I wonder how much control you'll have over how you look at higher levels. Also, the coloring/dye system is pretty weak compared to Warframe.
Haven't seen much of the story so far, but it looks like they put in some effort. The random Adventures are fun so far, but I don't know if their novelty will wear off over time. Other players dropping into the same "world exploration" instance is kind of nice. Number of players per instance seems to be very small, but it's still nice.
I played it to ”finish” on PC, and have done some futzing about since.
I have to say, the map re-use for missions felt a bit cheap in a AAA game. The third time in a row I went out on the same damn platforms to perform a quest, fighting the same guys I had just cleared out,
again, and falling into the sea because the level designer was an avid Mario fan - it got old.
In other places I thought the environments were great especially considering you were barely supposed to go there at all, and you just run past them once.
It would have made sense to allocate resources differently. Less on dancing ads, perhaps? ;-)
It doesn't appear they've changed much from the console version to accommodate KB/M players. IE - it's pretty easy so far. Constantly headshotting enemeies since they move pretty slowly.
Not a fan of a shotgun being an uber weapon or whatever they call that weapon slot.
It is nice that I rarely feel a need to ADS. Shooting from the hip is reasonably accurate and I've only used ADS for additional zoom so far. In many cases it's far easier to get headshots firing from the hip than using ADS.
Isn’t it always thus though for experienced players? And I kinda like shots going where I aim them, I would rather the opponents where quicker. Instead, it’s predominantly horde mode, with bigger hordes coupled with bullet sponges for the most difficult fights. (Salmon run for splatoon players.
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The shooting feels good. It doesn’t manage to cover up the flat sameyness of what you actually do. You really have to be addicted to loot drops
and shooting to stay with the game IMO.
Nice array of graphics options. I was happy to be able to immediately turn off motion blur and DoF. I was surprised to see an option to turn off chromatic aberration.
Yup, very appreciated. Turned all the photographic abberation stuff off from the get go.
Levels take a REALLY long time to load on SSD compared to other games I have. But keep in mind I don't buy many AAA games anymore, so I'm comparing to games like Gears of War 4 (where it also has really long load times, but they are hidden by semi-interactive walking segments).
Overall a positive experience so far.
Hard to tell how much the animations cause waiting on faster storage system. I run on SSD, and I concur - load times are strangely long.
This was my first foray into Destiny, I had to check what the fuss was all about. I still can’t really see why this is popular in a world that has other accessible shooters. I guess the loot drops? But they felt pretty bland OTOH.
So I’ve tried it, and I will probably revisit it to shoot some cannonfodder but I’m not really looking forward to it much. And if I delete it to make space on my tiny 512GB SSD, it may never get reinstalled.
