Just finished campaign, level 20 etc.
It's weird how I'm opposite most, I still feel like it just doesn't capture that Destiny 1 magic. Especially in crucible.
They also made a lot of things seemingly stupidly annoyingly complex now, like the whole menu system with "map" and destinations. Nobody else is constantly pulling up the wrong one? I cant believe that.
And all the weapon mods stuff I still havent wrapped my head around or even tried. But I'm only 205 power. Or 203 something like that.
Then you seem to get all kinds of junk in your inventory screen that's just stupid useless as far as I can tell.
The story is annoying and who cares, like every video game story basically. At least they didn't go Halo and get about 5000 times too complex. Some cutscenes with Gaul are good though, he's so menacing.
Thing is for the most part I've been playing fairly nonstop other than like 8 hours sleep, yet the whole time almost everybody I encounter is WAY ahead of me. Like level 15 when I was 9, and so on. How are people doing it? It's annoying.
Anyways like I said I feel like the game is way needlessly complex as far as travel and systems now.
Also, they throw all enemies at you all the time in campaign, like here's 10 fallen now here's 10 Cabal 20 yards farther. It's just dumb. And we really had to shoot Taken AGAIN too?
Also I already got like 6 exotics by end of campaign, stupid easy. This is nothing like vanilla Destiny.
And the leveling system (which is carried over from the end of D2) is not hard or fun really, just sloggy grindy, you cant mess it up...I'm not sure it's better than past systems, maybe worse in many ways.
Also the new weapons system, fail to see why either. You get 2 primaries, and all the primaries seem way too similar now. They've all kinda muddled together. You have tons less weapon variety, since you dont really carry a sniper or shotgun to use a lot. It feels so weird. A lot of the power weapons are practically useless, Snipers are useless in D2 PVE that I can tell. So are shotguns a lot. So if you have one of those you just have a useless slot and no variety at all. They give you almost no reserve power ammo, so you barely get to use your power weapon anyway.
Some of this could open up in endgame a little bit to be fair.
Hunter GG and Arcblade feel slow as hell now, both. Weapon sounds seem extremely weak, not punchy.
Then we have the dumbed out subclass system.
Scout are garbage in PVE now as well that I can tell. They dont do NEARLY enough better than a AR/Pulse/HC at long range to make up their suckiness up close any more. Naturally my fave weapon, destroyed.
Graphics are much better, amazing, as good as linear single player games many times. But all the outdoor environments feel dank and wet.
I've been seeing Mida Multi Tool (D2 version) guides making the rounds on YT/Reddit. Even that little slice of joy will likely be nerfed cus hey guess what, that I can tell scouts are complete trash now. Yay.
Also good grief people shaders are COSMETIC. That's supposed to be the dividing line between good and bad micros. I dont care much either way but geez, destiny people.
Also remember the Destiny (any MMO probably) cycle>>new content>>people adore it>>>eventually, people hate it. Wait for it. If my feelings are anywhere close to correct it's gonna turn extra bad on D2...
The campaign really felt like a slog. I'm just dreading the thought of doing it on other subclasses. Honestly I will buy a booster if they have them or something, or just go only hunter (even though Bungie will nerf it into a coffin). Dont get me wrong it did have it's really fun moments. A LOT of the missions feel WAY too long. One strike timed at 32 minutes???
I feel like it's like 60% less fun than Destiny, but that still makes it like 50% more fun than other games, so I'm still likely to play a LOT, but like I said the magic is kinda gone. At least for now i can always change my mind.
Somewhat to be expected I suppose. You cant revisit the original.
