flashburn

One of the first games of its kind? Really?

Why So Blu?

Give me some examples of others of this genre.

flashburn

Warframe. Borderlands. There that's two which have many similarities. This is a fun enough game, but I don't see anything new here.

Why So Blu?

I remember Borderlands but was bored by it.

MoviePage

This game is more similar to Defiance than either of those, although that one is third-person. And for all of Defiance's faults, at least it did the social stuff right. Destiny does not.

chuckd21

Beat the game, then it's fun!

That's like the "Slog through the first 25 terrible hours of Final Fantasy, then it's fun!" nonsense. No thank you.

Barth

Spot on. That's why I made my quote a few pages back about it reminded me a lot of Defiance with better graphics, but Defiance was more fun to play. The public events in Defiance were a lot of fun.

Also, another annoyance, when I signed on around 2pm central today, I got a system message that the game world was about to be rebooted and to expect inactivity and to visit their website for more info. I decided not to play any missions cause I didn't want to be in the middle of one and them reboot the server losing progress.

I played a few games of PvP just to pass the time. Never got booted but do they give a countdown or anything when they are resetting things? At least Defiance gave you an exact time. I didn't have to go to their website to figure out when they are taking it down.

Why So Blu?

I got the same message today and it let me play and there was no interruption whatsoever. In fact, there was a small game update I was asked to download, so maybe that was a patch?

I finally powered up enough to kill the fatboys ON mARS. I'm at Level 18 now.

mattysemo247

Sounds like they are opening The Vault of Glass today, but you will need a full fireteam of level 26 to enter.

MoviePage

After level 20 the game becomes a grindfest where you do the same things over and over and over again in the hopes of getting better loot. Oh, and the drops are entirely luck-based and very, very stingy. And then when you finally get a purple engram after 3 hours of farming, the cryptarch transforms it into a blue item that's worse than what you already have equipped. And then you curse.

Hopefully Bungie listens to the overwhelmingly negative feedback they're getting about the endgame loot system and give it an overhaul. If they do that, the game is going to be more fun in a month or two than it is now. If they don't, everyone's going to move on to other games.

chess

Have you played a lot of Warframe? Destiny absolutely feels like a dumbed down Warframe to me.

And it's also a lot like Borderlands with some very very light MMO elements...not enough elements to add a sense of community mind you, but definitely enough to add some ridiculous load times.

Maybe I'll give Defiance a look. Didn't realize it was in this vein.

Gooter

FYI, base game is free to play on PS3.

chess

That controller though...hard to go back.

K&AJones

Defiance had the right concept and is similar in some ways but instead of different worlds and environments is was more like one huge area with a smaller one attached. The character builds and classes close to the same and also had the special drop missions where everyone got there fast to take part. You had three factions you went up against. It was fun but I felt like I was on one big Merry-Go-Round after awhile.

And Borderlands was fun to but would've been better if you saw others crossing the same area and playing along side like you do in Destiny. It didn't have public events but like Destiny and Defiance had the side missions. And to Level up you basically replayed the entire story from scratch, seeing the same places, same enemies but just tougher. You take four characters thru each twice that becomes a tad to much after awhile.

PS....The Vault of Glass Raid starts 2am Pacific time and it is not a timed event but from what little is out there don't even think about going unless you're way up.

slop101

See, I don't like that about Destiny at all. It's fine if I opt for it, but when I'm playing single player story, seeing other players bouncing around the level really takes me out of it.

chess

I can't imagine how disappointed you'd be if you bought this game for the story.

flashburn

It'd be nice if people did that in Destiny too! With a maximum of 4 people in the world at once, I barely even come across anyone, yet alone have an opportunity to team up together. Hell, it seems like when I'm doing a mission there's other people running around doing completely different things, so there isn't even a reason to team up. I think it just randomly throws people in a game together, regardless if they are doing patrol or a specific story mission.

slop101

It has less to do with story and more to do with immersion.

Groucho

I don't think it should. In the story, it's clear that there's multiple guardians, so it wouldn't be odd for you to encounter them from time to time.

Gooter

Use the DS4

Brack

Problem solved.

slop101

But then I'm on this singular mission, so what are these other knuckleheads up to?

19K

I thought PS3 had a patch that enabled DS4 to be used wirelessly. Could be wrong, but I thought I remember reading that. Haven't touched my PS3 in forever.

flashburn

Reminds me when I tried Elder Scrolls Online, and the story is that you are the "chosen one". Yeah, that makes sense in an MMO, .

Groucho

Other missions in the same general area?