Obliterator
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Interesting to see people so mad about this apparently ?
I wasn't expecting much because I'm not a huge fan of the original to begin with. All I wanted was 3 player Halo and instead I got some mish mash of diablo and PSO with halo gunplay. Just wasn't my thing.
This looks like a much more solid overall package while not changing THAT much of the core components of the game. Just MORE. Kind of like what happened with Diablo 2 versus Diablo 1 or Borderlands 2 to Borderlands 1.
I'm willing to bet the forthcoming expansion packs will be better planned out as well, a big yearly update for 2018,2019 and 2020 with the likely final chapter of what I'm assuming will be a trilogy showing up in 2021.
With the first game, you could see the seams separating what the game was originally and what it was trying to be. I'm told Taken king substantially fixed quite a bit of those issues but the core of the game was still stuck as a game that was built to run on an Xbox 360 (until last years rise of iron anyway). This looks like they took literally everything that worked and was enjoyed by everyone about the final version of D1 but they glossed it up a bit and added more of a story to the whole affair with brand new varied environments.
I suppose the big thing going forward here is how well the mission structure will hold up. Hopefully the "adventures" they speak of aren't drawn from a pool of 3 or 4 basic "kill X to get Y" auto quests.
I wouldn't say I'm hyped but I've gone from dis-interest to some interest.
Here is what happened.
Destiny 1 comes out in the format we all know and love and love to hate. Destiny should have been as massive open world game with story and characters and all. Not repeatable activities because they ran out of development time. Except that it proved to be SUPER popular. People seemed to like the repeatable activities. So instead of reinventing the wheel with destiny 2 they added on to the structure of destiny 1 with new features and big QOL stuff. Add in 5 new worlds and more activities to do like treasure hunts and the solo experience seems to be much better.
Also matchmaking for raids is brilliant and guided games seems to be doing it the right way instead of matching with a bunch of randoms. Really excited for this feature as i could never really get a good group together.
They followed what ended up being a very popular game.
See like these, these are examples of solid thought out posts.