Yeah, yeah, year, another Destiny thread to complain about.
I'm playing the "free" version.
Many responses will be like, Why are you even playing?
If you want to get your shooter fix (as in, if it moves, shoot it), it can be fun. Very pretty graphics, and some decent intensity to the fire fights. Awesome locations to explore.
I have two main complaints. What's the point of Legendary weapons, or any particular weapon, if everything scales. Any weapon you have will be short-lived in the game, as you will always find weapons at your level, and then you will dump the previous weapon. Enemies scale. All the scaling, just makes the progression feel pointless. I'm constantly upgrading my armor and weapons since constantly finding higher level gear matching my constant leveling. Or am I missing something here?
Now you think that since they make such a big deal to match your weapons with enemies at a similar level, that in the Strikes (which involves teams of 3), and I get randoms because I have no friends, I get some odd pairings. Me at my level, and another guy at my level, and another guy at OVER 9000 (not really, it's a DBZ joke, but crazy crazy high level over me).
You can tell, these guys have played the Strike before, because they jump right away on their hover bikes, and race off into the distance, while I'm trying to get my bearings. I stupidly try to kill the local enemies, before realizing I'm supposed to be elsewhere. So it's on my hover bike, and race off to join the others. Finally join them, and get a few kills (starting to feel like I'm on this team and contributing), and then they are off again on their hover bikes to race to another location that I know nothing about. So I chase after them and try to keep up.
Final boss time, and the guy who's over 9000!!!, has killed the boss in very short order.
How do I feel? Did I feel I was part of the team? They then display the Strike stats, and the top guy has over 200 kills, while I had 22 kills! You think it felt like a challenge? I could've hung back, and watched this guy who has probably played this Strike hundreds of times, do it all on his own.
I notice you can't get in on a Strike on your own, which I would really enjoy, even though it would be a challenge to get through it. The game automatically matches you with others. Maybe there is a way?
Exploring the "levels" (outside of the Strikes), and finding a large group of enemies to take on, can be fun. There I used that word.
Fun. Yes Destiny 2 actually has moments of fun. As opposed to these guys who are addicted to playing the same mind-numbing Strike over and over again for better gear. That compulsion can't be much fun.
Good for Bungie, that they figured out a way to make big bucks, but overall a fun game is not one of them. Especially with their convoluted, confusing and meaningless story line.
For a company that can create such beautiful imaginative worlds, it's a crying shame that such talent is wasted on such a shallow game.
Yes, this post actually proves that some neogaf members actually play games.