The Player That Destiny Forgot

Paul's overriding experience with Destiny has been one of isolation, exclusion and, if he's honest, a little bit of loneliness.

Which isn’t how it was meant to be…

Released for consoles both previous and current-gen this month, Destiny arrived on the crest of an enormous wave of hype and excitement. The big post-Halo release from the heralded Bungie studio, Destiny was touted as the next evolution in online shooters.
The premise was that the developers had melded traditional shooter mechanics with character progression and storyline systems more commonly associated with MMO titles, creating a game the likes of which we had never seen before.

[saladthieves]

I enjoyed reading this.

[3-4-5]

I've played 95% solo and for the most part have had a really good time.

I've reached my "Burnt out" stage or have hit my first "wall", with the game though.

I still play some PvP every day, but just patrolling or doing strikes is boring me very quickly.

I'd still give this game a 8.5-9/10 for what it is.

It got a lot of small details right, but yea I'm wishing there was a bit more variety to do.

I know it's not a MMO, but it really makes you appreciate how much Blizzard was able to keep people busy in WoW for over 10 years.

[WeAreLegion]

I wanted to be a lone wolf in this game, but it gets a little mundane doing the same things over and over. I was hoping for more randomly generated events and enemies.

[JamesBondage]

and more areas to explore, like ALL the planets and multiple locations on each, i was really disappointed to find out there would be only 5 including the moon with only 1 location on each.

[medman]

@jamesbondage
Unfortunately we knew compromises would have to be made considering the game was designed to run on ps3/360, and limited map size and worlds are included in the list of compromises, unfortunately.

[SouljAx360]

This article had reminded me to search if it's possible to hook up with random people that are doing the same mission. But I guess that isn't possible. All my friends are level 20+ except for one but I don't play that much so he'll beat me to level 20 too.
Maybe it's something they could add to the game if enough people ask for it. Random parties are great for people who don't play that much.

[fei-hung]

Bungie forums are a great place to start. Me and my friends were thinking of creating a thread with requests of things we would like to see in a free update.

[n4rc]

I'd like to see them add matchmaking to all game modes... Who cares if randoms will get crushed in the raid? Let people try and at least have a chance..

A social game shouldn't have to rely on randomly messaging strangers hoping for a team.. Or assume everyone has 5 friends with the game

[generalthadeape]

Wow.

This article is very well written.

Although I pretty much know that I "strongly dislike" Destiny, I wasn't able to put in words exactly why I felt the way that I do.

I'm the kind of guy that only has a handful of people that I actually consider a "friend" and I don't especially feel the need to be surrounded by a bunch of extra people, or make that "online alias'" just to make myself feel better in some strange way. (That's what my family is for).

So, although I certainly did find myself bored to high heaven, even I noticed how expansive the areas where the firefights would occur were and often told myself, "Hey, I wish I had a teammate to position her/him self over here or over there instead of trying to do this by myself by always having to shoota few times, get hit, hide behind a rock or a pillar while I regenerate and so on".

Yeah, that was long run on sentence but I'm typing on my phone and it's extremely hard to fix typing errors on the go--so deal with it.

The moral of this story is that Destiny is a game that screams multiplayer in every facet of the game. It simply must be played with other people in order to get much joy out of it in any meaningful manner.

Having said that, Bungie should immediatly patch the game so that random players can group together and play the game whenever it is convienant to thwm instead of having to synchronize my schedule with my so called "friends" every time I want to boot up game.

The party chat system that Destiny also seems to be broken, The way I see it is if you're on my team, then we should automatically be connected to one another. It should be called "Team Chat", not "Party Chat" whenever we are playing a game that requires us to be contributing members of a team that is trying to survive and accomplish objectives.

Oh well, that's my two cents on this matter. For what it is worth. What it all boils down is that Destiny is a game that incorporates many gaming features that come from a variety of genres and play styles. I'm pretty sure that the game was designed to appeal to as many types of gamers as possible. If this is the case, then why did they forget the gamer that only has a few close "friends", that may or may not have the game or the time to play it when I want to, and therefore may not get the opportunity to fully experience the game as Bungie has intended it to because they were either forgotten about or in worst case simply ignored.

If Destiny is truly going to last 10 years then these are issues that need to be addressed sooner, not later. It really is time for Bungie to fixvtheir shit! Until then, I will be the one "excluding" their game from my harddrive.

[Baccra17]

I don't think that they forgot him , Destiny just doesn't care for that type of gamer.