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Destiny PS4 Review & Gameplay
nukemdukemz
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Hey Everyone,
This is my coverage and impression of Destiny. If you have played the Alpha/Beta the game is a bit different. The graphics are a lot more polished. Devil's layer is now level 8 instead of level 6. You can access the moon at level 6 and continue the story campaign from there. The cut scenes are marvelous and story is fantastic. The downside of Destiny is how repetitive the missions are. Its basically kill your way to your way point and defend the ghost with the mission boss at the end. The controls are easy to learn and pick up if you are a new player and natural if you are a fps player.
PVE is not required in order to level you can level through PVP as well so that helps break down the repetitiveness of campaign missions. This is in regards to the beta I felt dungeons/raids were boring the boss fights are very linear and just have massive hp where it just there to waste time.
Overall I am okay with Destiny.
Here is my Capaign PS4 Gameplay coverage of the game
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PVP PS4 Gameplay Coverage
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Since the PvE in destiny is the typical generic mmo faire (with less people) ill just play through it once with each class. My main focus will be the PvP because i found it more fun than Call of Duty (the last cod i played was blops 2 and wasnt that great). And surprisingly enough i found it more enjoyable than Halo 4 pvp too (but i prefer cortana any day over that bland ghost...)
Just wanted to say that, I´ll check your vids now lol
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
yeah i meant mmo in the sense that it can be grindy and involves repetitive quests. I agree its closer to borderlands but with less loot, for now.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
PvE-wise there could be some imbalance, but i believe the PvP is more like GW2 where everyone is on equal footing and gear means nothing, all about player skill and teamwork. So i guess PvP is fine, i´d like to see how they balance PvE tho. Specially Strikes (dungeon/raid) too OP can be a bit boring, but too underpower can be too frustrating, at least until there is more variety to have personal preference over cookie cutter and still be viable as a team.
EDIT: hunters golden pistol was extremely OP during beta even in PvP. I wonder if they balanced the class ultimates for launch.
This is sadly a big deal, since unimaginative boss fights (looking at you Neverwinter Online), where the boss would just spawn adds with no special moves or tactics required, is really a gamebreaking issue (for me).
It's absolutely your opinion, which is not even close to real facts.
Having announced that they will spend 500 mil.$ for the whole franchise in next 10 years does not make it the most expensive game now.
BTW, why are you on such crusade against this game?
My expectations considering "Bungie" is that the pvp feels like Halo, to which it does, therefore expectations fulfilled, that is my opinion. I look at the budget and it means nothing to me, because I like the pvp so much, it wouldn't matter if it cost $500 or $500 million to make.I actually hate the Halo series and I still really enjoy Destiny... it offers a much more seamless online experience than a game like Borderlands. I liken it to being a GW1 style game, not quite a lobby game, but not a full fledged MMO either. I love how they match you up with people in the open world so that you can just run into other players.
I also love the focus on PvE, so nice to see some online shooters not focusing on PvP(I'm looking at you Planetside 1/2, Dust 315).
I mean, the game is not perfect and it's not even the best shooter available, but still, throwing random numbers around just to make it look bad is not fair IMHO, especially when devs clearly stated that development cost was nowhere near 500 mil.$.
What do new COD or BF games offer on the FPS market? Much less innovation than Destiny, that's for sure.
I think we should judge it based on what it is now and that's a hybrid genre game in my opinion. Just sayin'.
According to this Gamespot article, I'd say it's one really expensive project, but certainly not the most expensive game on it's own.
If you look at other franchises like GTA, COD, Battlefield, WoW, or whatever, it's probably even cheaper (if you put it in 10 year perspective).
EDIT for some interesting find:
Found some interesting data (courtesy of Kotaku): The leaked initial development contract for the game authorized payments totaling up to $140 million to cover Bungie's development and limited marketing efforts (ViDocs and other marketing assets) prior to the game's beta.
I've played 10-15 hours total on my PS4 - both in beta and release.
I have to say I'm not that impressed. Sure, it looks great and it has the core "feel" of combat down cold. But that's about it for the good parts.
The character system is rather straightforward, though I've yet to try my specialised class. The gear is simplistic and don't seem to have much that's too fun about it.
The story is minimal, which is a strange choice for such an expensive game.
The missions are all very similar, and you'd better enjoy shooting over everything else. There's not much story/adventure or anything like that.
The PvP is super familiar, and it's not really my thing.
The actual amount of content seems EXTREMELY limited considering the longevity they're suggesting. If it was just for a 20-30 hour shooter, that'd be fine - but a long-term MMOish experience? Hardly.
The massive hype and marketing is actively working against my opinion, naturally, but I guess it's done the job of selling the game - as I pretty much got my PS4 because this was an exclusive I couldn't play on my PC. Thankfully, I got my hands on Last of Us Remastered - which justified my purchase all by itself.
Oh, this game isn't bad - and it's a fine shooter in many ways. But I simply can't see how it justifies the investment if we look beyond the profit it'll bring the investors.
It´s actually the smartest thing they did. To keep the story as it is. Just the average length campain you see With every other game. Be it single player RPG or CoD / BF / Halo campain. Roughly 12-16 hours average.
People blow through story campains. Be it 10, 20 or 30 hours. And then complain and quit anyway.
Instead they put most into the Exploration part, which most seem to completely ignore. It´s this part of the game which creates replayability and longetivity. They have good core game here on which they can expand on.
Most People currently complaining, are CoD / BF / Halo players with a strict FPS mindset and treating Destiny that way.
They rushed and blow through the Story Campain and now 12 to 17 hours later they claim they are done and beat the game. Skipping a huge part of the game and missing the idea behind the game completely.
/shrug
No offense man, but you've been posting this same thing over and over in every article containing Destiny. We get it, you don't like it.
You said you don´t own a console. So you haven´t even tried the game.
You let yourself be driven by the negative butt hurt PC and CoD / Battlefield players, bringing you down and start posting negative as well. Most of them just spreading blatant misinformation all over.
You do know that there is a very strong and very large competitive camp of CoD and Battlefield players, that are now terrified and scared Destiny will take away a huge chunk of their game´s playerbase.
Not to mention that there is a big camp of angry Halo players that have an Axe to grind with Bungie!
So all these players are on a crusade (litterally) right now, desperately trying to bring this game down. Trashing forums, bringing down the meta critics, etc. I kid you not. This is happening right now.
Tons of players are bashing the game on bungie´s website and being exposed one by one, for not even owning the game.
Now back to you. How can you review and comment on a game if you haven´t even tried it?
Just going to say I have been a PC gamer for 20 years or so. Bought a PS4 and absolutely loving it and enjoying it more than the PC in the past year or 2 by far. Right now PC gaming just flat out sucks and no relief in sight for a while still.
On the other hand with the PS4 I have played games for the first time such as The Last of Us, Counter Spy, etc. and had a friggin blast!! I was not sold on Destiny but got it since I had some friends who were going to play and without a long, drawn out reply just simply going to say I am loving the game so far and having a ton of fun. You can hop in quick and hp out quick if you do not have a lot of time and the game looks great. I will be playing this for a while no doubt!!
Judging a game that's been out 2 days? No one knows what future content they will release, and what changes they will make
I see alot of moaing around here, or is it because it's not on pc that's the real problem
The strikes get very interesting.
I've thus far done the one on Earth, one on the Moon, and both the strikes on Venus - the ones on Venus got pretty flipping insane.
The Moon strike had a 20+ minute end-boss battle - but we were figuring out the mechanics still.
Pretty epic stuff, lots of coordination required to not make the fights a complete cluster.
Definitely made for friends playing together and using voice comms - PUG groups are going to be hurting until the mechanics become second nature.
Bull!! Come on! Seriously? Take a walk over to metacritic for like 2 minutes and compare Destiny's "User" ratings against any other game on there at the moment. It has more reviews than the majority of games, even those that have been out for MONTHS! In addition, we've got like 100 10/10 scores, 100 2, 1, or 0 scores, and the other 100 ACTUAL written reviews are split from 3-9.
You're right, it is normal, but it IS somewhat of a crusade. It might come with popular game releases, but that doesn't mean it's not a crusade of sorts. It's literally people just artificially inflating or deflating the numbers and those who hate it, hate it pretty strongly. Case in point. It's fine you're not going to buy it, but it's not a 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or a mid-tier game. Let's be honest. We're talking about an 8ish, maybe more. This is on par with other AAA shooters and simply adds multiplayer campaing, PvE and Raid aspects. I'm sorry that you enjoy highly repetitive PvP experiences, but that doesn't mean that it makes Destiny bad.
Crazkanuk
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You pretty much defeated Your earlier rants With this post.
You played the Alpha. You played the Beta. And yesterday you sat for 7 hours playing Destiny?
If you hate a game so much. Why put yourself through 7 hours of playing this game, if you don't like it?
Come on now. There is something in this game you like afterall, or you wouldn't put yourself through it for 7 hours! Especially if you did the Alpha and Beta as well.
I think your expectations might have been too high.
I would also prefer Destiny having huge seamless open world, conflicting factions, random open world PvP, 10 and 20 man raids, 40 vs 40 battlegrounds, more complex talent trees, shorter loading screens,and much more.
But, we all knew it wasn't going to happen. And Bungie never hinted the game will have such features.
And they've also let anyone try open beta on all platforms free of charge (big plus in my book), so noone would waste their hard earned cash if they didn't like the game.
Shhh... this logic doesn't fit with his agenda. Duh.
I miss the good ole days of my Sega Genesis
Pfftt.. Sega Genesis. you mean SNES ;-)