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thinking about buying the destiny ps4 bundle

terrible idiot consumer =(

[notbov]

they're giving a free upgrade on last-gen digital buys for the next 4 months; if you want to play the game, just do that instead of dropping the cash on a nice, new, white PS4
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[Family Computer]

The one thing that sucks about the white PS4 bundle is the white DualShock 4. It looks kind of weird with the touch pad still black. They should have made it all white ;[
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[Drem]

At least you have a light grey for the back. The typical coloring for DS4s is dual-tone; the front section is colored while the back stays black (which I think looks nifty myself).

I haven't followed this game but some of my friends are getting it and I haven't played an "It" game in years. Someone give me the final verdict RIGHT NOW: should I get this?

[notbov]

the thread is split between hate boners and people looking for PS4 raid partners

my recommendation is to flip a coin for it
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[CONSUME_PRODUCTS]

yeah i'm just thinking the console isn't likely to get a price cut before bloodborne, which i'd prob cave in for anyway


re: destiny though, tim (peace be upon him) seemed to like it

[rye]

I do think a colored touchpad would make the different colors of DS4's seem a little more attractive and less like just changing a faceplate. It cheapens the look a little. I remember the fantastic colored PSPs that even had all the face buttons recolored to make everything consistent. Nobody really goes that far now. I don't mind the two-toned back, but yeah.
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[ChairTax]

I didn't even play the beta, Drem, sorry!! Most people seem to think it sucks. My one irl friend who has logged 200+ hours in Titanfall and plays shooters almost exclusively based around feel thinks the shooting is top-notch. Maybe YOU are all the crazy ones.

I'm playing it to get back in touch with my brother and play with some SB people. Any fun had in the game is essentially a bonus.

[rye]

Likewise, I've purchased this mostly for excursions with friends. I'll be happy to play it with anybody here! Like you, drem, it's been a while since I've played one of the "it" games. I've never liked games where you shoot dudes or zombies, but I can do some aliens and robots, so I think this will sit alright with me as long as it's decent. I am not expecting it to blow my mind, but I will be okay if I have a couple of good times with it.

I'll tell you though, some of the game's marketing has really made me groan. I watched that live action trailer and the dialogue/writing was awful. (The filming and effects were actually pretty good though). It feels like they're trying really hard to sell this game using a voice that doesn't really feel like their own. There are clearly very smart people at bungie, but everything I've seen of the writing makes it look like some guy in marketing insisted on doing a full re-write of the script.
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[jodeaux]

I'll buy it if enough Selectbros get it too. I haven't bought a game yet for my PS4 and would like to enjoy this with some like-minded folks.

[notbov]

[ChairTax]

Oh hey pls don't interpret that sentiment as anything more than a joke. I liked your analysis of the beta and I'm willing to bet your experience will approximate my own with the final product. May I be proven wrong though!

[notbov]

my analysis comes with the disclaimer that I only have ~130 hours in Titanfall, thus making it only 60% as good
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[Kabbage]

Let's hear them deeeets!
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[Zodar]

half my circle of friends got this game in the PS4 bundle (waiting for bloodborne)

impressions: it's Borderlands with a hover bike that can't ramp for shit, gameplay is shooting the numbers out of 4-5 variations on "Halo Elite with a crab head," any novelty or scope the setting might have is wasted on looking down the sights of an assault rifle. everything -- from the conceptart.org aesthetic, to the physics and map design that subtly denies you any interesting freedom -- is extremely competent, and completely uninspired. Borderlands 2 had such a breadth and variety of obnoxious experiences that you were bound to like at least one of them, Warframe had fun parkour manouvres even if its level/mission design was abysmal. hell, even BS:Infinite was audaciously stupid enough to inspire some righteous indignation in me. i play zees game, i feel nassink.

in short, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg2im6mi0eo
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[Persona mobile]

Hi dudes. I don't like FPS or first person games as a genre in general (the last FPS I played was... Goldeneye? Maybe Counterstrike, pre-Source?) but this game is really addictive. Hearing people say that this is an FPS meets PSO made me really curious to try it, and at first I was terrible, just running around shooting like a chicken with its head cut off, but now I feel a little bit competent thanks to how the game is made.

I really like this game. PSO-style gear upgrade that changes your appearance does a lot for me and the levels/enemies are designed well enough that I can actually progress despite my lack of skill. Would totally recommend.
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[8128]

yeah thinking of this as a pso rather than a halo will probably do wonders for some people

and christ almighty it feels so much better than borderlands in every way
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[Drem]

My thoughts are similar to Zodar's and that dominated my impression of the game on the first two days. However I think between my expectations of the game getting very low after seeing what it was in the beta and me treating it like a Dynasty Warriors spin-off, I actually found myself having an okay time with it last night while watching TV and playing with friends. Yes, this isn't completely a compliment but it's still something.

It's really incredible just how small in scope Destiny is despite the (constantly touted) $500 million budget and the massive promotion for it. There are literally four types of missions in the entire game: 1) Go to point B and kill X waves of enemies, 2) Go to point B and kill a specific enemy, 3) Go to point B and stand in place until a meter fills up, and 4) Kill X enemies. The environments for all four areas are mostly open, rocky planes with a small congregations of enemies now and then. They are also mostly barren- occasionally you may find a chest but it's very rare. There is no reason to explore the maps for anything other than just seeing the environmental design.

Item drops are more like an MMO than a loot game, meaning they're few and obviously tiered in strength. Everything is designed around the MMO-style endgame of grinding reputation with a faction and gathering materials (via loot drops) for buying endgame equipment by repeating five "strike" missions (just means there's a boss at the end, and you only get four if you're on an Xbox) and one raid that isn't opening until next week. Grinding these six (five on Xbox) missions are what the entire game is centered around until the first DLC expansion hits. Oh, there are the requisite "Daily" mission and the "Weekly" mission too where you get bonus experience for playing a specific mission. Of course as we all know the entire point of an MMO is to hinder the player's progress in an effort to make the game longer and pulling more subscription money so Destiny retains the concept of limiting how much endgame materials/experience you can earn per week.

The reason people tolerate MMO endgames is partly because MMOs are loooooooong- there are tons of sidequests and story missions to do before you get there. Destiny is designed to get you there quickly. But more importantly people tolerate a lot of dumb MMO design decisions because it's something to do while hanging out with people. But Destiny doesn't let you chat with people outside the three-person squad you can form from your friends list. You can't talk to anyone in the social hub, you can't talk to anyone you happen across in the Demons' Souls style "ambient multiplayer", there is no clan functionality in the game despite Bungie creating it on their website.

[notbov]

I should really stop looking at stuff about Destiny because I'm suffering heavily from confirmation bias, but seeing a bunch of twitch streams with titles referencing grinding just make me feel all "bullet dodged" on the inside

now if everyone on my friends list would stop playing it, I'd be safe

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[ChairTax]

Totally tolerable experience cruising around with my brother and enjoying the environments. Totally depressing experience going off on my own and thinking there are actually things to explore. The entire patrol mission system, which consists of freely roaming around the planets while accepting mini-missions, completely kills any sense of organic exploration/curiosity. It's all, "oh this looks nice, I guess I should've accepted a mission so there'd be interesting enemies/encounters populating here." Which is giving the design of the encounters too much credit anyway. The few moments of genuine elation I've had here came from the early game when we were both low level and I was choosing to play the Story Missions on Hard. That caused us to get swarmed and die a few times.

Crucible (the multi) is pretty cool so far. Rumble mode (six-person free-for-all) supposedly auto-balances all gear so that there are no level advantages and I've been playing that. The rumble maps are basically the same sort of multi-lane, control spot designs that you ought to be used to from CoD. Not too thrilled by the grenade cooldowns. Or the supers. Fusion rifles as a charge-up, one-shot weapon are really fun to play with. Will continue playing this until the Master Chief Collection and Advanced Warfare and GTA V come out.

[Family Computer]

So this is basically Halo RPG and I'm fine with that.
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[parker]

My brother's playing on ps4. JJGlanton, if anyone wants a non-pisslord battle buddy
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[notbov]

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[schroeder]

That's the most comprehensive review I've seen.

[Family Computer]

"Halo RPG" is just the best way I could describe the game. Didn't realize you guys were the RPG police.
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[notbov]

I posted that screen as more of a joke, really. MS had Ensemble (?) put together a Halo MMO prototype before they did Halo Wars and it just felt like a funny thing to pop back up

I will probably rent this, waste my first day off in ~2 weeks playing it and then make fun of the writing a bunch
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[ChairTax]

I'm going all in on this with parker's brother. Please join us. All you have to do is waste 30 or so of your Finite Hours on This Earth (be level ~25ish) and join our gang, Panther Moderns.

[notbov]

pay for my copy and I will be your bitch

I'm almost entirely mostly deadly serious
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[tiburon]

[allensmithee]

Idk
I really like it, dogg
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[Broco]

Played this up to the second mission of Mars (which I think is the final world) this weekend. I'm largely enjoying it. The one mission where you storm the docked spaceship and murder the big duke was the highlight so far for me -- the level design there was as good as any in Halo.

To be sure, some other levels do err on the side of tedious shooting gallery (but most FPSes have such sections, Destiny's not abnormally bad here). And I find I really miss vehicular combat. But bottom line, the encounter design and tactile feel is way way better than Borderlands and Warframe (the other games in this genre that I've played), so basically Destiny delivers on my medium-level expectations.

Note that the game is totally viable to solo (since someone asked earlier). When playing solo, it feels like Halo's Heroic difficulty when your level is at par or one below par (which has always been the case for me since I haven't done any grinding). Only the optional "Strike" missions require coop.

[notbov]

[tiburon]

via speedrunner friends: apparently you can display your completion time for a mission by pressing R1/RB at the loot drop screen
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[notbov]

oh, whoops, almost forgot

why do they even have elemental weapons, they only have bonus damage against energy shields of their element and you can't even get them on primary weapons

like, Borderlands did that thing reasonably well twice in the time it took to make Destiny
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

I really hope these fan theories are true, and if not, I will choose to believe they are: http://kotaku.com/a-wild-theory-about-destinys-story-1635090330

[notbov]

watching some Vault of Glass (the raid) streams

oh, so Bunige blew all their mojo on that. if the rest of the game was as half as creative as some of the stuff in there, then it would be GOTY and all the other grandstanding nonsense

with that said, I'm not dumping 40 hours to get to the creamy, tasty center
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[Drem]