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Old 09-29-2014, 08:18 AM   #482
Erick Estrada
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Originally Posted by StrykerSteve View Post
I've read that criticism a lot about Destiny, that it's repetitive. Looking for an honest answer here, is there such a thing as a non-repetitive shooter? I mean, all of them are essentially shoot guys in the head, rinse and repeat. Online only serves to amplify the issue, with you shooting other people in the same maps over and over again. Sure, they change things up by mixing up the objectives (capture the flag, deathmatch, etc.), but these are staples of the genre for the past 20 years since I was a kid.

People are upset because the story in Destiny doesn't live up to Halo expectations, but this isn't Halo and wasn't ever meant to be. What Destiny does, it does extremely well. I encourage you to stick with it until you have an opportunity to try some of the higher level stuff, because at 21, you are just starting to experience mission modifiers, which increase the number of enemies, their aggression levels, forces you to use the right weapon for the right shields, disables respawns, makes it impossible to stagger the AI, reduces the amount of ammo you have at your disposal forcing you to better manage your inventory, etc.

There's a lot of depth here that many people have discovered, because they stuck with it. If all you're doing is story missions on your own, I can definitely see how you'd get bored pretty quickly. I assure you there's more meat to the game than that, though.
I get that you love this game and I'm totally fine with your opinion and I agree the game is really good in some aspects but I've played too many good games in my life to look past Destiny's flaws. COD takes a lot of flack and justifiably so but this game is on a whole new level of shallowness. Outside of new players who's going to be playing this game by middle of October and the fall titles start hitting shelves as a lot of people have already put it down and even you have accomplished pretty well as much as you can only three weeks after launch. What's going to keep you coming back for the next few months?

Terrible game? Absolutely not. Memorable game? Nope. It was a great game to fill in a few weeks of what has been a bad dry spell for next gen consoles but this game will never be looked at as a classic or GOTY worthy.
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