Destiny 2

It took some getting used to, but I think it depends on the class too. I find Hunters have a steeper learning curve than the others because of the double/triple jumping, with Warlocks being the most forgiving with their floating. The fact that ledge grabbing is a thing now should’ve helped but it’s tricky. As for spawning, I find it depends on how long you’re standing in a certain area, and if you die too often you spawn further away. 

So, is there a lore reason on why there are certain places on the map were respawning is restricted? Seems contradictory to what the "Light" is.

I'd pretty much go by this, even the grimiore won't go into to much detail but much of it has to do with the darkness being so dark or "heavy" that the light just can't do anything around it. So if a guardian dies, that guardian is more or less gone. I have to also agree with on poster in one of the links. Why can our ghost resurrect us hundreds of years after our death, but we can't do the same for others? There's various instances where we've weakened the darkness that the light "should" be able to bring back those fallen guardians.

its really a huge question, one that I doubt will be answered as Bungie has said they won't expand as to what the darkness actually is. So because of that, I don't think we'll ever have an accurate explanation on the matter and we'll be speculating till the end of time unless Bungie does end up expanding on this. It could even involve the traveler for all we know, maybe it simply chooses who needs brought back and who doesn't.

It plays very well with mouse and keyboard; I don't feel like I'm dragging the reticle through molasses.
I'm not crazy about the movement. Jumping and strafing feel mildly odd and I don't quite know why. But it's not unpleasant and perfectly playable.

edit: And wow that character creator is... lacking I think would be the polite term.

I always figure that the ghosts themselves get killed if the enemies are too dangerous and the guardian gets snuffed out. Even The Consul in Destiny 2 walks around with a necklace adorned with the cores of dead ghosts and an exotic hunter helmet. 

It's Zavala, but I love it when Cayde calls him Vuvuzela

I quit playing like week 3 (I figured the game wouldn't hold my attention months down the road and I'm right, I've no desire to go back).

I figured they had caps or limits on some of these. Since I haven't stuck around with the game I don't even know if the issue where chests or material modes didn't drop anything was a big or an intended design. That said I wouldn't be surprised if it was intentional, it goes in hand with the XP limitations they're doing, slowly irritate the player and "maybe" they give in and just buy the engrams.

Also since I said I'd make an actual judgment on the game months down the road (as I don't believe in reviewing a mere few days post launch and this is a game I don't think you can due to its design to be a grinding game and built for long term).

1.it has no reason to keep me coming back 3(since we're nearly to 3 months old) months down the road. I've got 3 characters, 2 of them 290+. I've done the raid (disliked it so much I never tried a 2nd attempt, unfortunately I saw the raids progressively getting worse after each addition in D1 and I think it's still happening here), I've done the nightfalls, the weapon bounties (the rat king being the only semi-hard one), the story twice and a half (3rd character is like 140), and I've throughly explored every lost sector. It really isn't a lot of content as you can get through everything but the raid by 240, and the raid can be done around 250 if you've got a good group. While I get that your meant to grind and repeat, I don't think there was even a good amount of things to make me want to do it. I could farm nightfalls or public events all day.

2.pvp while an improvement to the first (as I like the longer ttk style and less focus on ohk capabilities that D1 have with shotguns and snipers lasting all game), it still has various issues. So my own biggest peeve with an long ttk game is team shooting. Team work is one thing, but when people are riding each other's asses it's an issue. Where is the spreading out and simply communicating? Trying to cover spawn points and force lockdowns on parts of a map? THAT is real team work, not riding in a 4 man group side by side. as said from the start the variety is also lacking when you get 2 playlists a (with IB and trials being 3+4 when they're available). You NEED to make sure the variety is there on launch as that's when you'll have the most players, not a year down the road when half your player pop is gone (and I've paid attention to it on Dtracker and it's 3/4 now, and it's not even a year 👌). Furthermore iron banner and trials don't act the same, what happened to level advantages? I can get not doing it the first week to let people get a little more time to get to a decent fighting level but far as I've heard nothing has used level advantages yet. Makes me actually think they won't use it, will implement it when the pop goes down even further to add "spice" to the game, or it'll be implemented with an entirely new game mode down the road to make said mode more different. If there would be anything to keep me playing it would've been a level advantage enabled trials mode.

You still can't pick strikes and they don't have a heroic mode yet, nightfall is the best you get for now and I'd imagine it's easy for most people at this point since they've leveled up and memorized their routines. I'd say the raid would be the only challenging thing "if" you've got a group that can't coordinate well. It's not the monsters or the bosses that are the hard part, it's making sure each player knows their role and can execute the puzzles and such. So In short I'd say the challenge isn't there as well.

So you're lacking in good content amount, an addicting pvp with options and a challenging game and I don't think you'll have most players wanting to come back. I imagine come the DLC you'll see a spike but what happens after the first two weeks? You go right back to a few months of waiting which was D1s issue, the content wasn't coming out fast enough since the current content wasn't good enough.

As someone who put 1,300 hours into the first, I can't even put in a hundred into this one. The interest just isn't there anymore so I'm looking to what new franchise will be the successor to destiny.

It's not a bad game though, but I wouldn't invest hundreds upon hundreds of hours into it as I don't think it is worth that time. Get one character near max level and you've done everything you can besides outright getting it maxed out.

I’m looking forward to Forsaken, myself, but I do question Bungie’s decision to just drop that spoiler in its story trailer. I guess they’re just skipping all the surprise nonsense and getting old-time players more intrigued. But considering how little meaningful story content we got these past few years, I’m irked now that the one meaningful bit won’t be something I can walk into blind.

the Vanguard Legacy is rather handy for rolling from Strike to Strike.



At level 31 I feel I'm making a bit of progress.

Too bad I don’t have this on XBox. I’d be willing to grind through a lot of this with you. There’s tons of things to do now with all expansions outside of raids and lots of exotic gear to get.

So, Bungie is getting ready to sell a printed version of the grimoire in 3 (I think?) volumes - yeah, THAT infinitely enigmatic and nebulous Grimoire whose entries USED to be free as ingame achievements as part of the game's external website, but that they yanked just before Destiny 2 was released.