I've long been puzzled by my fixation on Destiny 2. I played it to death on ps4 for a year. When it was free on PC I shelled out $40 for it's dlc all for the privilege to play it again in the glory of 60 frames. I can't say I have any strong affection for it. It never made my game of the year list in 2017 and I've scarcely written about it. Yet I can't go a month without playing it. Why this game? Why not Overwatch? I could pal around with Chance even more than I do already. But that game bored me away while Chance can't stop finding new and interesting facets to talk about.
After a week or so of thought I think I have the answer. Destiny's loot is dynamic while Overwatch's is static. As much as I love my cthulhu zen, that skin will never fundamentally change the way I play that game. But say I get a couple days off and hunker down on a reasonably long and difficult end game quest. Say I get over my hatred of Destiny's multiplayer, say I get reasonably good at said multiplayer. I would then get a hand cannon that's 30% more useful than anything that could possibly drop anywhere else in the game. I frikken earned this gun and naturally I appreciate it and this game more for it. After all the behind the scenes BS and the rocky first year this is one of the best looter shooters in existence. Here's hoping Activision doesn't put a bullet in its back like it has so many other games and companies.
First of all, Destiny is a grind and a grind is, generally, a promise that things will get fun eventually, once you get that awesome new gun or new pair of shoes or whatever. Now I know Destiny and D2 both have excellent-feeling shooting, but the grind remains.
ReplyDeleteOverwatch requires no grind. It hits the ground running with straight PvP in intricate, complicated, well-designed maps and a huge roster of vastly different heroes - one for any taste!
Second, I don't think new and interesting facets of Overwatch are revealed on the reg. It's more just the same story, over and over - once upon a time, I played Tracer and enjoyed some cheeky shenanigans, and maybe I won a game!
It's just... I fucking love that story. That's my favorite story.
But it IS fun. All the time! the shooting is some the best I've ever played, I can't get sick of it. I'm also not one of those "make my own fun" guys. I'm seriously jealous of those that can do that with multiplayer games.
ReplyDeleteWell... Darkest Dungeon, man. If the grind itself is what's yummy about a game, that's a great game.
ReplyDeleteExactly.
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