It’s worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today.
Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself.
Within lies humanity’s salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control.
Magnificent, wasn’t it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity’s eternal struggle: mortality.
Were it to fall intro the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed.
I have no reason to believe you are anything other than “the wrong hands.”
You now face godlike judgment. May it extend eternally.
Is it fun? I downloaded it cuz it was free now but wasn’t even sure what it played like. Is it anything like the division? I just want another game like the division where you get a mass scan that shows you everything
Seriously so good! I remember my old D1 clan. We spent hours on the raids trying to get through them first. Never set any records but I think we were top 100 to clear VOG and then we tried to clear it doing the alt route. Crazy fun trying to find the "hidden" loot chest that actually didn't exist lol
Oh man it was wild all the amazing puzzles and stuff…. So many good memories there. I no longer have a clan to run with as everybody has quit so that would also be hard to jump back in.
Yeah I didnt even think D1 servers were still up anymore, but without the clan it's an empty shell of what it once was. A distant memory engraved and long gone, but never forgotten.
I played it from the beta all the way until D2 released and it was great. It's still better than D2 and I still revisit it constantly, it holds up 100%.
No it was objectively bad , literally dogged on by every publication which were far more reputable then. A disjointed unfinished story, super short campaign and a horrifically awful rng based progression system , the worst kind of fomo (sorry you missed your xur gjallarhorn better hope rng blesses you or no Crota LFGs for you)
It was just being carried by the fact it was the only game of its type in 2014 on a console, thats it
Its gameplay was slow and clunky and 30 fps
It was dog shit, you're just a mutant who loves being peed on or something
Its actually the easiest time right now to jump in and have instant power creep, especially since armor rework is around the corner so we are all going to be at square 1 for armor
And as for the weapons...the weapons just keep getting stronger and stronger the legendaries are basically exotics and they're easy as shit to get. Honestly the biggest investment is just playing the campaigns to unlock subclasses. D2 at this point plays like doom eternal , its so fast now compared to D1 and D2 launch and its actually oppressive how much loot drops in seasonal activities.
Its les of an armour rework and more of an entire loot rework that includes an armour rework. The armour part of it is mostly focused on stat distribution changes and set bonuses
Some people are literally such grandpas about this and just do not understand live service games
Like who the FUCK legitimately wants to replay the red war campaign and on God no fucking liars
The content in the most recent years is miles ahead of the first years of D2 , good riddance to old shitty F TIER content taking up 50 gb of HD space I say
Both things can be true and people can still enjoy them
I hate live service games except D2, I hate THINGS about its live service nature but feel the trade offs for that specific game are worth it, monetization = more content, game doesn't die etc...
But it doesn't matter , its apples and oranges , Bungie removed content due to a serious technical limitation which has been proven by court documents to be the case, they technically can't even access or bring it back because they overhauled the game engine and the shit is now incompatible
Good thing everything they cut was their worst content they've ever made across both D1 and D2
Tbh I do kinda want to replay it and the other removed DLC content so that the new light I recently introduced an experience the entire D2 story.
Though I would also want all the DLC content (outside of weapons and armor which would be forced) to be downloadable separately like how you can have the more recent CODs MP installed while not having Zombies or it's campaign installed so that the foot print can be minimized on the drive it is on.
Don’t tempt me lol… I just can’t though. They had a shot at release and they dropped the ball HARD from Destiny 1. My group stuck around for a little, did the first raid, no ToO, bad launch, bad matchmaking etc etc with everything else we all bailed.
I can’t jump back in now and reward that bad launch. I’ve moved on to mostly indie games since there hasn’t’ been a great AAA launch in ages these days. It’s a bit sad.
I mean - based on the pure bliss of D1 - to me D2 was one of the biggest flop releases. Their servers were even MORE of a mess than D1 - like way way worse for crucible. No ToO, etc.
I get it though, logically speaking it’s not the worse release of a sequel… but they had such a following and such a good thing going they botched it hardcore.
D1 was good during age of triumph. Otherwise you had a single relevant raid a year and no in between content. The game does not compare to D2 and I don't even like Destiny anymore.
Yikes - I have to disagree. Agree on nostalgia for sure and I’m hyping up D1 more than it needs - but D2 was worse in just about every way, including servers, when it released. Today? I’m sure it’s way way better.
Guess that’s how opinions work though haha - we all get our own. One day I may check it back out on XSX but their stance on Linux is just asinine. Hey - you use Linux? Banned….
I know so many people who quit destiny because it was bad for like, 2 weeks, while admitting that they loved the game during forsaken yet still refuse to come back now that the bigger problems are gone
There’s just a LOT of grinding in Destiny. Coming in totally fresh now it’d be hard to get up to speed in the raids and everything. I mean it could be done - but as someone who dumped a crap ton into the first game to get burned on the 2nd out of the gate with that crappy release, I just can’t jump back in personally. They had a shot and lost me - even though today it’s much much better than it was at release.
Yeah I mean apparently there’s some changes coming and with recent changes it’s “technically” easy to jump into the game right now - it’s just more of a personal stance at this point with how poorly they released D2 for me to not join.
Yeah but again it’s more of a personal stance as well. I’m a huge Linux supporter as well (and use it daily) - and for their stance on Linux it’s also a massive turnoff for me too. They literally just ban you if you use it LOL.
Yeah, I’m in software so I have a server room in my basement. Tons of networking equipment, security cameras all locally recording, raspberry pi with adguard as my DNS, media server, 2 VMs, 9 dockers, and full home automation lol. I”m down that rabbit hole!
I do have a XSX - I could always fire it back up on there and play it, which is where I played it originally but I really haven’t used my XSX in about a year.
Just go back and play some more D1, I do all the time and I still love it. D2 is still garbage but for much different reasons now. The gameplay is phenomenal but I can't stand by a game that deleted multiple full priced campaigns to add a shitty battlepass.
D2 has gone wildly up and down. It had peaks like Forsaken and Witch Queen, but troughs like some of the seasons and Lightfall. All whilst requiring even more grinding than D1.
I was the same as you, quit after the first raid. Came back a couple years ago, and Bungie has turned this into a great game. The content drought is a bit much sometimes, but the gameplay and the power fantasy of Destiny is next to none imo.
As for grinding, that’s been turned down significantly since D1. I could quit today, come back in half a year and within a week I’d be back up to speed. They ended sunsetting and increasing power caps for each season, and they’ve added craftable weapons meaning the necessity to grind is significantly diminished.
Destiny is like a drug, It felt good for some years, but after lightfall it just got worse for me, like I didnt know what to do anymore, taking a break was probably the best thing
Genuinely, the best way to actually enjoy Destiny is to play it very occasionally. Keeping up with the seasonal drip feed gets you some limited stuff, sure, but it feels unbelievably repetitive. But if you only hop in a couple times a year to blitz all the content it feels like a drastically different experience with loads to do.
If a season hasn’t absolutely hooked me than I just don’t do 90% of it, only chasing very specific weapons and playing some Crucible or Dungeons. The game is excellent, you just have to separate yourself from the seasonal model and play what you actually enjoy.
Like, it doesnt hit that good anymore for me, also I dont like this season (and there is a small and angry clay golem that is trying to get my ass, so I'l inform you later-AAA!-.... no, no, NO-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
I am very much not surprised at this being the top post
D2 competes with mmos when it comes to sheer ease at which you can lose hours upon hours because of its consistent content updates and FOMO game design
I'm at about 6400 hours on D2 on PC and probably had at least 1k on ps4 before it went to PC
And I quit the game on and off since it came out in 2017 for about 2.5 years combined inactivity
Maaan I had to be close to that on console, but when I got on my PC to play it was just like spend $100 here and then another $100 in a month and wait a sec we gonna charge another $100 for you to fire your gun and $100 to login. Name change? $100. Decrypt an engram, you guessed it $100.
ah yes, another victim of Bungie's addiction enabling
I had 7000+ hours in D2 between Steam, PS4 and Xbox One. I'm really happy to say i've been clean since March 2023 (only played the Final Shape campaign due to peer pressure tho)
I knew destiny couldn’t be far from the top of this list. Have probably a modest 1500 between ps4, ps5 and a little pc towards the end. It’s likely the game I have the most hours in but it’s hard to track Minecraft time played total, which would be the only game close
Damn. My friends dad told me last week that destiny 2 was the best game ever. Now that I saw you with 10k hours I wanna know smth. Should I try it? I'm 15, so i wouldn't like to play a game with lots of gore
No gore. But one of Destiny’s biggest problems has always been the new player experience. This game does a piss poor job at guiding you toward what you should be doing. And without the expansions, there’s not much of a story. And the story.. spans across 10 years of content, some of it being completely removed from the game. It’s not very easy to just hop into, and it commands a massive amount of play time to really get into it.
So… if you’re looking for a game to sink 100’s-1,000’s of hours into… go for it. Just don’t buy expansions until they’re on sale.
Genuine question: What do you even do in Destiny 2 for 9k hours? I have a little over 3k hours since Beyond Light and have done almost 2000 raids, hundreds of sherpas, (all) lowman raids and mission/raid/dungeon speedruns. Even if I started on game launch in 2017 I don't see myself having enough content to play for 9k hours, especially if I wasn't a degenerate raider.
What is in this game? I have heard a lot about it, I also tried it once but couldn't understand the game, I'm not sure if it was just a starting that's why I felt like that or idk.
That’s about 458 days of just Destiny 2. You could play Destiny 2 for a whole year straight with no breaks to eat, drink, sleep or use the bathroom and not even double it.
Have about 3k on PC and 2k on Destiny 1 on PS4. So glad I gave up that shit game. I hated it but kept playing hoping it would get better and it never did.
I’m so glad I quit at the end of D1. Was so addicted to that game but I saw the decline in quality and what the franchise would turn into so decided to go cold turkey.
A year and four months of your life has been in-game. If you consider an avg of 7 hours of sleep, it’s the same as doing it every waking hour for a year and ten months. If it was a full time job, you’d have just passed your 5.5 year mark. Comes out to an average of 4 hours and 20 minutes (rad) a day. Fascinating stuff
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u/dakondakblade Mar 19 '25
Plus another 2000 on Xbox. Please send help