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10/4/2025 3:25:39 PM
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What made the game fun?
Someone asked me what was fun before edge of fate and the portal. To me a person with multiple accounts and over 10k hours there was a lot that was fun. It is different for everyone but for me it was the ability to log on and go anywhere and do anything and get viable rewards. I work a stressful job and when i come home I want to relax and enjoy playing destiny not grinding and small amount of content that is always harder no mater how strong I get. Stuff i have to -blam!- multiple negative modifiers and deal with timers on everything and focusing on getting a good enough score to get good loot. I had fun playing gambit and multiple different pvp modes like mayhem. Playing seasonal content with new story gear and weapons was fun even if it wasn't always the best stuff it was new nd fresh and by the time it got boring it was time for the next season. Sometimes you just want to get on and run some strikes with random guardians without worrying if the modifiers are going to be tortured much to finish because it's ultimate difficulty and punishment is the new end game. Lots of stuff was fun back then because we weren't forced into this little box of punishment they call the portal, where instead of playing hown i really want to play and feel like a god killer im suppose to be im playing pick your punishment, im waiting for pinhead to pop in at any min like im in a hell raiser movie. Don't get me wrong the portal could be okay if we dont have to always run at a negative and always run negative modifiers with timers for everything.
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1 ReplyQ: What made it fun? A: D1Y1 and beyond - right up until the Sunset debacle… TLDR: Space Magic Here’s why… Prior to the weekly reset, we’d head for the Gorgons cave, and loot that chest. Invariably, other buddies from around the world would join, and we’d rotate in-and-out switching to different characters, to maximise the looting. Reset would happen…then we’d go and do the NFall strike to get our blue flambé hairdo - a buff, then we’d go Raid until we were done. But, we were never actually done, because someone’s buddy or a recent new Friend would need some help to get something done - so we’d go do it. After, those with any energy left might head to the Crucible…or go to sleep!😴 Trials events: for pure grins and giggles, 3x of us would get together to try our luck and see how far we could get; if we survived to win games 3 and 5 - we’d get some armour or a weapon…and that was a yahoo! moment. Going flawless (7 Ws) was unlikely ever to happen…not for want of trying, more because we were PvE bunnies not PvP bunnies…and these bunnies played to win. We played for fun! I was into hunting down collectibles; I got the ToM…and, as a bubble Titan, I was very much in demand to help beat Oryx. And that was the most satisfying fun for me! I was a PvP grinder…with a tortoise approach as suited my play style. I was not a hare in PvP or PvE. I did accumulate most of the ‘must have’ guns and stuff…with help from my (then) young Ninja…😁 I even managed to get Thorn…just before they nerfed it. And that’s how we did it back then…week in and week out…right up until the Sunset debacle…and that’s when the space magic vibe evaporated…along with pages of one’s Friends List…and shortly thereafter, I bounced, too…over to WF (MR24 😎 iykyk) That said, it wasn’t all rose-tinted reflections…there were plenty of issues in game…BHQ were having regular internal dramas - power games between creatives and suits; there were a growing number of issues with veracity, eg, play the way you want to…see that mountain over there…etc. Bugs / P2P issues / Contacting Destiny Servers - what servers?…a growing sense of unease began to creep in about these new people in charge at BHQ…The Scarab Lord and his minions…One of the main architects behind the Sunset debacle… And here we are…back to the present! And just look at the state of the game…🧐 Sony / BHQ - lurk behind a wall of silence… cue <crickets> SMH 🙄 That is all. Just my 2d worth. YMMV Ease Springs! 🫤
