I think subjective quality of games and enjoyment of said games are not mutually exclusive.
This has never been more evident in my love/hate/mostly hate relationship with destiny 2. Its a popular analogy, but being a fan of destiny is like having being in an abusive relationship.
You're bled dry of your time and money.
"Oh but it has so much potential to be better!"
"Yeah sure the past few weeks/months/years have been disappointing but things are looking up!"
Things like that.
But then in orbit, deep stone lullaby plays. and I'm reminded of the awe I felt in the deep stone crypt, in the middle of the night with five of my best friends.
"You now face godlike judgement. May it extend eternally."
The gorgeous skybox filled with a fleet of fallen ships, surrounding a giant space station piloted by an egomaniacal trillionaire that's survived thousands of years. You see the icy tundras of Europa thousands of metres beneath you, and the violent icy winds that sweep the destination curl like ribbons in its atmosphere.
It was new years day, and that night we finished every single raid in the game. Memories like that is why destiny is so special to me.
The talent and passion of the music team, the art of the game, the skyboxes, the sound designers... Hundreds of people poured their heart and soul into this massive project, and I felt that. I felt it in the wee hours of the morning grinding dungeons, I felt it on the final win on trials of osiris cards, and I felt it when I killed oryx with my clan.
All that being said, I cannot in good conscience reccomend this game to literally anyone. I spent nearly 300 dollars just to play it. That is not an amount of money anybody should spend on dlc alone.
Bungie is one of the greediest game studios in existence. They laid off hundreds of employees, including the person that made the aforementioned deep stone lullaby. Skins in the microtransaction store cost 10 dollars a pop. Each DLC on release costs almost 100 dollars, and every year they remove added content from the game, content that you PAID for. All so their executives could line their pockets.
They continue to ignore the pleas of fans for no good reason, laying off their community managers for the game.
There was so much wasted potential that I can't help but feel so, so angry. That something I used to enjoy so much and had so many fond memories of will never reach the heights I believed it would reach. A game that so many brilliant people worked on but will never get compensated fairly for their hard work. A game that I spent so many hours on and made so many memories with so many friends on.
I waited so long for destiny to become what so many people believed it could be, and im done waiting.
This has never been more evident in my love/hate/mostly hate relationship with destiny 2. Its a popular analogy, but being a fan of destiny is like having being in an abusive relationship.
You're bled dry of your time and money.
"Oh but it has so much potential to be better!"
"Yeah sure the past few weeks/months/years have been disappointing but things are looking up!"
Things like that.
But then in orbit, deep stone lullaby plays. and I'm reminded of the awe I felt in the deep stone crypt, in the middle of the night with five of my best friends.
"You now face godlike judgement. May it extend eternally."
The gorgeous skybox filled with a fleet of fallen ships, surrounding a giant space station piloted by an egomaniacal trillionaire that's survived thousands of years. You see the icy tundras of Europa thousands of metres beneath you, and the violent icy winds that sweep the destination curl like ribbons in its atmosphere.
It was new years day, and that night we finished every single raid in the game. Memories like that is why destiny is so special to me.
The talent and passion of the music team, the art of the game, the skyboxes, the sound designers... Hundreds of people poured their heart and soul into this massive project, and I felt that. I felt it in the wee hours of the morning grinding dungeons, I felt it on the final win on trials of osiris cards, and I felt it when I killed oryx with my clan.
All that being said, I cannot in good conscience reccomend this game to literally anyone. I spent nearly 300 dollars just to play it. That is not an amount of money anybody should spend on dlc alone.
Bungie is one of the greediest game studios in existence. They laid off hundreds of employees, including the person that made the aforementioned deep stone lullaby. Skins in the microtransaction store cost 10 dollars a pop. Each DLC on release costs almost 100 dollars, and every year they remove added content from the game, content that you PAID for. All so their executives could line their pockets.
They continue to ignore the pleas of fans for no good reason, laying off their community managers for the game.
There was so much wasted potential that I can't help but feel so, so angry. That something I used to enjoy so much and had so many fond memories of will never reach the heights I believed it would reach. A game that so many brilliant people worked on but will never get compensated fairly for their hard work. A game that I spent so many hours on and made so many memories with so many friends on.
I waited so long for destiny to become what so many people believed it could be, and im done waiting.