When Destiny first launched in September, this Light system felt novel and innovative, if untested. Here was a new way to approach leveling, the type of progression method we'd never seen in a big MMORPG before. Equipment was suddenly valuable not just because it could boost your armor and give you new abilities, but…

Well, come on, you're fooling yourself if you say graphics don't make the slightest bit of difference. You're right that there's no impact (or doesn't have to be) to the gameplay, but you're wrong if you're talking about there being no difference to the overall experience.

Caution, endless grinding ahead...

Caution, endless grinding ahead...

Jason, if it wasn't clear before, it must be now. You, the player, are Sisyphus. Your one bit of solace is that the boulder has mini-games on it to distract you while you do the same activity in the same place over and over and over and over, (almost) never reaching the top.

As seen in Lego Star Wars 2, strictly for Stormtroopers with their helmets on. Darthpapercut's "Imperial Hot Tub" build is a fantastic addition to the line-up of official Star Wars sets.

I would have been more forgiving of the 101% if the one above it hadn't added up to 76.5%...

Toshi, what's up with the first 2 pie charts? They're both wrong. The percentages listed in the legend on the right don't add up to 100%. The first adds up to 76.5% and the second adds up to 101%...

Finally, a pie chart that's actually accurate.

WTF is up with this. Now the percentages add up to 101%!

The pie is a lie. The percentages only add up to 76.5%, which is why the wedges are way bigger than their percentages imply.

No, I totally understand what it is. It's a speed bump, not a wall. That's why I didn't call it a pay wall. I said 'if you want to move faster, pay up', which is what it is, like those features in F2P games where an action takes X minutes...unless you pay up and then you're allowed to progress faster.

I hope he's careful. Spiderman is a common man's hero, and a hero for the common man, in a country that's just fallen back under the sway of an authoritarian military dictatorship.

So, Destiny has now stuck a toe into the 'if you want to progress faster, pay up!' world more often found in free mobile games. Great...

I also have to rethink my party composition. For example, unless I play the rogue, I'm not bringing a rogue, because they require more micro than the other 2 to survive and be useful, and I only want to micro my character, not everyone in the party.

Yeah, you're right. A better-made game would certainly have led to fewer restarts. I know it's going to be a long haul. That's why it's so important, as Kirk said too, to have a character you really like. The problem is that so little of how you'll look is known to you when you're asked to decide how you'll look,…

Nope, it's not just you, and nope, you can't. The AI is an idiot, which is especially dangerous with rogues since they're so fragile. Warrior have Guard, which is basically a shield they can generate through their actions. Mages have the bubbles, the ones they cast but also the ones that are autocast just on them…

Yeah, seems like a car that's not made for the life of normal people, which it's not. It sounds like it's made for a race track and that's it, which maybe it was.

Oh my god, Kirk. OMG! Like ~20-30 times? SO frustrating. Part of it is due to lighting. For example, one time my toon had some strong blush on, somehow? It didn't show up in the lighting used during the character creator, but oddly enough, in shadow!?, it showed up very prevalently. Ridiculous.

I'm fine being wrong. Source?