I had a friend who’s uncle actually DID work at EA during the 90s as an Executive Producer for a lot of their sports titles. I didn’t believe him until he came home with literally every EA game for the Playstation - for free - and a bunch of pictures of his exclusive EA tour. His dad was a Judge and he was already…

Kotaku. What are you doing? Stop, Kotaku.

Wow, you took whatever you wanted out of what I said. Here’s a cliff notes version (do ‘kids’ still use cliff notes?):

After how many runs? Of course as time goes by you get better at it and it goes faster, but the first time through it is much, much longer.

FUCK. YES.

Wow. Did I hurt you? This Time-two-hours has played both Destiny 1 and 2 for hundreds of ours. And the checkpoints and all that are great when you have people willing to go through the raid with you after they jumped in full-bore the first weekend it was out and don’t want to do ‘boring’ low level shit anymore. The…

I can see from your point of view, but I have to ask: what % of your ‘gaming time’ does Destiny take up? My issue is with the little time that I have, I like to play more than just one title. I don’t want to feel like I have to play just one title otherwise I’ll be ‘left behind’.

A merging of D3 and Destiny would be fucking awesome. Blizzard: learns from their mistakes and gets better. Bungie: haven’t we done this before?

MMOs are not for me, ergo I don’t play them. Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous don’t fit my gaming habits, so I don’t play them. They don’t market to me, so I know to stay away. The problem is that Bungie markets Destiny as different, and by what they say, Destiny should be for me. They also say that it’s for the 30+…

Your answer to your last question - “Why should Destiny be different?” is answered in the rest of your post: because they’re trying and promising they are different. If they just admitted “Yeah, we’re an MMO. Treat it as such” then people would. The issue lies in the fact that they are telling every corner and niche…

I don’t even have close to enough nerve to assume that I should always be the target audience, but that’s the way than Bungie has sold it. I know that Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous are not games for me because they don’t market them as such. Destiny has marketed themselves as such, and they keep trying to push…

The issue is Destiny doesn’t know what it wants to be. If they want to be a hardcore MMO, then they need to market it as such. Most MMOs don’t really allow you to play other games without being ‘left behind’. It’s pretty much an all or nothing with those. Destiny has some features that are very MMO-ish.

If only people that can play your game for 20+ hours a week can get ‘good’ gear, you’re doing something wrong. A lot of us gamers are growing up, and with that come jobs, children, responsibilities, etc. that keep you away from the game. They shouldn’t listen to the 16-24 year-old High School and College student that…

Destiny: The series that could have been. Or might be someday. Maybe. Unless they change too much. Or too little. Or give away too much loot, rendering exotics unexciting. Or don’t drop loot enough, pissing off the fanbase.

I remember 3-4 ship battle sequences (I know for a fact 1 is optional), so I would assume you still have some to go.

I absolutely despised playing as Aya in AC:O, so much so that by finishing the game as her and her shitty dual blade style left an extremely bad taste in my mouth at the end of the 80 hour epic. As a character, she was ok, but as a video game character she left A LOT to be desired. Her ship battles were just a watered…

Yeah, Origins makes a great first impression, but I was over it by the end. That and the way it finished the story pissed me off, but that’s for another day. I’m excited to play Rogue, as it’s the only true Assassin’s Creed game I’ve never played (I’m not counting the 2D or handheld versions in this). Thanks for the…

Wait, your favorite AC games are 3 and Unity? Don’t let them know! They’ll skin you alive!

So, AC:IV is vying for the title of my favorite Assassin’s Creed ever. Are you saying this is better than Black Flag? If so, I’m afraid I’ll have to play it, even if I have a little AC Burn from just finishing Origins.

Yeah, but not letting her be in your party always rubbed me the wrong way. She was my absolute favorite companion in the entire series - both in and out of combat. I also feel like she has the best story arc, especially if you go the full paragon romance route. Something about her becoming Professor X to a new class…