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sources nigger

>>13921762

What's the actual contract state? Is it a EA/Zenimax style we'll take your company away contract?

>>13921769

If they fail to release a physical release each year AND make below a certain amount the IP and all physical assetts default to activision. Bungie is fired from their own game and kicked out of Bungie HQ.

>nobody appears to care

You do and therefore KYS.

>>13921776

>Reporting on failure is a sign of caring.

>>13921776

>Why do you care about evil game companies failing?

I understand we are currently under siege from another /pol/ attention war but come on son at least pretend you are from around here.

>>13921772

>be Bungie

>be ordered to make shitty game nobody wants

>be ordered to cock it up so bad that everyone talks about how shit it is

>can't make quotas

>get fired from making a shitty game nobody wanted in the first place

Is there a downside to any of this? The developers are free from their own personal hell, the game has even more bad PR, and Activision gets to stew in the shitstorm they created out of this game that was never really that good in the first place. The game will slowly lose more and more players until it reaches Lawbreakers levels, Activision will take over and fuck it up even harder, and we can add them to the list of butthurt publishers right next to EA when their stock price tanks.

So… again, is there a downside to this?

I dunno what ailment of the soul made people addicts to destiny, but I'd guess it was the particulars of its loot skinnerbox.

d2 fucking that up hilariously means that the only cure for destiny addicts was the sequel. it's that drug that makes you violently ill if you have a smoke, in vidya form

>>13921792

I think its people that go either "H-halo 3-2 any day now!" or "M-marathon spiritual sequel, just one more QoL patch!" that want something they will never have.

I think we're seeing a kickback from the season pass shenanegins a lot of people got burnt on the GOTY expansion having all of the content from every past expansion rolles into one including limited edition content.

That in combination with the lootbox nonsense has to be turning people away pretty hard. That and the horrible story that the first game had.

>before i made this post did you know this shit came out today? did you even know it existed at all?

It was mentioned on a vidya news site I frequent so yes.

I just wanted to play space gunslinger with my space wizard and space knight buddies.

Fuck destiny for being such a ridiculous disappointment in every aspect.

>>13921806

Neva Fogetti this Spaghetti

>>13921772

>Bungie is fired from their own game and kicked out of Bungie HQ

That actually seems like a net positive for bungie considering that Destiny turned them into Activision slaves

>>13921792

It's because it was the first big new shooter on the new generation consoles. That's it. That's the only reason anyone cares.

>half a billion budget

A shame, there's need of a normie containment franchise now that call of duty is dead.

>>13921827

GTA online is the new normalfag blackhole, even more than minecraft nowadays.

>>13921762

I legit forgot this expansion was coming out and I'm guessing normalfags give more of a shit about Xenoblade or other games coming out.

>>13921832

>Do you want brick faced, racially obscure stronk brown womyn dlc?

>Do you want huge, jiggling anime titties?

We have begun to heal as a people.

>>13921776

KISS KISS KISS DADDY

>>13921762

I see allot of people getting fired next year from Bungie.

Didn't you make this exact thread like a week ago?

>>13921876

Its a single player MMO

Despite the top tier art design of the world and some neat movement options it all feels static as shit.

>>13921920

>player MMO

Either actually find me an mmo that plays anything like Xenoblade or fuck right off with your parroted memes.

>>13921925

Black Desert Online

What a crazy year it has been for AAA gaming. Bombs and mediocre sales everywhere.

got kicked out of the mall for pissing on a kids face when I went to buy destiny 2. anyone else have that happen fellow gamers?

>>13921963

Can't say that I have, I just raped a poc woman but they let me go while laughing since I'm white.

>>13921762

They will suffer the same fate as Respawn Entertainment and Titanfall did by making a deal with the EA devil, but this time Bungie did it with the Activision Demon kikes.

>>13921966

the mall cop made me say sorry and said if I want to piss in a kids face again at the mall I had to do it in sears AND pay 10 dollars to her family. I was just trying to get destiny2 and the next thing you know little bitch is there ready for my piss I couldn't help it.

>>13921977

Next time tell them you're from Hollywood, they'll understand.

>>13921815

is this low?

>>13921990

Its in the top 10 so no.

>>13921762

>another "Destiny 2 is failing" thread

>without sources

I want to believe you, but right now this is clickbait and therefore an a shit thread.

>>13922028

Do you hear anyone saying it's doing well?

>>13922038

Activision thought 'gamers wont get it' and ordered a total rebuild.

The Marathon Trilogy are the only good Bungie games.

>>13922056

>Ignoring everything they made before that

>Pretending like Halo 1 wasn't good despite not being fast

Sure whatever

>>13921806

You could always play Warframe :^)

>>13922063

Halo 1 was pretty boring if you ask me. Not a bad game but I don't see why it is so special, not even back then. Pathways into Darkness is also good but has huge flaws.

>>13922025

>the destiny "ripoff" is "free" and has more gameplay modes, more depth, better story (somehow), and robutt waifus.

>>13922055

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>>13921764

>all these redditfags asking for sources

the evidence OP proposed is the lack of publicity and attention. how do you provide a source for that? what do you retards want? an (((NBC))) or (((microsoft money))) article where a journalist discusses the lack of publicity and attention it's getting on youtube?

. this is an imageboard forum, not reddit. agree or disagree, if you want further evidence, investigate yourself post some attention or large scale publicity this game is getting if you think its wrong. or check play stats yourself to see if this expansion actually causes an increase in the playerbase or sales like a DLC is supposed to do?

>>13922084

>spoonfeed me.

OPs claim was a lack of buzz. not negative buzz dipshit.

again, this is an image board. if you want to see that stuff, find it yourself and contribute. this isnt a comments section of a news article from the front page of reddit. go back

>>13922076

The multiplayer for Combat Evolved was tremendously fun and doubly so with friends. I wish we had a Combat Evolved or Halo Online gamenight.

>be bungie

>hope to fix the game with a 35$ DLC

>spent more money on the advertising than the game itself

>somehow get cucked by free updates for two mediocre Ubishit games coming out on the same day

What's your favorite thing about Destiny 2? Mine was probably the shills going on forums for fucking every single game out there and spamming their shitty "I'm like waiting for Destiny 2, it'll kill this game" oneliner.

>>13922110

There's a difference between spoonfeeding and backing up claims, faggot.

>>13922137

his claim was lack of buzz. if you want to substantiate it or argue against it. contribute to the thread. again, this isnt reddit. lurk more faggot.

>>13922076

Its overrated as shit and only as popular as it is thanks to Microsoft shilling and Xbawks having no games, no doubt.

But everything from the well designed open maps, balanced weapons, good atmosphere/references, decent narrative/pacing and vehicle and enemy animations plus good A.I makes it hold up as a pretty good game.

Just needed a faster movement speed.

>>13922033

>hearsay

That's never been a reliable source.

>>13922078

>the lack of news is evidence

Well boy fuckin' howdy, that means all those other games out there that don't get reported on must be circling the drain as we speak. Only games that get reported on by game sites are doing well, right?

Fuck right off with that bullshit.

Didn't even know the second game came out. Nothing about this game appeals to me at all.

>>13922069

There is legitimately nothing to do in warframe once you complete the star chart. I'd rather play PSO2.

>>13922129

go back to reddit. his claim was lack of buzz. you want to be spoonfed financial analayses from newspapers and kotaku articles.

>>13922156

he mentions lack of buzz from news gaming sites. for destiny that matters alot. for senran kagura thats normal. the fact that destiny isnt even being talked about by mainstream normalfag gaming sites means theyre not talking about them.

he also mentions youtube. lack of streamers and amateur reviewers etc talking about it doesnt look good for an online game. compare that to a similar game like warframe, every update is littered with dozens of videos about the details of the update.

>>13922186

fair point, but there is more to do if you want to challenge yourself. and fairly recently they've added some hard stuff to the star chart so finishing the starchart requires you to deck out some equipment, which requires months of grinding. warframe is only truely experienced if you never buy (((platinum)))

>>13922227

Pathetic.

>>13922220

>for destiny that matters alot. for senran kagura thats normal

Gaming news sites not talking about something isn't indicative of a game's failure, as you just pointed out with Senran Kagura. When there's something to talk about there will be articles posted. Otherwise, nothing.

>>13922253

>spacing paragraphs are reddit spacing

o-ok

>>13922266

>a normalfag game not being discussed on normalfag sites, youtube, or normalfag gaming forums is the same as a niche japanese fanservice game not being discussed on normalfag sites, youtube, or gaming forum.

is this seriously what youre trying to say? or did i misread.

>>13922227

Looks more like a misspace rather than shit formating

>>13922078

>>13922110

>defending lazy OPs

kys faggot, he could have provided an archive link to the youtube page to see the views

>>13922283

You realize the same fucking thing happened with all of the Borderlands games, right?

The games launched, there were a few articles about the launch and then several months go by with nothing despite several DLC releases. Then articles and videos pop up again when a new game gets announced. Rinse and repeat.

The first Destiny game had the same fucking thing going on.

>>13922308

I heard plenty about the Taken King and the Wolves or whatever, no word about Curse of Osiris except for the shitty ticker in battle.net and the big fucking in-game advertisement when you beat it.

>>13922414

>good games

Why did you post Oni then?

>>13922418

Come on, Oni was pretty good.

On the PC at least; controlling that on a PS2 gamepad was a pain.

>>13922429

It's mediocre at best.

OP is a sourceless faggot. Sage and move on.

>>13921764

>>13922026

>>13922084

>>13922129

>>13922156

>>13922227

>>13922296

>whaaaahhhh spoonfeed me sources on the lack of interest (and therefore sources)

Regretting that purchase yet?

>>13922460

It's the closest to a good GitS game we ever got.

>>13922643

No, it's not.

>>13922955

the prevailence of official trailers and lack of user content is the evidence, retard. learn how to read.

>>13921762

Isn't this one of those gambling games I've heard about that fucks with kids? With the pay per spin slot machines?

You just reminded me Destiny 2 existed. I had already forgotten about it.

>>13922643

First assault was great before Nexon ruined it

>>13923242

Why would you rip a video and then remove the audio? kys, pls.

>>13923294

>>13923314

That video was shared on here as is, all my Andromeda videos I got from threads from this site only. Nice try though.

>>13921809

>I was sold a bill of goods I would have fun

Brutal

>>13923329

>Nice try though.

i was being nice, but do you think anyone believes you? the one i posted with audio is commonly posted here. so youre either from leddit and have never seen it before, and decided to save one without any audio because youre new and from reddit and didnt know any better. or you got it from cuckchan. either way youre a newfaggot that should lurk alot more before ever posting again.

>>13922078

>>13922632

Fuck off back to 4cuck.

>>13922033

I just got a message from an old pal from my xbox days asking me to rejoin his halo clan, which has apparently grown to like 300 members and has a presence on Destiny 2, as an administrator/officer.

So I mean he and his clan on the xbone are playing it.

>>13923417

Who is this Fluid Fascist?

>>13923574

>Bullshit.

not an argument

>they are expected to provide evidence to back up their claim

only on reddit, faggot. i suggest you go back.

his claim was nobody APPEARS to care. not exactly an objective statement you cock gobbling reddit refugee

>>13923700

t. reddit

Well I logged onto Destiny for shits and giggles and it says I get a free trial so I will give it a shot and see how dead it is.

>>13924232

>I'd rather want CoD 1 with better graphics.

Same, the expansion United Offensive was the high point of the series IMO, it did everything that 1 did but better. Made by Splash Damage, who also did Return to Castle Wolfenstein, those guys really knew how to make a good WW2 shooter. I would highly recommend it, even if you hate CoD games, UO doesn't have regen health or grenade button and allows you to hold a sidearm in addition to a primary and secondary weapon (still not as good as holding all guns at once but it was nice).

>>13923412

> but do you think anyone believes you?

It doesn't matter if you believe me or not, that webm was posted on here in march I saved it cause I liked it, It's that simple. Your refusal to believe Anons actually post silent webms and that those silent webms would be saved by other Anons is your own choice.

>>13924346

>grenade button

that's shit. grenade buttons are objectively better than manually selecting a highly situational weapon.

>>13924534

Ideally all weapons in FPS games are highly situational, that's what makes DOOM so good as it incentivizes you to switch between them instead of stick with a personal favorite. Since grenades are so powerful there should be a risk involved with using them, having to select them leaves you exposed and forces you to actually think about when and where to use them instead of just mindlessly tossing them at the first sign of danger. Half Life 2 also allowed you to roll the grenades with RMB IIRC which was fucking awesome and I would love to see that mechanic make a return in more games. Speaking of which I would like to see smoke grenades put in Cod 1 and UO. Also UO had sprint but CoD 2 did not, I always found that really strange.

>>13924601

>Ideally all weapons in FPS games are highly situational

not necessarily.

> that's what makes DOOM so good

doom doesn't do this either. Most of the game you stick with the shotgun and chaingun as they're the most effective general purpose tools. You have odd situations where you use the RL or plasma gun such as a large onset of mid tier enemies or barons of hell. some enemies have hard counters like pinkies vs the chainsaw but that's also not an incentivization game, it's a game of risk-reward as pinkies are most effective in close range, attack in groups often, and taking on one could put you at risk against others, but its very effective to use it.

>Since grenades are so powerful there should be a risk involved with using them

no, grenades aren't very useful in most games. cod is somewhat of an exception, but, I could be wrong, I think even the first one had enemies which returned your grenades when thrown.

>having to select them leaves you exposed and forces you to actually think about when and where to use them

no, it just makes a highly situational weapon less desirable to use. Grenades work fantastically as a quick attack, a sort of additional mechanic to just shooting. Ultimately reducing them to a not super dependent weapon limits their use. This isn't a game with enemy variety, generally they'll have rifles, an smg, or well, that's mostly it. Even in cod enemies disperse from grenades if they cant return them (once again, not positive if they do this, been years since I played), so its useful for killing encamped enemies, dispersing crowds, and not necessarily killing them. It's a limited functionality tool and not making it a tool you can readily access further limits that functionality.

I've yet to hear a good reason why grenades in pretty much every first person shooter shouldn't be activated with a dedicated button.

>>13921762

Sounds like an intentional sabotage to me. I bet Activision's end game is an acquisition

>>13924636

>Most of the game you stick with the shotgun and chaingun as they're the most effective general purpose tools.

Which is the worst part of the game. One of the biggest reasons why people hate Doom 2 so much is because you have the super shotgun out 99% of the time. It's the reason why people prefer user made map packs because the best ones have vastly superior encounter design that encourages constant weapon switching.

>grenades aren't very useful in most game

>useful for killing encamped enemies, dispersing crowds

That's extremely useful though and neither call for instant usage. When someone kicks down a door and starts shooting you don't take the time to pull out a grenade, pull the pin out, prime it, then throw it at them, you just shoot at them. You want to use a grenade basically as a fireball attack or some shit with a grenade skin on top. instant toss is a waste of a key/button, lacks the ability to roll and lacks the risk, tension and vulnerability of selecting it, which also balances out its extreme usefullness. Even in very fast paced titles like Quake III switching to a grenade launcher works great for its main purpose in that game which is area denial rather than flushing someone out.

I've yet to hear a good reason why grenades in pretty much every first person shooter shouldn't be switched to with a hotkey.

>>13924775

yeah, doom 2 made it so you have a single weapon out 90% of the time, but in doom it was just one weapon at 50% of the time.

>That's extremely useful though and neither call for instant usage.

how isn't dispersing a sudden flank of 3 goons a call for instant usage?

>When someone kicks down a door and starts shooting you don't take the time to pull out a grenade, pull the pin out, prime it, then throw it at them, you just shoot at them.

that's nice, but we're talking about video games here.

>You want to use a grenade basically as a fireball attack or some shit with a grenade skin on top.

that's severely limiting player options by making a highly situational weapon strictly a highly situational weapon instead of a convenient mechanic to refer to when its needed. dedicated grenade buttons solve this.

>waste of a key/button

nah, there's plenty of buttons available. shooters aren't a complex genre.

>lacks the ability to roll

a feature few games use, and one that doesn't necessarily need to be eliminated by having a dedicated button.

>tension and vulnerability of selecting it

what? what tension? Sounds like an appeal to emotion rather than appealing to, well, game play. Kinda the most important thing there.

q3a's gl isn't like grenades in every other game just about.

>>13921762

>first expansion

The fuck? Hasn't the game only been out like a month or two?

>>13924862

>what? what tension? Sounds like an appeal to emotion rather than appealing to, well, game play. Kinda the most important thing there.

Yes, video games invoke emotions.

>>13921762

There's a Destiny 2? I thought the first one was supposed to have a million expansions?

>>13925042

Those "expansions" are sequels.

>>13921762

It's shit anons

Disclaim: I got the season pass with my CE edition. Swag is good enough that I don't regret that purchase.

>start expansion with anti religious sentiments of facts versus signs

>in a game where the Traveler guided you with signs

>Zecora proceeds to immediately ridicule faith despite having spouted nothing but muh faith in the traveler the entire game

>switch male ghost with female ghost, this is actually and improvement as the default ghost is annoying as fuck

>writing can't decide if they idolize Osiris or want to stick with lore

>they settle with sticking too lore after hour in (mostly padding) after a schizophrenic start

>almost very little content

>Mercury area is small, the size of one open area in larger maps.

>game pads it's length by having you go through the contents of a strike and retread areas you've already been on other maps

>Infinite Forest is just small arena after small arena to break up story content

>it gets fucking tedious fast

>Zekora and female ghost have a conversation about how great of a character they each are

>enemy is big bad hiding in Vex network whose goal is to make a future with no light or darkness (sun looks like it's been consumed by darkness in this future)

>new ghost gets taken, you are forced to go back to Earth to talk to Zekora for a conversation you could have had over the radio. They do this twice!

>final fight is kill waves, drop orb into shield, shoot glowing spot. Osiris takes the final blow from you.

>Osiris is a dark skinned Egyptian because diversity

>dlc never mentions lore, doesn't progress the story in any way, ignores that Osiris thought that Traveler was at the bear minimal not to be trust or outright a threat, and a slew of other lore issues about the cult of Osiris whom outright said the Speaker was a liar and Osiris claiming so is what got him banished

It's worth 5 dollars tops anon. Anyone dumb enough to pay $20s for this should be declared unfit to manage their own finances. Owe yeah and that lighthouse isn't a new social space like they previously claimed it would be.

>>13924650

Probably is, but Bungie is a good enough brand and is already working on their next project. If they are smart they won't sign on with Activision again.

>>13925118

>buying it

Regardless of your faggotry what a total shitshow of a DLC, why they can't do DLC like the Souls games or Witcher is beyond me.

>>13924951

Released October 24th. Crazy how they totally planned a $60 content-less game just to sell a $35 DLC ~1 1/2 months later, huh?

>>13925036

>Actually having to aim and prioritize targets

yeah this sure isn't what 96% of what the game is already composed of. might as well make it 99, just to squeeze out any more variety, fuck having fun or moments of player ingenuity.

>So you admit you want magic spell nonsense instead of a grenade.

I want a game, stick to your autism simulators in arma if you want that.

>exciting instead of just mash button and win which is dull.

how is any of the scenarios presented or solutions presented to this point "mash button and win?"

>hen you remove all the downsides of using something

this isn't about removing downsides, its about creating versatility and more useful tools. Do you also cite how halo handles grenades as if it's a bad thing?

>So a highly situational weapon then.

strictly, as opposed to loosely.

>CoD is about as basic as it gets for shooters yet it uses up every button on a controller. Keys/buttons are extremely valuable and wasting them on something like a grenade toss that can be achieved in a better way that also gives you an extra button is just silly.

its almost like you can't hold one button while pressing another to get a different result, a sort of twist on how its handled as a means to add depth. Its not like games haven't been doing this for 30 years or anything. Try thinking at least a little.

>So you want to waste TWO buttons, one for throwing and one for rolling?

see above, brainlet.

>which then removes the ability to cook grenades/dictate throwing distance

see above, brainlet. cod and halo seem to handle dictating throwing distance just fine.

>something intense that took thought and skill.

>scroll 3 times

>click

>click

is this intense to you

>Mostly due to spamming tons of them instead of dropping one.

and impact explosions, consistent arcs with no way to alter distance. yeah its really different, bad idea to even bring it up.

>>13922084

>normal paragraphs are reddit spacing

>cuckchan filename

Keep trying anon, I'm sure you will fit in soon

>>13925134

Because this isn't a game to be played and enjoyed on its own merits, it has to justify itself as a Game As A Service(tee-em).

A bunch of content that you can play through once or twice and enjoy the fuck out of is anathema to repeating the same shit over and over again in a skinner box to grind for RNG loot.

>>13925146

>just to squeeze out any more variety

You see three different enemies approaching, Scenario 1: One is a guy with a rifle, another with an rpg, and the last a shotgun guy. You shoot the rpg guy first, run back behind cover, switch to shotgun and pop up take out shotgun guy who is rushing you, switch back to rifle, lean out the side and shoot rifle guy, he is hunkered down in cover and blind firing, you take out a grenade, flush him out, then shoot him.

Scenario 2: same enemy types. You insta-throw a grenade. They all die. The end.

Which one of these has more variety, fun and ingenuity? There is nothing ingenious about pressing grenade button to insta-win the engagement.

>I want a game, stick to your autism simulators in arma if you want that.

and I see no point in having grenades that don't function like grenades.

>how is any of the scenarios presented or solutions presented to this point "mash button and win?"

Mash throw grenade, everyone dies, you win.

>this isn't about removing downsides

That's precisely what it does though.

>its about creating versatility and more useful tools

It kills depth and makes the game mindless.

>its almost like you can't hold one button while pressing another to get a different result,

Kind of kills the point of an insta-throw grenade while still taking up buttons that could have been used for something else.

>scroll 3 times

Casual detected. Hotkey master race.

>Comments are all "THERES AN EXPANSION? WAIT IT COSTS 35 FUCKING DOLLARS?!?"

The expansion is 20 dollars not 35, the 35 pass is for both of the expansions. 20 dollars is not that bad at all for an expansion

>>13925278

It fails there too.

>finally reintroducing RNG into top tier of guns

>everything still level scales to you

It's a moot point to be able to get better loot when the enemies are still going to be brain dead and everything is just going to scale to you anyway. Raid sucks ass, strikes aren't worth it, so even with RNG there is zero reason to keep playing this.

Only thing I'm glad is they uncucked the stupid XP system. Hopefully it'll make finishing the other two characters for the Platinum less painful than surgery without anesthesia like it was. Owe yeah replay value in regards to redoing the campaign is non existent. Mission variety is abysmal.

>>13925385

it is when it's fucking Destiny 2

>>13925385

>game has less content than fucking doom

>still has the audacity to charge $60

>goes on to sell an "expansion" for a third of the game's price providing a quarter of its (already abysmal)content

>they're going to do it again in another month? two?

>$90-$100 for an what will probably still be an incomplete game

I'm so glad I didn't buy this piece of trash, for just a fleeting moment I was tempted, but I did not give in.

OH BOY IS THIS A SHITSHOW

>entire thing is two hours long

>two missions are also ALL the new dungeons added

>the selling point of a procedural, random area is literally those missions and 3 adventures. They arent a patrol area and lock you out after the 2 hour story

>story is shit

>new 'heroic difficulty' is more health and damage, skull type modifiers from d1 removed

>no trophies or achievements, console versions dont even recognise it as an expansion

>retreats areas for 3/5 missions that make up whole thing

>new planet is a tiny ring the size of a football field, cannot use mounts in it

>new level cap for no reason beyond ensuring if you dont buy it you are now locked out of all group finder content till you do, as everything scales there is no other reason for this

>80% of new models and items are cash shop lockbox only

Took a look at the Destiny reddit just to see and its in meltdown. They did it, they killed the brand.

>>13921762

>Normie friend wants me to play this with him

>Interrogate him about the game

>Gear grind

>Not open world

>Third person shooter

>Can't talk or chat with opposing players, only immediate group

So from what I can tell it's a single player third person shooting gear grinder with drop-in multiplayer it will force you to use via quest gimmicks and you can't harvest tears from baddies?

>>13923242

The only retroactive charm it has is the memes created from it, the game itself doesn't deserve such a reputation.

>>13925587

>They killed the brand

Destiny 1 was already DOA and the public's interest in it was corporate tastemakers convincing people necrophilia was fun.

>>13925866

Food tie-ins are pretty stupid in the first place but I feel like you could really make a judgement call on day one from their partnerships. Pop Tarts? Rockstar? I don't even know anyone who drinks rockstar, I've seen it on shelves but never seen a person consume one. Did they go to Pepsi and frito-lay first for that dewritos and get shut down because the first Destiny was a pile of shit, or was it just bad timing because they had an existing contract with someone else? Why not some other chips or soda that's actually popular? It's like poptarts and rockstar was all they could get.

>>13925880

Rockstar is owned by pepsi, and i didn't bother researching pringles or pop tarts but i'd wager they're owned by another megacorporation they already has marketing deals with

>>13926000

Lawbreakers, Destiny 2 isn't on Steam, its on Blizzard's Battle.Net. And coincidentally, they've also chosen to hide their player count

>>13926007

They're all blending together at this point. Thanks for the clarification.

>>13925866

Jesus christ I saw something similar here in germany. Buy a rockstar and boost somehow your assassin. Must be something about the latest Assassin's Creed title.

>>13922046

>both are doing very well.

Like year on year Call of Duty sales declines

>>13926482

My friend bought it for me and I hate it so much and feel bad because he can't return it since it was a gift.

The gun play feels fine but just about everything else is mediocre at best and fucking atrocious at worst. The voice acting is horribly cringy, I don't give a fuck about any of the characters or the story. The enemies are terribly forgettable and their AI is bad. It's just so fucking boring.

It's kind of pretty though.

>>13921762

>tfw I actually liked the first one

Even I hate this game

Stop bumping a shit no source thread.

>>13926864

No.

>>13925587

Wew Destiny reddit is shitting on them /v/ style.

>>13921762

Huh, Destiny 2 was released already?

>>13927280

Sure, if they're Blizzcucks or ASSFAGGOTS battered wifes

every single time you make a thread about destiny 2 being oh so fucked you forget to post sources you god damn embarassment

The Book of Sorrows is quality writing. Why they don't let the guy who wrote that to write the in game story baffles me.

>>13927520

>make a gun

>Gun breaks YOUR OWN GAME

>Breaks your own game so the broken content doesnt break the game.

Fucking top lol

>>13927532

Sorry for deleting the post you replied to but I reuploaded the video with mp4 instead of twitch link. >>13927533

>>13927540

Dont ever do that to me again, online >:(

>>13923417

>trying to fit in by asking for sources

I really don't know what makes you think this is even halfway credible. Do you think all those archive.is links are just for show? Or are you too new to have even seen them?

>>13923470

>ops should be low effort

>"newsflash" ops that nobody really cares about should be low effort

>>13927562

How about IRL?

>>13927750

:^)

>>13927533

>The expansion was beaten in just over an hour […] Then the same lack of endgame.

So instead of acknowledging the criticisms Bungo decided to rush the development of the first expansion?

>It's ruined the entire PvP meta

I thought the PvP was the main focus in D2 since Bungo wanted muh competitive/esports retards.

Also why can't they make 2 configurations for the weapons (one for the PvE and the other for the PvP)? Why should a weapon act the same in PvE and PvP?

>>13927844

>Why should a weapon act the same in PvE and PvP?

Because that takes less effort than balancing a particular gameplay element for two wildly different gamemodes.

Also because it doesn't make them money, you see that shiny laser beam shit in the DLC? Give us $19.99 right now and YOU can be the one performing virtual genocide in our game!

>>13927844

They focused hard on pvp but even in destiny 1 they would nerf all a class of a weapon if one or two was found overpowered.

>Assault rifles are too good

-Nerf All Assault Rifles.

They cant balance worth shit

>>13928256

is balancing that hard or do they suck at their jobs on purpose to get people to keep hoping for improvements? it seems like such a common method of doing things that i cant imagine its always sincere

>>13928295

>is balancing that hard or do they suck at their jobs on purpose to get people to keep hoping for improvements?

I'm not an expert but I think the problem might come from the high number of weapons, weapon types and the RNG that dictates the perks that a random weapon will have. In D1 they always ended up nerfing the exotic weapons (the one that suffered the most was the Thorn).

>>13928332

>Just as you never see anyone talk about "wow that little girl is fucking hot".

what trickery is this?

>>13928350

>>13928781

Pretty sure anon meant in real life or places that aren't here. Because if you do say that outside of here you deserve your incoming beatings.

>>13921790

>Be Bungie

>Makes a contract with a company controlled by the chinese

>Expecting not to make shitty games

>>13925866

Friendly reminder those drinks have more sugar in them than entire boxes of cereal.

>>13928806

>That's why it SEEMS that nobody cares. But Activisionphiles are among us.

>>13928810

>Be bungie

>Make nu Halo

>Everyone scared to release near destiny

>Shit the bed

>Make Shit the bed 2

"Wer da money go?"

>Make shit the bed 3

>Activision Now owns Shitbed Series.

>Profit?

>>13928825

>what is a comparison

There's stigma here to admit being a activisonfag, likewise there is stigma everywhere else for being a pedo/lolicon.

>>13928821

The disappointing part is that, thanks to a lack of concrete standards and the principles of social interaction, they won't actually learn a lesson from this. They'll simply see the next thing shoved into their face that's not quite as a shit and claim that it's amazing.

>>13928331

Well in D1 when all weapons rolled random perks, that was one thing. Any time they adjusted classes of weapons to change the balance of a particular outlier, they threw everything else completely out of whack. But in D2, every weapon has a static set of perks, so making adjustments should be as simple as identifying the outliers and making modifications.

What I've heard but can't confirm is that Bungie doesn't want to pay to push out updates on a more frequent basis, since supposedly(?) Sony still charges for devs to put out updates. So instead they just let the current state of the game stay the exact same way for months and only bothered to finally address some of the issues (high-caliber rounds causing opponents to flinch like crazy letting you kill them easily, three-round-burst sidearms tearing through an opponent in about a second, precision auto rifles being as good or better than pulse/scout rifles at long range) in the patch this week. But by this point everyone's sick of the Crucible meta being so horribly stale (MIDA and either Uriel's or an Omolon sidearm) that nobody wants to even set foot in it anyway.

Then there's the fact that supposedly one of the new exotics is laughably overpowered in Crucible, such that if you don't have it and the enemy team has one, you're going to lose every single match. Good balancing.

I played the campaign last night, and I suppose the story was alright, but dear god this is a paltry amount of content. Most of the campaign was running through the Infinite Forest over and over, such that I don't even want to see the actual repeatable activity. Mercury is insultingly small. And apparently the new strikes are just repurposed campaign missions (granted, the missions did have fun boss fights so I'm not entirely opposed to replaying them, but that's fucking lazy). The final boss was a fun fight I suppose, but that doesn't make up for the rest of it. You would think after The Dark Below they would learn not to try and push out a DLC literally three months after the game launches again, but I guess not.

>>13928861

They are adding weapon rolls back into D2 later on with "Mastercraft" weapons.

Cant wait for every gun to be nerfed again.

I know a guy who took the next two months off of work to play this expansion, he was hyped.

>>13928979

Id fire the guy on principle

>>13928979

is he gonna need 2 months?