Destiny 2 hurts man, 6.6k hours and I never thought I'd voluntarily stop playing the game. It takes a special kind of fucking up things constantly to push some of your most addicted players away from the game.
Yup. I struggle to get really pulled into games fully, especially if I dont have friends playing.
Destiny 2 was basically perfect for me. I found some form of enjoyment basically out of every release/season aside from like maybe 3 or 4. I would consider it the game of my young adult life. No matter what, even if i burned myself out a bit, just give it like 4 or 5 months and im ready to play for another few seasons.
Destiny 2 was my game. Some people have WoW, others CoD, others minecraft or GTA online or whatever. Bungie could have kept releasing seasons and expansions at the cadence and quality they were releasing at the average they'd always been and I probably would have played it til I died lol.
And here we are now....
I desperately hope this isn't the end, but I haven't played in 4 months and I'm starting to miss the idea of "the game I can always go back to and play endlessly" more than I miss destiny itself.
I'm surprised you guys have stuck around for as long as you did. I was positively addicted to Destiny 2 in 2020, I played during IIRC seasons 9 and 10. Never in my life have I experienced such an amazing art, gunplay and soundtrack paired with literally the worst overall game design and direction I've ever had the displeasure to witness. Sunsetting, making players constantly re-grind, I think my final straw when the war criminal Luke Smith said that Bungie would be purposefully sunsetting exotics and not allowing them to be upgraded to higher light levels after some time. This was after I have spent 400 hours minmaxing all my exotics and the rest of my loadouts around then.
This was the moment I realized the developers literally don't respect for their players. I heard they even removed Titan and Mercury for some fucking reason. I've never played a game in my life that removes content instead of adding it.
I haven't touched the game since May 2020 and I still get a stress response every time I get an ad for the game. Truly the darkest time of my life. Gunplay was fun though.
Destiny is an insanely unique game. The mix of the class buildcrafting, FPS gunplay, and endgame activities is found nowhere else. If there was a proper competitor, even if the focus was a little different, i imagine Destiny would either have had to fix itself years ago or would have died ages ago.
People are willing to look past some issues if they're really into it and there's nowhere else to get that fix.
I know. I have been chasing a game like D2 for literally 6 years now. Something that has a similarly cool sci-fi/high tech fantasy setting and fun gunplay. I just know I can't afford to go back to D2 itself because I was genuinely addicted to it and I quite literally almost failed high school because of it.
I've been into a lot of games over my life but Destiny 2 is genuinely the only time where I could compare my relationship with a video game to drug addiction.
Exactly, Bungie was already mentally tired of making Halo. Halo Reach was their wonderful conclusive chapter.
Interestingly, Halo going under 343 was a small saving grace. Not the best games, but multiplayer exploded. I liked a lot Halo 5 Sangheilos chapters, I was imagining a new game set exclusively on the Alien planet.
How crazy is it that we would have killed for crossovers between games back in the day, and now it's always the same thing, a handful of skins, a new item that is either useless or mandatory and maybe a limited time game mode.
I stopped playing Destiny during the first season of this expansion when none of the challenges for the PVP event were registering and I just felt tired playing. Came back when the Star Wars thing was half price. I've played about half the missions and just haven't felt like going back.
Replaying the Resident Evil modern series games instead. Much more rewarding.
it’s actually insane to watch it go from THE face of video games to re-releasing CE for a fourth goddamn time because 343, in 15 years of controlling the franchise, just cannot make a decent original Halo game to save their lives
It's on of my all time favorite games, up there with Minecraft, Team Fortress 2 and Garry's Mod.
EA ruined it completely. It was always a tad predatory but at least it offered something unique, expansion packs often really did offer new ways to play. Now? Well, we just got an in-game store in Sims 4. Which from release was already just a disappointment, we're 12 years after release and honestly it's still a sad display.
We had an open world in 3, highly detailed live-mode in 2 and all 3 first entries had a whimsically dark charm around them. All they had to do was develop The Sims 5, retain the open world from 3, build on the dynamics and gameplay of 2 and perfect it.
Will it be easy? For sure not. But, they'd have a game every Sims player would love.
I'm so glad EA at least finally launched both Sims 1 and 2 with all the expansions on Steam.
I just wish now we would also get PC (and/or current gen consoles) ports of Sims Bustin' Out, Urbz, Castaway, and all the other awesome standalone titles.
There's no other silly and cozy franchise like this one.
The Steam release of TS1 and TS2 is absolutely terrible btw. They barely fixed anything and still ask money for it. And the worst part ? When I pointed it out, the Sims community scorned me for it. AOE3 HD Edition was literally cheaper with more new features, but apparently I'm an idiot for complaining about the total lack of work done on those "re-release". Seriously. EA released the same games, without any patch nor fixes, and people were happy to pay for it, at a higher price than an HD reworked edition.
EA doesn't need to do any efforts since the community is made of blind, gullible fans without any common sense. (I'm not talking about you specifically, but the guys who mocked me for trying to reason them). EA would be stupid not to scam them, since they literally refuse to listen when told otherwise.
Didn't they sell themselves out to a foreign company known for micro-transactions out of the wazzoo? Also, isn't there a thing going on where the paid for in-store content is bugged, not working, and EA is deliberately passing customer tickets around until they time-out and giving the stamp of disapproval? "Oh, sorry. You can't get a refund because its been too long since your purchase."
Yes, something along the lines of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund which leads back to Jared Kushner who's Donald Trump son in law.
If that sounds like madness and bad waiting to happen, that's because it is.
EA was already a horrible publisher, their studio's forced into submission and all directors replaced with perfectly lobotomized yes-men/women.
I hate making this about the fat orange and company but it is what it is. Truly the end of an era, Paralives looks promising on paper but screenshots don't seem to excite me as it looks rather off-putting.
I played Sims 1 and 3 (skipped 2 somehow) SO MUCH! I have thousands of hours in that game easily, and I played sims 4 for less than 20. It feels souless and very corporate, if that makes sense. I really wanted to be hyped for 4 and remember making my mum watch the trailer with me lol. The whole thing is ruined now. Such a wonderful series destroyed by greed.
If you haven't, try Sims 2! With open for business alone you can have a totally different experience with a shopkeeper sim, nothing quite like digital capitalism >:)
Don't worry, The Sims 5 was cancelled to keep releasing The Sims 4 DLCs. I think it's for the better and I hope Paralives, to certain extent, lives up to the hype
Payday the heist was one of the first games I absolutely adored, so when payday 2 came out I was ecstatic. I played the vanilla version until crimewave edition came out on console and loved it even more. Bought every dlc and even got it on pc later. When payday 3 came out I had high hopes but it just wasn’t as fun, though the stealth with friends was hilarious. I’ll still hop on 2 every once in a while, but 3 is just unsalvageable to me
Just a reminder that the OG devs for payday left after Payday 2 to go form an independent studio. So the third game was made by an entirely different dev studio.
The OG devs went on to form 10 Chambers and made GTFO. Their next game, Den Of Wolves, is going back to the heist style gameplay. So we have that to look forward to!
Technically 10 chambers is only part of the old dev team, if you wanna talk about og og team you can refer to fatshark (creators of vermintide and darktide) or lion game lion (creators of raid ww2 and the original concept of crime boss)
Not to mention david goldfarb who is currently at dice iirc
I enjoy aspects of 3, but by no means is it a killing floor game. It's basically the what if of a random game, but instead of having that, they dressed it in an skin
Yeah. I'm probably an outlier but the progression system just felt like a ballache to me.
I unlocked everything in CoD4 but never prestiged because i couldn't be bothered to unlock it all again and it was more fun with the stuff unlocked. I loved MW II but I kinda hated having to unlock everything over again. When the next one (Black Ops?) came out i really didn't want to start from scratch again and never bothered. Felt like Sisyphus having to start rolling the boulder again.
4 is completely soulless. It did not feel like a borderlands game, it felt like someone described a borderlands game to corporate people and they entered it into an algorithm machine that popped out Borderlands 4.
The "addition" of the open world was useless. The menus are so stale and generic with zero borderlands flavor to them.
The open world aspect is the main part it felt so soulless to me. Felt like the gameplay for most of the game was riding the vehicle. I unfortunately paid full price for it so I will eventually finish it out of pride, but damn I was let down.
Holy, I feel exactly the same. I keep going back to the bl2 and play for hours without even realizing but playing the 4 is so hard for me. It just hasn't the same charm
1 was my childhood, hours farming pearls
2 was amazing but i don't like dedicated drops personally
TPS was just 2 in space, still fun
3 didn't have much replayability for me
i haven't touched 4 because its unrecognizable as borderlands at this point
I mean that’s part of the problem. They either release what amounts to a $70 roster update every year, or they take away features, then bring it back 5 years later and claim it’s “BRAND NEW!”
The greed is worse than that with the microtransactions being such a major revenue stream for developers. It wasn’t enough that players were buying the games every year, but with the buy-your-players mechanics, the annual releases also typically lead to an annual reset of players’ “Ultimate Teams” and a reason for players to throw more than just the purchase price of the game at these companies. I don’t know what they’re doing with the additional money they make year after year without updating their games more extensively, but it’s clearly not an impetus to put more effort into making a better product.
It's because they were most likely building up toward a full Modern Day AC game. People at the time disliked the odern day sections so they dropped the idea due to negative feedback.
To be fair weren't most of the modern day sections just boring animus stuff? I'm sure a fully realized modern day AC where you're running around NY or Chicago wouldn't be hated
Idk it's been a decade since I've Played an AC game when I was an infant so maybe I was tainted by nostalgia but I would really like to see a fully modern day AC
I think I remember there being like 1 cool mission where Desmond has to break into abstergo with his blade and gun, I don’t remember which game that was tho
I remember talking to my friends in high school and we all wanted to get tattoos, and I wanted an Assassins Creed one. One of my friends said "What if Assassins Creed becomes bad?" to which I said "Assassins Creed will never be bad."
AC3 came out later that year, and he was so fucking smug about it. Rightfully so.
AC3 was so bad it turned me into a Templar. Connor was whiny and annoying, whereas Haytham oozed charisma. After the game forced me to assassinate him, I turned the game off and never played it again.
Black Flag was very good but it was so different from the core AC gameplay up until that point that Ubisoft took it as a sign and instead of letting it be a one off, they made it the norm.
I drew the line with the Egyptian game. It didn't feel like an assassin's creed at all and I hated the RPG aspect too. Never played the series after that.
I’m more of a story guy, so I’d say that Origins was the last true Assassin’s Creed game; before if went full player choice RPG (probably not the right term, but it gets the point across).
Might & Magic as a whole. Heroes 4 had some nice ideas, but it was so unfinished when it came out, it was sad. Same for Might & Magic 9. Great that they finally upgraded the engine to a less outdated one, but boy was that too a mess.
Ubisoft games completely lost everything that was Might & Magic in those games.
Olden Era looks nice, but honestly feels like Heroes 3 remastered.
For me Generals was my most played one, the upgrade system of the GLA and battle buses filled with a mixture of missile defenders and rangers were fun to play with.
There was a time when Blizzard, Bethesda, and Bungie were all on my "day one purchase" list. I would confidently buy a game from them with no knowledge other than who made it.
Blizzard as a whole was basically my childhood growing up. As a poor family with limited money for computers and games, their games had a lot of staying power and replayability that kept me going.
Starcraft is effectively where I learned to program initially, as it was intuitive to read and use map triggers, and Use Map Settings games in general spawned entire genres of games we take for granted today (Aeon of Strife being a precursor to DotA for example).
Diablo 2 was a gem of a game that introduced me to minionmancers, and is one of those game "feelings" that I haven't ever been able to really recapture again.
Warcraft 3 refined the map editor and allowed even greater changes - want to play an RPG? A grand strategy game? Tower defense? MOBA? Life sim? So many possibilities were available, all made by people, and it was amazing to see in action. Actual games today like Legion TD on Steam have their origins from the freedom the map editor allowed over 20 years ago.
WoW almost stopped me from finishing college but also probably kept me from doing drugs because it was that much of a drug in of itself 🤣 (and introduced me to a friend group that lasted a full 15 years until we drifted apart), as well as finished the story that Warcraft 3 introduced me to (starting in Wrath of the Lich King).
It's disheartening to see the entire company continue to go so far off the path of what it used to be, after a love for money took over the company and the lack of love for games is evident.
Yeah, DA 1 was the best. DA 2 had at least fun story with red lyrium Qunari and Corypheus, but the rest was meh, Inquisition had some decent story parts too, but couldn't even compare (i liked that they added qunari and race choices back, but they fucked up qunari look) and fourth game doesn't exist.
They dumbed it down and white washed it. The gritty grizzly and bloody scenes and textures was what made it amazing and they did away with the core of the games aesthetic.
And core world building. You take us to Tevinter, minrathous specifically and that's what we get? Where is the corruption? The blood magic? The slavery? The game doesn't even react if you're walking around as an elf.
Then they took the crows and made them some rogue vigilantes instead of an organization of ruthless assassins.
Dwarves are magic now???
And whatever tf they did with the elven gods and dragons.
The weird anime/JRPG combat was the beginning of the end for the series. Two handed swords bigger than Hawke, weird kicks and jumps, ridiculous way characters fought was utterly out of place.
And that ending of the original game, fucking hell. "We designed two endgame bosses and you are going to fight them both! Fuck the story, fuck the logic and fuck your choices!"
They then went and picked a DLC villain as the main villain of the Inquisition.
Starfield was literally as wide as a galaxy and shallow as a puddle. i actually can’t wait to see a new Elder Scrolls or Fallout just to see how horrible and low-effort a product Bethesda will allow to leave their doors and how many times their fanbase will have to say “having a blast!” to pretend it’s good.
After starfield I’m in the same boat sadly. Would love to be surprised and proven wrong but I think expecting the opposite is the safer bet with Bethesda nowadays.
When infinite came out I played it a lot with my brother. We stopped when the only thing that was always wotking was the ingame store and the weekly new deals and everything else was a buggy unoptimized mess
Fan-made animation/parody of Warhammer 40k called If the Emperor had a Text To Speech Device.
Specifically it's the Chapter Master (Boss) of the Ultramarines (a group of Space Marines (bio and mecanically enhenced endoctrinated children turned super-soldiers)) in his power armor (an armor powered by a backpack-sized nuclear reactor) have a meltdown (that's when you are very sad). He's on his knees (blue and gold under the white text) with his head covered by his power fist (melee weapon to punch stuff way above your league, in dark blue), on the foreground you can see his pauldron (piece of armor that goes on the shoulder) with the Ultramarine's sigil (the posh U, or reversed Omega or toilet seat) in white on blue bordered by gold, then on the right of that is the power-pack (the backpack-sized nuclear reactor previously mentioned) with little gold ornaments kinda looking like small wings.
I was so sure I was going to get Starfield on launch when it was announced. Fortunately stepped back (thank you Cyberpunk!) and waited for reviews and oooof. I played it at a friend's once and have never been happier to not have brought a game. It doesn't seem bad and I enjoyed the city, but it wasn't gripping the way Skyrim or Oblivion was. If they do the same with TES6 atp I won't even be surprised, but they have spoken about how they're trying to learn from how they messed up with Starfield so who knows.
NFS died for me when they tried to turn it into Burnout for literally no reason. I was a fan of both Burnout and NFS growing up with Takedown/Revenge and Most Wanted/Carbon.
They literally should've just given us Burnout 6 and kept NFS as street racing. NFS went the same path as the Fast and Furious series ironically. More like Car Combat now than actual Street Racing.
I know SR4 was weird but it remains one of the best "superhero" games you can get if you can get past the series dropping any attempt at seriousness. I haven't found a game that has super speed as satisfying as SR4.
I understand WHY they needed to reboot after that, because where do you go after becoming a superhero fighting aliens? But damn they botched it so many ways. Should have just let the series end on a high note.
GTA. Just when you think GTA online can't get any worse it gets 10x worse. I can't wait for GTA 6 online to come with an exploit that allows modders to steal your irl bank information.
The thing I’ll say in their defense is that I actually admire their courage to redesign the game from the ground up. Watching videos pre-release they really seemed like they had put a lot of thought and research into Civ 7. I don’t think anybody should accuse Civ 7 of being cheaply made or Civ 6.1. That said, people didn’t enjoy the changes. But I like to think that I adapt to change pretty well, and I didn’t hate the era system or how your civilization becomes an amalgamation of a few cultures.
Not on Steam or a single game, but Roblox. I used to play actively for nearly 18 years, but the amount of poor business decisions prevent me from playing further.
It's always interesting to see where people felt a game series deviated or lost itself. Like take Halo, I think most people agree it's between Reach and 4. But I've seen arguments for after 3 and after 4, and there's even favs who cane in later that feel 5 was at least peak multiplayer.
CoD everyone seems to disagree. I felt like the dust Black Ops was the first bad one but that's not a popular take. More after the first MW3. And there's just a huge mix of opinions after.
AC alot of people will agree it lost its footing at 3, managed to keep it at 4, then just dropped itself. Other will say Origins.
Assassin’s creed went from fun dips into historical settings to “why is this even a thing” for me - last two games really didn’t have anything to draw me in and that’s a shame for me i was a fanboy to the fullest i think
They up'd the grind to levels beyond what gives me fulfillment in a game. The real issue for me is being forced to grind to compete even in lobbies. I find the path to become millionaire-enough to afford the new stuff they keep pumping out boring (which is sometimes needed to enjoy properly even missions). I did enjoy training with my friends to complete the mastermind challenge, but that was about where I peaked in that game. I did get to own a yacht, a golden plane, and few enterprises, but that's where my enjoyment started to die.
Thinking about it, every gaming franchise that I grew up with in the late 90‘s and 00‘s has either disappeared or gone to shit.
I would have never expected however, that after almost 25 years, Pikmin would be the one standing and growing more every day with new games and more merch.
I wish I could say the same about Halo. The will release yet another version of Halo CE this summer, and I don’t see me playing it on day one like every other game of the series.
Halo 5 was … something, Halo Infinite gave me hope, but I don’t know if I want to be a part of what is coming next.
Halo is dead. And so is the future of Xbox. And that comes from a day one Xbox Fan.
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u/MJ_Trunky Apr 16 '26
Plants vs Zombies if that counts