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What’s a modern standard in gaming that needs to die? (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by NilesDobbsS@alien.top to c/gaming@level-up.zone

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What’s modern gaming convention that should no longer be practiced?

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[–] MacSquizzy@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I have never forgiven Destiny for ending the base game when the storyline was just getting good.

Can’t believe they then hid the rest of the story behind dlc. Like a game should ship with a beginning, middle and end and only enhance the story more with new branches in dlc.

[–] Project_XXVIII@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’ll never forgive Destiny for putting initial parts of the game behind a DLC paywall that “rotates in and out”.

“Sorry, you can’t do this week’s Nightfall as it requires TDB dlc.”

If a game releases with certain attributes, then those attributes should always be present, DLC should only add to the chassis of the game, never detract from it.

[–] Maavs@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

One thing Mario Kart 8 does right is letting you race on all the dlc tracks if they come up online even if you don't have the dlc

[–] nixahmose@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What’s ironic is that for the last few years they’ve even been removing so much of the older content that by the time they do release the final expansion new players will only be able to experience the last quarter of Destiny’s story.

[–] Maavs@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That was a big issue for me when I was trying to get my friend to play destiny 2 with me. So much of the story is locked behind dlc and/or relies on you having played the game consistently for the past 6 years to experience everything as it releases so you can be up to date on the confusing story or new currency/leveling system

[–] Bamstradamus@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I tapped out after the second armor rework that they didnt grandfather older sets in to, not grinding for my outfit again, cant do it Bungee.

[–] AngelZiefer@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I tried to play 4 years ago cause some friends had been playing for a while. There was a token intro quest then it just... drops you in the hub world. I tried following what I guessed was a quest chain, but when I got down to the planet there was just a constant stream of events and invasions and just so much noise. I had no context for anything and didn't know what was necessary to do or not. I played for 90 minutes and never booted the game up again.

A friend of mine explained that the devs cleared content because console players can't be expected to have all the data installed on their systems. Which like, that makes sense, but there's gotta be a better solution.

[–] spong_miester@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't the vaulting of older content a necessity so previous gen users could still play the game?

[–] nixahmose@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

They said it was a necessity so that development on the game could continue at all since they claim that without the support staff provided to them by Activision it would be too costly for them to maintain older content.

All that means to me though is that maintaining old content was expensive and Bungie thought it would be more profitable to abandon that content, not understanding the long term negative consequences that action would have for the game's playerbase and reputation.

[–] Spartan_Souls@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Then got rid of that good story and replaced it with a bare bones one