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Destiny 2 - Our Curse of Osiris Review - MMORPG.com
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Destiny 2 - Our Curse of Osiris Review - MMORPG.com
People have been wanting some new content for Destiny 2, and they got it yesterday with the launch of Curse of Osiris - the first DLC for Bungie’s MMO shooter. Bringing with is hours of new story, tons of new weapons and gear to hunt down, new PVP, and new PVE options, players should be satiated... for at least a week. That’s the way of the gamer, my friends. This is our Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris review in progress.
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Curious to see if they wipe all our progress again in D3 and the thematic reason for it.
hm, i have gotten a hell of a lot for my money ..
I could flick a pen around a table for 1000 hrs if I wanted to. That doesn't mean I got a lot for my money when I bought it.
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The Division has a free expansion that really sucked me in with good A.I. bad guys that engaged me well and held my attention for hours.
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Liking something doesn't mean you automatically ignore it's faults, especially when it comes to the business model.
I actually went back and re-watched Anthem video just to make sure I wasn't imagining things regarding environments and was face-palming through out the video.
I like Destiny 2's gameplay, I wish the expansion was better, longer and offered more. I'm criticising the expansion, not Destiny 2.
This review is for the expansion, right? It's not just a "How much do we like Destiny? 8/10" article, is it?
You see, I'm confused here, I look at something like Path of Fire that offers hundreds of hours of actual content, new features, multiple maps, new class builds, hundred of new items, etc. and I just laugh at this kind of thing. I mean, what is the standard for comparison here? What is the 8/10 being compared to?
You're clearly a Destiny fan, surely you wish this expansion had at least five times the content. What they've released is a poor effort that didn't require a lot of development resources. We deserve better.
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Of course it is okay to like it Bill! You have to know by now any time you put your opinion out there people will both agree and disagree with it equally.....and the majority of people who take time to express their opinion will be those who disagree
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I said the expansion is crap
Bill said: "It's ok not to like Destiny 2"
I said no one said they didn't like Destiny 2
You're illiterate or something and thought you had a chance to attack
I explained I think the expansion is crap which isn't the same as thinking Destiny is crap as a whole.
You refuse to quit as usual even though, deep down, you know you've made a mistake in your reading.
You're not good at using forums Torval. You don't understand things properly.
you were close.
Personally, i would rate it 6/10.
Why?
For me story was non existent. There is that lock who got trapped in Vex simulation. Go find him. Thats it. He is supposedly all powerfull etc but meh.
Infinite forest bored me before the expansion story ended. It is not a good thing, if we realize that it takes 3 hours to beat the story.
It bored me because there are couple of tiles, not really rotating very well. Almost all instances look same even if the road from point to point looked different.
Sagira got props, but overall ghosts in this game are witty bunch.
Mercury is abysmal, really, really abysmal. Short, boring visuals, not able to use sparrows (probably to artifically extend the zone). We can use enemy vehicles tho.
There is ONE lost sector and MAYBE two events? Which heroic one is just boring and easy to screw up even IF nobody is sabotaging it. Also, done heroic event and get 2 tokens and blue. Meme is strong.
Basically, visual, sound and gameplay carry it above mediocrity. There are fun banter, mostly from Sagira. Both Osiris and Ikora are not really interesting characters as far as i realize. Ikora was interesting in her fear of death but now he full out and full off shit lock. Boring.
I like the new itemization, but only prometheus lens is worthwhile from min max standpoint. The "explosion on hit" perk need to be removed or nerfed heavily, because, as for now, weapons with that perk reign supreme.
Probably Curse of Osiris was not done before base game was done.
You do know that game go through a couple of stages between devs stops working on it and hitting the shelves right? Where the base game team is just twitching their thumbs because they have nothing to do? And you need still to pay them ofc.
So, yeah, im kinda tired of this shitty attitude that every dlc post launch is cut content. Nothing in this dlc looks like being cut from the base game, even if the dlc is not very impressive.
Also, team was working on it for 3 months, game was released in september.
Way back early year,Bill remember all too well because he got mad some complained he called it a MMO,that is not where i am going with this.
Where i am going is at that time,NOTHING was released on the game,no dates ..notta NOTHING<yet this site started on the D2 threads and Bill CLAIMED it was good for the industry !!!
Ok how so NOT knowing a single thing about the game at that time?
So then this site wonders why people are always saying ...sponsored...if it looks THAT suspicious,it most certainly is up to no good,some misleading,deceptive marketing there.One doesn't have to be factually sponsored to try and butter up to a potential or incoming arrangement with said business partner.
That original FIRST thread smelled big time of an incoming business partnered arrangement.In other words a biased opinion,i mean seriously Bill has been of late claiming to be playing a lot of EVERY single game this site makes a thread on,geesh must have 60 hours a day to game or what?
We need to get back to honesty and less of the business approach,it is way more fun discussing games under the guise of honesty.
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So.
- I love the shooting, the lore (more like what the lore COULD be, if put in the game in its entirety...)
- I love the graphics and how it runs on PC
- I love the PvP, yeah, most hate it, I prefer it slower&tactical, the Lens showcased how idiotic fast TTK is
- I like the raids and strikes of all sorts
- I fully understand this is not an MMO but a shooter with DLCs
However.
- what the hell is with MTX if we paid 60-90 USD for the game already? What the hell was it with the XP throttling and manipulation? Holy hell the greed...
- what in the world is with the reward system? How the hell is gear from doing events just the same as doing the raid, basically? Why would I wanna do the raids if I will end up with max light gear anyway from milestones? And even if I end up like 330 instead of 335, NOBODY cares and it's irrelevant
- what the hell is with the PvP rewards? Where the hell is Trials matchmaking? Why weapons from OUTSIDE Trials are better than Trials weapons?
To put it short, the rewards from "elite" activities are nowhere to be found. Most people want rewards on par with the time investment and skill requirement.
As for this DLC, you can run through mobs and finish it in one damn hour. Then the same process begins of "do a strike, do the raid, do a bit of PvP, turn in, play something else gg". Lost Verse weapons? pretty crap. Not worth the grind - and they are like 3/week anyway. Nothing else remains.
Such a weird game with such a weird reward structure.
Thats just one issue with Osiris dlc, by now i am sure everyone is more than aware of the issues with a certain overpowered weapon which pretty much decides the outcome of pvp matches based on who has it, and who does not.