Destiny is Gorgeous

Squandering the Morning

My Great Capture Screen Shot 2014-09-09 06-09-24 This morning I have absolutely squandered my morning away, because today the servers for Destiny came up.  In truth the servers came up over the night, and there are already a large number of folks milling around in Tower that are level 10 or so.  This morning my overriding goal was to get a character created and get it to tower so I could eventually meet up with friends and play.  This formidable mug you are seeing represents the new version of me in Destiny.  At character creation you are given the choice between Human, some sort of translucent skinned humanoid, and robots.  Generally speaking I tend to heavily favor humans but there is a fatal flaw in the character creator…  no beards.  Since I can’t have a beard then I pretty much have to go robot.

All in all I am fine with this because I feel like a badass with the green glowing eyes.  I played robotic characters in City of Heroes and Champions Online, so I guess that fits my motif anyway.  I ended up rolling a Titan again, because I have to admit I like having the insane attack that slams the ground and knocks all of the enemies away.  Additionally I found I liked having a jet pack better than some form of a modified jump.  In theory the titan becomes more tanky over time, which also definitely fits my overriding goals in pretty much any game.  Similarly I know that there will already be a lot of Warlocks and Hunters among my friends, so I figure it is best to stick with what I know and enjoyed playing in alpha and beta.

Destiny Is Gorgeous

My Great Capture Screen Shot 2014-09-09 06-29-14 The thing I keep forgetting after large blocks of time being out of the game is just how damned gorgeous this game is.  I guess as a habitual member of the PC master race, I have a hard time realizing that the consoles have finally caught up.  Always in the past there was something wrong with the console images, either they were grainy or washed out or blurry.  They lacked the saturation and definition that I was so used to from playing on a PC.  The PS4 however playing destiny looks amazing, and I doubt it would perform any better on a PC, or at least not with the mid range video cards I generally purchase.  The big difference of course is that I am running around this landscape with the joystick rather than a keyboard and mouse.  This is the biggest adjustment for me, because I still don’t quite feel comfortable without the precision control to make headshots that a mouse gives me.

My Great Capture Screen Shot 2014-09-09 06-19-04 Thankfully Destiny has more than a fair amount of aim assist, and while I can’t really draw a bead and get head shots reliably, I can chew down encounters with body shots.  I managed to make it through the first tutorial level in pretty good time, and as I now idle in Tower to write this… random people keep landing and dancing with me.  I am not exactly sure when I will really get a chance to start this game properly.  I know we have plans for this evening, but I might pop in after that to at least run the first couple of missions.  This is one of those games that I don’t mind being behind the curve.  I am not really competing with anyone to get to max level first.  I feel like Destiny is going to fill the same role that Diablo 3 does.  Fun game that I can get into quickly, kill some stuff and pop back out without many hard feelings.  I like the big open world areas in Destiny for this, in that I can land and make my own objectives or simply run around looking for interesting stuff.

Beginning Coil

ffxiv 2014-09-08 21-07-18-237 The picture is completely unrelated here, but I look adorable like always in my White Mage outfit.  I mentioned earlier that we already had plans for tonight, and primarily that is because we have decided to start raiding Binding Coil, and this evening is the time that seemed to work the best for most people.  I honestly figure by the time evening rolls around Destiny will be completely unplayable, so I thought this might be a good idea to give us all something to focus on other than the inability to play with our new toy.  For some time we have been gearing up and wanting to start Binding Coil fresh as a guild.  I believe that mostly we will be going into this one completely fresh, in that none of us are really doing research ahead of tonight.  One of my biggest joys is figuring out content with my friends, and I think we will do just fine.

One of the most awesome footnotes about the community however is the reaction folks have had to us beginning Binding Coil.  Now this raid in one form or another has been out for a year, and they simply keep adding new turns to it.  So as I have talked to some fairly serious raiders about our guild starting the Coil fresh, I’ve received a completely unexpected reaction.  Were it World of Warcraft, I would have  gotten reactions like folks chiding us for being “Months Behind”.  Here I have gotten nothing but positive responses, talking about how they wished they could go back and see the Coil with fresh eyes again, and that we would enjoy ourselves.  This overwhelming sense of others wishing us well and being happy for us is extremely refreshing.  I am glad that this same strong community attitude extends to raiding as well as the dungeon content we have experienced.  Hopefully we will go in, clear the first turn and walk away with some awesome memories.

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