Oh boy! If we're playing the anecdote game: I can't get anyone to want to jump ship back to Destiny 1 for the life of me (And with my experience with PS4's matchmaking for strikes,
I have been trying). My girlfriend's curiosity with Destiny 1 starts and ends with...
- The CGI cutscenes for Taken King and Rise of Iron.
- Interesting bits of lore and environments that are re-used or mentioned in Destiny 2 no matter how briefly (I.E. Felwinter Cliffs with the observatory and what's beyond that weird dead-end by the observatory, what's Rasputin?).
Like I've told her about how reputation used to work, how much narrower and deeply defined you can build a character with gear and passive talents to excel with certain loadouts, how you can have utterly nuts base cooldowns on your abilities with proper stat balancing, and how having random perks on equipment makes the grind that much more evergreen compared to Destiny 2.
She's just not biting though, because that sort of grind is simply unappealing to her. She likes being able to swap around weapons as freely as she does without feeling like she's being penalized for it because of how much broader "Kinetic" mods are over like Hand Cannon reload speed, or needing to dump three hours into leveling an exotic before it's actually exotic. She's not willing to level a character up from level 1-40, hit 340 item level and
still not have a single sub-spec maxed out no matter how much freedom that gives her build
. She sees the mess of icons that are littered across every map and feels no inclination to want to run all that content because man, she does not think the Patrol Zones I've been running through are that interesting in the first place (But she's
really quick to make fun of the fact that Fast Travel and in-game maps don't exist).
... She does love Ghost Ghost though. That almost broke her.
I have to wonder how much of that's the same console-manufacturer politics that is keeping PS4 Minecraft players sequestered from the rest of their community.
