The naming of enemies is equally absurd.\u00a0 I was able to get on board with our side naming the various creatures after mythology, because well\u2026you have to name things something<\/em>.\u00a0 But once you encounter high-level Boss monsters with names like Telthor the Unborn, we\u2019ve crossed the streams and are in Ghostbusters territory of a possessed Rick Moranis naming the various forms of Gozer the Gozerian. (I wonder what a giant Sloar actually looks like, anyway?)<\/p>\n That said… the graphics, world building and sense of place are excellent.\u00a0 The sound design (particularly the enemy animal-like grunts and chatter) is the best I\u2019ve heard in a game.\u00a0 The gameplay is rock solid and innately fun, there are a variety of things to do and the risk\/reward feedback loop is just about perfect.<\/p>\n But once you reach level 20, the game no longer holds your hand.<\/p>\n Experience points no longer level up your character.\u00a0 Better gear is needed to progress any further.\u00a0 Blue-level gear is relatively easy to come by, but Purple-level gear is hard work \u2013 involving multiple currencies, turning in bounties and improving reputations with various vendors. (I have yet to earn any of the even better Yellow gear, which is for the most part available only on weekends from a mysterious dude, named Xur.)\u00a0 Higher level strike missions drop better gear, but you need to form your own teams to play them.\u00a0 Of course, once you acquire high level gear you then need to upgrade it, with various hard to find materials.\u00a0 It\u2019s best to look up strategies online to find out the smartest ways to earn these various items.\u00a0 Even then, you end up replaying content over and over to diminishing returns.\u00a0 Rewards are often random.\u00a0 On top of that, the game is still being revised and tweaked.\u00a0 Often it seems an update will fix one aspect of the game from being too much of a monotonous grind, but will then change another part for the worse.\u00a0 The goal posts could very well move after you\u2019ve put in the time.\u00a0 Sometimes the quickest path to better gear is difficult to the point of no longer being any fun.<\/p>\n Yet, I am still playing almost daily, and I have stopped playing nearly anything else.\u00a0 I have never binge-watched a show on Netflix, but I am certainly binging on Destiny.\u00a0 I say to myself that after going \u2018steady\u2019 for awhile, it may be time for me to \u2018date\u2019 other games, but who am I kidding?\u00a0 I\u2019m looking forward to chipping away at it \u2013 little by little \u2013 the next chance I get.<\/p>\n Send help! Addendum: If you are trying to figure out what to do after level 20 check out destinypublicevents.com<\/a>, destinylfg.com<\/a> and Polygon’s guide\u00a0on “getting the best gear in the least\u00a0time<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I jokingly throw around the words \u2018junkie\u2019 and \u2018addiction\u2019 when talking about certain games with Pavlovian qualities, but Destiny has them beat.\u00a0 Not only is the gameplay inherently enjoyable and hard to put down, Destiny also simulates building up a tolerance against achieving the high, by requiring the player to work harder for smaller rewards! …<\/p>\n![\"moranis\"](\"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/moranis.png\")
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