{"id":975,"date":"2014-10-03T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/?p=975"},"modified":"2014-10-03T00:33:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T04:33:17","slug":"the-things-i-do-for-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"The Things I Do for Destiny!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"youngfrank\"<\/a>(Thanks to Eric for the reference, click here for the full effect<\/a>.)<\/em><\/h5>\n

As I mentioned earlier, granting access to the public Destiny Beta <\/a>was a master stroke for Bungie\u2019s latest creation to sink its meat hooks into my imagination.\u00a0 I preordered the game proper, and the PS3 version was shipped to me, \u201cDay One\u201d.\u00a0 I laughed at the poor XBone saps who would be waiting for the whole thing to install to their hard drives before playing.\u00a0 I then watched a slideshow while listening to Destiny Muzak, as 6 Gigs of data slowly installed.<\/p>\n

OK, now I was ready to go!\u00a0 I created my dude, an Exo Male Warlock, and hopped in.\u00a0 It played EXACTLY like the Beta, but no problem, I\u2019d get to the new stuff soon.\u00a0 Then halfway through the tutorial mission, I was booted out.\u00a0 I tried again a bit later, and was kicked out DURING the opening pre-rendered movie!\u00a0 Ha!\u00a0 OK, this was the first day and thousands of nerds were hitting the servers at the same time.\u00a0 I would try again later.<\/p>\n

One week later, the tutorial level played fine, but at The Tower game hub, I was promptly booted out multiple times.\u00a0 I think the error codes were something like Centipede, Ringworm and Sphincter. After perusing help.bungie.net, it seemed like the problem might be on my end.\u00a0 The suggested fix involved running network cable directly to my console and tinkering with my router.\u00a0 Moving the cable would involve pushing the cable into the floor in one room, then heading into the crawlspace, finding the cable and shoving it up into another hole further within said crawlspace. Let just said the adventure eventually turned into this scene with Lance Henriksen in Aliens\u2026<\/p>\n

\"aliens\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2026but with dirt everywhere and I was on my back, and that was the easy part!\u00a0 Learning the Greek of how to setup a PS3 with a Static IP and clearing the necessary firewall ports for both the PSN and Destiny servers was dirty business and took about two hours, but huzzah it worked! (Thanks Port Forward<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m back in the game, and again, it felt about the same as the Beta, but a bit harder.\u00a0 Maybe I was impatient with playing through the same content, or maybe the Scout Rifle wasn\u2019t for me.\u00a0 Eventually The Moon opened up and I jumped at the chance for a new locale.\u00a0 It was, as the saying goes, a harsh mistress.\u00a0 My Guardian\u2019s ass was handed to me with a bow on it. (The Fallen are very considerate.)\u00a0 I\u2019ve since played more and, let me be clear, I am having a grand old time.\u00a0 I am thrilled that a new AAA game plays on ye olde PS3, but man\u2026I never thought I would have to go to this amount of trouble to play a game.<\/p>\n

The times, they be a changin\u2019.<\/p>\n

Cheers,
\nBen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Thanks to Eric for the reference, click here for the full effect.) As I mentioned earlier, granting access to the public Destiny Beta was a master stroke for Bungie\u2019s latest creation to sink its meat hooks into my imagination.\u00a0 I preordered the game proper, and the PS3 version was shipped to me, \u201cDay One\u201d.\u00a0 I …<\/p>\n

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