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  • MrBill
    Billy Brewer Sucks Penis
    • Feb 2009
    • 0

    Originally posted by x0xHumblex0x
    Fatebringer
    I'm wanting a Fatebringer for the collection as well. It's like pulling teeth to find somebody to run VoG these days though.

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    • x0xHumblex0x
      Forgeddaaabooouuutiiiit
      • Jul 2010
      • 10229

      Originally posted by MrBill
      I'm wanting a Fatebringer for the collection as well. It's like pulling teeth to find somebody to run VoG these days though.
      thesedays; i am sure its hard to find anybody to play this game at all.......Period.
      3rd & 14, inside your own 15, up 6, 3:20min left to go = call a PA Pass and Cancel. *its Legit, so no needless complaining

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      • MrBill
        Billy Brewer Sucks Penis
        • Feb 2009
        • 0

        Originally posted by x0xHumblex0x
        thesedays; i am sure its hard to find anybody to play this game at all.......Period.
        There are still a couple million active players a day. You just have to use the100.io or destinylfg.net to find a game. It's super easy to find a group to run Crota or the Nightfall. It's just that VoG takes so much time that not many people want to take the time.

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        • Influence
          King George
          • Jun 2012
          • 1109

          I still play, but not as regularly. I only have one 32.
          The Original

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          • CCBrink
            Awkward Swag
            • May 2009
            • 4261

            Maybe this will be the week I won't get a legendary I already have from Nightfall


            Also, I'm sure there are plenty of people still running VoG considering you will be able to level the old raid armor and weapons to max in HoW.


            Reef Reveal


            Trials of Osiris Reveal


            Prison of Elders next week



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            • MrBill
              Billy Brewer Sucks Penis
              • Feb 2009
              • 0

              Originally posted by CCBrink
              Maybe this will be the week I won't get a legendary I already have from Nightfall
              You get a legendary every week from Nightfall? This is the first time I have ever gotten anything (Thunderlord) worth a damn

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              • CCBrink
                Awkward Swag
                • May 2009
                • 4261

                Just got a 2nd Hawkmoon from a Roc Strike



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                • MrBill
                  Billy Brewer Sucks Penis
                  • Feb 2009
                  • 0

                  Originally posted by CCBrink
                  Just got a 2nd Hawkmoon from a Roc Strike

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                  • wafflehouse83
                    " tears for fears "
                    • Oct 2012
                    • 236

                    I try so hard to get into this game but I'm so far behind everyone else


                    220-Vikings
                    MML-Bengals
                    MGA-Packers

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                    • Houston
                      Back home
                      • Oct 2008
                      • 21231

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                      • MrBill
                        Billy Brewer Sucks Penis
                        • Feb 2009
                        • 0

                        Got a shiny new Truth on one of my Nightfall runs last night. Hawkmoon continues to evade me. Hoping to get a VOG HM run this week on both characters to double my chances for getting a Fatebringer.

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                        • MrBill
                          Billy Brewer Sucks Penis
                          • Feb 2009
                          • 0

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                          • MrBill
                            Billy Brewer Sucks Penis
                            • Feb 2009
                            • 0

                            Second preview trailer for HoW released earlier today

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                            • krulmichael
                              STRAAAAANGE MUSIC!
                              • Feb 2009
                              • 10721

                              This article sums up pretty well my thoughts and feelings of Destiny (the 2nd part talks about Watch Dogs):



                              Destiny is a terrible video game

                              by Jon Bois

                              I was about 10 hours through Destiny when I let out a big, long, "holy shit," tossed my controller on the floor, shut off my Xbox, and never played the game again. It wasn't out of frustration over dying at the hands of some boss. It happened on the middle of the Whatever Planet, while I was trotting from one loitering committee of dumb, easily killable aliens to the next in order to rack up points and level up. I'm in my 30s now, when I am more acutely aware of the value and finitude of time than I used to be, and a waste of time this thorough -- make-believe grunt work -- is a legitimately depressing experience.

                              Destiny both represents and precipitates a slow death of the heart. Ostensibly presented, as is every video game, as a refuge from our work and obligations, it instead re-packages that work and those obligations, rejoicing in them, blissfully conflating "doing stuff" with "fun." It doesn't want to say anything, nor does it want you to express yourself or see your handiwork or fingerprints in anything. It is a profoundly shitty video game better suited for the idle subroutines of a dreaming, hibernating console than any human being.

                              Since you, the player, are in this dream, you must make sense to the soulless automaton having this dream, and so you are assigned Roomba-like objectives: get a better gun! Get a better better gun! Get a scarf that stops bullets (?)!

                              We don't hear much from stamp collectors anymore, and as it turns out, this is where they went. They are all playing Destiny, heaping the dead livestock of time upon the pyre in tribute to The Collection Of Things.

                              This has worked fine in plenty of games through the years, from Deus Ex to some of the Rainbow Six games to Far Cry, the crucial difference being that those games let me feel some element of ownership of what happened. They did this via challenging me to strategize, think, prepare and learn something whenever I died. When I beat a boss in Destiny on the fifth try, it wasn't because I had gotten better or figured anything out. It was because I went back to a level I had already played, pushed a button at a gaggle of dumb aliens until they died, accumulated more of Destiny's various currencies, and came back to the boss with some slightly more effective weapons. In other words, I clocked the hours and got my paycheck. To play Destiny is to be patched from department to department until you end up with the person who can fix your Verizon bill.

                              The story, of course, is barely present. (When we finish a level, our little Flight of the Navigator-lookin'-ass sidekick remarks, on multiple occasions, "We have to tell the others! They won't believe this!" What "others" could you possibly be talking about? The NPC merchants who just mutter and grunt at you? There are no "others," Dinklage. The people who made this game forgot to add them.)

                              I'm usually fine with this in a video game, because I take it as a cue to tell my own story, however big or small, meaningful or trivial. Hey, just let me tell a story about flanking these guys, finding a hill, picking them off with a rifle, employing a strategy that mattered. That counts as a story.

                              Destiny clearly can't or won't tell one itself, so damn it, just -- here. Here. Let me do it. Nope. It does try to fake like it's giving you choices: would you like to play this level you can't beat yet, or go replay this world you've already been to, full of the exact same shit, and this is honestly your only real option? Would you like to equip the gun rated 65, or the gun rated 57? More compelling dilemmas are found in the tabletop games at the dang Cracker Barrel.

                              There are people who will tell you that 10 hours aren't enough, that "the game gets good at level 20." These are the people who felt the first dozen-plus hours were worth their time, so I do not believe them.

                              And strangely, there are so many of those people not to believe. Destiny is an immensely popular game. It's a boring game that asks you to wander through the cockles of its boring little heart, and incentivizes you to keep doing it with the promise of ... more of the same shit. It doesn't want you to think or plan or improve, it just wants its literal buttons literally pushed. It's a game of bean-counting and thing-collecting and checklist-filling.

                              Y'all dummies did this at work all day, and now you come home and play this what-you-did-all-day-you-goofus simulator. There should be games coming out all the time like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, or Civilization, or Silent Service, or Red Dead Redemption, or Portal -- works of gaming that challenge you, make you feel something, make you obsess over strategy, let you tell your own story.

                              Those games are rare, and spiritually sterile games like Destiny are common, because y'alls' bad tastes and badly-spent money are feeding that monster. Y'all suckers are fouling this up for the rest of us, showing up in the millions to buy a $60 cup-and-ball toy. Please stop it.

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                              • x0xHumblex0x
                                Forgeddaaabooouuutiiiit
                                • Jul 2010
                                • 10229

                                3rd & 14, inside your own 15, up 6, 3:20min left to go = call a PA Pass and Cancel. *its Legit, so no needless complaining

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