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2018 I HAS REVIEW – Q4

January 16, 2019January 16, 2019IseyActivision, ALpha, Arenanet, Battlefield, Beta, Bethesda, Bioware, BlogNation, Bungie, Community, D&D, Daybreak (SOE), DDO, Destiny, Developers, DICE, Digital Extremes, Dungeons and Dragons, EA, EQ2, Fallout, FPS, Google, Hi-Rez Studios, IHASPC, Magic The Gathering, Microsoft, MMO, Nodding Wistfully, Personal, RPG, Slay The Spire, Torchlight, Ubisoft, Wizards of the Coast, Year in ReviewLeave a Reply

October 2018 Posts: 3 (Really? Just 3?) Games: Magic The Gathering: Arena Other Media: October was my second lightest posting month and 3 in a month (along with the couple 5s I had earlier in the year) shows my inability to post consistently. Blogging is one of those things I love when I feel like…

Paying to Fix your Mistakes: Destiny 2

June 6, 2018IseyActivision, Bungie, Destiny7 Replies

Much hubaloo was made yesterday when the Destiny 2 Year 2 Roadmap was revealed. They are finally addressing some of the long standing issues and bad design decisions they made in the sequel, and it is release on September 8th, 2018. In a paid expansion, with annual pass option. Oh, hello greed! Nice to see…

Caught in the Cookie Jar : Developers

November 27, 2017November 27, 2017IseyBlogNation, Bungie, Developers12 Replies

Destiny 2 has not been a favorite of mine for many reasons, and not going to rehash those at this time, but it was for purely game reasons. They have, unfortunately, stooped below the game-level issues I disliked. Literally slowing XP gains secretively on Bright Engram boxes. You know, those same boxes that you can…

Snake Oil : Day One DLC

October 31, 2017October 31, 2017IseyBungie, General3 Replies

Way back in 2010 I was pretty upset with EA. I am embarrassed enough to say that I have linked to that post myself five times – six, if you include this one. Each of those links was for different reasons but it remains one of my most linked posts by myself. I think it…

Confirmation Bias : Warframe, Destiny 2

October 30, 2017October 30, 2017IseyBungie, Digital Extremes4 Replies

Metacritic is one of those fun sites that gives a glimpse into the mood of the crowd. It also has some truth to it. Long ago I stopped trusting paid reviewers and review sites for much of the obvious – they are just a single view point of opinion without any backdrop to understand what…

They Pull Me Back In : Destiny 2

October 23, 2017October 23, 2017IseyActivision, Bungie1 Reply

My previous post about Destiny 2 was supposed to be my last one until the next expansion. If you love something set it free – if it comes back… blah blah blah. I had/have become too negative about a game I am no longer playing – but that frustration is born out of love! The…

No Satisfaction : Destiny 2

October 16, 2017October 17, 2017IseyActivision, Bungie3 Replies

Media is reporting that Destiny 2 physical sales are down 50% during this period over the 2014 Destiny 1 release. While not a big surprise as consumers shift away from boxes, analysts hit Activision pretty hard. “The launch month of Destiny 2 was well short of the original iteration by a material amount,” Piper Jaffray…

Third Party Markets – Destiny 2

October 2, 2017October 10, 2017IseyActivision, Bungie2 Replies

In 2008 I argued that the best way to solve WoW’s third party gold selling problem was to sell gold themselves. They had lost the ability to control their own in game economy and the best way to fix that would be to crowd out the third party markets making it not worthwhile for the…

If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say : Destiny 2

September 26, 2017October 10, 2017IseyBungieLeave a Reply

Then do a sh*t sandwich! For those who are not aware of what a sh*t sandwich is, it is a criticism sandwiched between two compliments. That way the entity on the receiving end hears something positive about them, then something negative, but ends on a high note with something positive again. It’s a way to…

Rant On : Fornite, Rant Off: Destiny 2

September 21, 2017September 21, 2017IseyBungie, Epic Games2 Replies

Rant On The news that the Fortnite Battle Royale Mode – which currently does not have the capability for a revenue stream – is going completely free to play in 6 days is another head scratcher. Read the release here. With a line about some PVE content that may or may not be coming, at…

Destiny 2 – Not a Sequel, as Suspected.

September 20, 2017IseyActivision, Bungie3 Replies

I am not picking on Destiny 2 for the sake of it. I like the game. My disappointment rests on the fact that it has underachieved in my eyes as a true sequel and opportunity to move the game forward. This thought was further compounded by the seemingly light and lack of content in the…

Destiny 2 – What Could / Should Have Been

September 12, 2017IseyBlogNation, Bungie7 Replies

I think the Aggronaut and I are the main discussors of all things Destiny in this corner of Blognation, (Adding Dragonchasers to this short list) so I won’t continue to link to him on each post but chances are you are already reading him anyway. We are on different paths of our initial enjoyment of…

Stop Me If You Think You Have Played This One Before : Destiny 2

September 6, 2017September 6, 2017IseyBungie9 Replies

I have. It was called Destiny. I know it isn’t fair to judge a game solely on the first hour and a half of playtime – but it is definitely fair to comment on that time as the “first impression”. And that is, sadly, that Destiny 2 feels like a poorly done expansion to Destiny…

Destiny – A Game With No Competitor

August 31, 2017IseyActivision, Bungie4 Replies

It did strike me as odd, as I played through the Destiny 2 ‘beta’ on PC last night that no other company has tried their hand at taking dollars away from Destiny. Â This is quite shocking, actually, when you think about it. Gaming studios are much like movie studios – they tend to launch the…

This and That

May 25, 2017IseyActivision, Bungie, Daybreak (SOE)6 Replies

Destiny Hot off the heels of me ranting about the ridiculousness of the base premise of Destiny – I am happy to report I spent most of my rainy, Canadian long weekend playing Destiny. It is not hypocritical to me because as a PVE shooter it is a wonder and a beauty to behold. Â Which…

Destiny 2 – Immortal Zombies Unite

May 19, 2017May 20, 2017IseyActivision, BungieLeave a Reply

Destiny is a game that I loved everything about except the story. I made a ton of fun of the story. It ate me apart from the inside just thinking about it. Trying to understand the story was equal to drinking a bottle of acid. Maybe it goes down okay in the first instant, but…

Things I Don’t Like About the Division

May 17, 2016IseyBungie, Tom CLancy, Ubisoft3 Replies

Should I tell you how I really feel? Even though that is a far less eloquent title than normal there is a lot I think I should like about The Division – Â but a few key items areÂ holding back that full endorsement. I do find it odd that people compare it to Destiny as it…

Destiny 2 Wishlist

May 3, 2016IseyBungie, FPS6 Replies

With my new PC on delivery delay (went from April 25th to May 18th)Â and still stuck in a trickling advancement with Destiny -Â I did get my Division code from Razor and installed it on my old Laptop. I really feel like that game might be best played on the PS4. 60″ TV and all.…

Dead End with Destiny

April 25, 2016April 25, 2016IseyBungie6 Replies

Well, the love affair with Destiny has come to a standstill along with my character progression. That is a 100% correlation. My Titan is “stuck” at 312 light level. This stuck mode is my conundrum because I can’t do the next level of challenges until I hit 320 light level, and I don’t believe I…

Revisiting Destiny

March 28, 2016March 28, 2016IseyBungieLeave a Reply

I had a huge itch to play a shooter this weekend. I miss the genre. I remember playing DOOM death matches over baud modems in my university dorm in the 90’s. I mostly fell out of the genre because of the direction it took. I loved Rainbow Six and the types of shooters that smarts…

The Tombstone Quandary

October 17, 2014May 2, 2017IseyActivision, Bungie, Tom CLancy3 Replies

There is a quandary around movies that I noticed in theÂ 90’s where movie studiosÂ are afraid to be left behindÂ in the market. When one was making a movie about, say, TombstoneÂ Â the other major one would follow-up eerily close withÂ Wyatt Earp. Big studio coming out with a disaster movie about Volcanos? Better not be left behind! I…

Facepalm Design Decision: September Edition

September 22, 2014IseyActivision, Bungie8 Replies

[Author’s note – I wrote thisÂ one night after a long day. When I reread itÂ in theÂ morning it is far more “ranty” than I normally write. I thought about editing and taming it a bit, but in the end, decided to keep it intact. This is how I felt about it when I discovered it and…

The Destiny Story

September 19, 2014September 19, 2014IseyBungie3 Replies

The benefit to not having a clear story inÂ a game is that we get to make up our own. My Destiny play through is actually very clear – Guardians are white cells (leukocytes), and the Fallen and Hive are various diseases. It all happens as aÂ visualization of a 5 year old, after hearing how white…

25 KM with Destiny

September 12, 2014September 12, 2014IseyActivision, Bungie7 Replies

I have spent three solid nights playing Destiny on my X-Box 360 and elliptical. I have totalled around 25 kilometers on the athletic device and level 10 on my Titan, 5 on my Hunter, and 2 on my Warlock. I do one hour stints on the elliptical but continue to play a couple hours afterwards…

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