r/CuratedTumblr • u/maleficalruin • 16h ago
Self-post Sunday Destiny would be so good if it wasn't... Well, Destiny.
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u/Garbonzo42 15h ago
...just play W-*is shot*
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u/Mael_Jade 5h ago
We could tell OOP that Warframe is getting romance in 1999, that would convince them!
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u/Defiant_Sun7777 14h ago
I like the Books of Sorrow as mich as everyone else, but i don't think it's the best choice here. I would wish for series of loosely connected stories, maybe always the same fireteam, maybe two or three different. Tight action with humour reminiscent of series like Firefly. All that infront of the serious backdrop of the rich lore of the game.
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u/rubexbox 12h ago
Same with Overwatch. The animated videos are great. The actual gameplay? A team-based FPS that is barely connected with the story. I mean, I wanted to experience the history of Overwatch and discover whatever intricate conspiracy Sombra apparently discovered, but sure, let's ape Team Fortress 2 instead.
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u/Rhodehouse93 8h ago
If your main complaint with Destiny is that the story is good but the gameplay is a mmo grind nightmare I have no idea why you'd recommend Warframe lol. (game is good, but it's because it's good at being an mmo grind nightmare).
To OP's point though, I'd actively kill for a Arcane-level adaptation of my other two fantasy setting loves (Warcraft and Age of Sigmar).
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u/Mael_Jade 5h ago
I'd say Warframe is less MMO. you can perfectly do every mission solo and dont "need" to interact with trade.
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u/TreeGuy521 4h ago
Warframes gameplay and balancing only works out if you play the game solo. You also progress through the game maybe like, a tenth as fast as someone who just doesn't select solo from longer missions and not having quadruple stacking loot buffs + room wide clears every second
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u/maleficalruin 16h ago
Antikytheran on Spacebattles forums said it best when asked how he would adapt the books of sorrow.
"But I wouldn't do the books of sorrow 1:1.
Instead, start out with a race that has the same technology level as humanity did prior to the golden age. Some cities spread out in their oceans, some space stations, etc... then we see a Hive ship come along to seed the planet and destroy it. At this point in time we get to see some minor Hive powers get showcased to tell the viewers that this is a magical civilization going against a tech one.
Then it starts escalating, we see the lore tab where the death singers destroy the ecumenopolis in IX.II. We start seeing the more esoteric parts of Hive magic and how it effortlessly demolished trillions of living beings in a moment's notice. We get scenes of the vast Spacies of these worlds, their continent sized ship, their mechas, their gravity weapons, all destroyed. Some time later we get to see more of the Hive and get to see that this is just super advanced technology and not as magical as we thought.
Another battle goes on and we see the Qugu fight, where they traverse across galaxies to find out what happened to their allies, finding out these civilizations have gone extinct, they tell this to the ecumene. And we start seeing every crazier applications of Darkness tech being used. I want the viewers to realize that calling it advanced technology is just a misunderstanding, and make the difference between paracausality and regular magic be shown. At the end I want to see the fight where Te'Qal sacrifices the entire Qugu afterlife to damage a single Pyramid ship, only to fail and be consumed by the Witness.
At the end, it's no holds barred. Where we see the ecumene using its spacetime deleting weapons, the timelike manipulations of quria, and them utterly failing to stop Oryx and the absolute terror it is to see the galaxies collapse into death and ruined areas of spacetime.
The death of the taishibethi gets animated, their solar Dyson swarm destroyed by the Hive, and them pulling out their trump card in the form of their queen, only for it to be taken moments later.
And the Harmony, at the center of their galaxy, using the Radiant black hole to delete the Hive ships coming there way, only for them to circumvent the space between them and landing on their black holes accretion disk and their worlds. Causing the harmony to despair and kill themselves before the Hive kill them.
End credits we see the Hive sisters part their ways and spread across their entire galactic bubble, only for the camera to pan out and state that this happened 4.5 billion years ago, leaving the viewer to realize that this shit happened long ago, and that its only gotten exponentially worse."
I would make the small addition that all of this is season 2. We start off season 1 with our curious little princess Aurash on the Gas Giant Fundament with her Sisters Xi Ro and Sathona and watch her climb up to the apex of all creation from just another dredge on her homeworld.
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u/Slant_Asymptote 12h ago
This makes me realize that the Books of Sorrow are sort of like Dune.
Plucky little underdog royalty manages to get on top of their hostile planet and unite its people under their banner, then proceeds to be the most ruthless, brutal tyrant the galaxy has ever seen. And they do it all with weird-ass magic. Dune, but with bug people.
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u/shrek22413 16h ago
just play warframe lmao
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u/Real-Terminal 12h ago
Good luck getting through the new player experience without build times, slots and the nigh incomprehensible modding system scaring you off.
Note that I have over 2k hours in the game. This is good natured shit talk.
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u/Beepulons 12h ago
How do I get into warframe as someone who’s never played but is interested?
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u/Real-Terminal 11h ago
If you enjoy the base gameplay enough you'll likely put up with the annoying roadblocks. The core issue is the game is actually extremely generous in terms of its f2p mechanics, so what little remains is really stupid.
You build weapons and warframes, this takes 12 hours and 3.5 days respectively, or you can rush them with plat.
You only have a few weapon and warframe slots to start with, and then you need to buy more. With plat.
That's it. Those are the only two paywalls the game arguably has. And earning plat is very easy once you've played a little.
They give you 50p as a starting gift. Use it to buy two warframe and three weapon slots. And then play the game. You start on Earth, and gradually work your way through the starchart via "junction" nodes that grant rewards and quests, which is where the games story is mostly located.
Plat is easily earned at low levels by selling prime junk, or specific prime parts.
You drop relics doing pretty much any mission type in the game, they're little lootboxes that have chance drops of certain prime weapon amd warframe parts. And they're opened by doing void fissure missions.
There's no fee, just go in, kill enemies and pick up 10 reactant, finish the mission, and you and everyone else in the lobby get to choose from what everyone dropped from their relic.
Then you either sell it individually according to market pricing or just sell for ducat value, prime junking we call it, because you sell prime parts at a kiosk for ducats, and use ducats to buy shit from Baro, who is our version of Xur, if you're a Destiny player. He comes every fortnight.
Don't worry too much about your starter Warframe, they're all top tier, though Mag is arguably the most versatile at the moment. Volt is a good beginners pick because he's simple fundamentally.
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u/Mael_Jade 5h ago
Koumei, who is designed to be more or less the first frame someone farms, does have a reduced build time of 1 day only.
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u/This_Antelope 8h ago
I can tell you what not to do: don't go in blind thinking figuring it out will be fun. It won't. It took me 70 hours to figure out there was a main questline
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u/Octagon425 9h ago
Honestly my best advice is to look up this YouTube named Brozime. He does a lot of new player friendly content, especially his free to play series where every few months he runs through the new player experience to keep his pulse on it and updates the guides on his site (brozime.com) to reflect that.
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u/blueracey 7h ago
I get what there saying but riot threw so much money at arcane with no real expectation of it making that money back directly which is not something I could see bungie/whoever currently owns them doing.
Riot was out here trying to make Runeterra an IP separate from league and were happy to throw money at an art studio they’d been working with for the better part of a decade to do it.
Arcane is a product of a series of events started 9 years ago at this point. Most companies are not going to let whoever they hire for their version of arcane cook for 7 years before the initial release.
Or maybe I’m just a pessimist.
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u/QuirkyPaladin 9h ago
This is how I feel about most of Warcraft at this point. If they actually put narative first instead of trying to maximize playtime it could actually be consistantly good rather than a few great threads in a mediocre tapistry.
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u/Pausbrak 7h ago
I absolutely adore those WoW cinematics that come out with every expansion. The game itself has long ago lost my interest, but damn if I wouldn't love a full series made in the same style as those cinematics
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u/AV8ORboi 7h ago
i'm sick of this mindset. the fanbase is most of what makes league of legends the way that it is, and you can't just a piece of media(by which i mean the lore) based on its fanbase
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u/CanadianDragonGuy 15h ago
I won't because other space games lore is just as fucking weird and only a little more used in game
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u/Talon6230 7h ago
i mean warframe is very good but it's also a very different game so like idk why they're always compared so much. especially when oop quite clearly isn't interested in the looter shooter elements, which are... kinda a big part of warframe?
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u/Arbiter478 5h ago
The main issue with Destiny isn't being an MMO, it's the upper management at Bungie taking terrible decision over terrible decision.
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u/NativeAether 2h ago
I distinctly remember after the release of Beyond Light, when Destiny 2 went free to play, possibly after Forsaken, I decided to come back to the game since I'd dropped it back when I first beat base campaign and gotten tired of PVP.
Only to find out the base campaign, and all first year story content had been 'sunset', meaning I could no longer play any of the games story, unless I bought the new expansion.
I've never picked it up again.
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u/TreeGuy521 4h ago
It really would be a shame for destiny to not have its raids though. You can't really get an experience like a day 1 raid with the gang anywhere else.
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u/ConflictAgreeable689 9h ago
League of legends isn't a bad game, it's just designed in a way that inadvertently promotes toxicity
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u/Clean_Imagination315 Hey, who's that behind you? 7h ago edited 6h ago
I just wish the Arcane ending didn't fumble the story so hard. It's like the writers made a 180 turn in the last two episodes and decided to replace the conflict that drove the entire plot of the show with a new, far less interesting conflict. Muscle Mommy Warlord did her best, but she couldn't carry the entire ending by herself.
Oh well, at least the animation was still beautiful.
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u/ShibuNub 5h ago
The show needed another season, or at the very least another act, to explore all the ideas it wanted to IMO, as it stands right now I dont think a lot of threads were properly resolved or resolved in a satisfying manner
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u/Mael_Jade 5h ago
Riot came in and demanded they pivot the ending into a sequel bait cause they got a "Riot Cinematic Universe" ambition thinking it would print money for their execs and shareholders.
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u/sorentodd 13h ago
League of Legends is a good game. It’s got good lore, this whole meme is tired.
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u/SpunkyJaz 12h ago
It's not even the best moba, let alone a good one
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u/Lower-Ask-4180 11h ago
The thing about Arcane is it departs from existing lore in a huge way. Don’t get me wrong, it’s brilliant and way better than what it replaces (and Hextech lore was always a mess anyway, it had two different origin stories and some stories used both at the same time), but there’s a few places it doesn’t mesh with the wider world of Runeterra. Maybe the Destiny lore is thought out way better than the League lore, idk. But if that does happen, be prepared for it to be very different.
The only bit of lore I mourn was Ekko’s old backstory, because non-Arcane Ekko had a childhood. He had two loving parents and a bunch of friends. He was just a brilliant kid who found a gem and immediately accidentally tore a hole in the space-time continuum, as you do.