First off I dug more into The Crew (PS4) this week, at the same time breaking my promise to to get further into the story, and I'm glad I did. Its all very generic find the bad guys responsible for killing your brother stuff and involves a lot of street racing type people stereotypes so far. Rattling through them at some pace, no sooner had I gained someone's respect by tormenting a female driver round the streets of Saint Louis was I being hounded out of town by the same person. Its managed to keep everything really fresh, and the RPG/Loot mechanics to the game and your car help to make the experience more personal, even though I seem to be getting getting tyres all the time. My car is certainly becoming much easier to handle as I go through the upgrade tree, the only disappointment being that I seem to be stuck with the same car now, I looked into buying a Mini in Vegas but that involved a real world money transaction which I'm keen to avoid. I did spend some time making my car a garish shade of green with a black octopus stencilled on the side so that was something. Early on (at least in the first four hours) it gave me a chance to try some off-road racing in the desert and that was great, there are bits of the game I've really enjoyed, it's certainly a great thing to do while listening to a podcast or music. The one massive frustration is one that any online required games going to have, when the servers are unavailable its obviously unplayable. So when I was thinking what a fantastic game it was, driving into the centre of New York for the first time (after an extended road trip) then the game booted me out saying the servers were down for planned maintenance for the day (or a big chunk of it, it was a bit harder to tell as all the times I was given were for US time zones) all the good feeling I had toward what I was doing disintegrated. Such a shame, I will return to it, but that feeling of not being able to play something I've paid money for and am enjoying never sits well with me.
So I jumped into another game which has done the same thing before Destiny (PS4) the first time I've played it since the massive updates, which have replaced a voice actor while taking up a lot more space on my hard drive. To put into context of how far (or not) I'd travelled in the game, I was on Venus at level 12. Now I don't know if this can be attributed to the improvements in the update, or just where I am in the game but from this point on I've adored my time with it. What's helped so far is I'm paying more attention to it for starters, realising basics like aim for the highest number possible on the clothing you select no matter how stupid it looks and get rid of all the low ranked weapons in my inventory. I got through the missions in no time, using a combination of a hand cannon (which made me feel like a space Dirty Harry) a sniper rifle and a machine gun. The online world created feels at its best when I spotted some conflict at the other side of the map and took a few well aimed shots to help out some stranger. It now pushes you in the right direction of what your doing with quest logs, so the downtime between the missions feels more direct, although I did have to google the location of places like the Hall of Guardians (my fault for not paying attention at the start I'm sure). The stuff on Venus was over pretty quickly and it lead to Mars, where the enemy design went from generic sci-fi shooter to cool and unique (for me) the meaty Cabal where intimidating as soon as I saw them (even forced me to replace my trusty hand cannon with a more powerful plasma rifle) and they're conflict with the Vex was interesting and spectacular in places. It's really odd for me to say that, as up to this point I was very much playing the game like The Crew, enjoying the exceptional gun mechanics and rushing through it, I'm now more immersed in what's going on, listening to the fragments of story I'm given and looking forward to where the game goes next. I'm near the end of the game in its original form, and I'd say that it does feel a bit short, but knowing that the three expansions can be bought with the game for a decent price helps bulk up things to do. Like I say, I don't know if the improvements of the update have made this a different game, but in a year of some really good games this version of Destiny i've been playing stands right up there with them, and I've loved returning to it.
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