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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
Spent a bit of time on Destiny 2 to experience the final update and so far I'm not disliking what they've added, but as someone that hasn't played since Final Shape, I will say this - the UI is somehow even more convoluted than it was before and I've already had years to get used to it, so I can't imagine how incredibly lost a new player would be trying to find a specific menu or activity. Some positive things though:
All activities are pretty rewarding now and the ability to customize them with modifiers to either make things easier or harder with an impact to the score multiplier is nice.
The hugely increased vault space and ability to access vault from the inventory menu is nice. Still not as good as DIM, but a big improvement especially for console players.
Sparrow Racing League's alright. It's brutally simple and lacks a lot of the things that most kart-racers would consider core features but as a barebones racing game mode it works.
Being able to swap between different seasonal artifacts is huge for buildcrafting since some of those artifact mods are super strong.
Weapon tiers as a replacement for crafted weapons with enhanced perks isn't bad. Armor tiers are confusing to learn though, including the tuning slot you only unlock at tier 5. Armor archetypes are alright, being able to target certain ones through a ghost mod is neat.
Armor set bonuses are an improvement from seasonal armor effects and actually give you an excuse to use non-pinnacle armor pieces.
Overall, definitely more positives than negatives, though still not enough to keep me around for a long time. I picked up the two latest expansions on the deep discount they're offering and I'll play through those, the new dungeons, and the new raids at least once.