Had sort of a weird weekend. What started out planned as a getting the Classic Shaman and the newly rolled Pally Healer leveled, turned into not even playing Warcraft at all.

What? No Warcraft? Nope. Because two other games grabbed all of my attention.

First was a Steam sale game..
Borderlands 2. As much as I liked the first Borderlands, I never got around to the second, so at $5.00 I couldn’t pass it up. Since this does fit in the “old game” theme of Timelapsed, I suppose a full length post should be in order in the future. But for now I’m going work on getting my FPS boots back on. And I’m gonna need those boots because of the second game of the weekend.

With the Destiny franchise going to a FTP (free to play) type of model and other revamps, I had to go back in and see the changes. I say ‘back in’ because I did join Destiny right when 2 was released, but like a million others, I dropped it pretty quickly because of the heavy handed pay to win objective.

From what I can gather from my limited look at specifics,  what you get in the FTP New Light Destiny is sorta like the ElderScrolls Online model,  ‘Nearly” all of Destiny and Destiny 2 base game and minor DLC content for free. Then the ability to buy the major expansions. And thus far I think there is only two major expansions,, Forsaken, and the Brand new ShadowKeep.

My first foray into Destiny was of course the PS4, but this time around I’m going PC. (if you are interested in trying it on PC, go ahead,, the requirements are pretty low)
I immediately noticed a few things. First,, after being only Warcraft for so long, this First Person angle in very disorienting, and WASD still sucks ass.

Then I remembered my Warcraft training and remapped all the keys. What a difference! It didn’t take long to get the feel of everything again.

The first couple days I would get very car sick playing it. Luckily there are options for the field of view that help quite a bit, and now am starting to get over that hump.

Very contrary to what I have been reading in other reviews, the opening tutorial and starter mission was really good at relaying how to get around in this world and really points you down the right path of the starting questlines. These starting questlines show you how to find and accept patrols, adventures and bounties.. Quests, as the MMO world say. I’m not sure where everyone is saying that new players don’t get any instruction… I had no problems at all. Just listen and read the dialogue.

The live world events or bosses and random quests popping up everywhere are another perk. Don’t ever seem to be out of things to do. But I don’t feel overwhelmed, mostly because of how everything scales to me. And that makes a big difference in both gameplay and overall enjoyment.

I have been out of the shooter genre for a loooong time, but this game has its hooks in me.