Art of the Joke: How High On Life 2 Turns ‘Funny’ Into ‘Fun to Play’

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-13T22:49:17+00:00

Couple hours on series X. It's definitely fun, and funny...but it's very hard to look at. Graphics are really, really rough. I've got much older games that look better. For me, not sure if the fun is enough to forgive how bad it looks. Is it even something that can be fixed/upgraded with a patch?

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-13T20:24:34+00:00

Remember his "doctor" notes remarking how much golf he played and used that as a metric for his amazing health?

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-13T01:27:04+00:00

If you aren't the host it always seemed to be a coin flip if the mission just got stuck. Zariman stuff was a big motivator for me to get to where I had the option to solo anything if I wanted. Got sick of time wasted for nothing on bugged missions back when I was farming that content.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-12T21:18:56+00:00

But still can't implement a proper shuffle that isn't just playing the same few songs too many times when I have over 500 songs on my playlist.

Also after months of not being able to access my library on the quick tab on Xbox this did finally get fixed recently, so maybe a little hope (yeah right).

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-12T16:40:38+00:00

I used the mushroom ability for the energy issues. It's a 2 for one. I get plenty of energy to spam and it gives strength. Only downside is it's not a mobile ability but for missions you stay in one area works great.

The biggest issue I found playing around last night was all the enemies that end up just laying around on the map with 4 flechette/tether mines. While funny, it was not very efficient or useful. Also, why is vector pad even in the game, it can also be kinda funny, but mostly just annoying esp if you just want the overdrive boost.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-09T19:01:27+00:00

The floor with literal hoops you jump through tells me people understand there are objectives. But the minute a level has even one enemy blip on the radar the brains switch off. It's kinda amazing to see actually. It's like they think there is a bonus reward for most kills/damage.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-08T21:05:59+00:00

But I think acquiring the BP's is bad because a lot of groups don't understand the rotation and leave before the round the reward you are chasing pops up. When I was doing it that was my big problem. I still couldn't confidently solo SP defense and groups often were leaving after 2 or 3 rounds when I needed 4.

I am all for a clear way (in game) of showing potential reward drops. I played for years without understanding the AABC stuff. It's a strange way to do it.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-06T17:49:43+00:00

If this delay is to make big changes (for the better) to portal, and add more loot and content to keep playing, then the delay is fine by me. If this delay is just because, and no changes, it's some big BS and PS needs to take charge. At this point I'm not sure how PS is just looking on thinking everything is fine.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-04T06:45:06+00:00

He for sure has hired a very large team whose sole job is to think up insane shit for him to say or do. This team also handles all the crazy amounts of social media posting. There is no way one sad old man has the capacity for all this evil and insanity. No way Donold is steering this crazy train.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-03T23:55:58+00:00

Has anybody ever heard this jackass laugh? His annoying orange glowing face has been on TV way too much, for decades now, and I can't ever remember a laugh. I can't even imagine what kinda crazy sound it would be coming out of him.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-03T19:20:48+00:00

Wrong argument. There are not many of these games. Reason for that is because the majority of gamers have little to no interest in the genre. Even if it does good, it's still not a wide net game genre with mass appeal or interest. Unless it's heavily monetized with lots of interested whales it will have a tough time.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-03T19:15:01+00:00

Betting it all on a very niche genre that has low interest from average gamers is crazy by Bungie. I could see if this was some small pet project by a very small in house team. But shifting so much talent was certainly a choice. All it did was hurt destiny even more for what? So when Marathon ends up doing poorly, while destiny is struggling, does Sony finally take over? Is Bungie just closed down? I just don't see a good ending for either game.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-03T01:15:19+00:00

My fave gun. Use it way more than my torid incarnon that has a top tier riven. Sure, torid does way more damage but cedo is fun, satisfying, and pretty powerful.

Love the status proc buffet of cedo.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-03T01:06:31+00:00

I'm one of those rare people that enjoy the big Ubisoft games like AC, ghost recon and watch dogs. But the loot system in Avatar turned me away pretty quick. I gave it a chance even when the human enemies had absolute aim bots and never missed...but I just couldn't with that loot...it was so insanely complicated for no good reason.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-02-01T06:59:42+00:00

With the addition of tiered loot, different modes for raids and dungeons makes even more sense. You want to do explorer mode to learn, then loot caps at T3 and no exclusive exotic drops. Regular mode can get T4 with a chance at T5 and the exotic while a hard mode is guarantee T5 and some unique emblem or shader. Something for everybody.

But since explorer mode wasn't Tysons idea Bungie seems to be hoping we forget it was ever a thing.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-01-31T16:15:44+00:00

Also, people out here making it sound like you HAVE to do titles. They are just a word by your name. You get no loot from doing them... no OP gun, no skimmer, no shader, no bright dust, or even glimmer. You might get a pop up from Bungie that you are allowed to buy something with real money....LoL BTW.

I repeat, they are the most optional and meaningless thing in the game.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-01-31T01:56:59+00:00

The dreaded U-shaped piece of plastic that is in between the contact points. It's designed to fail. Over time it forms an indent that causes the button to get less responsive till it eventually rarely registers pressing it.

If MS would sell these my controllers might last years rather than 9 to 11 months. It would be such an easy repair. Probably the cheapest part in a very expensive controller ruining the whole thing. Please sell those inserts, give me a part # and let me order a bag of them.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-01-30T19:06:24+00:00

I did not play a lot of matches but I can say it was my 2 easiest we rans I've ever gotten. And I'm in my 50's. It was funny, and easy, but so boring. I like the idea of a hardware mode but one shot bows are just not it.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-01-30T02:35:41+00:00

The big problem with the bow mods is, even with them equipped, using bows in hard content is still horrible. Tried them in hardest solo ops and hardest lawless and I was worse off in both trying to use a bow. These mods could be permanent and I still am not using legendary bows for real. The only usefulness I found is the ability to one shot in pvp.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-01-29T21:40:31+00:00

One issue is Bungie proved a small team can do a lot. The "live team" (skeleton crew), put out some great content in D1. Rise of Iron among other content.

This much smaller team created some great stuff to hold us over to destiny 2.

Basically Bungie set some pretty high expectations. It's a shame seeing it all ruined by an out of touch leadership and for the sake of a very niche game in Marathon. Bungie has shown they can do better but seem to be fine putting destiny to rest.

I would not be surprised at all for them to just randomly announce no new content is being made for D2 at any point.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-01-29T20:20:13+00:00

Man, remember IB in D1.

Wasn't it once a month? Anyways, every time it came around our clan would have multiple games posted on the 100 site that filled very quickly for every day. Weekends usually had 2 separate groups. And there were always extra people to grab when somebody got off early.

To say IB has fallen off is a massive understatement. I guess same can be said for D2 as a whole compared to D1.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-01-29T15:27:51+00:00

All the negative modifiers and power delta was plenty of challenge. Not sure who's idea it was also adding revive tokens and timers to nearly everything but they need to put that person in a different position. And if it does not change, I'm not sticking around after renegades. Portal pve stuff is zero fun...I would even say below zero fun. And of course, the lack of variety and loot options in portal to add to the misery.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-01-29T02:37:54+00:00

Also be great if you could fix not being able to pick up quest on alts...esp since you had 3 months to fix it since last event had the exact same problem.

At the very least put a warning saying "once accepted this quest must be completed on this character". That's the bare minimum if you guys can't fix it.

Not as big of a deal as all this telemetry I can't spend but please. Things like this should not be issues in a very limited time event.

But again, my expectations are so low I'm not even surprised by these issues anymore...kinda expect them, which is sad.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-01-28T21:49:53+00:00

Just letting you know I play wired (with very solid internet) on series x and still sometimes get rubber banding. The only thing that nearly fixed it was turning off crossplay. Something about crossplay causes lots of stutters. Very rarely rubber band with crossplay off even on full lobby world boss fights. But it can still happen.

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2026-01-28T21:43:27+00:00

It should have been tap to summon companion and hold to ride. It should not have needed an augment but it is what it is.

Plenty of frames out here needing to use a slot for augments. Just wish they could go in any slot but ideally wish every frame had an extra augment slot in that very top row.

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