Destiny - Review Thread
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That is what finally hit me last night. I was having a great time with the game, but the redundant mission structure, waves upon waves of enemies and bullet sponge bosses at the same time in strike missions just started to grate on me and it felt more like an unimaginative clusterfuck with horrible game design.
TheCanisDirus
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Too many people forget that on a 1-10 scale 6 isn't "bad". I personally think Destiny deserves a 6. I enjoy it for what it is and it will keep my attention for a little while but it's not anywhere near a 8-10 game.
I love hearing Staten talk. Thanks!
Poodlestrike
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I actually think it worked pretty well in context. They really were pressed for time
He's probably on the mega block list by now.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
These reviews continue to blow my mind. Destiny was better than I expected, and my expectations were reasonably high.
I want a review that is critical of a game, any review that isn't critical is just PR fluff. Reviewing a game is nothing like going on a date.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Not really too surprised by the average review scores.
I'd have to play the game for myself but I watched a decent amount of YouTube videos of the beta and the game looked a little boring. Something about the world seemed so empty. Perhaps that is because it was beta but it's like there was "life" missing in the game and by that, I don't mean other players. I don't know, is this an issue people are having with the final game?
I'd have to play the game for myself but I watched a decent amount of YouTube videos of the beta and the game looked a little boring. Something about the world seemed so empty. Perhaps that is because it was beta but it's like there was "life" missing in the game and by that, I don't mean other players. I don't know, is this an issue people are having with the final game?
nhlducks35
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I'd hate to see your low expectations
TPFInferno
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6/10 isn't bad, but people are fixated on the fact that this game had a lot of hype built around it. In that case, a 6 is basically viewed as a 3 or 4.
Honestly, I think Destiny is a 7/10 game right now. A lot of Destiny is built upon future updates and promises. Frankly, I think that now Bungie has finally released the framework/foundation for Destiny, they will be able to support it and make it into the game that everyone is waiting to see.
If Bungie were to incorporate everything they wanted into this game at release, they would need an additional 3-5 years of development, in my opinion.
Poetic.Injustice
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150 pages..Is this a record for a review thread? :lol
Which part did you like best? Was it the part where you shot all those guys? Or was it the part where you shot all those guys while your Ghost hacked a thing?
PerezDeCorcho
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Absolutely. Not to mention, you tend to revisit these same areas extremely frequently.
Man, Staten must be very disappointed with how the game turned out (story wise). Destiny is pretty much the complete opposite of what he's talking about. Just baffling.
At least relative to how many reviews there's been for sure.
TPFInferno
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Not surprising since this is the largest new IP launch of the year.
Well, he left the team almost a year prior to release, so I don't know if he feels any connection to the result. Maybe he even feels slightly at fault for it.
This line did not sound any better in context.
You did make a thread praising Dead Space 3.
RE6 is a great game for some, I personally loved it, agree with the reviews written for it though.
Stone Ocean
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And we're still missing a few "important" reviews
Good on you for enjoying it. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous. I played both the alpha and beta and found the game terribly boring and repetitive. As a result I cancelled my preorder. However, being a big Bungie fan, I had hoped the real gameplay hook was hidden away somewhere only to blow away the masses at launch. Obviously that didn't happen and the reviews speak for themselves. I'm glad you got something positive out of it though.
SocksForWoks
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Sounds like it's an ambitious game that still needs more time to be fully realized.
blankempathy
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Hmmm you can argue watch dogs falls into that category. I think this one had more expectations and in turn is now more controversial because of the people working on this game and the new type of experience expected because in the end watch dogs is just another open world game where destiny was supposed to be something different for console players..
Lolllll
bigwinnerx
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I know! Multiple journalists were just recently killed in the Middle East! I hope you can get over their sacrifice for your ability to pump out multiple lines of being glad for him being glad about his happiness about games!
I guess it's worth spelling out that the concerns about amount of content are different from concerns about quality/variety of content (content =/= art), at the very least for me. If it was just a question of limited content that we knew would grow with time, it wouldn't be a concern for me.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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It was pretty fucking bad. The Simpsons had a joke like this in an early season, and Destiny's here playing that line for real.
Oh, man.
This is the first true 2 out of 5 star mega-release I've played in a long time. I assume it's like Watch Dogs was for a lot of people. There's a brilliant game under all of the repetitiveness and non-story, but Bungie wasn't interested in finding it.
TPFInferno
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Watch_Dogs does fall into that category, but everyone's hype for the game had diminished quite a bit as the launch came about. Particularly the downgrade in graphics, the pc requirements, the resolutions for the consoles, etc.
Destiny was being heralded as the next step for first person shooters. With Bungie's expertise and renown, the hype did not diminish come launch.
PerezDeCorcho
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I lol'd.
Oh, man.
The worst thing about that line is that the person saying it then proceeds to go on a lengthy monologue about ... meh I forgot.
i REALLY wish you could turn off the voice acting
He is cringeworthy almost all the time imo
"Careful, its power is dark" is my favorite bad dialogue from the game.
The graphics in Watch Dogs was a straight up lie, and they really should suffer the same fate as Alien CM.
SenjutsuSage
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He did appear to add the qualifier as you say, but considering the state the game released in, they're level of support for people who already bought the game pre paid DLC probably needs to be pretty substantial.
I see Destiny in a better light when I see it as something that's meant to evolve and grow substantially with time, but a good chunk of that early growth and evolution probably shouldn't be paid for. But that's just my opinion.
What? For a fantasy game Dragon Age 1 has great writing. Some of the voice acting is weak, really weak, but the writing is good for a fantasy videogame.
now that is just wrong, scores should be reversed
"We hope. . ." doesn't sound particularly ambiguous to me. You can certainly argue that he used the line knowing full well that it wasn't going to be in the game anytime soon, but given the world building and commitment to future content, I'm landing on the optimist side of things.
The Last of Us was 206.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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I don't really see how those scores merit this strong of a reaction, though.
I know which video you're talking about. They could have just left it at talking a big game and underdelivering. But then throwing the grenade was the salt in the wound.
Don't they say that "one day they hope to send you to it" in the video.
Maybe in the future??
SneakyStephan
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A good game is a good game. Being critical has nothing to do with your enjoyment of a game.
I went into binary domain expecting nothing, the first impressions in the first level were terrible (b tier gears clone first level).
Then as I got a little further in it turned out the AI was very good, the hit reactions are the best in any third person shooter , the encounters were super well designed, it had cool bosses and a really compelling story that is far far better than what you'd expect from a shooter.
Despite having poor mouse controls (which were a burden throughout the entire game) it was overall the best third person shooter I've played alongside vanquish and max payne 1-2.
The mouse controls still fucking sucked a bag of dicks though and shouldn't have made it past QA
I didn't have to pretend they were fine and stick my fingers in my ears to appreciate the things that game did better than other third person shooters before it.
The game is what it is.
If hiphop gamer stops enjoying his precious games if he looks at them critically then maybe it's because they're not that good afterall and he's in it for the hype instead of the gameplay.
He is just whinging that people can't criticise games because then they're apparently not real gamers. Having standards makes you not a real gamer.
Or saying "So all of this ('Older Russia' he jokingly calls it) is playable space, that we hope to one day get to send you to. It is all real geometry, you could go there, we could go there right now, but we have a schedule to keep"" and "All that stuff, if you ran out there, it's all playable terrain" might just be being intentionally misleading, when you don't go on to specify that you are talking about DLC possibilities.
Facundo_Lopez
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I know which video you're talking about. They could have just left it at talking a big game and underdelivering. But then throwing the grenade was the salt in the wound.
wait, where is that?
Indeed, that's how I remember that part of the demo.
When that demo occurred the launch of the game was the future.
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