It's been exactly 2 months since Destiny launched - what are your thoughts on it?

It's the first really great FPS game I've played since Half Life 2, the best multiplayer FPS since the 90s, and the best game of any kind I've played since Dark Souls (well, it might be a tie with Nintendoland). I don't have any real complaints about it at all (I suppose I would prefer it if they had just dropped the 5 minutes of lame cutscenes or let you skip them). My guess is that every change they make to satisfy the complainers will make the game worse. Anything that makes the game more like Diablo or WoW or Halo or CoD or Monster Hunter or Borderlands would certainly be making it worse. But I suppose if they had included a bit more influence from Marathon or Myth I would be even happier.
 
Multiplayer is still super fun and I still enjoy bouncing up and back between the Crucible and the Tower.

Still could not care less about the single player. I've had it since launch and still haven't gone and finished the moon.

Maybe it helps that I haven't played for a month due to games finally coming out, but the multiplayer was fun before and still is now. Doubt I'll buy the expansions but whatever. I'm in for Destiny 2
 
Got my money's worth out of it, something to pass the time while I waited for more games. Got halfway through the raid with friends, probably won't ever finish it unless they add matchmaking, not worth the effort. The game is too much of a grind, not interested in the DLC at all, maybe for over $5 per pack but by that time it'll be ghost town anyways.
 
Stopped playing after about 3 days. Probably my biggest disappointment of all time gaming wise. The tripe they served up in the "campaign" was enough to sour me everything else permanently. The only reason I didn't return it was because it was bundled with my console.
 
Played like crazy for several weeks..completed 2 of my 3 raids for the week..then just couldn't be bothered doing it a 3rd time..then reset came around..couldn't be bothered logging in..that was 2 weeks ago..after reading that the new raid in the first DLC won't be unlocked for a week or 2, and my PS+ running out this month..I'm thinking of trading it in tomorrow.

Inquisition, Far Cry 4, GTA V (Skipped last gen) and WoW getting AUS servers..I don't see myself playing Destiny at all for a few months.
 
Pretty meh. Wish I didn't but the edition that came with the season pass. Not only am I getting screwed out of content for a year as an Xbox owner, but the content even as a whole doesn't seem to be worth the price. I'm still playing the game, but that will probably change once MCC comes out on Tuesday. I'll jump back in when the expansions come out, but it probably won't be for long. The game ok, but nothing special. Unimpressive is probably the best way to describe it.

Destiny 2 really has to impress me if they want my money next time around.
 
Warlock Lvl 27 and hoping to get many shards some day and be able to reach 28. I should've used past tense as I haven't played for at least two weeks. Now I'll be busy with Horizon 2, Sunset Overdrive and The MCC. ( yeah! )

This game needs more love and variety.
 
The main problem I have is the complete lack of variation in enemy spawns. They're the exact same in every location every time. When I turn my back for 5 seconds and the drop ship shows up, why can't it give me a different arrangement of dudes? Why can't they go in different locations instead of the same exact spot each time?

There's actually quite a lot of square footage in the game but most of it is unused or under used because of this.
 
1-20 sucks. 20-30 is pretty fun. I enjoyed the loot grind. Now that I'm decked out though I have absolutely no reason to play the game ever again though until the expansion.
 
Crucible is really the only thing keeping me in it and it needs some more things....Like stuff other then TDM or TDM/Dom mix..

Like....a Capture the Flag...or King of the Hill. Some of those game modes Bungie created a long time around on that one game series they made before this
 
Don't really like the RNG or anything about the game, but the core gameplay keeps sucking me back in. I have a friend who has a level 30 character and has played much less than me, I'm at around 200 hours now. I still have not gotten any exotics from drops, only Xur.
 
Really enjoyed it, but ended up trading. Doing the same raid over and over again gets a bit tiresome. If only it had more endgame.
 
Unlike a lot of people, I wasn't super hyped nor did I think it was going to be some grand world with nearly limitless possibility.

I would say, overall, I'm a little disappointed with it. It doesn't seem Bungie-caliber.
 
I made a list. Some of these things may have been conversed to death before. Sorry for the wall o' bullets.


  • Don't like the ghost. His personality isn't unique nor is it particularly interesting. Don't like the one-liner player characters. Why can't they converse more? If "because they're meant to be the player" than why talk at all?
  • Speaking of players, I don't like that the only difference between race is voice (and only one voice each gender), appearance (which you can't see except when you're at the tower anyway), and gestures. Wish each race had a different story, perks, fighting style, etc.
  • Don't like having to sit through the cutscenes again and again. It's my third time playing can't I skip the reef stuff? ...That said the queen is probably the best character in the game.
  • Don't get the point of armor being separated by factions. No... I don't get factions. There are no exclusive quests or stories or anything. They're pointless.
  • Don't like not being rewarded for doing things. Playing a story mission with the heroic modifier should get me *something*. As of now it has to be part of a bounty to result in any sort of reward.
  • Bounties in rotation have been the same small selection of bounties since game's release. Meh.
  • Don't like the psion flayers strike mission. Does anybody like the flayers mission? I don't think anyone really likes the flayers mission.
  • Flayers mission is long, but you're not rewarded differently from any other strike. So there's no point in doing it other than "well I don't want to leave these poor bumbleheads to fend for themselves so I'll just stick through it."
  • Don't like the end-bosses in the Strikes. They're bulletsponges. Phorgoth is a good example of this: After clearing out the third wave of lessers you're left to just shoot at a pacing oversized brain-dead ogre for five minutes until the mission ends. Even if they did something other than pace 'n shoot, like chase the player or something. Do something badass like jump the walls. And change it up halfway through the fight. SOMETHING!
  • Don't like the vault of glass being so impossibllleeee > n<
  • Don't like farming materials. Going around the moon looking for hilium filaments is boring... In fact-
  • The moon is boring. Put some beacons and filaments underground so I can just hang out down there.
  • Beacons... I don't like being sent back and forth across the world. I came from the other side of the map to get a mission I'm not going back. I've been avoiding scout and analyze missions because of this.
  • Don't like loot/prizes not being guaranteed in some cases. Public event... Shouldn't that be something that always rewards players who participate?
  • I like the shooting. It's fun, controls are pretty tight. Shooting smaller enemies is fun.
  • I like the sounds machine enemies make. They're cute.
  • I like the music, but it's too quiet and I don't see a way to increase it.

For crucible... I'm not that good at it, so I won't comment.
 
The Lamonster said:
Needs free content ASAP. Bungie is looking quite arrogant until that happens.
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I wonder when a publisher/Dev will move to a business model that allows individuals that purchase titles digitally to get free dlc. All of the season passes and dlc is meant to recoup money "lost" on used game sales. There are no losses when the game is bought digitally. They should reward digital buyers and save a little face by not appearing greedy.
 
I really enjoy it. I only play it a couple of hours every week because that's what time I have. I'd like to play more. Reached level 21 this weekend. The multiplayer is exactly what I want from a game like this.
 
antitrop said:
I traded it in while Gamestop was still offering $40 back.

I don't necessarily regret the 20 hours spent with it, but it's easily one of the most derivative and least memorable games I've ever played. Everything about it just washed over me and left me feeling remarkably empty inside.
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Pretty much explains me exactly. I went over to a friend's house after it came out and we powered through the story. I traded it in the following week and put the credit toward Forza Horizon 2.
 
Gunplay is great (except for aim assist in pvp). Everything else sucks, or is lacking. Poor story, lack of story, lack of missions, lack of mission variety, poor mission design, poor pvp balance, poor pvp mechanics/netcode.

Poor everything. Lack of everything. Well, music is good enough.

Everyone being pretty much identical endgame save for 1 piece of armour (exotic of choice) is boring.

Game needs so much more content, Bungie promising fixes and just extending grinds in patches instead is bullshit behaviour. Seriously they patch Atheon Cheese but still cannot remove a 0 from Strike bosses health like they said?

...and the £35 season pass just takes the piss.
 
I don't like first person shooters, specially the modern ones.

I've played destiny over 150 hours and have a lvl 29 that could get to 30 if I go farming on mars and two lvls 28. Beat the hard mode raid. I could get the platinum if that "inmortal run of the raid" didn't exist, but I think I'll find a way in the future.

The game is not perfect, but I've had a lot of fun and I feel satisfied.

No game is perfect, period.
 
Fdkn said:
I don't like first person shooters, specially the modern ones.

I've played destiny over 150 hours and have a lvl 29 that could get to 30 if I go farming on mars and two lvls 28. Beat the hard mode raid. I could get the platinum if that "inmortal run of the raid" didn't exist, but I think I'll find a way in the future.

The game is not perfect, but I've had a lot of fun and I feel satisfied.

No game is perfect, period.
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Your "no game is perfect" remark is weird. The problem people have with Destiny isn't that it isn't perfect. It's that it is severely flawed in baffling ways.
 
Fdkn said:
I don't like first person shooters, specially the modern ones.

I've played destiny over 150 hours and have a lvl 29 that could get to 30 if I go farming on mars and two lvls 28. Beat the hard mode raid. I could get the platinum if that "inmortal run of the raid" didn't exist, but I think I'll find a way in the future.

The game is not perfect, but I've had a lot of fun and I feel satisfied.

No game is perfect, period.
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Destiny isn't perfect, it's not even close.
 
Played it everyday until DriveClub dropped, and have sporadically back for the odd mission - having not played everyday, I'm finding it frustrating to organise groups for nightfall strikes or the raid - just enable matchmaking on these Bungie!
 
I was hyped played it still enjoyed it even with its short comings out of further enthusiasm, for about a month went really hard on pvp and pve. Finally saw a half hour youtube vid that really explained a lot of whats wrong and what went down with destiny and now my puzzle is complete. I don't like it anymore a game with great potential down the drain with no future. I don't think it will get better as activision are in control.. Not selling it though because I have alot done and I bought my ps4 with it so I gots some feelings for it..
 
I played a lot of it, though I didn't reach 30 quite yet. Really just waiting for the first expansion to play a bit more at this point I guess.
 
What do I think of Destiny? There's an aggressive lack of content in this game. I have no desire to play its multiplayer beyond what little I have tried and the post-game is an absolute joke with its stingy, miserly and unsatisfying reward curve. The whole experience is artificially dragged out by time gates that feel like they're from some free-to-play game.

The only reason I haven't sold Destiny--which I would have done the moment I beat that laughable campaign the first time and started playing their joke of a postgame--is because I was stupid and bought the season pass at launch along with my copy of Destiny and a year of PS+. So instead I've been playing "the real game", doing Strike Playlists, Dailies, Weeklies, trying to level up my character to do the raid and nightfall strikes, the last of the substantive content I have yet to experience. Or at least I was doing all of that until I got so bored of grinding the same strikes ad-nauseum for vanguard marks and crafting mats and simply stopped out of boredom.

The two expansions will pretty much decide if I ever buy another game from Bungie again. Odds aren't looking like they're in their favour.
 
I love it.

I've played it nearly every day since launch, and have a group of real life and online friends who are just as dedicated. I'm pushing 125 hours with no end in sight. Finally bet the Raid last week and I'm closing in on 30 on my main while starting to get my two alts leveled up.

A book could be written about everything wrong with the game (and my friends and I bitch about it constantly), but the core game is so fantastic and addictive that it keeps us coming back for more every day.

I'm not a huge Crucible fan but it's fun enough. 95% of my time has been spent in PvE.
 
I enjoyed it and still do, but it isn't the game I though I'd be playing. At this point I'll be looking to see what the do for a sequel, but will most likely skip any DLC.

I'll keep it in the game rotation and try to get nightfall, raid and some crucible matches here and there, but I'm already thinking ahead to which other games are going to be taking my time.
 
Two Words said:
Your "no game is perfect" remark is weird. The problem people have with Destiny isn't that it isn't perfect. It's that it is severely flawed in baffling ways.
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The point is that I don't agree with that statement or the ruder ones like "its garbage" that are costantly thrown in threads like this one.

I could call "garbage" or "severely flawed" games that a lot of people like because I don't and I would get called out for it.

Yes, I know a lot of people didn't like it. A lot of people suffered from overexpectations. A lot of people liked it and some of them love it. Thats fine. The game has to do some things right for that to happen. It also does some things wrong.

Garbage is the word you use for that sonic video that leaked a few hours ago.
 
carlsojo said:
1-20 sucks. 20-30 is pretty fun. I enjoyed the loot grind. Now that I'm decked out though I have absolutely no reason to play the game ever again though until the expansion.
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I don't see how anyone could find lvl 20-30 fun, it's a tedious grind to level up. By then you've already experienced the entire game and have to slog through the same shit over and over again. And also have to use specific armor pieces with Light and that results in most guardians looking the same as everyone else which kind of ruins the whole loot system/customization aspect IMO.

I find the post-game stuff very flawed.
 
Closing in on 300 hours here. What really keeps me going back almost everyday is the guys from my clan. I know I can fire up any activity, at any time, and there'll be friends around to play with me and we'll have a good time. Half that time will be spent talking about the glaring flaws in this game.
Had I played Destiny alone I would have given up weeks ago.

But even with friends, I can't wait for GTA V to come out so I can focus on something else. The lack of content in Destiny is ridiculous. I was had hopes right after the game came out, as Bungie was keeping a planning of each upcoming weekly activity. But they've given up on that and since the Iron Banner there's been nothing new to do. Not to mention the Queen's Wrath activity which was a giant fiasco.

I had hopes for the DLC too, but their "expansion pack" is pretty much a ripoff, which I was stupid enough to buy with the game on day one. Still, that'll be a good reason for me to give it another go in December.
 
D-Pad said:
I made a list. Some of these things may have been conversed to death before. Sorry for the wall o' bullets.


  • Don't like the ghost. His personality isn't unique nor is it particularly interesting. Don't like the one-liner player characters. Why can't they converse more? If "because they're meant to be the player" than why talk at all?
  • Speaking of players, I don't like that the only difference between race is voice (and only one voice each gender), appearance (which you can't see except when you're at the tower anyway), and gestures. Wish each race had a different story, perks, fighting style, etc.
  • Don't like having to sit through the cutscenes again and again. It's my third time playing can't I skip the reef stuff? ...That said the queen is probably the best character in the game.
  • Don't get the point of armor being separated by factions. No... I don't get factions. There are no exclusive quests or stories or anything. They're pointless.
  • Don't like not being rewarded for doing things. Playing a story mission with the heroic modifier should get me *something*. As of now it has to be part of a bounty to result in any sort of reward.
  • Bounties in rotation have been the same small selection of bounties since game's release. Meh.
  • Don't like the end-bosses in the Strikes. They're bulletsponges. Phorgoth is a good example of this: After clearing out the third wave of lessers you're left to just shoot at a pacing oversized brain-dead ogre for five minutes until the mission ends. Even if they did something other than pace 'n shoot, like chase the player or something. Do something badass like jump the walls. And change it up halfway through the fight. SOMETHING! * agree boss tactics basically don't change, very missed opertunity
  • Don't like farming materials. Going around the moon looking for hilium filaments is boring... In fact-
  • Don't like loot/prizes not being guaranteed in some cases. Public event... Shouldn't that be something that always rewards players who participate?
  • I like the shooting. It's fun, controls are pretty tight. Shooting smaller enemies is fun.
  • I like the sounds machine enemies make. They're cute.
  • I like the music, but it's too quiet and I don't see a way to increase it.
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Nice post man, I agree with a lot of those bullets, so if I may, I quoted the ones that match my thoughts. But I enjoyed the Dust palace strike enough, I like the climb. Also the moon is my favorite, then venus.. ;p I have enjoyed a lot of the pve missions.


I'd say the game is solid 7 or 8, many aspects are objectively disappointing. Quite a few things are subjectively awesome or satisfying to me too. Mechanics are really fun, I love the guns really, i love the hunter +gunslinger class, but the games economy is pretty shit, because yeah why can't I just buy shit and have lots of choices. Vendor stocks are lame as hell. Certainly not enough armor.

I wish enemies roamed the world with some objectives, marching from the maps entrances for example. Dropships are cool but not spawn caves. I don't mind replying missions much, but if be cool if their design made replaying make sense, and if smaller objectives switched up. I thought bungie could create missions from their servers that govern enemies and objectives, but no.

Plot or the 11th hour rewriting leaves the game really missing something. Also humor basically doesn't exist in game, ghost quips are too lame to count.

Also, WhyTF does the outfitter never have new shaders?
 
Fbh said:
PS: Also, I don't get why Diablo 3 gets so much love and this so much Hate.
Both are co-op centric,grind heavy games about getting loot, both have good core gameplay but can grow repetitive, both have mostly bullet sponge bosses, both have bad storylines and both could do with more content. At least one of them has a fun PVP mode
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Blizzard do not oversell its games.
Blizzard do not trash talk community.
Blizzard do not mess up with gameplay.
Blizzard do not kick out its music composer like Bungie.
Blizzard withdrew the auction house.
Blizzard is a trusted company for making good games for years.

Blizzard work their ass for their games, how many patchs do you think their release per year for all of their games ? Don't know what i'm talking about ? Go on mmo champion and you will see.

Don't you look down on Blizzard, dude.
 
I still play it a few hours a week. I enjoy it though I welcome additional strikes. I do wish they had matchmaking for every mission. I have no mic and therefore no friends:(
 
Gaz_RB said:
Put in over a hundred hours. I thought it was lacking in content after that first ten, and I continue to think so. However, obviously the core gameplay loop is fantastic or I would not have put in that much time.

Destiny 2 better get on it's content/loot game.
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Agreed. 29 hunter , 28 titan, and 28 warlock means I am not going to be that heavy into the game because at that point the only climb is vault of glass. VoG requires time, patience and a good team.

EDIT: What I find is this. The game is more about an emphasis on quick bouts of playtime. You don't need to play the game for a long extended time. You want to work towards something? Pop in the game for about 15 or 30 mins and get out. It has a sort of a mindless fun feel to it. That said, I think people biggest issue is expectation. Some were disappointed in the way the story is presented and others do not like the elements taken from MMO's that artificially slows progression. In the end I think destiny is going to be one of those situations similar to Far Cry 2 vs Far Cry 3 crowds. People have their own reason to like/hate the game but the unique issue here is that these reasons are what makes or breaks the entire experience for some.
 
Chaos17 said:
Blizzard do not oversell its games.
Blizzard do not trash talk community.
Blizzard do not mess up with gameplay.
Blizzard do not kick out its music composer like Bungie.
Blizzard withdrew the auction house.
Blizzard is a trusted company for making good games for years.

Blizzard work their ass for their games, how many patchs do you think their release per year for all of their games ? Don't know what i'm talking about ? Go on mmo champion and you will see.

Don't you look down on Blizzard, dude.
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That took a while. The improvements to diablo 3 didn't happen overnight.

Destiny is not perfect by any means. There is plenty of room for improvement. I think it'll take a little more than 2 months to see it come to fruition
 
I enjoy it a lot more than I thought I would. Reached 30 with a Warlock, and now I have a hunter at 28 and a titan at almost 20.

The most boring part of the game is by far the 1-20 progression. After that, at least you can do nightfalls and the raid, and the loot becomes interesting, which is a lot more fun.

The game has tons of issues, but it has good hooks.
 
It's not the worst game I've ever played, but it's definitely the most disappointing. Wish I had bought physical :-/
 
Buyers remorse...
Teached me not to use season pass code right away - decrease in resell value...

ed: To explain more -
I had a blast the first week I really put many hours into it. We've played with a group of new friends which was great and for me, it is needed for this kind of game Bungie created.
Your fireteam members really elevate the gameplay experience - but that shouldn't be the reason you want to play.
I guess I've seen everything in the first week....and that game "ending". So many question, not an one answer. Thanks, "mask guy".

Since I've supidly not waited for the player impressions and bought the coll. edition straight away thinking - "Man, it looks good and is being made by Bungie! What could go wrong."
I sicerely think that many people not liking the game after there two months jumped on the new IP bandwagon because of the studio making it.
 
Fdkn said:
The point is that I don't agree with that statement or the ruder ones like "its garbage" that are costantly thrown in threads like this one.

I could call "garbage" or "severely flawed" games that a lot of people like because I don't and I would get called out for it.

Yes, I know a lot of people didn't like it. A lot of people suffered from overexpectations. A lot of people liked it and some of them love it. Thats fine. The game has to do some things right for that to happen. It also does some things wrong.

Garbage is the word you use for that sonic video that leaked a few hours ago.
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Eh if somebody thinks it's garbage, they think it's garbage. I personally think its bad game that only really nails the feeling of shooting, but is rotten everywhere else.
 
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