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Destiny

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Edited by PooBone: 9/10/2014 3:14:51 PM
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My disappointment with Destiny

Lots of people are loving Destiny. Mechanically, it is a top-notch shooter. The social aspects are well-implemented. I understand why people are hooked and loving it, seemingly for weeks/months to come. For me, it fails as a story-telling application. This is something I thought Halo succeeded at extremely well. The story in Destiny is literally just a premise. A cool one at that, one that got me interested enough to preorder the game. The actions you go through in the game are rote and uninteresting with objectives that would be right at home in the most generic RPGs, or even Halo 4 (go to spot X, let your little robot companion scan things while you fight waves of enemies, leave). The final product is not what I expected or wanted. There's still obviously lots of fun to be had for lots of gamers. I'll churn through a few more co-op strikes and maybe some multiplayer, but for this guy, a self-proclaimed Halo enthusiast since the days of Combat Evolved, I'll probably have to bow out from boredom far before the rest, and this is the customer that played and replayed the Halo campaigns solo or co-op FAR more than the time I spent in competitive multiplayer. I'll keep my eyes open for any new planets or more care put into the storytelling, but it's probably healthiest to not get my hopes up and move on to the other great games coming out this fall. Happy huntings guardians.

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  • I agree completely and this wont be the final ending I think there will be more story in the years to come till Destiny 2 comes out. I really hope essential story will come in free updates, I will cry if the rest of the story adds up to another £50

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    • Are you -blam!-ing nuts. Halo was shit at story telling it's all the fleshed out lore books and movie tht made that better, how the hell can you expect a new franchise that came out yesterday to have top notch Edgar Allen Poe story telling you gob shiet

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    • Destiny, to me, is like eating bland food, sure it sustains you but there is really nothing else too it. With Game play boiled down to: Lather, Wash, Rinse, Repeat... it gets very boring very quickly without friends, and boredom seems always sets in shortly after with them. (The 3 person party limit is lame, way to break up the band bungie..) Even in the beta, when most everyone was caught up in the hype, I was caught up on the lackluster story telling. its like Bungie expect the graphics and the mechanics make up for the lack of quality story. The writers probably thought somthing along the lines of: "Maybe if we dangle enough shiny graphics in front of them, they'll forget about the story. (At least with Halo, there was enough excitement and curiosity to seek out the "fleshed out story," that's not the case with destiny, everything feels unoriginal and forced.) " Story... story... you mean DLC right? With a 6 hour campaign you HAVE to at least expect a minimum of 3 batches of DLC at the low low price of 19.95 each... This is not a good game, its not eve a decent game; Sure its mechanics and graphics are, as stated earlier, solid; but if that's all you expect from a new game you're probably the market they were pandering to (the lowest common denominator) and got caught up so completely in the tsunami of hype you wont be able to acknowledge the paramount shortcoming of this game: the absolute lack of story. Well at least the soundtrack is better than Halo 4's If you were to put the features/mechanics of Boarderlands, Halo and a pinch of Crisis in a pot; simmered it for hours, and then when thrown Destiny is what would stick to the wall. Oh on a side note: a games release date has nothing to do with the quality of writing that goes into the story that would be the games development time. (Bungie claims that this game has been in the works for over a decade where as the first halo was in development for less than 4 years). If anything it reflects the industry wide de-emphasis on video games as a thought provoking story telling device and clearly indicates the focus has shifted to mindless "entertainment" and mass-marketing. That's right, at the end of the day, all we any of us could ever hope to be to this industry is a Potential Dollar Sign. (Oh and if you are O.K. with paying $60 for an unfinished game and then another $60 for DLC just to finish the "Main" story, you are responsible for and have contributed to the downfall of the quality of these games and this Industry)

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      • I understand your pain man! Im really enjoying it but the mission structure is very repetitive! If i wasnt playing it with my mates i dont think i would be half as interested

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