It's pretty fun so far. I expected more thou. I don't feel as in depth in it like I hoped.

I honestly think what happened here is Jim Sterling was one of the first reviews to be released and he gave it 6/10 and a few other journos went 'Oooh! Me too! Me too!' while completely lacking the ability to explain why. Jim Sterling gave Mario Kart 7 5/10 when the rest of the reviews were largely 10/10 but he at least did an incredible job of explaining his reasons, as he always does. The one site I never read or trust anymore is Polygon. Those guys are complete jokester hipsters and couldn't write a review if their lives depended on it. Their reviews read like they're re-typing the press release while just changing a few words and then they whack a score on at the end without explaining why. Pretty site, but terrible terrible writers/reviewers. Even when they make videos they sound as excited about games as Ben Stein from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I guarantee 100% the only reason Arthur Gies gave Destiny 6/10 is because Jim Sterling did. He's an extremely weak writer... :D Still, I'm absolutely loving this game and can see the incredible potential in its future. I do think anyone who released a review of it last week was mistaken to do so. In their review videos they showed footage of them at levels 7 to 10 and even if you played up to level 20 you haven't experienced a tiny fraction of what this game has to offer! Have fun all! :D

[quote]I'm not one for conspiracy, really I'm not. But when every major review outlet gives the exact same low score to a quality game just a week after Gaming Journalism has been under fire, it kind of reeks like bullspit to me. I'm not going to re-tread the whole #GamerGate debacle, but whats easy to see is that ALOT of journalists were very very pissed about it, despite a few token gestures here and there to look 'respectable and accountable'. What I find baffling, GENUINELY baffling, is how a game of Destiny's caliber can get the same score, a relatively low score, from every major outlet with almost exactly the same review description in every case. And all it ever boils down to is this: 'The story is a bit hackneyed, gameplay can sometimes be repetitive and I was expecting more' These are three valid points. Destiny's story is kind of bland compared to previous Bungie games and the missions are quite samey at times and DinkleBot DOES do a helluvalot of scanning things. But these three points are not of themselves a justifiable reason to give a game such a low score when everything else in the game is so well crafted and solid and enjoyable. Now, I'm not necessarily suggesting that every journo called every other journo and signed an affidavit agreeing to all give Destiny a 6/10 and follow the same script template for their reviews, but it certainly feels that way and maybe on some subconscious, unified, 'pissed off at #GamerGate level they all came out with their whiny, crappy reviews in one voice. Whatever the case, whatever the reason, regardless whether they colluded by email/text/phone or whether their minds melded in some weird spiritual borg-esque military fashion, THEY ARE ALL COMPLETELY WRONG Destiny is not an amazing game. It's certainly not a 10/10 (I hate scores anyway) but it is an extremely solid, well-crafted gaming experience that despite hinting at being a long-term experience in-potentia, is still in its own way a whole package. Artistically, it's beautiful. Shooting mechanics are very responsive (But an option to turn off auto-aim would be nice) The story, while light and occasionally meandering, is contained within itself as well as also hinting at a greater story arc The RPG elements are deep enough to have meaningful impact, but light enough to be user friendly to the vast majority of gamers Matchmaking in the campaign is one of the quickest I have seen in any online game and jump/in out is easy and smooth and extremely useful. The amount of content in story and PvP is well up to snuff for any of Destiny's counterparts All of the UIs are extremely easy to interpret and master It's LOADS OF FUN! I could make a much longer list of Destiny's plus points but I'm not going to labor my point. Despite a few short-comings such as the lack of individual audio sliders (Gamechat is often lost among all the music and SFX), the inability to turn auto-aim on/off, No clan roster on the pause menu to find & join clan members who aren't on your friends list; despite a few gripes like these, Destiny is all-in-all a really, really solid gameplay experience and hints at some great stuff to come over the next 10 years. If I stopped playing tomorrow, I'd still feel like I had my money's worth... and then some. Great Job Bungie! A solid start to a new franchise. I look forward to stronger deeper scripts, some tweaking to the mechanics, some social refinements and plenty of awesome additional content in the future. As for the 'Reviews'... Screw 'em![/quote] 6/10 is still a majority. Besides destiny does have a shit ton of major flaws anyway.

I feel like they're giving the game negative reviews simply because it's the "hip" thing to disagree with whatever is big at the moment. Highly anticipated game got good reviews? Not surprising. Big budget game that people have looked forward to told to tank? Sounds much more "exciting." Criticizing a game for not doing enough earth shattering new age previously unconceptualized game mechanics is completely asinine, and almost every review mentions this. When was the last time a good game actually did something "revolutionary"? I'm forced to assume these reviewers are laying it on thick just to attempt to be shocking. Are there things I'd like to see added or tweaked? Sure. Is the game a 6/10? Give me a -blam!-ing break.

Are you sure the game simply isn't as good as you think? Or, as hear me out now, they might have a different opinion than yours? I also like how people react as if a 6/10 is the same thing as "this game is garbage; I wouldn't force Hitler to play it it's so bad" even though 6/10 is still above average.

It's called "objectivity". Destiny got a 6/10 from many reviewers because it's average at best.

And then the new CoD will come out and be exactly the same game and get a near perfect score.

I must be the only person that sees a review with a score of 5/10 as average. Same a 2.5 out of 5 stars for a movie review. Destiny quite frankly is a 6/10 game. Sitting at just above average. Maybe reviewers will come back after a few months, and review it again after some time to see how things paned out.

They've reviewed the game how it is NOW. Short, slightly buggy and easy. Perfect for a 6. But they've not experienced Raids, Weeklies or Exotic Bounties. They haven't experienced an increased story, 5th race or other planets. They haven't just taken a stroll around the planets, searched for Ghosts or tried to do a legendary strike just because it's possible. I bet that if they'd review the game in a year again, it'll be a lot higher.

the reviews are low because expectation was high. If expectations weren't so high, this game would be a 7 or 8. But people were expecting that this game would be a game changer in the industry and bungie sure made it seem like it would be. the good? 1. great graphics 2. multiplayer is fun 3. shooting mechanics are clean, controls are nice. the bad. 1. bland story 2. you have to defend alot of doors = lack of variety in missions ( can take a note from the call of duty series for single player, those games always have me on the edge of my seat for 4 hours). remember when you can choose to mow down a bunch of civilians when undercover, just to get wacked at the end? or doing an escort mission under intense fire, assaulting a building, chasing bad guys through the slums, etc etc. this game has none of that, you get to defend doors, and then kill a boss. you mow down waves and waves of enemy charging a door, then a boss appears. needs more variety, maybe it can't replicate whats its like to fight in a modern urban war like COD, but the alien war is unimaginative. 3. lack of social interaction with other players. bungie took the stance hey, if you wanna do raids, you have to talk to each other. Yet they did nothing to facilitate the ease of that. They need to hire someone from a successful mmo to see how those mmos get players to interact with each other, the environment, and explore. you can't just expect players to talk to each other, you have to facilitate or else a lot of people won't do it. 3. no questing, lore, npc interactions. so what you have is a great shooter with great graphics/audio, bland story 1 player, good multiplayer, and a co op mode. bungie promised the world, and fell short, hence the overly harsh reviews. if there was no hype about this game, the score would be a 7 or 8, probably a 7, but for this game to be considered a success, its needs to be a 9 or 10 due to the amount invested in it. Bungie needs to get people invested in the Destiny Universe and is failing to do so. Most people can't recall much of the story, and don't see a reason to do something about the traveler. They are not invested emotionally in their own characters or the universe. This game is running off of its multiplayer, and keeping loot whores around (the reason i still play, is im a loot whore) but that will only carry a player so long to keep playing.