Destiny has been out for two weeks, I finally finished my full review of Detiny after having played it extensively, and looking at the forums I find it hilarious that the game is pretty much exactly what people were saying Halo 4 was. Its single player story requires, in no uncertain terms, for the player to access content outside of the game, which is still one of the most persistent criticisms leveled against Halo 4, even though it isn't true. To a somewhat keen eye (IE: someone casually paying attention), one can easily get through Halo 4 knowing what's happening, and any additional information one may want out of curiosity can be found in the Terminals, which further enrich the story. In Destiny, you have no clue what's happening, and must refer to the Grimoire cards you unlock on Bungie.net by playing the game. Similar to the Halo 4 terminals which were accessed on Waypoint, but the Terminals were not imperative to the game itself. Now one may say that the backstory of Halo 4 is told in the books and you must pay money to get those. To that I say, the books cover the [i]backstory[/i] as they rightfully should, enriching the narrative but not telling the central story. The equivalent in Destiny is being forced to buy the expansions to get the story that should have been there already--except they're more expensive, and probably going to be less enthralling, and yet absolutely necessary to understand what you already paid 60 dollars for. Even the multiplayer suffers from the problems people had with it in Halo 4. People called Halo 4 a CoD clone, yet between Destiny and Halo 4, Destiny has power weapon spawns, numerous one hit kill weapons, ADS, faster kill times, ubiquitous shotgun camping and even rewarding better players with abilities that count nearly as free kills, as well as stat effecting abilities and perks and an overall hopelessly unbalanced multiplayer that comes more down to luck than skill. Of course Halo 4 had its fair share of CoD attributes most of which I detest, but at least the physics, gunplay and movement were decidedly still quite Halo, preserving (in a diminished sense) a degree of skill. Destiny, like CoD, takes the RPG elements of a PVE game and applies them to a PVP setting. Just an observation I made when I saw everyone defending the Grimoire cards, even some known Halo 4 haters who have complained about these very aspects. Destiny is what everyone said Halo 4 was, except worse.