Bungie consciously and willingly did the following : Take Halo and reskin it. Create a story with such a thin fabric it is nearly ethereal, non-existent. Create a universe that feels dead, cold, I am not drawn to it like I was drawn to Halo for instance. Join up with a publisher known to destroy franchises, suck it's customers dry and is known to have been rehashing the same -blam!- of a game for nearly eight plus years ( CoD) and let's not forget : loves to steal from it's customers by cutting content from games and selling them as DLC. The game they released is appallingly repetitive, uninspired bullshit and I am very sorry I wasted money on it. Sure sure, give them another chance and all that, let's not forget these people are supposedly industry veterans, they should have known better and should have had way more respect for us, the people that made them great and pay their salaries than to release this joke of a game. Artificially prolonging the story by exponentially increasing the difficulty, being lazy when it comes to animations (the jump animations and some of the cover animations for mobs are straight out of Halo) ... Not to mention rehashing uninspired story missions into 'Strikes' and 'Nightfall' missions... The only piece of content that felt worthwhile so far was Vault of Glass, though that's lost it's charm since we can now clear it in under forty minutes making it yet another part of this perpetual grind of repetition called Destiny.