This game shouldn't exist. Based on how the original Destiny was presented. D2 is pretty much the opposite of what they presented as the "vision" for Destiny. Oddly, The Taken King/Rise of Iron were pretty much exactly what people thought the game would be...
A game that grows and evolves over time. MORE content added, constantly UPDATED game systems. Characters that we could develop and enhance over time.
Were you expecting 3 steps back when you bought D2? A complete disconnect from D1? I mean, of course we knew they had to update the architecture and the original game couldn't last forever. But did you expect there to be NO real connection?
No Cosmodrome, Moon, Venus, Mars, Dreadnaught? What? Did they suddenly all vanish after the Cabal? Not even a HINT of the previous locations. How does that EXPAND the game? Asset swapping one location for another?
Previous subclasses. Did we all just forget? Shouldn't there be a little bit more old mixed in with the new? Even just a little?
We just leaving the plaugelands go? Let the Fallen keep messing with Siva? I mean, we did our part right? Might as well let them have the scraps, get powerful, so we have something interesting to do in the spring.
Where is this world? One that moves forward with little consequence from catastrophic events. Oh, Cabal destroyed such and such, welp there goes all of our lore...
And then there are the game systems themselves.
How exactly could you have shipped D1 with the inventory system in place, let alone be 4 years in and still have no real direction? I, myself, could LITERALLY, not figuratively, design a better inventory system in less than a day, all based on what already exists. And I said DESIGN, not build, but truthfully, the foundation is all there, they just need to implement it fully.
You know how I know this?
Destiny Sets, and Destiny Item Manager.
They use available game data to do pretty much EVERYTHING the actual game inventory system should do. Everything. From sorting to transfers. Updating our collections without having to store shit in the vault, which REALLY should be a loadout manager. A vault does not promote variety, or make it easy to find something new to use. But hey, what do I know. I'm just some guy. I mean, I'm also a software developer, and I do UX design for a living. Optimization of systems for data retrieval and management, but nope, really I'm just some guy who plays video games in his spare time.
Not that you need to be any kind of an expert to know that the game should have shipped with the ability to sort by name as the default. Or that being able to remember your previous page, you know something people complained about in D1, might be a cool UPGRADE.
I could go on and on. So many things that were part of D1, just gone. No replacement. No enhancement. Nope, just gone. 3 steps back.
Destiny 2 is not what we should be playing. We should all still be playing Destiny: Darkness Falls, or some shit like that.
Destiny 2 is a marketing trick. That giant 2 you see everyday is their idea of justifying charging you for a "new" game. Except that isn't how it should have been. No one wanted a "new" game.
No, what we wanted, and what they presented Destiny as in the first place, was evolution. And the sad thing is, we would have paid for that as well.
No marketing bullshit necessary.
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Holy shit. I step away for half a day and you guys just keep on posting. Thank you all, both positive and negative for your responses. Seems like I hit a nerve. Again, all responses are appreciated.
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100% agree with you
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1 ReplyHey ladies...
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Spot on OP! 👍🏽
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I agree 100% with all you said. It had so much potential and they blew it. Just the fact that we are all still talking about it here shows how much we wanted this game to succeed, because I guess we can (or could) see everything destiny could have become. I still think it can be saved but I'm not willing to wait another year to get the game we were supposed to have from the beginning.
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the ghost did stated in an mars mission in destiny one that the cabal has had an habit of inhabiting and destroying planets after raiding each one for resources and technology so they could even destroy any planet and moon in the solar system as they see fit for their agenda and purposes by even putting their own species in jeopardy so raiding and destroying every planet in the solar system isn't a great idea . Frankie Croft Smales
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Destiny died a quick death when this new game was dropped. It’s over and they lied to us about it. They said this new game is a sequel and it’s not. They expanded nothing. All they really did was replace what we had and most of us seem to like what we had better. I said it before and I’ll say it again. This is NOT Destiny 2. It’s a completely different game. A new start for a new franchise. TITLE: EVERVERSE 1 [spoiler]i don’t dig on swine bro[/spoiler]
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4 RepliesHave to agree with this one. Unlike a lot of the senseless bitching that has been going on here this thread points out a very very big problem. There was no reason to leave Destiny one behind. If anything they could have expanded on the game and grown it into something pretty spectacular. Could you imagine both of the games combined. I sure can. By forcing people out of Destiny 1. Killing trials. Killing all the updates. It left people feeling kind of empty after spending years of their life coming to love the game. That was a gigantic mistake on the part of Bungie. Had they just made a gigantic expansion for the same price. People would be just fine
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I've been saying this endlessly...Destiny 2 is not an improvement over D1, it's just an excuse to put everything back in the box...it has far less content, no arenas, less playability (ie: no private crucible matches), crappy raids and still no decent rewards...when I pay for a sequel I want it to feel like an improvement....this isn't...
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5 RepliesI have said this myself on several occasions to my friends. If Destiny was still supported by the live team and dropped a new expansion I would jump ship back to it in a heartbeat. I'm probably not alone in that thought. There would really be no reason in having D2 at that point. If we could progress our D1 levels right now I think D2 servers would would be very empty.
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Destiny is over.... Destiny 2 is a completely different thing,s horribile copy of what was Destiny! I was excited to run raids with my teammates and struggle all together till beating the bosses! The rewards were better,the weapons felt stronger,The subclasses were strong! The joy to reach the lighthouse with my friends!! Become legend,this was Destiny! D2 now is nothing....an annoying game.... I lost faith in Bungie... me and my clanmates are moving to other games and some of them quit playing.... The biggest disappointment in world of videogames..... Thanks Bungie!
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Yep, D2 had the potential to be the defining game of this generation by building and continuing on from D1. Instead, we got this.
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Well said my friend! Thank you!
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It* [spoiler]😇[/spoiler]
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Totally agree with you, what a shame, it's a huge step back from D1... Bungie don't give a -blam!- about us they just want to take our money, that's sad...
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6 RepliesLast 4 years was a long and tiresome run for us Destiny players and we need to stop. This franchise is not going anywhere we want to, this is the real truth about Bungie. They changed. They changed their vision. They changed their development style. They changed everything about real Bungie, from a dreamer and a gamer to a cooperation bitch. This is the end.
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Agreed. Wish it was really what it should of been.
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Agree with everything
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DESTINY 2 IS A SHIT SHOW. SAD.
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I hate that I agree with this.
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[quote]We should all still be playing Destiny: Darkness Falls.[/quote] Man I would [i]kill[/i] for that expansion for D1. Everything else you said was spot on as well.
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Edited by AngryTormentor: 12/14/2017 12:34:54 PMI've got to agree on the whole sequel thing. It was completely unnecessary. I wouldn't have minded leaving behind D1 had D2 been any good. Now I really think about it making a sequel was probably the worst decision Bungie could have made. They left behind years of improvement with no intention of building upon what was finally working. They took a risk and it backfired. I know with hindsight it's easy to say that. I just don't believe no-one brought up how dangerous it was to not only make a sequel but to shift from what people were liking so much. They set themselves back to square one with little or no way of getting out of it. They won't leave behind D2. It's going to take years to repair the damage they did and I can't imagine people sticking around for it to be fixed again.
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Now THIS is a constructive post about bashing D2.
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7 RepliesD1 did NOT deliver on what they originally promised for Destiny. In my opinion, it never delivered what they promised in any content release. Was progress made? Yes, but that doesn’t change the fact that they never did. I highly recommend you watch the couple of pre-2013 ViDocs on D1 vanilla to see what it was supposed to be. I’m not disagreeing with you about D2, mind you. I think Bungie should’ve incorporated a majority of live game content in some way, shape, or form into D2, and the fact that they haven’t is both ignorant and shady
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Yep. Been saying, if they’d sold it a reboot instead of marketing it as a sequel, be a lot less salt here. But instead they set the expectation that this was going to add the D1, not take away from it.
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Edited by ││█║▌│: 12/14/2017 11:45:05 AMI wanted a real sequel, but what we got was a complete overhaul that only has a hint of what the franchise once was. They should have just stuck to expanding Destiny 1, and at this point I would happily pay for expansions for it.