EDIT: If you're here to comment something along the lines of "Who cares?" don't bother to comment. This post demands your attention and critical thinking, and if those are things you're not willing to give, then kindly -blam!- off. 1. The title implies that the events depicted in the game are actually going to happen. Like "it is your destiny". Why is this bad? The world of Destiny is not a place I'd want to be in. If you think about it, it's actually pretty hellish. More on that later. 2. The opening cutscene, when the Ghost resurrects you, it shows the ghost "leaping out of the screen" at you, and then it cuts to gameplay. The ghost says the line "don't worry I'm still with you." Why is this bad? It implies that the Ghost lives in your guardian's head. This is really creepy. More on that later. 3. There are security cameras all over the Tower, and the Speaker says the Ghost reports on everything you do. Why is this bad? The world that's being depicted here is worse than 1984 levels of terrifying. A surveillance tool, the Ghost, literally lives in your head. You can never get away from it in game, and if you die, the Ghost will bring you back; your Guardian is trapped, forever, in a surveillance state. 4. Your Ghost resurrects you. Why is this bad? Dying in Destiny is obviously still painful. When you take damage your guardian cries out in pain; not only are you trapped under eternal surveillance by your ghost, you are damned to constant fighting, often painful deaths, and resurrection into a world where you keep on fighting. 5. Beyond what I've already listed, which is horrifying, the story is paper thin, none of the characters are likeable to me because they all accept this horrible world without question, and there's no emotional connection to the plot. 6. RPG elements Why is this bad? To me, the fun of leveling up in an RPG is the fact that you get to specialize and grow your character in a certain direction. You have to do it intelligently to make the most of your experience points, but the rewarding feeling of making an awesome and unique character is great. Compare Destiny to an RPG like Skyrim, Mass Effect, or Dark Souls. In Destiny there is no RPG progression. You have XP levels and abilities to unlock, but once you unlock all the abilities, you can change your character to be anything you want. So why make us waste time grinding for XP? Is it so we can experience the story? oh wait 7. End of round RNG rewards Why is this bad? I used to raid. I only really ever did VOG. Crota didn't appeal to me. More on that later. Anyway, every time I played VOG it was great fun. I had such a good time with everybody solving this really cool team based challenge, but even if everybody had a really good time with me while doing the raid, at the end of the game, somebody would be really pissed because they got a shitty drop. That's the main reason why I hate RNG; it sours the mood of every activity. 8. The Gunplay; ie. how the game feels to play Why is this bad? I fully recognize that this is a personal thing, but the game is too easy. By that I mean, it's too easy to slip right in and play. Everything works exactly as you think it does. Combat is fast and fluid. I hate this because there's nothing to learn or get good at in this game. There's no game mechanics to learn like in Dark Souls or Halo, where you have to pay attention to the game. In Dark Souls, you have to think about and manage your every move, because once you press a button you're committed to the action it performs and locked in, and enemies will take advantage of this if you're not careful. In Halo you have to manage your ammo and your shields and pay attention to your surroundings or you'll get killed. Basically, I like games that I have to pay attention to and play carefully. Destiny requires none of this. It's so goddamn boring. 9. The music. Why is this bad? Gotta lay a truth bomb here, but the music in Destiny is mediocre at best. Marty was a great composer, WAS, but ever since Reach, his music has been more and more generic and uninspired. I hate the music in Destiny so much that I generally turn it off. The Last Array, and the Black Garden missions are the only tracks I'm kind of okay with. There's just no emotion in the music; it feels like it's exactly what it's supposed to be, and nothing more. Like a machine made it. 10. The art. Why this is bad. Again, the art just seems like assembly line produced. There's no spirit in it. If you look closely, the low level armor pieces are almost all made up of the same pieces re-arranged. Same with the guns, and same with ships. Some of the newer stuff is better about being unique, and looks like it was crafted with more care, but the laziness and the mass produced quality is evident. Even in the environments, you can see that it's just repeating pieces, mass produced, like lego blocks. It makes the game feel cheap and less real. Not to mention the art is just uninspired. It's BORING. The atmosphere of Venus is not interesting. There's nothing unique about Mars. Even Earth is the most bland tundra. The moon is somehow less interesting than the actual moon; it lacks the stoic monolithic quality you find in photos of the actual moon. The dreadnought is just the worst; it's literally a tomb. A coffin. A fitting metaphor for this repulsive game. I hate all the hive stuff. I hate how lazy and slapped together the Vex architecture looks. I hate how bland Sci-fi the cabal architecture looks. About the only things I'm almost okay with are the Tower and the Fallen ships; but even those have a boring lack of detail and blandess. They could really be more interesting. 11. The enemies. Why they are bad; they are so uninteresting to fight. Every fight with them is the same; fill them with bullets until they die, while dodging their slow moving bullets. I think that's the part I most dislike, is the fact that you can dodge their bullets so easily. It raises the question; how were these enemies so successful at being a threat to humanity when their weapons are so inefficient and useless? It presents no challenge, no need to tread carefully and think about the enemy that can insta-kill you as soon as it sees you. There's no strategizing required. It's so -blam!-ing dull. 12. It's a hardcore heady Sci-fi world with deep themes and a ton of intersting concepts and it doesn't capitalize on any of them because it's rated Teen. I'd like the hive if they were actually scary. Instead they're as intimidating as a Hot Topic. I'd feel like I have a reason to fight any of the Darkness's minions if they were actually, you know, dark; murdering civilians, causing terror and havoc, etc.. Instead a champion of the the Darkness meekly stands in it's area until I come and blow its head off. This is -blam!-ing boring. 13. None of it makes any sense and I have no reason to care. I have no emotional attachment to anything in Destiny because it's so abstract and meaningless. I'll end this by sharing the one thing I do like about Destiny; it has been a platform to make friends and have some fun together. That's the skeleton in Destiny that I like about it, but all of these infuriating elements that I hate keep me from wanting to play. When I do play, I get no enjoyment out of the game; I only ever enjoy spending time with other people in it. This game sucks.