Many core features are missing from this game.
I get the feeling that Bungie took on too much to produce in effect four game engines from scratch rather than buying in a unreal port.
The everything you see and all the background toolset was built from scratch. This would explain the 5 year development cycle.
I could believe that Microsoft took all the ip from Bungie when they took Halo.
Bungie to their credit started again from nothing to in effect recreate their 3-d toolset.
We have enough antidotal evidence to say that the game was bigger with more story one year out but that story was altered with a lot of content changed in the final year.
I personally like the game an will continue to play not for gear or rep but just to enjoy the gunplay. As in not fast enough for the crucible I continu to take pleasure from the box battles
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I'm still playing the game, and usually Music Unlimited drowns out almost everything but the guns, but every other mission has music that is for some reason loud as hell and in a clashing key with my own music. Beyond annoying and easily solved in every other game made since the 90s. Even most Genesis games had audio controls. Blah.