Not really. It still feels great to me, in terms of gunplay at least.

It feels like Anthem. Anthem had great scale and concept (and the flight was amazing!) but it felt hollow. This is why I’m so frustrated with Destiny — just like Anthem, it has (had) so much potential. For some reason though, the devs can’t capitalize on it, almost like they’re just coasting on past success. I want to game to succeed, but Bungie’s current direction isn’t good enough.

I still play D1 regularly. I much preferred the yearly DLC model, with a few events sprinkled throughout the year.

The difference between D1 and early D2 compared to now is the lack of depth in the universe. Because of the narrative mistakes Bungie has made (for whatever reason) it has left the universe feeling flat and with little room for expansion beyond everything we have already seen. While some narratives in D1 and D2 were absolutely -blam!- (CoO, D1 Vanilla) they still made the universe feel bigger than you, and like there was room for us to explore what the universe had to offer. Then starting in Lightfall, all of that intrigue died. We got our first look at a piece of humanity outside of Earth and our first look at something beyond Sol as even the races not original to Sol have made it their residence. And yet, this little factor was so inconsiquential to the story that it has completely killed any intrigue anyone has had for something beyond the Solar System. And now, we’re focusing on the Nine, and suddenly, there’s a whole number of factions popping up like the Exiles (Now with a Kell) and the Imperium who are just more Cabal like Caitals Ascendancy, the Red Legion, and the Shadow Legion (which are also inconsequential. Thanks Lightfall.) Unlike other reskins and variants, these enemies do nothing to make the world feel bigger. Nothing! IM MORE INTERESTED IN THE VEX WITH CLOTHES THAN I AM THE NEW CABAL FACTION THAT HAVE TIES TO THE MAIN PLOT OF THIS WHOLE SAGA! Why?! Bungie has failed at making the world big, and as a result, the only thing holding this game together is Gameplay. Even Witch Queen managed to make the world feel bigger with our first look into the Witness, the Disciples, and everything in between. Bungie had routes they could take after the death of the witness before immediately shoving us right into our next saga. They could have focused on the Guardian, Vanguard, and everyone in between securing the Solar System, while alluding to what’s happening to the Nine. We sort of see this happen in Heresy, where Eris is vying to gain control of the Echo of Navigation as a means by which we could travel the Ascendant Plain beyond just the Ley Lines. We see this with the events of Vespers Host, where we have a minor event that connects us to the events of Edge of Fate. Bungie could have made us encounter other Disciples, reeling from the defeat of the Witness and trying to stake their claim in the universe, or have us fight Bad Lightbearers before we introduce this whole Starwars bullcrap. All we ask for is a little set up to the events of the world to give people the time to decompress after saving the Universe and to hook people into what the New Saga is presenting. Bungie has -blam!- yo because they killed off or have defeated most of the enemy factions that were present back in D1, leaving the races that are left as either small groups that pose no threat, or as allies. There are no more scorn enemies. There are no major cabal or fallen factions beside some asspull Bungie does. The Vex have been consistently weak besides the Vex that Maya has and that’s because of the Echo of Control. The Taken got a resurgence, and there is a supposed God for them, but that takes time to brew (a good thing, but feels bad right now). The Hive have Xivu Arath, but at this point, we just bully her. There is also Savathune, but we had a tenuous alliance with her, and she’s old news at this point. At least in Final Shape, she had some value and intrigue, as we felt threatened by her presence. Cause we didn’t know what she would do with the Traveler, and more importantly, PRISMATIC. Oh, oh, and speaking of Prismatic, has that at all been acknowledged lore wise after the events of Final Shape? At least Strand has some acknowledgment in its relevance to Osiris and the fact that it’s the other Darkness Subclass, but Prismatic? That was game changing and yet nobody makes a peep about it. We even have the Echoes, whose whole design motif is based around Prismatic, so why don’t we seen the Guardian interact in strange ways to these Echoes? Huh?! -blam!- Bungie.

Yeah most of us do, they have killed 80% of the game, removed as much fun as they can from it. The game is now a grind, so much is locked behind higher level content which a lot of us don't have the time of skill to do. It used to be so nice to jump on for a bit, do strikes, complete pathfiner and bounties for a bit of fun. The game now is only about being forced into doing higher and higher ops, I am at 400 but not interested in doing grandmaster ops at all. Bungie have bet the whole game on forcing the grind, hoping it will keep players coming back but look at the numbers already a quarter of the launch of EOF. Unless Bungie undo the grind and the op levels and rewards the game will be dead, but that maybe what they want knowing Sony is about to step in and takeover.

I think the new story is interesting and fairly well done. Nothing is ever going to recreate that feeling of the original story though. Not unless they did something with the winnower. The nine being the central part of the story is actually pretty smart because they are one of the only things that are huge mysteries still.

There was this feel that Destiny had, so much mystery and excitement for what was to come. There were points where you would discover hidden locations with cool loot, or you stepped into the wrong neighbourhood as you saw enemies with question marks above their heads, and they would one shot you. The feeling when you got that one piece of strike specific loot you've been dying to get. When Gjallarhorn or Icebreaker dopped, and it was amazing! Just knowing that you got a gun that made others jealous because of how good it really was. I miss those things.

Yes as for someone who has played from about 2 months into d1 it’s not the same, it’s lost it’s ⚡️loot just doesn’t seem worth it, not special enough. And it’s just to arcade game now “ insert coins to play” feeling.

Go back and play Destiny 1, it's light years ahead of the current garbage. If anyone is interested, there's up 35% of Prophecy ultimate, Prophecy and Edge of fate on PS.

Yeah it's heartbreaking that they created a portal that just removes the soul of the game and added awful modifiers and power deltas designed to make players NOT have a good time

Yep. Ever since Bungie made Beyond Light, I've missed how Destiny 2 used to feel.

Sometimes I fire up D1 to feel the feels. Just to stand in the old tower. Worth it every time.

Totally agree and it’s not the grind to me Destiny has always had the grind. It’s the fact that the grind means absolutely Nothing any more 😡