The game is beautiful, smooth and polished. The music is everything. But there are too many let downs out the gate. 1. The story remains as superficial as ever. Not once do you [i]ever[/i] believe any character is going to die, nor are you tasked with protecting anyone (ahem, vanguard) from dying throughout a drastic period of no light. The Last City? Who cares? No one does. We only care about the Tower... mainly our weapons and gear. Everything else? Meh. We never walked through the Last City, never met the citizens we so violently defended... ever. The seriousness of every situation stays overly simple, thin and forgettable. You never feel in danger or responsible for lives, nor are you penalized for any actions because there are no consequences. How is it your voiceless character (ugh) finds light so quickly and no one else in the galaxy found/finds it?! It conveniently depletes after your third subclass unlocks. Couldn't you share it with Ikora, Cayde or Zavala? I mean your ghost tells them about it too, but... they don't try and restore themselves with the same piece of shard? It's insulting. 2. Sub classes. No custom builds? I'm limited to two unchangeable groups? Subsequently, I cannot believe there aren't custom loadout profiles available through a quick in-game menu. I'll let emotes have one permanent parked button on the directional pad... but the other three should allow players to at least change classes on the fly. Everyone is still stuck running and hiding like a B@#&* just to make the smallest changes to our character during gameplay. Popular FPS have had this feature for over a decade. 3. There was HUGE miss with adding the ability to building the farm, section by section, as part of the story. This would have justified a lot of grind while lengthening the story. But no, you arrive at some farm that appears out of nowhere, which happens to have a full cast of conveniently placed characters with everything you need. How the red legion doesn't know where this farm is, is a joke. You fight them on the way there... hello? 4. No shooting range? I thought this was a hot topic by players. You can't try/test/practice weapons at the farm with makeshift targets? No try before you buy? Instead, we get a soccer field with the gaming industries worst physics for an over-sized soccer ball. A target practice mini-game or shooting challenges with Devrim Kay in the EDZ was a no-brainer. C'mon Bungie. 5. Although addictive, gameplay is entirely [i]too[/i] repetitive. Run here shoot. Run there shoot. Release ghost, shoot. During one of the adventures on Nessus, you're tasked with a "prison break" objective where you kill Vex to release imprisoned Fallen... only to kill them too. I cannot describe how retarded that was. Apparently, the Fallen were fully equipped too, and attacked you as soon as you released them. Another huge missed opportunity for the narrative to implement an epic truce or dialogue with the Fallen on Nessus. Perhaps to team up against the Red Legion/Vex. But no. Just shoot everything and anyone. I get it, the game is a shooter. 6. The Taken. Couldn't think of another race?! How lazy could you be? I'm fine with some of the recycled level designs in Destiny 2 clearly taken from the first game but c'mon, the taken? How are we to believe this expansive world/galaxy only has 5 races that exist everywhere we happen to land? Oryx, the taken king, is dead. He "possessed" and transformed victims to do his bidding. In Destiny 1, whenever we killed the taken "leader" at any point, the rest of the taken instantly vanish. So either everything that has been taken, dies, or they're restored to their former selves. Where the hell is Eris Morn to explain all this anyway? 7. Grinding for shaders? I love the ability for customized everything, but shaders were supposed to be rewards for accomplishing milestones in the game. A way of showing everyone what you achieved. Now it's completely embedded in the grind. Worst part? You can't keep them. You lose them when you want to change something and it costs every time. 8. Variable gameplay. Different planets, moons, etc. Where's the dynamic weather conditions? High winds, heavy rain, dust storms, heavy fog etc? What about changes in gravitational pull? Every single place, no matter how different, plays/feels the same. Requiring zero tact or diversity in the game. The environment should be a threat to gamers as well. Let alone, wildlife. Which the game doesn't contain either. So much for hunting, surviving or protecting people out in the wild as part of patrol or live events. It was silly knowing we jumped and landed on the moon the same way we did on Earth and Mars in Destiny 1. 9. The dumbest smartest ghost. Why is it my character has zero personality while my ghost retains a human one? For that matter, everyone in the game has a personality except for you. How is it that my ghost (a miniature god) can resurrect me, have incredible speed, knowledge and ability, but turn around to ask the dumbest questions or lack information on the simplest things? Talk about inconsistencies. In Destiny 1 the ghost told me about the cabal blowing up planets for getting in their way, but then questions whether or not they have something that can destroy a planet in Destiny 2?! 10. Everything gets blown up at the tower, but for some reason, I have access to a ship and guns nearly from the start, but no sparrow access until level 20? It wasn't even brought up in the story whatsoever. WTF was that? I spent 20 levels running everywhere exhaustively not knowing why. And where the @#$& is Amanda Holiday anyway? 11. WTF happen to the factions at the tower during the entire attack? Did they die? Where did they go? I thought those factions had agendas and militia outside of the vanguard. New Orbit should've been part of discovering new territory. Future War Cult should've been very effective against the red legion, New Monarchy should've been part of rescuing people from the Last City etc. I'm sure they'll pop up out of nowhere all well and good from their vacation soon enough with more tasks to shoot things. 12. Couldn't have guardians simply gone to the Reef or Felwinters peak after the attack?!? At least to regroup and reclaim weapons and armor? Talk about a major story hole. Why are we stuck in some farm when I could've just seen Varicks, Petra or Lord Saladin? They have vaults and kiosks with all my D1 stuff! 13. One of the hottest topics was the ability to change how our guardians looked. What happened? I didn't even get an option to keep my aesthetic or create a new one. We're all still stuck with what we created years ago with no options. Furthermore, designing new characters hasn't improved. It's literally the identical copy and paste features from 4 years ago. Such a lazy move. 14. Destiny 1 ended with a lot of features, such as, strike scoring, medals, extensive crucible playlists and private matches etc. Uhhh... what happened? I'm sure it'll trickle in again. It should've been there from the start. We can't even replay specific missions anymore anytime as we did in Destiny 1. Sparrow Racing? Queens Wrath? there was SO much to this game that's completely void now. I want my weapons and mod stats! 15. Infusion System. It's clear Bungie thought hard about micro-managing how we progress in every detailed aspect to enhance grinding to whole new level. Statistically, this artificially inflates re-playability. We have to clock substantially more time in building our character builds. But this is to the detriment of the fun factor. It's frustrating, confusing, unnecessary, time-consuming and a complete turn-off as a player. Stack this with the known lack of ammo issue, and you're left with angry players. Why can't I just infuse my favorite weapon with a higher power leveled one I don't care to ever use? To make you grind more. Of course. 16. Where do guardians live again? I remember for 3 years people wished for living spaces for their guardians at the tower. Spaces where we could buy and decorate (ahem, Tess?) while displaying all our achievements in the game. We could even visit the spaces in our friends list. Whatever, we still have the Destiny app right? What? It's broken and lacks fundamental features? Exciting times. 17. Many of us achieved every year's legend status and completed all record books. Now, I ask, what was your reward? 18. Consistency? They expanded the amount players in the social space, but decrease crucible team size. Raid teams remain at six, but stay at three for patrol. Trials of the nine? Three. Live events, six? They decide the number for us, for every event and give no option. 19. Timed Nightfall? Why couldn't Bungie just added a reward for those who finish it within a certain time frame? Personally, I loved year 1, but Bungie could've had 3 tiers of rewards for NF. One for simply beating it, a bonus if a fireteam never died, and for beating it within a time frame. Remember that community wish list that Cozmo has maintained for the past few years? Not ONE idea was done for D2. This is a company full of ego and greed masked behind a message proclaiming they have the players best interest at heart. This list I've created, will never be addressed or acknowledged openly.