I am a hardcore fan, I've played since D1 day one, and I've been in denial. No this game doesn't suck, and yes it is much better than [i]vanilla[/i] D1, but I will explain to you here why in my honest and truthful opinion, after many hours of play and nearly platinuming this game, it is a disappointment. 1. The "Story" Personally I don't care too much about a games story, but the praise that this one is getting is astonishing to me. It is the most generic thing ever and takes itself way to seriously. The following post explains my frusturation in detail: [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/232941529/0/0][/url] The awful writing and bland story telling is [u]Without a doubt better than vanilla Destiny 1, but that isnt saying much.[/u] The fact that its at least coherent now is good but does not make the story itself good. Now if you don't care about the narrative, how is the story mission game play? Boring. Boring, dull, and painfully easy. The fact that you cant change the difficulty and the enemy AI is stupid makes the games story a cakewalk. Its better than the vanilla of the original but once again thats not saying much. The only mission I enjoyed was the one on almighty, and most of that is only because I enjoyed the spectacle and visuals so much. The tank mission is mediocre [i]especially when compared to something like Halo.[/i] The story lacks any "wow" moments. 2. Lacking old features With how similar the game is to destiny 1, you would imagine they could port over many features from the first, but for some reason we are lacking content from D1 that could have been used here. -ability to pick a crucible gamemode -ability to change mission difficulty -ability to play story again whenever you want -any sort of court of oryx/ archons forge -crucible game modes -CUSTOM GAMES (it baffles my mind that these are gone!) -Heroic Strikes -Strike scoring Those are just some I came up with off the top of my head. These features we fought for are gone because bungie is willing to give us the bare minimum knowing that its player base will defend them. 3. Lack of content compared to D1 Destiny 1 ended with around 20 strikes, now we have 5-6. D1 ended with 4 raids. Here we have 1. The same can be said with nearly everything in the game, patrols, crucible modes, crucible maps..etc. Now I know what youre thinking, [i]Of course D1 had more content, it had like 5 DLCs.[/i] To which I say, is it wrong for me to expect more of a sequel? Fine, maybe I cant have as much content as 5 DLCs extra, but giving me the SAME amount as D1 vanilla (As far as patrols, strikes, raids and more) While also taking out content as mentioned in point #2 seems ridiculous for a SEQUEL. At the end of the day, if bungie is willing to sell the original game at $60, but sell the game + all the DLC for $60 at a later date, maybe its because without the DLC the content you get is not worth the $60 price tag. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [u]There is no reason to defend bungie if you want the game to be good[/u] I want to highlight how important that is. If we dont fight for this game to be better, bungie will not change it. If we fight with our wallets and do not buy any DLC or microtransactions, if we tell them how we really feel, and if we don't feel the need to defend them at all costs like there a god damn political party, we can get the changes to this game that we deserve. -Thank you for reading, I encourage well spoken debate in the comments below (: