What I have to say actually has a lot less malice than the title. Just hold on until the end and hopefully you might understand my point. Halo, all of the games, were magnificent; the scores, the game play, the story, the characters, the art, the mood, everything. But destiny, it just isn't there. I feel as though it had such potential, that it could have lived up to the Bungie name, but something just happened. I mean, looking back the the E3 demo or even remembering how I felt playing the beta was just amazing. And then there's all this talk about parts of the game getting scrapped. Also, the game just doesn't feel personal or connected at all; the story is shit and the multiplayer doesn't have custom options. I can't even play a multiplayer game just with my friends. And before you use grimoire as the excuse for the terrible story I'll have you know that's lore, not story. No game should require the player to leave it in order to understand the basics. The game just feels like a hollow shell of what could have been. Though I know these are just my personal beliefs, there are reasons the game gets such low scores everywhere and so many mixed feeling from all players. The players that love it the most are the ones that disconnect themselves from it and don't take it seriously. Maybe that's not the right word, what I mean is they don't have real burning passion for the game, at least not even on the same scale as halo. It's easy to dismiss a game one hasn't played in a long time as not that good but to feel this bad about a game I've tried to go back to recently is just sad. Here's a challenge: go back and play one of the halo games, your favorite if you please, and just unwind. Play the campaign start to finish. I don't want to be a fanboy, to mindlessly love a franchise because I feel I have to. I just had actual fun with halo. After playing destiny for a little bit I went back and tried halo 3 start to finish. The reason people can dismiss things so easily is because they just forget them. It was like a new experience for me, and the game holds up pretty damn well. I'm not saying destiny is absolute trash, it's not bad (title was clickbait), obviously there are people that like it and others with all the time in the world that love it. But it just didn't reach it's full potential, I realize there will be expansions but it still doesn't fundamentally change the base of the game. Even if the game does some how drastically improve through all the expansions it's still paying so much more money for something that could have been amazing at launch and skyrocketed from there. It's not an MMO, it's a hybrid. Unless you have the endless map space, detailed story, and lore to back it up along with huge variation in gameplay (horde mode, you know what I mean) then don't try to force it to be more like an MMO. Also, why was Martin fired? His music was part of what gave your games life. I don't know what went wrong behind the scenes but it's something with the base game, you can't use duct tape to fix a severed limb. That being said I know the Bungie team has always tried their hardest to produce quality games that they love and their fans. But for now, I think I won't be coming back to destiny in years at the rate the fundamental game changes are coming. Much love, my alt.