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Destiny Review
11 years ago
Destiny... Bungie's future... Not for many of us who played the BETA and saw the RAW POTENTIAL... and saw the failure of the game's release... It's been just over a month since it came out, and just over a month have I been playing it... A LOT... I've got exotics out the wazzoo and can't use most of them because some suck compared to others, and wait... "EXOTICS OUT THE WAZZOO?!?!?" You may be thinking: "How do you have so many exotics? Aren't they supposed to be SUPER RARE and HARD TO GET!?!?" My answer: No. At least not for Warlock players... In fact I have an extra exotic weapons bounty waitin for me to accept it, for a secondary of a weapon that I already have! Legendaries are more sporting even! I think I even had my Titan's gear all legend and exotic'd out before my warlock was due to my luck! Even have a hunter chest piece that I picked up at random from an exotic engram I got from Xur!
The item collecting is fun for a month, but it gets boring, very quickly. The story that they had, was too disjointed and disconnected, and they made EVERY SINGLE FUCKING EXCUSE to NOT FUCKING TELL IT! The Speaker: "I could tell you... I could tell you... I could tell you..." Nope... Random EXO character who pops out of nowhere: "I don't even have time to tell you why I don't have time to tell you..." Not to mention the FUCKING GRIMOIRE CARDS... I tried, I really did try, but I look at only a few things on the INTERNET that aren't about reading up on a game that is THIS FUCKING DISJOINTED AND BROKEN! And I'm NOT going to spend hours reading the shit that I should have been reading or seeing and hearing IN THE DAMN GAME! You basically get all your useful information out of pre-mission statements and your Ghost, aka "little light", and a couple of cutscenes. That is ALL. Sure, the enemies are fun an all, but there is the whole missing fucking storyline. You could have us fight all the same enemies ALL OVER AGAIN, in varying difficulty, and everybody would be HAPPY, if but there was that one thing missing: Storyline.
Then there's also the jumpships. Spoiler alert for anybody who doesn't know: They're loading screens. You don't even get to play "Shoot down the enemies minigame!" No. "Dodge the anti-air batteries?" No. "Watch the pretty lights go by for several minutes while the map loads and you get dropped into a devoid landscape?" Yes. SO... Even if you have one of the rarest and hardest to get jumpships in the game, and it LOOKS like it has weapons: THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY FUCKING WORTHLESS, except to say "I got this as a random reward for the Queen's Bounty rewards!" or "I did the vault of glass! I didn't even get any armor, but I got this cool... fuckin worthless... spaceship!"
Which leads me to the Vault of Glass: Truly, when it comes to difficulty, and having friends, this is the thing to go to: get a group of friends, be good on communications, be quick on the controller, and well... have friends. That is the only way to get through it, is to have six people, just to enter the Vault of Glass. For the 360, people, you're boned over because the in-game communications don't work for match-made teammates. You have to get invited to the fireteam, or join a Party chat, which may have their friends in it, who are annoyin as fuck when they're not IN THE SAME FUCKIN AREA AS YOU AND YOUR FIRETEAM. Much less even have XBOX LIVE GOLD ... I removed one annoying contact for constantly annoyin my friends, and he didn't even have Gold, just regular xbox live. There is also the issue of inter-console cooperation: none of the other consoles can work with any of the others, far as I can tell with the XBOXes... I am going to have to go through the list of acquaintences and remove those who are solely for the XBOX ONE because I'm a 360 gamer, and don't feel like letting microsoft have a bigger hold on my security and privacy, much less money on an overpriced console...
Bungie FURTHER fucks up even more: because SONY paid out the ass for content EXCLUSIVE to their consoles. So... those of you hoping "GO DESTINY ON XBOX! WHOOOOOH!" You would be sadly mistaken...
Bungie also hired EA to host their servers: EA has NO REGARD for sci-fi and fantasy games, outside of SPORTS games, example of MERCENARIES 2 and DEADSPACE 2 and 3 multiplayers, and I'm sure there's more out there they've fucked up...
I can honestly say that I would ONLY rent this game for a few days from REDBOX if I hadn't already gotten it for my birthday... For looks, fun shooter feel, and absolutely pissing in GEARBOX's collective face for Borderlands, albeit missing a lot, and making grinding fun, I give this game a 5/10. Missing the mark on the Storyline, using this 'grimmoire card' system, screwing it's fanbase over, and even allowing EA to host... as well as selling out, and losing half of it's team halfway through production...
Remember: 5/10. NOT WORTH BUYING. ONLY RENT.
The item collecting is fun for a month, but it gets boring, very quickly. The story that they had, was too disjointed and disconnected, and they made EVERY SINGLE FUCKING EXCUSE to NOT FUCKING TELL IT! The Speaker: "I could tell you... I could tell you... I could tell you..." Nope... Random EXO character who pops out of nowhere: "I don't even have time to tell you why I don't have time to tell you..." Not to mention the FUCKING GRIMOIRE CARDS... I tried, I really did try, but I look at only a few things on the INTERNET that aren't about reading up on a game that is THIS FUCKING DISJOINTED AND BROKEN! And I'm NOT going to spend hours reading the shit that I should have been reading or seeing and hearing IN THE DAMN GAME! You basically get all your useful information out of pre-mission statements and your Ghost, aka "little light", and a couple of cutscenes. That is ALL. Sure, the enemies are fun an all, but there is the whole missing fucking storyline. You could have us fight all the same enemies ALL OVER AGAIN, in varying difficulty, and everybody would be HAPPY, if but there was that one thing missing: Storyline.
Then there's also the jumpships. Spoiler alert for anybody who doesn't know: They're loading screens. You don't even get to play "Shoot down the enemies minigame!" No. "Dodge the anti-air batteries?" No. "Watch the pretty lights go by for several minutes while the map loads and you get dropped into a devoid landscape?" Yes. SO... Even if you have one of the rarest and hardest to get jumpships in the game, and it LOOKS like it has weapons: THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY FUCKING WORTHLESS, except to say "I got this as a random reward for the Queen's Bounty rewards!" or "I did the vault of glass! I didn't even get any armor, but I got this cool... fuckin worthless... spaceship!"
Which leads me to the Vault of Glass: Truly, when it comes to difficulty, and having friends, this is the thing to go to: get a group of friends, be good on communications, be quick on the controller, and well... have friends. That is the only way to get through it, is to have six people, just to enter the Vault of Glass. For the 360, people, you're boned over because the in-game communications don't work for match-made teammates. You have to get invited to the fireteam, or join a Party chat, which may have their friends in it, who are annoyin as fuck when they're not IN THE SAME FUCKIN AREA AS YOU AND YOUR FIRETEAM. Much less even have XBOX LIVE GOLD ... I removed one annoying contact for constantly annoyin my friends, and he didn't even have Gold, just regular xbox live. There is also the issue of inter-console cooperation: none of the other consoles can work with any of the others, far as I can tell with the XBOXes... I am going to have to go through the list of acquaintences and remove those who are solely for the XBOX ONE because I'm a 360 gamer, and don't feel like letting microsoft have a bigger hold on my security and privacy, much less money on an overpriced console...
Bungie FURTHER fucks up even more: because SONY paid out the ass for content EXCLUSIVE to their consoles. So... those of you hoping "GO DESTINY ON XBOX! WHOOOOOH!" You would be sadly mistaken...
Bungie also hired EA to host their servers: EA has NO REGARD for sci-fi and fantasy games, outside of SPORTS games, example of MERCENARIES 2 and DEADSPACE 2 and 3 multiplayers, and I'm sure there's more out there they've fucked up...
I can honestly say that I would ONLY rent this game for a few days from REDBOX if I hadn't already gotten it for my birthday... For looks, fun shooter feel, and absolutely pissing in GEARBOX's collective face for Borderlands, albeit missing a lot, and making grinding fun, I give this game a 5/10. Missing the mark on the Storyline, using this 'grimmoire card' system, screwing it's fanbase over, and even allowing EA to host... as well as selling out, and losing half of it's team halfway through production...
Remember: 5/10. NOT WORTH BUYING. ONLY RENT.
I'm sure I missed quite a few bad things to tell people about the game...