Destiny 2

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  1. MadclownJack
    Nov 13, 2018
    4
    I'm glad the bots praising this game like the Second Coming didn't persuade me to actually buy this. Because it kind of sucks. Somewhat "in depth" review to follow. PVP and strikes can be fun, but get boring if that's all you can do after some point.

    Positives: It's an interesting world to behold. Only Visually though. The designs are great, interesting to watch in action and mostly    I'm glad the bots praising this game like the Second Coming didn't persuade me to actually buy this. Because it kind of sucks. Somewhat "in depth" review to follow. PVP and strikes can be fun, but get boring if that's all you can do after some point.

    Positives: It's an interesting world to behold. Only Visually though. The designs are great, interesting to watch in action and mostly consistent in quality. As i come late in the game, i can't say what state it was in when it first released some years ago, but now it runs like a tight ship. Loading times could be better, but that's minor. Occasional comedic moments were also a plus.

    Negatives: It feels like a Freemium Borderlands 2 Clone. Paywall here, Lootbox there. There's a ridiculous level limit that can be reached with 4-6 hours of grinding Public Events. I hadn't touched the main quest and yet i was already level 20 in vanilla. The story verges on nonexistent as it has no interesting characters or anything not seen in better games. There's a big bad guy that has a big weapon and wants to destroy the sun. Great. Super. Problem is, i finished the main quest in less than 2 hours and the last boss was an actual joke to beat. Also, they don't really expand on the story. Or maybe they do, in the 40$ DLC. or in the 59.99$ DLC, i can't really know as i didn't buy into this obvious scam. I also can't fault Bungie for what looks like blatant Publisher meddling. What Bungie made looks great and works on many levels. Too bad it's been hacked to pieces to milk more money out of the average consumer. Activision should take a step back for a minute and reevaluate their position on making a profit. There are ways to do it without having to resort to "get rich quick" scams involving dubious lootbox methods and constant churning out of half-assed DLCs. Then again, taking into account that Destiny 2 sales were appalingly low, i think they got the message.    … Expand
  2. avatarjunior
    Feb 13, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My review is completely based off the experience I had on the PS4 and a total play time of around 150+ hours. Don't buy this game, the only selling point is that Bungie nailed the shooting mechanics and settings. They made numerous improvements from the first Destiny but still managed to make a worse experience. The story starts off promising with your guardian losing his/her light and they must leave the last city to go and reclaim their power. This is immediately thrown out the window after the first quest and then becomes a chore of go here and shoot this. It then cultivates into one of the laziest boss battles I have ever seen and has no payoff, at least the cinematic look cool. Then you back into a classic destiny venture of grinding for weapons and armor. However, Bungie this time around put heavy emphasis on the Eververse, Destiny 2's in game vendor for microtransactions. Bungie decided to encourage players to purchase in game loot boxes through extremely shady tactics such as:
    Gauging the amount of EXP earned
    Changing shaders to consumable items
    Putting a limit on how much loot you earn during their holiday event
    and so on...
    This is why I say don't buy Destiny 2, since Bungie doesn't respect their own community and issues more apologies than patches.    … Expand
  3. CaptainSmithey
    Feb 5, 2019
    4
    the port was amazing with the same solid gunplay as in Destiny 1, but the publisher held this game back far from its full potential. They again should have waited a year before rushing out an unfinished game. The trick to getting your money's worth with Destiny games is to wait a year to buy the full game with all the extra content for $40. They burned their day 1 supporters twice in a row.
  4. Nimbus1701
    Nov 5, 2017
    4
    PROS :

    - Beautifully rendered environment. Graphics are very very good. - Orchestral soundtrack is brilliant. Similar to the Halo games. - Shooting/Fighting/Combat mechanics are very good. - Co-Op can be fun, even with all the Cons described below. CONS : - Extremely poor campaign/story. - Short campaign/story. - Weapon and armor customisation is limited - you can    PROS :

    - Beautifully rendered environment. Graphics are very very good.

    - Orchestral soundtrack is brilliant. Similar to the Halo games.

    - Shooting/Fighting/Combat mechanics are very good.

    - Co-Op can be fun, even with all the Cons described below.

    CONS :

    - Extremely poor campaign/story.

    - Short campaign/story.

    - Weapon and armor customisation is limited - you can only make slight adjustments.

    - Content is full of padding and rehashed/reworded quests.

    - Content is repetitive, and similar to stuff found in budget F2P games.

    - Most of the game is empty space, empty corridors and empty buildings, connected by 'rooms' or 'courtyards' of enemies. Again, similar to budget games.

    - It feels like the game has been built as a DLC platform. First DLC being released a couple of months after the main game.

    - The endgame is relatively stale and empty, as other (non professional) reviewers have said. What content has been offered is unrewarding; The stuff that is rewarding is limited to weekly-reset quests.

    Score : a solid 4/10.    … Expand
  5. robomartion
    Oct 22, 2019
    4
    Initially exciting gameplay with high production value reminiscent of Halo's golden era, but without a healthy community and strange and empty hub level, the premise of levelling and building your character never seems all that important or even interesting and quickly grows old. Destiny 2 would have done far better as an open world MMO than the oddly disconnected thing that it is. WithoutInitially exciting gameplay with high production value reminiscent of Halo's golden era, but without a healthy community and strange and empty hub level, the premise of levelling and building your character never seems all that important or even interesting and quickly grows old. Destiny 2 would have done far better as an open world MMO than the oddly disconnected thing that it is. Without the involvement of Activision perhaps Bungie might have made something great here. All that money and nothing much to show for it. Instead it's a software-as-a-service masquerading as a first person looter shooter that is neither as rewarding or intriguing as it should be and tries to eek out as much money out of the player as possible with content locked behind paywalls (perhaps to recoup the ridiculous amount of money that went in to marketing it) and that's where it all comes crashing down.… Expand
  6. Saxifraga
    Nov 1, 2017
    4
    There is only one explanaition for the overall enthusiastic praise in all those gaming magazines: CORRUPTION.
    How can a game that is much worse than D1:Age of Triumph and is missing most of its QoL features (D1 didn't have many!!!) get 9/10!?!?!?! WTF!
    It looks like Bungie and Activision have enough influence that nobody tries to give you an honest review other than some YTs like Angry    There is only one explanaition for the overall enthusiastic praise in all those gaming magazines: CORRUPTION.
    How can a game that is much worse than D1:Age of Triumph and is missing most of its QoL features (D1 didn't have many!!!) get 9/10!?!?!?! WTF!
    It looks like Bungie and Activision have enough influence that nobody tries to give you an honest review other than some YTs like Angry Joe or even better Skill_Up -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPC9k5Bxnxc&t=193s or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoTTB_hQMs&t    … Expand
  7. McEmow
    Nov 8, 2017
    4
    Destiny 1 has a soul. Destiny 2 does not.
    It is obvious Bungie didn't have their creative freedom for this game. No wonder most of the team left. Activiision is making Destiny and COD the same game. 4/10.
  8. xavia91
    Nov 30, 2017
    4
    The graphics are quite nice, but that is about all positive feedback I can give to this game.

    The writing is boring, the level design is horrible, absolutely empty levels with some brainless enemies,
    they ll just crouch behind cover and do nothing even though you just shot 2 guys next to them...
  9. Sucheit
    Nov 9, 2017
    4
    until the end game ive been enjoying it a lot but game's end game content is coop missions for 3 or 6 players and there is no queue for this missions. youre supposed to form a fireteam yourself but this game does have simple communication tools to form groups with people like CHAT, yes MMO game in 2017 does not have a chat nor hub chat nor clan chat nor zone chat theres only fireteam chatuntil the end game ive been enjoying it a lot but game's end game content is coop missions for 3 or 6 players and there is no queue for this missions. youre supposed to form a fireteam yourself but this game does have simple communication tools to form groups with people like CHAT, yes MMO game in 2017 does not have a chat nor hub chat nor clan chat nor zone chat theres only fireteam chat but are you supposed to form fire team with no basic communication tools? just invite random people in the hub? and it turned out u can form teams on their pathetic site. are you **** kidding me? who does that? why cant this be in the game? in conclusion its a huge disappointment/… Expand
  10. ceromus
    Oct 6, 2018
    4
    Update: With the forsaken changes I am now lowering my rating to 4. Dramatically increasing the TTK like that and changing the whole gear system was totally uncalled for. I liked sacrificing recovery and mobility to have 9 resilience to survive an extra shot but now thats over. Should have left the power weapons alone bungie.

    This is my favorite game to play a few hours weekly. I    Update: With the forsaken changes I am now lowering my rating to 4. Dramatically increasing the TTK like that and changing the whole gear system was totally uncalled for. I liked sacrificing recovery and mobility to have 9 resilience to survive an extra shot but now thats over. Should have left the power weapons alone bungie.

    This is my favorite game to play a few hours weekly. I think it was well worth the price and I recommend the game to anyone that:
    1. Enjoys PvP with a slower TTK (time to kill). If you don't enjoy PvP you're going to be disappointed.
    2. Plays it as their side MMO, don't expect to try to pull 20+ hours every week and have fun unless you enjoy grinding.    … Expand
  11. Navashed
    Nov 1, 2017
    4
    Not a very good game, especially considering its budget.

    Masquerades as an MMO but falls dreadfully short. Emulates some of the worst aspects of latter-day World of Warcraft such as world quests, randomized gear, being constantly showered with irrelevant loot, a "leveling" experience so brief as to be meaningless, a fear of making in-game currency valuable, and an unhealthy obsession    Not a very good game, especially considering its budget.

    Masquerades as an MMO but falls dreadfully short. Emulates some of the worst aspects of latter-day World of Warcraft such as world quests, randomized gear, being constantly showered with irrelevant loot, a "leveling" experience so brief as to be meaningless, a fear of making in-game currency valuable, and an unhealthy obsession with item level undermined by a fear of making item level relevant to gameplay. The result is a game focused on gear which has an uncertain relationship to actual gameplay and sometimes none at all.

    The world is small, load times are intrusive, interactions with other players are minimal, and the menus are unnecessarily unwieldy.

    On the plus side, many of the guns are well-designed and satisfying to use. Item stats can be customized with a remarkable degree of depth that stands prominently in contrast to the rest of the game's absence of subtlety.

    The PvP maps are fairly well designed. You won't find yourself being shot in the back or unable to find cover very often, particularly just as you spawn. The absence of large battles is sorely noted, however.

    The game is plagued by "ultimates," following the model of Overwatch/League of Legends/DotA. Periodically players receive an unreasonable increase to their power, which is supposed to be "fun" and to mix up the gameplay. Thankfully, the ultimates in this game are not quite as frequent nor as powerful as the ones found in Overwatch. Whereas in Overwatch you may find that an unpleasantly large proportion of your deaths are caused by someone's ultimate, and that you are generally powerless against someone using their ultimate, in Destiny 2 you will feel that you still have a fighting chance against most ultimates and consequently they will not amount to a majority of your deaths.

    As for the the game's story, it is an unmitigated disaster. The writing is inexcusable and frankly embarrassing. The villain is not in the least bit compelling, commanding absolutely no respect whatsoever. An attempt was made to make up for what he lacked in character with sheer bulk, with the end result being a sort of fat, alien Bane recycling lazy dialogue about how he is the bad guy.

    The protagonists suffer from a similar flatness of character. Their names are not memorable over the course of the entire campaign, even the "funny robot" who is meant to be the one guy you actually remember. The proliferation of "token minorities" among the cast stands as testament to their absence of value as narrative vehicles.

    The abundance of cutscenes during the campaign is painful, particularly when considering their high-budget nature and their simultaneous complete lack of meaningful narrative. If the campaign had had a handful of lazily-crafted cutscenes to go along with their lazy story it would have been easier to forgive the campaign as merely an unwelcome tutorial, but the barrage of high-budget cutscenes instead leaves one with an impression of the vast waste of resources that went into this uninspired portion of the game. Perhaps the game could have been $10-$20 cheaper if only this embarrassment of a campaign had not left the drawing board.    … Expand
  12. Jmaconpc
    Nov 7, 2017
    4
    This game is boring.
    The story is non existent.
    The writing is cringey.
    The best cosmetic stuff is behind micro-transactions.
    The combat is ok.

    The positive reviews gave me hope but I regret buying this game.
  13. Shtopor
    Oct 25, 2017
    4
    PC version is 10 out of 10, nice graphics, nice sound, good optimization.
    But story and gameplay are bad.
    The game is overpriced and boring, like a bad copy of **** without items, abilities and fun.
    4/10
  14. IvanLiberator
    Oct 26, 2017
    4
    Best part of this game was a refund I did yesterday.
    Game was unplayable for me, I had memory leaks and had to restart game every 15 minutes.
    And of course game isn't good by itself, It's like you play some mediocre shooter from 2003.
  15. Grayskull
    Oct 29, 2017
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First, the good: The game looks amazing and the music is great. Now the bad: Literally everything else. The plot is shallow, filled with characters that are generic, lifeless, and utterly devoid of any reason as to why you might care about them. The main baddy, Gaul, has no motivation for anything he does other than "he's a bad guy", no backstory, and no reason for doing anything he does. He spends the entire game telling everyone who's around during his cutscenes about how he wants to be "chosen" by the Traveller to receive the light, and then at the end of the game, decides **** it, Ima take the light like everyone's been telling me to the entire game" with absolutely no acknowledgement about this sudden and drastic change of heart nor any justification. The NPC protagonists are lifeless, flat, 2-dimensional objects who serve no purpose except as narrative devices to further what can only generously be called a plot. The voice acting is awful, with the exception of Nathan Fillion, and even he is forced to work with bad, non-sensical writing (robots don't eat, so why a joke about shooting the big baddy in the head and then eating a sandwich?). The strikes are boring and linear. Run here, kill some of them, get to the end, kill a boss that is just a scaled up version of one of the thousands of baddies you've killed up to that point. Rinse, repeat. The gameplay consists of just putting as many bullets downrange as possible while occasionally meleeing when things get too close. There is never any sense of tension or risk in this game, because you can either respawn immediately after you die thanks to having "The Light", or respawn 10 feet further back because the game implemented a checkpoint system for areas where "respawning is limited." Your choice in character class does not matter, as it won't have any impact on how you play the game. Your weapon choice has virtually no impact on the tactics you must employ (as the only viable tactic is "shoot lots of bullets into boring enemies and melee if they're close enough"), and nor does your skill choice, as the skills are on such a long cooldown that they don't impact the gameplay either.

    PVP is just terrible, missing basic features like an in-game scoreboard, the ability to choose what type of PvP contest you engage in, the matchmaking has no regard for power level or skill, and power weapons/power abilities are so unbalanced as to simply be "I win fights for 10 seconds" buttons. This results in a PvP where games are almost always decidedly one-sided. The game doesn't even do basic things as punish people who choose to leave PvP in the middle of a match.

    I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that this game feels like it was made by a committee of people who don't really like video games, and instead of opting for challenge or to take any risks, just mashed together a bunch of elements that "video games are supposed to have". The result is an undirected mess with neither heart, soul, or anything interesting to say. But it is very pretty.    … Expand
  16. Avetarx
    Nov 24, 2017
    4
    Like a "turd wrapped in a fancy paper" - this game looks good,
    but has nothing interesting inside, when you look closer.
    It reeks of poorly written story (although slightly better than first Destiny). Game is filled with poor voice acting and sometimes cringe-worthy dialogues (hi FailSafe) are doing no favor to this game. Boring, uninspired and repetitive gameplay, would disappoint    Like a "turd wrapped in a fancy paper" - this game looks good,
    but has nothing interesting inside, when you look closer.
    It reeks of poorly written story (although slightly better than first Destiny).
    Game is filled with poor voice acting and sometimes cringe-worthy dialogues (hi FailSafe)
    are doing no favor to this game. Boring, uninspired and repetitive gameplay,
    would disappoint even die-hard Destiny and Bungie fans.
    Multiplayer matches don't have much to offer either, other than a few boring modes,
    network problems and long matchmaking.
    This is not a sequel, it's even worse than the original and feels like a cashgrab.
    Bungie should be ashamed of themselves, they could have done so much better.    … Expand
  17. nbr
    Nov 30, 2017
    4
    While For Honor was a multiplayer game without multiplayer, this is a 50% pvp game without pvp.
    1) Lags are too big for a shooter that wants to be competitive
    2) Poor matchmaking: you often happen to play against people with much higher elo each than any of your teammates. Inevitable 1+1+1+1 vs 4-premade also shows that Bungie learned nothing about pvp during past 3 years. 3) Poor    While For Honor was a multiplayer game without multiplayer, this is a 50% pvp game without pvp.
    1) Lags are too big for a shooter that wants to be competitive
    2) Poor matchmaking: you often happen to play against people with much higher elo each than any of your teammates. Inevitable 1+1+1+1 vs 4-premade also shows that Bungie learned nothing about pvp during past 3 years.
    3) Poor weapon balance: several weapons are superior while most others are far worse

    Destiny 2 in general: while every game journalist (never believe them) yelled before the release that the game is perfectly optimized, in fact - optimization is ok at most. There is almost NO antialiasing.
    Soundtrack is great, storyline is not bad, but this doesn't help much.    … Expand
  18. thomjohn
    Dec 6, 2017
    4
    I want to love this game really bad but I just cant. Bungie messed up on so many levels. The endgame is just not there and it doesn't feel rewarding or enjoyable to play. All the ''good'' content which infact is extremely mediocre is stuck behind a paywall, the exotics are extremely easy to obtain and not even that good, there is no cool cosmetic drops from the raids or the harderI want to love this game really bad but I just cant. Bungie messed up on so many levels. The endgame is just not there and it doesn't feel rewarding or enjoyable to play. All the ''good'' content which infact is extremely mediocre is stuck behind a paywall, the exotics are extremely easy to obtain and not even that good, there is no cool cosmetic drops from the raids or the harder contents, the pvp has horrible matchmaking and isn't that fun to begin with. Bungie has created an extremely casual and mediocre game and haven't learned a thing the past years developing destiny 1.… Expand
  19. TrustMeDude
    Jul 21, 2018
    4
    Completely Honest Review (MUST READ FOR PEOPLE PLANNING TO BUY THE GAME)

    Destiny 2 is not a sequel, its more of a reworked/reboot of Destiny 1 addressing all the issues that players had problems with and fixing them but in doing so, also introduced new problems in the process. To be blunt, I believe that this game is not worth your time or your efforts and is a very subpar game    Completely Honest Review (MUST READ FOR PEOPLE PLANNING TO BUY THE GAME)

    Destiny 2 is not a sequel, its more of a reworked/reboot of Destiny 1 addressing all the issues that players had problems with and fixing them but in doing so, also introduced new problems in the process. To be blunt, I believe that this game is not worth your time or your efforts and is a very subpar game overall. Discussed below are the different aspects of the game, explaining whether the aspect is a strong point or a weak point of the game. I highly advise you read to the end of the review.

    Gameplay

    The gameplay within Destiny 2 is one of the best in games currently and certainly the best within its genre being a Loot Shooter. Bungie has outdone themselves much like the first game with their intriguing "Supers" and abilities featured in the the three classes in the game: Warlock, Titan and Hunter. The mobility and verticality is something that feels familiar to players of COD Black Ops 3, Advanced Warfare, Infinite Warfare and Titanfall 1&2. This is accentuated further during the "Supers" where you truly feel powerful and almighty which makes for a great experience.

    Animations & Graphics

    Again, credit has to be given where it's due, Destiny 2 has some of the best graphics in games today with cool, breathtaking animations that immediately make the user feel godlike and incredibly satisfied with the game.

    Story & Progression

    The one extreme down point in Destiny 1 was it's embarrassing lack of story telling and that is something that the devs at Bungie took into consideration when creating Destiny 2. Although the story in Destiny 2 is a lot more comprehensive, it's by far one of the most cliche story lines in a game with themes recycled from other games as well as movies.

    Progression wise, Destiny is one of those games that really gets you excited in the early stages in the game as any game should, with the early progression really keeping players glued to their machines, being as it's extremely rewarding and attractive. It was refreshing to see the new take on how the player obtains their "Super" ability through the broken shards of the Traveller where you complete a short mission to activate your unique 'relic' depending on the three subclasses being Arc, Void or Solar.

    Looting

    The big boy of the game, one of the main reasons you play the game and quite possibly the ONLY reason you might've thought when considering the game. So, has it been done well? Yes but to a certain extent. Compared to the first game, where legendary weapons and armour were a chore to get and exotics were borderline impossible at times, Destiny 2 eliminates that by giving all players a fair chance to obtain the weapons they want without all the hassle. Early on, you will find how frequent legendaries drop and the few rare (but not extremely rare) chances that even exotics drop for you, which gets you hyped and yearning for more. Even within the main story itself exotics are given as mission rewards. Depending on your class, you will earn armour pieces unique to it with one mission giving you the rather difficult option between 3 formidable exotic weapons. As a consequence, this quickly becomes the downfall of the game as you realise the challenge, as in the REAL grind for exotic weapons, has been snatched away and soon, it doesn't matter what you earn from the game as everything stops feeling epic, given how often you obtain high rated gear. It was a great gesture removing the encrypted engrams that really sent people over the edge in the first game, but it really doesn't help the game's case when you spend hours grinding to obtain exotic engrams only to get DUPLICATES, meaning getting the same weapon/armour piece you already own. The exotic quests are nothing special, just a different way of eliminating foes and earning your "badass" exotic weapon at the end of it and so don't be too excited.

    DLC

    Notably, the date of this review is extremely late and rightfully so as I just had to write this review upon the announcement of the Destiny Forsaken Expansion, priced at $55 AUD with $30 paid updates under their so called "Annual Pass". If you take into account the original price of the game being $70 itself with the two already released expansions - Curse of Osiris & Warmind - priced at $30 for both, the total price comes to $185 AUD. I'm sorry but this unacceptable and rather shameful to see how much money both Activision and Bungie are expecting from fans for just ONE game. It's outrageous that payments for increased end game content is now a necessity for these two companies where other games who work on a free to play model such as Warframe are offering their fan base rich, sustained and FREE updates.

    Overall

    Score = 5/10 for the game before Forsaken
    3/10 for the game after Forsaken

    I would say just don't get the game but you're free to choose how you spend your money, just be satisfied. For your own sake.    … Expand
  20. MrElazug
    Jan 1, 2019
    4
    this game suuuuuucckkkkssss dude totaly waste of disk space on my computer.i want to uninstall it but i watied so long to install it at least it was free i just wasted my time time in my life
  21. Lizarino
    Jul 13, 2020
    4
    Edit 2020: Definitely don't recommend playing Destiny 2 anymore due to them removing older content and putting a cap on gear and weapons forcing you to get rid of things you like using and equipping newer stuff, further making you grind.
    Also the more I played the more I realised how D2 has far too much time-limited content. This isn't fun they're taking this same bad decision further.    Edit 2020: Definitely don't recommend playing Destiny 2 anymore due to them removing older content and putting a cap on gear and weapons forcing you to get rid of things you like using and equipping newer stuff, further making you grind.
    Also the more I played the more I realised how D2 has far too much time-limited content. This isn't fun they're taking this same bad decision further.

    Good game but with way too many problems

    Nothing is really explained to new players
    You have to go out of your way to get the main quests
    Frequent disconnects and crashes
    Unbalanced guns
    Forced to start at power level 750
    Player collision that just gets you killed
    Several achievements broken if you don't own the DLC    … Expand
  22. MrHydralisk
    Oct 16, 2019
    4
    After Warframe, this game can neither hook me nor interest me. Graphics may be a bit better, but it’s not the main thing. Feelings of battle and shooting seem constrained. PvP is certainly good, but I'm more of a PvE fan. The game feels slow (by gameplay). And I really tried to get involved in the game for a month, but for me, this is not something I would like to spend time on. Of course,After Warframe, this game can neither hook me nor interest me. Graphics may be a bit better, but it’s not the main thing. Feelings of battle and shooting seem constrained. PvP is certainly good, but I'm more of a PvE fan. The game feels slow (by gameplay). And I really tried to get involved in the game for a month, but for me, this is not something I would like to spend time on. Of course, I would like something to change in the future, but they won’t definitely remake the basis of the game.… Expand
  23. Paultimate
    Mar 2, 2020
    4
    D2s only real triumph is to highlight how much most "professional' critics are just tools. They do gamers are disservice and should be ridiculed. D2 is a 7/10 game in with a 2/10 delivery. It pretends to be open world. Its about as open world as a Disneyland ride. The music is good, the visuals very good and the gameplay pretty fun. The disjointed nature of it makes new players NOT want toD2s only real triumph is to highlight how much most "professional' critics are just tools. They do gamers are disservice and should be ridiculed. D2 is a 7/10 game in with a 2/10 delivery. It pretends to be open world. Its about as open world as a Disneyland ride. The music is good, the visuals very good and the gameplay pretty fun. The disjointed nature of it makes new players NOT want to play. Its frustrating and VERY unintuitive. The humor is almost never clever while it pretends to be, more cringy than silly and its mostly annoying more than likable.

    I give this a 4 out of 10.    … Expand
  24. S3XU4LH34L1NG
    Mar 27, 2021
    4
    This is a strange one. I clearly poured in some hours but after all i feel miserable about this game. Overall i'd say do not get into this one. It will suck out your life and only irritate you.

    +graphics +artistic vision / Style +gun play +/- tons of content but only a very very little part really matters -laughable idea of "hard content" and difficulty -laughable RPG features /    This is a strange one. I clearly poured in some hours but after all i feel miserable about this game. Overall i'd say do not get into this one. It will suck out your life and only irritate you.

    +graphics
    +artistic vision / Style
    +gun play
    +/- tons of content but only a very very little part really matters
    -laughable idea of "hard content" and difficulty
    -laughable RPG features / builds
    -the developers (balance, monetazation, content cadence, vision, ...)
    -game balance is scuffed due to synchronization of PVP / PVE
    -optimazation
    -division of player base. New paid content is P2W.
    -realistic price point is ~ 60 bucks (sale) + ongoing season pass fee. ITS NOT F2P AT ALL.
    -extremly toxic fan base
    -so many cheaters in PVP    … Expand
  25. basichuman
    Feb 11, 2021
    4
    Storytelling 3/10
    Gameplay 8/10
    content 5/10

    OP supers, bad content and horrible pvp make this game very bad to me.
    If you wanna play a good mmo play wow. Wow is still better than crap.
  26. elefsar
    Apr 22, 2021
    4
    Action is not bad but game play is somewhat not pulling the player inside..
  27. Acevi6
    Jan 18, 2023
    4
    How no one at bungie seems to see the consequences of intentionally half assing new releases is beyond me. If you are listening bungie you should be ashamed. You trained your players like dogs to not expect high end and innovative content. If youre a returning player dont even bother, the bungie you knew is dead.

    For new players, steer away from this game. There are better ways to spend    How no one at bungie seems to see the consequences of intentionally half assing new releases is beyond me. If you are listening bungie you should be ashamed. You trained your players like dogs to not expect high end and innovative content. If youre a returning player dont even bother, the bungie you knew is dead.

    For new players, steer away from this game. There are better ways to spend your time, hard earned money, effort, and dedication.    … Expand
  28. jbond2605
    Aug 26, 2023
    4
    As someone who started playing in 2022, I have to say that it was fun for the first 50-100 hours. After that, the game got repetitive. And to keep things exciting, instead of getting stuck in the same old routine, I needed to buy extra content.(441 hours and 100% completion)
  29. Allions
    Dec 8, 2017
    3
    Destiny 2 was good and quite funny... but then... here it comes the DLC Paywall for vanilla content of Destiny 2: if you own Destiny 2 and you don't buy the DLC Curse of Osiris you can throw the game in the trash. ARE YOU SERIOUS Bungie? I need to pay another 20 bucks for a recycled copy paste - and 2 hours campaign after paying the full price of the main game?
  30. PC_Gamer_007
    Jan 12, 2018
    3
    Destiny 2 has poetical.
    for now its a 3.0
    No public CHAT FOR PC! -5 points. This is honestly the BIGGEST problem with this game. You cannot find any group to play anything harder then heroic strikes. Everything else you need a team and you can't find one in game. The online system is so BAD, its totally disconnected. You have to ad randoms to friend list then invite to group.    Destiny 2 has poetical.
    for now its a 3.0

    No public CHAT FOR PC! -5 points. This is honestly the BIGGEST problem with this game. You cannot find any group to play anything harder then heroic strikes. Everything else you need a team and you can't find one in game. The online system is so BAD, its totally disconnected. You have to ad randoms to friend list then invite to group. PC players are banding this game for this reason alone. Lack of content does suck, but when you can even play the content they have because you cna't find a group in game sucks way more.

    The game it self is a solid shooter, but for kids. If you want anything better go play the Division. in 1.8 its about 10x better for content and social aspects. if the Division was a action FPS like destiny 2, I would never even bother with destiny 2 in the first place.

    The great story ? what ? who cares about story its a grind game. if any one plays this game for story you have low standards.

    to bad I have to give this a solid shooter such bad score. The technical aspect is a 9 or a 10! but the social design is total garbage made for sensitive like kids that should go play Nintendo.    … Expand
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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 36 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 36
  3. Negative: 0 out of 36
  1. Cubed3
    Feb 6, 2018
    70
    While Destiny 2 has a solid foundation and a robust story campaign, its endgame content feels a little lacklustre. The sandbox doesn't have a whole lot of depth, and plumbing each of the hub worlds for secrets doesn't feel that rewarding. Grinding Public Events, Raids, and Strikes with friends is definitely a lot of fun, but there's a huge disconnect between content being cleared and your character strength increasing. There's still a lot of room for Destiny 2 to grow but, for now, it's still got a few kinks to work out.
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  2. CD-Action
    Jan 10, 2018
    95
    In a nutshell, Destiny 2 for PC is the same outstanding game we played on consoles, but even more enjoyable thanks to spectacular visuals, masterful optimization and much more suitable controls. [13/2017, p.75]
  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 2, 2018
    80
    Play this great shooter with your friends, it pays off. Then it will offer hours and hours of great fun without the stereotype. But be prepared the endgame will thoroughly test your patience and willingness to grind. [Issue#280]
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