Destiny 2

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  1. DarkCobalt
    Dec 10, 2017
    2
    Fun gunplay, nice visuals. That's about it. They literally ripped a PvP game mode, Trials of the Nine, and locked it behind the expansion. They raised the level cap of the most difficult raid to be beyond the obtainable amount. Keep in mind you ARE PAYING FOR THIS CONTENT with 60$, AS ADVERTISED, and you won't be able to enjoy it unless you shell out another 20$ for a DLC that is pitifullyFun gunplay, nice visuals. That's about it. They literally ripped a PvP game mode, Trials of the Nine, and locked it behind the expansion. They raised the level cap of the most difficult raid to be beyond the obtainable amount. Keep in mind you ARE PAYING FOR THIS CONTENT with 60$, AS ADVERTISED, and you won't be able to enjoy it unless you shell out another 20$ for a DLC that is pitifully devoid of content and lacking in scale whatsoever. Avoid this game. There's no reason to waste your time in it if you plan on playing it like an MMORPG. There's plenty of other titles to dedicate time to, no reason to shell out 60$ for a mediocre experience from a developer that you can't trust.… Expand
  2. numenoreen
    Dec 11, 2017
    2
    Interesting concept of a game. So you're basically paying for a 4 hours campaign, mindless grinding, everything is behind a paywall or random loot boxes. There have been, and will be, countless more interesting games with more content and less contempt to its buyers, many of which are free.

    Story is bland and clearly all budget went to rendering and voice actors. Well guess what, your    Interesting concept of a game. So you're basically paying for a 4 hours campaign, mindless grinding, everything is behind a paywall or random loot boxes. There have been, and will be, countless more interesting games with more content and less contempt to its buyers, many of which are free.

    Story is bland and clearly all budget went to rendering and voice actors. Well guess what, your fancy movies and celebrities dont make up for boring narrative, mindless grinding and cash squeezing at every corner.

    No gameplay, no feeling, no feelings, no nothing. You want to buy it ? Well aint much in it for you. it's 2017 guys, and you're killing your own player base because... profits, I guess. Hope you will soon feel the comeback coming.    … Expand
  3. SaberwolfTribal
    Feb 10, 2018
    2
    The Story is pretty fun to run through with a team of friends but as soon as I hit endgame it quickly drained any sense of fun.

    Nightfalls, which used to be no revives and kick out once everyone is dead, are now a 15 minute sprint through enemies that chew you like bubble gum. even running through some of the maps you'll be hard pressed to kill in enough time, this isn't fun. It never    The Story is pretty fun to run through with a team of friends but as soon as I hit endgame it quickly drained any sense of fun.

    Nightfalls, which used to be no revives and kick out once everyone is dead, are now a 15 minute sprint through enemies that chew you like bubble gum. even running through some of the maps you'll be hard pressed to kill in enough time, this isn't fun. It never was fun. being timed in a twitch shooter is fine for achievements but some of us just wanting some gear. seriously remove the stupid timer. If the "hardcore" want to challenge themselves, separate that mode and give them more, but let us just fight something really hard without a damn timer.

    Gear almost never is better than what you currently have. I've been playing for 2 days and seem stuck on level 21 and 22 gear with every engram being lower than that even. I've really just stopped trying and moved onto other games that I don't have to fight RNG for.

    Events are garbage, most you have to pay to participate. paying in a game you already payed, not to mention none of the guns really have that good feel to them that other shooter games seem to have.

    PvP is the same boring mess it always was. Use auto-rifle or hand cannon, get super, wreck faces, hear someone else use super, run away. As someone who constantly had a 3.0 or high K/D rate I can say that I didn't have fun doing it. maps still have that issue where slight inclines can stop you from moving if it isn't "ramped" properly. Meaning if you aren't jumping you just don't move.

    I can't say one thing about a raid because I'll probably never have enough interest in the game to get that far. all the stuff that should gear you for the raid is just a random chance.

    TL;DR AVOID THIS GAME! DESTINY 1 IS A LOT BETTER! And that really pains me to say that...at least there is real progression in that game.    … Expand
  4. NotDestined
    Jun 2, 2018
    2
    This is the most empty game I've played. By empty I mean the dialogue. The npc dialoge does not make any sense whatsever, it's like it was designed to waste your time and make you dumb. The story makes zero sense. To sum up...it's a piece of s*** in terms of story and anything deep, I swear kindergarten kids could write better dialogue and story than this. If something was meant to makeThis is the most empty game I've played. By empty I mean the dialogue. The npc dialoge does not make any sense whatsever, it's like it was designed to waste your time and make you dumb. The story makes zero sense. To sum up...it's a piece of s*** in terms of story and anything deep, I swear kindergarten kids could write better dialogue and story than this. If something was meant to make you dumb on purpose and leave you with less brain cells than before you started, then this is it.

    The gameplay by itself is alright, nothing special, turn your brain off and shoot while collecting better gear. The same old mmo formula. It's good to reminisce of the Halo games on PC, as I have not had a xbox in a long time and haven't had the chance to play anything Bungie in years.It's alright for a few hours of shooting but gameplay? You can run past most of the enemies until you're stuck in an arena and must kill some to progress..I realized I don't have to kill the enemies and can run past them most of the time.. Funny. Anyway..for a humble sale I got my moneys worth and experienced what these so called modern games are all about.

    Now Level lock behind paid dlc? I thought I was getting the full game with the humble bundle sale. Most games are free to play these days I doubt any paid games will survive for long, it's only a matter of time before the netflix of gaming comes along, see Origin vault.    … Expand
  5. VVhiteCrow
    Jun 3, 2018
    2
    Lets be clear: this games HAS great art, graphics, sound design, shooting mechanic and performance. But for all the rest, Im sorry to say this game's design middle fingers the **** out to the player ALL the time.
    - Paid enjoyment: Killing bosses/acomplishing missions gets you NOTHING. Want stuff? Pay up!
    - Crap story. Crap characters. - Ripped off content DLC. - Deceiving bosses. -    Lets be clear: this games HAS great art, graphics, sound design, shooting mechanic and performance. But for all the rest, Im sorry to say this game's design middle fingers the **** out to the player ALL the time.
    - Paid enjoyment: Killing bosses/acomplishing missions gets you NOTHING. Want stuff? Pay up!
    - Crap story. Crap characters.
    - Ripped off content DLC.
    - Deceiving bosses.
    - ...
    Although I enjoyed the campaign, I regret giving 12$ to devs screwing me over for more money.    … Expand
  6. TheLastVega
    Aug 22, 2018
    2
    Probably one of the biggest disappointments I have played in a while. Started off with four of my friends playing, then after a week two saw the light and ditched it. Only me and another friend remained only to get disappointed at the game play, boss fights, "dungeons", whatever. All boring and kill this guy for this loot at that is it. Stupid game, waste of our money.
  7. whydidthissuck
    Nov 7, 2018
    2
    Got this game fore free (glad i didn't pay for it). what i was really looking forward to was the PVP part, to bad. Unless you keep up with the latest expansions and max you level out you are just going to lose each fight. So in other words it's pay to win. Because i didn't buy all the DLC and max my level past lvl 20 for the base game i have half the power or less as compared to everyone else.
  8. tyrannus88
    Dec 21, 2018
    2
    What's the point of it being online? You see a few other people here and there but never once have I ever seen anyone EVER type ANYTHING in chat. Everything is done solo unless you have a friend in your fireteam. No group finder? If there is one, I can't find it because nothing is explained and the interface feels so cheap and confusing. You're forced to solo frustrating content because ofWhat's the point of it being online? You see a few other people here and there but never once have I ever seen anyone EVER type ANYTHING in chat. Everything is done solo unless you have a friend in your fireteam. No group finder? If there is one, I can't find it because nothing is explained and the interface feels so cheap and confusing. You're forced to solo frustrating content because of this. I don't even understand the point of the game. Just a loot fest for the sake of loot. Also I seem to get connectivity issues at the worst possible times. Because I can't open a ticket anywhere, here's how I'll compensate. Game is trash. Bright and shiny trash.… Expand
  9. Shynig4mi
    Dec 25, 2018
    2
    This game is both Awesome and Awful. I didn't played Destiny one, and this review addresses the entire game, including extensions at the moment I write this, meaning : Warmind, Forsaken and Orisis, with a little bit of Forges.

    It sold itself as a mix between Warframe, Borderlands, Halo and some MMORPG stuff. That's not wrong, but all these games are way better than this one. Summarize    This game is both Awesome and Awful. I didn't played Destiny one, and this review addresses the entire game, including extensions at the moment I write this, meaning : Warmind, Forsaken and Orisis, with a little bit of Forges.

    It sold itself as a mix between Warframe, Borderlands, Halo and some MMORPG stuff.
    That's not wrong, but all these games are way better than this one.
    Summarize : A not-so-bad game, but not as fun a Borderlands, not as dynamic as Warframe, and with a so-so story, with really timid MMORPG elements and waaaaayyyys to much grind and RNG.

    First, lets begin by what is good :
    Graphics are awesome, and the game is relatively light. There are a lot of stuff to do in the game, and a lot of Lore to explore.
    The gameplay is dynamic without being too slow, there is some room for coordination between players and the camera switching (from fps to tps) when using certain abilities etc is well made and pleasant. You can feel the inertia of your hits, movements, and yet the gameplay is extremely fluid.
    The build system, event if classes are not really so different from each others, seems at first really limited, but when reaching endgame, becomes really rich and the sum of tiny limited elements permits to do some nice and "original" builds. Every weapon is OK to use un PVE, even if some are better than others.

    Now, let's explain why this game does not have a 10, but only a 2.
    This game has one main issues : the progression system and the skin customization.
    The progression system is a really grindy one, and not really fun grind. You need a "power level" the damages you inflict and you take are representative of the difference of power between you and the PVE opponent. The higher the ratio between yours and his, the higher you will hit and the lower you will get hit.
    When progressing through the story, the required power level increases as well. At first this is not a bother, since you are into the game, and power level, given by your equipment, raises with every loots you get. But once reached the "soft cap", you need to do daily and weekly quests to get power level increasing and access new content. I'm at a point I finished the story of Forsaken, and I want to try the Forge. My power is 585 and the required is 615. Monsters there shred me while I need twice the normal amount of ammo to kill them. And it's frustrating, because it is not a problem of build or skill, only that my numbers are not high enough. Especially since the monsters are always the same since the beginning of the game...
    Another part of the progression system that bother me is the randomness of the loots. There is close to no way to influence what type of loot you want to get, and most of the loots are useless after you reach the soft cap. Weapons and items comes with "perks" on it, changing their abilities, but these are also completely random. So you just have to wait for the right item to come with the right perks.
    The idea is not so bad, because it somewhat forces players to try new weapons. But the reality is that if you like to try lots of builds like in a RPG, you will face a strong deception. As well as the exotic (rarest items possible) items, that are just as random as usual, and most of the time ends up being close to useless, especially because you can only equip two out of 3 weapons and 2 armor pieces.
    The sadest part of this is that the game is extremely rich of achievements and lore, and that none of them are used to get stuff.
    And armors are locked to a character class, so if you want to test all three classes at endgame, you have to do the grind three times somehow...
    Finally, armors are random, the perks on it are randoms, and the appearance as well, so you just can't really choose how you will look unless you are extra lucky. But in this case you should just try gambling instead of playing this game.
    Bonus : part of the gameplay, especially raids, does not have matchmaking and so you have to recruit people via clan or chat, unless you have five others persons playing with you.

    as a conclusion, this game is not bad, even quite good, but is definitely not worth it's price and the price of it's extensions. It can be interesting if you have friends, like 3 or 6, to play with.    … Expand
  10. Typing
    Apr 10, 2020
    2
    This game has the potential and definintly all the elements to be a top notch game but that's far from what it acrualy is. The game just gets boring after just 10 hours or so. It is very repetitive and the plot is certainly very shallow. Would definintly not recommend.
  11. FlaSwatta
    Aug 14, 2019
    2
    I'm going to get right to the point. This game is broken. It does not necessarily suck, but in no universe could this ever be considered fun. After (for some stupid reason) putting 150+ hours into this game, I have not once played a single match of pvp without feeling the urge to pull all my hair out. The meta is so strongly defined by equipment that either comes extreme endgame or hoursI'm going to get right to the point. This game is broken. It does not necessarily suck, but in no universe could this ever be considered fun. After (for some stupid reason) putting 150+ hours into this game, I have not once played a single match of pvp without feeling the urge to pull all my hair out. The meta is so strongly defined by equipment that either comes extreme endgame or hours and hours of grinding a single mission since the drop rates are so obscure. To put it simply, until you obtain these game-breaking items, there is no way you are ever going to have a good time in pvp. Out of hundreds of weapons and armor pieces to choose from, you are guarenteed to see maybe 3 different ones in play in pvp and even pve. It's unbelievable, and the developers sure take their sweet time between patches, leaving players with a mediocre experience for months at a time. It is a huge problem when players have been asking for changes and complete reworks to many of the games essential elements such as the ammo economy and supers. Supers are completely overpowered in both pve and pvp. They go from granting your entire fireteam invincibility for a long period of time or completely eliminating the need to reload. In pvp supers are going off constantly, and if you don't have a super to counter one on the enemy team, you are completely hopeless and will sometimes be killed more than once by the same guy in the same super. I can safely say avoid pvp at all costs. Unless you enjoy having a miserable grinding experience with terrible story progression for a price that this studio has some serious audacity asking for, I strongly advise avoiding this game and all its expansions until you find one hell of a discount.… Expand
  12. Leather_Moose
    Jun 24, 2020
    2
    After spending 70 hours, i realized that destiny is just a fancy package over bitter candy. Game is pretty, guns feels good, so does combat and balance of sub classes. However all that is being greatly overshadowed by the negatives.

    1. Game has no social system. there is no LFG tool, there is no search for clan tool, voice chat is bugged for half people. regular chat work in such a bad    After spending 70 hours, i realized that destiny is just a fancy package over bitter candy. Game is pretty, guns feels good, so does combat and balance of sub classes. However all that is being greatly overshadowed by the negatives.

    1. Game has no social system. there is no LFG tool, there is no search for clan tool, voice chat is bugged for half people. regular chat work in such a bad manner that people never use it, or even see messages. Like you sit in your main lobby, asking questions in general chat, but than it's just you, no one sees it, because chat is always hidden.

    2. End game content here is PVP (which is alright) and raids and dungeons (which are pretty much raids for small groups). These raids and dungeons are pure mini games, like jumping puzzles, riddle solving and etc. They have no noob difficulty where you would go into a guided raid, learn mechanics and etc. Nope, none of that, if you suck at solving riddles or jump puzzles, that's it. Lower difficulty only means mobs have less hp and less modefiers, but why would you care for it if you still cant complete the mini game in time.

    3. PvP, mean while it would be fun, but they removed match maker, so now there ton of skilled PVPers griefing on people who dont play pvp, or play a little just for fun. So yeah, go ahead and have your butt kicked.

    4. Game is not region locked, meaning that at about midnight, you will meet mostly Asian players, Asain clans, like from Korea, where gaming is a job. God forbid you want to do some pvp.

    5. Game has WoW style gear thread mill, meaning that you grind out your item level to the cap available in current season, when season ends, all that gear goes to hell and you have to regrind it over.

    6. campaigns are bad, specifically they have barely any narrative, or what you would call a good story. basically, you run up to campaign NPC, he than talk to you (havent seen mouth move or any thing, just voice). Than you accept the quest (campaign) and watch 15-30 seconds cinematic, after that you go grind outposts or kill juggernauts for 30 minutes, come back, hand in quest, rinse and repeat. This is literally boring.

    7. Game has no viable navigation. after tutorial you're swarmed with bunch of quests and bounties (literally another version of quests, just different name). from that point on you dont know what to do. game doesnt tells you where to go, how to advance, what is important in the game (yes important because old content's loot almost entirely obsolete) and etc.

    8. lastly, there are ton of bugs which still sprout out of no where, thats in a 2 year old game, like genral bugs, like calling character menu with bind wont work, quests glitching (wont let you complete) and many others.

    9. ah one more thing. like in every game there is meta, which is fine. but guns that dont make it into the meta, are obsolete, to the point that teams wont take you into the raid if you dont have specific guns. Needless to say, in pvp people with "right" guns will always kick your ass, simply because their time to kill is way better than yours.

    I feel bad as i already spend money on pass and 2 DLCs which ended up being trash, i cant get a refund as i played too long and i've only played for 2 weeks. I'll finish this season just to get my money worth and will part with the game.    … Expand
  13. Mapartipin
    Feb 12, 2020
    2
    Another lootbox game of endless farming, which does not bring any pleasure and just trying to make you addicted to gambling. Poor game mechanics for any idiot who launched a game. Good graphics, but poor personalization, there are no objects to interact with. Spaceships and revolvers ... Indian films have more logic than the plot of this game
  14. Tsiani
    Sep 6, 2020
    2
    I've played Destiny since the first game launched. I've had to take breaks from it for one reason or another. Starting with the last few DLCs of the first game I saw things being cut that really shouldn't have been cut and things added that shouldn't have been added. The downward spiral started when Destiny 2 launched. You are given the choice of importing your Destiny 1 character,I've played Destiny since the first game launched. I've had to take breaks from it for one reason or another. Starting with the last few DLCs of the first game I saw things being cut that really shouldn't have been cut and things added that shouldn't have been added. The downward spiral started when Destiny 2 launched. You are given the choice of importing your Destiny 1 character, awesome. However there is no actual reason to import, no unique dialog options, no unique gear, nothing but false hope. Then in the first mission you loose everything and it was all set up as "Take back what you lost" its actually "Lets start from a Clean Slate" instead. Then the shift to seasons brought the F.O.M.O (Fear of Missing out.) This basically made it so you have to play insane amounts or loose out on gear, unless you want to spend $50-$100 to purchase season ranks. There is very little replay ability once the campaign is finished. usually limited to Raids, Strikes, and the randomly selected 3 weekly heroic story missions. The game caters to the hardcore no stop gamers who have no life and once they get everything they want either move on to another game or go into the PvP arena and make a nuisance of themselves. There is also a large emphasis on the Crucible PvP. all the gear gets balanced shortly after its released so there isn't an unfair advantage in PvP. This is more commonly called "being Nerfed" this ends up more times than not making the gear almost worthless. Doubly so for gear nerfed for PvP reasons as they become a hindrance in PvE. There is no realism, a sidearm user rushing a LMG while being continuously pegged in the face but still takes out the LMG user? Nope nothing wrong with that, perfectly good. Yea, I call that broken.

    Now large amounts of content is being cut out because they are concerned the game is to large and they want to release more content. Now we are back to FOMO. This game is not casual player friendly. If you can't dedicate 3-4 hours a night and a good potion of your weekend you more than likely will loose out on portions of the game, and even if you do you are at the mercy of RNG(Random Number Generators) for loot. You can run the same thing 50 times and not get what you are after. Its very easy for casual players to either get fed up and quit, or just burn out from doing the same content repeatedly to get something before its removed. There has been some fun content, like season 9. But it was season content and was pulled from the game at the end of that season. Heck some of the content was even pulled during the season. Also the Forsaken DLC things were looking up, but it didn't hold.

    Those who say the game has potential, i completely agree. However its unrealized and ignored potential. Example, Destiny 1 the Guardian could talk. Then near the end all of a sudden, nope they are mute now. Then in Destiny 2 the Guardian is still mute and the Ghost does all the talking. Am I the only one who misses the banter between the Ghost and the Guardian from Destiny 1? It added depth. Then there was the tease of voice lines during the Forsalen Campaign. But that was more of a slap to the faces, they only have like 3 lines throughout the entire campaign, otherwise nope, just Ghost talking again.

    The change of Ghost's voice. This bugged be as Ghost went from "I have seen things, I know things." to the whole "I'm in charge, you listen to me" that he comes off as whiny arrogance. That I put on those who wrote the lines and scenes and insisted it be more "light-hearted" Both voice actors can do amazing things, but can only do so much when what they do is micromanaged by others.

    A big issue is the games lacks content, and what content it does have keeps getting cut. The game supports 4k resolution, its NOT going to be small in file size. If its a size issue, make the game modular, so gamers have the choice what they want installed at a given time. Or if they want everything then they can have all 100GB+. As for FOMO, its a mechanic to try and force players to play more and/or spend Real Life money to keep caught up. its a disservice to players, same with Gaming as a Service. Too many games require a server to play and when the server is shut down, well, can't play the game again, even as single player. For this game you really need to think to yourself "Do i want to play for casual fun, or spend every spare minute I have playing in a complicated timesink of a downward spiral." Unless there are large changes, I see the Destiny series will continue to struggle, or fall apart completely.    … Expand
  15. truandale
    Aug 23, 2022
    2
    Developers, we need to return the old content to the game. There is no desire to start playing the game now. It's like starting to watch a television series from the fifth season. At the same time, you will not be shown what happened in the previous series. Learn from WoW. All the old content is available there.
  16. TheLinkgirl
    Feb 13, 2023
    2
    There are some games that you're only going to get into if you buy them at launch or dedicate an absurd amount of time into getting into them in post. Destiny 2 is one of those games. Coming in as a new player is a terrible experience. It feels like there is simultaneously too much to do and barely anything to do. The whole experience is a confusing mess, and when you finally do get to doThere are some games that you're only going to get into if you buy them at launch or dedicate an absurd amount of time into getting into them in post. Destiny 2 is one of those games. Coming in as a new player is a terrible experience. It feels like there is simultaneously too much to do and barely anything to do. The whole experience is a confusing mess, and when you finally do get to do something, it's extremely lacking. I know I can't speak for those who have played the game since launch, but the new user experience feels abysmal.… Expand
  17. Coil8
    Jun 26, 2022
    2
    I have played this game for 36 days,1 hour and 32 minutes as of this day. I hope it will stay that way forever. Imagine shoving a lit match up your nose. You get 1 point each ten times you do this. 10 points and you can shove 2 lit matches up at a time. and after so long you can join 5 other people in a competitive nostril match competition that if you shove enough matches up your nose andI have played this game for 36 days,1 hour and 32 minutes as of this day. I hope it will stay that way forever. Imagine shoving a lit match up your nose. You get 1 point each ten times you do this. 10 points and you can shove 2 lit matches up at a time. and after so long you can join 5 other people in a competitive nostril match competition that if you shove enough matches up your nose and do a backflip into a pool of gasoline ten times each you can now shove 10,000 more matches up your nose at a time. That is the most effective way i can describe this "game" to you. How the mighty have fallen.… Expand
  18. HollowMoth
    Sep 3, 2023
    2
    Bruh what even is this **** When it was a paid game it was fine, but now it's filled with microtransactions and basically a **** job. Not worth your time.
  19. jade
    Nov 13, 2017
    1
    I've been playing this on and off for several weeks. In the first week I was able to complete the missions/story on 3 characters and get them up to a early raid power level (270-280)
    $60 for only 80 missions seemed wrong. Half of them re-ran you through the same areas multiple times with some different mobs and different voice acting. The same room was explained as different things    I've been playing this on and off for several weeks. In the first week I was able to complete the missions/story on 3 characters and get them up to a early raid power level (270-280)
    $60 for only 80 missions seemed wrong. Half of them re-ran you through the same areas multiple times with some different mobs and different voice acting. The same room was explained as different things depending on the quest. It was fun, but then I tried playing with a friend. We game a lot and don't have networking issues, however on this game we were plagued with disconnects. Also as we warped to different zones on the same map we had to communicate where we were as there was no map indicator. Strikes were OK, but the raiding is difficult unless you're part of a big clan. 3rd party tools are being used to find players, which require adding b.net friends and inviting them to a party and then dropping them at the end of the run.

    tldr: not enough content for $60, missing a pug option or in game community system to find & meet new players. Already going to make my account useless in a month with DLC, so it costs about $100 to buy in and stay relevant for 9 months.    … Expand
  20. Vasot
    Jul 20, 2019
    1
    How some people can support this mindless always-online junk. It's so boring and grindy and repetitve with a bad AI and wanky characters and a silly story which is only interesting to 10 year old kids.
  21. TitaniumDragon
    May 31, 2018
    1
    Destiny 2 is the game made by Organization XIII when Square-Enix took a decade and a half to release Kingdom Hearts 3. Much like the nobodies of the Kingdom Hearts universe, Destiny 2 is a game that is superficially beautiful and perfect – outwardly, everything looks okay. It has great graphics, a solid graphical style, and decent gunplay.

    But when you go past the surface, you realize    Destiny 2 is the game made by Organization XIII when Square-Enix took a decade and a half to release Kingdom Hearts 3. Much like the nobodies of the Kingdom Hearts universe, Destiny 2 is a game that is superficially beautiful and perfect – outwardly, everything looks okay. It has great graphics, a solid graphical style, and decent gunplay.

    But when you go past the surface, you realize that there’s nothing inside – the game has no heart.

    Destiny 2 is basically a Borderlands MMORPG – a looter-shooter, with some PvP arena multiplayer thrown in. It is a MMORPG – you constantly see players around you in the world – which of course makes the game’s single-player campaign, of you being the LONE GUARDIAN who has REGAINED THEIR LIGHT (i.e. their superpowers) into a bit of a farce, what with all those other lone heroes who saved the world running around with you.

    But let’s face it – you don’t care about the story.

    And that’s a problem, really, because Destiny 2, like all games, needs something for you to care about. But the problem is, Destiny 2 doesn’t provide it.

    The world? There’s pretty much no real lore to it – everything feels very arbitrary. You fight some bad guys, but there’s no real coherence to it. You have some allies, but they’re just kind of there. What’s the point of it all? I don’t even know, as I never really got to care about any of them. You don’t spend a whole lot of time around any of them, and they’re mostly about business rather than having any sort of personal character that you’d latch onto. Cayde is the “funny irresponsible one”, and the others are… pretty much just various kinds of military leaders, really. There’s a sniper in one area who is an older guy who wants to be left to snipe in peace, but while he babbles about personal stuff a little (more so than other people), there’s not really enough there to latch onto.

    So what are the stakes? There really aren’t any. Destiny 2 has the shape of a world, but it has none of the form or substance, and it is blatantly there just to deliver on its looter shooter nature.

    You might think that good core gameplay would make up for this fact. Alas, it really doesn’t. The game does have decent variety for a campaign of its (fairly brief) length – you’ve got a reasonable variety of big beefy guys who move around on jetpacks and who are pretty tough, machine enemies with glowy spots in non-standard locations as their weapon point rather than just the head, more slender, agile enemies who spend a lot of time running around, and the “magical” enemies lead by flying wizards. Each of these factions has multiple enemy types, including a few different types that can be made into bosses, and they work well enough for what they are – but the problem is that it all ultimately feels rather hollow. The optimal strategy against all of them is either “stand behind cover and shoot until you’re injured, then go behind it to heal” or “just keep shooting the melee enemies as they keep rushing at you”. It is only in a few places that the game really does anything to mix this up, having enemies spawn in behind you and forcing you to move, or having enemies rush at you to melee you while there’s a bunch of enemies providing covering fire, and these dynamic moments are where the game is the most fun.

    But most of the game is not this, but is instead a bunch of fairly static, stale encounters where you are more or less just gunning down bad guys ahead of you. And while these are actually okay from time to time, the game simply cannot subsist off of these sorts of mechanics for all that long.

    The result is that the campaign is about the right length for what it is, but , meaning that the real focus of the game is to play it over and over again to try and grind for better gear.

    And it is here that the game utterly fails, because the game mechanics simply cannot endure such repeated exposure. The game has already shown the player pretty much everything it has to offer in the main body of the campaign, and by the end of it, the player is maximum level and has a nice set of equipment. All that is left at that point is a bunch of side-quests – which are no different from what came before – and the PvP, which, while decent, isn’t anything particularly remarkable compared to games like Overwatch.

    As a result, the game runs out of steam as the player is about to hit the grind phase, and there’s just no reason to stick around – the game doesn’t really have anything left to show the player at that point, just more of the same, so what is the point of even grinding?

    But the utter lack of any sort of heart to the single player campaign means that there wasn’t any point to that, either. There's just nothing here to actually ENJOY.

    Destiny 2 is utterly inoffensive, but it never actually manages to be good. And without that, there's no reason to play it.    … Expand
  22. Strangepowers
    Nov 12, 2017
    1
    Extremely disappointing, much less than I expected out of a studio that once created the great Halo franchise. The single player campaign is short and easy and offers only repeated encounters of mowing down hordes of mobs followed by periods of running through empty corridors and stopping to pull your ghost our and scan stuff... rinse and repeat.

    The story is bland and once its complete    Extremely disappointing, much less than I expected out of a studio that once created the great Halo franchise. The single player campaign is short and easy and offers only repeated encounters of mowing down hordes of mobs followed by periods of running through empty corridors and stopping to pull your ghost our and scan stuff... rinse and repeat.

    The story is bland and once its complete the endgame is just as rote. Literally no urge to explore or level up the numbers... mindless drivel designed for the biggest net/lowest common denominator.

    The only reason I don't rate it a zero is the graphics and optimization.    … Expand
  23. Blackcompany
    Nov 6, 2017
    1
    Boring, repetitive and making the mistakes of both every shooter, and every MMO, that has gone before. Destiny 2 is the absolute worst of two bad genres crammed into a single game.

    The story is utterly linear, without meaningful choice throughout. The character is supposedly the lone hero - like every other "lone hero" around them. They are repeatedly addressed directly...but are    Boring, repetitive and making the mistakes of both every shooter, and every MMO, that has gone before. Destiny 2 is the absolute worst of two bad genres crammed into a single game.

    The story is utterly linear, without meaningful choice throughout. The character is supposedly the lone hero - like every other "lone hero" around them. They are repeatedly addressed directly...but are voiceless, with their ghost as the voiced proxy for the player. Nathan Fillion tries to enliven what is undoubtedly the worst narrative he has ever been a part of, but the rest of the voice cast are utterly disappointments.

    But hey, once the story is done, you can do public events. And side missions. The first is the same event on each planet - one per planet - repeated over and over again. The second are the exact same mission types youve been playing in smaller does.

    Utterly terrible game.    … Expand
  24. houjo2000
    Dec 7, 2017
    1
    I just gotta say this, if you want to play this game; buy it now.

    By the time the third DLC comes out you'll be locked out of half the content in the base game. Seriously- this game is removing content from the base game, bringing out DLC, and putting the content it just took out back into the DLC, and Actibungle thinks we're too stupid to notice. We aren't- this is disgusting    I just gotta say this, if you want to play this game; buy it now.

    By the time the third DLC comes out you'll be locked out of half the content in the base game.

    Seriously- this game is removing content from the base game, bringing out DLC, and putting the content it just took out back into the DLC, and Actibungle thinks we're too stupid to notice.

    We aren't- this is disgusting practice and it cannot be allowed to become common in the industry. C'mon, the Battlefront 2 loot chests gave you an excuse to coast through the rest of 2017 unnoticed here!    … Expand
  25. tetsuoo
    Dec 12, 2017
    1
    The game is absolute trash.
    I honestly played this game for the first week and havent touched it since.
    Lacklustre and lacking content, repetitive, uninspired and whilst they can be beautiful at times, the landscapes are dull. Then came XP throttling to encourage people to spend real money to purchase engrams. CoA DLC which locked original content... Bungie have pulled an EA by    The game is absolute trash.
    I honestly played this game for the first week and havent touched it since.

    Lacklustre and lacking content, repetitive, uninspired and whilst they can be beautiful at times, the landscapes are dull.
    Then came XP throttling to encourage people to spend real money to purchase engrams.
    CoA DLC which locked original content...
    Bungie have pulled an EA by lying to their customers through encouraging microtransactions through XP manipulation and regurgitating content.    … Expand
  26. iwatkot
    Dec 28, 2018
    1
    Impossible boring, linear shooter with cliche plot. Main character without voice, game without soul. Now i know why Activision decided to make this pathetic garbage free to play.
  27. tcfialho
    Jan 20, 2018
    1
    Destiny 2 is the best antisocial game that you can play. Chat without public chat. Social areas without players interaction. Please fire the antisocial manager that decide remove OPTIONAL public chat.
  28. PavelCZ1982
    Nov 24, 2017
    1
    End of November and game is still Beta - I have seen all the hype and great critic reviews. Marketing got me ;-) So I bought this game on sale. The single player was kind of average. I was hoping to see any special boss or something. But have met only two or three types of enemies. But ok I thought it must come at some point maybe with Multiplayer. Single player was like 1,5 hour play so IEnd of November and game is still Beta - I have seen all the hype and great critic reviews. Marketing got me ;-) So I bought this game on sale. The single player was kind of average. I was hoping to see any special boss or something. But have met only two or three types of enemies. But ok I thought it must come at some point maybe with Multiplayer. Single player was like 1,5 hour play so I thought thats it? After that first error appeared. On internet people wrote something about port forwarding, etc. I checked it and it was OK. After that I wanted to play Mupltiplayer, because thats the reason why I bought the game. But I realized there was no one to play with! Literally no one! I was the only guy in whole game. I found that it is another bug. Anyway I did try to do one mission alone and it was average/boring. I also checked skill tree and customization posibilities. They are super small and basic. Anyone who plans to buy this game go and check forums for fix update status in advance! The game is like in beta stage. Right now the game is wort like 10 to 15 dollars including season pass. Even Overwatch (I know its diff. game) is 10x times more fun. I am dissapointed.… Expand
  29. whatever523
    Feb 12, 2019
    1
    Some parts of the game are really, really well done. Good graphics, nice shooting gameplay.

    The main problem is the company behind the game. At every step you know that their main concern is money and that they are willing to let the game suffer because of it. They are willing to lie to their players and treat them like **** And then you ask yourself: Is the time I invest in this    Some parts of the game are really, really well done. Good graphics, nice shooting gameplay.

    The main problem is the company behind the game. At every step you know that their main concern is money and that they are willing to let the game suffer because of it. They are willing to lie to their players and treat them like ****

    And then you ask yourself: Is the time I invest in this game really worth it?
    Answer: No, it's not. Not even for free.

    Also: Yay, lootboxes!

    Activision/Bungie: You are paying for those extra profits with user ratings. I think you will find that in the long run, it's not worth it. Just ask Ubisoft.    … Expand
  30. NutZdk
    Dec 7, 2017
    1
    This game is a joke, its Destiny 1 hardcopied 100% - added a single subclass and made a new "world" where 80% of it is just filler, you need to travel from A to B and back again to get a reward, then redo that 6000 times to gain levels and be able to play the rest of the game. After this has been done, they release a paid expansion - then locks down 60% of the original game and **** overThis game is a joke, its Destiny 1 hardcopied 100% - added a single subclass and made a new "world" where 80% of it is just filler, you need to travel from A to B and back again to get a reward, then redo that 6000 times to gain levels and be able to play the rest of the game. After this has been done, they release a paid expansion - then locks down 60% of the original game and **** over EVERYONE who just bought their game, so honestly were stuck with a demo of the original game, no chance of gaining light levels to follow the people who has bought the expansion and no chance to play with your friends if any of them have bought it. PRECISELY the move that destroyed Destiny 1 for most people... theyre doing it again here and Bungie has become a scumbag company like EA in every way. From now on it seems we need to stay the hell away from their games, they REALLY dont care about their players and they REALLY dont care to actually develop a game, they just reuse content from their last game and expect that none of us notice. Pathetic move really, which honestly deserves a pure boycut of the company.… Expand
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#39 Best PC Game of 2017
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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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