Destiny: The Taken King

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  1. Tirah
    Sep 16, 2015
    4
    Destiny is a very polarizing game. You'll either love it or absolutely hate it.

    The technical side of it is pretty much flawless. Beautiful environments, great music, and some of the best controls I've ever seen. Exactly what you'd expect from the creative minds behind the Halo series. What really hurt Destiny was Activision's greed. In order to make more money, Bungie was forced to    Destiny is a very polarizing game. You'll either love it or absolutely hate it.

    The technical side of it is pretty much flawless. Beautiful environments, great music, and some of the best controls I've ever seen. Exactly what you'd expect from the creative minds behind the Halo series.
    What really hurt Destiny was Activision's greed. In order to make more money, Bungie was forced to gut the game and remove a significant amount of content to be sold as future DLC. What's left logically feels incomplete. The story barely makes sense, and many plot points are never resolved. Every single character is shallow and underdeveloped. What's their story? What is their goal? The game never tells you.But it's okay, pay $50 more and you may get a continuation of the story in the latest 'Taken King' DLC. I'm sure you'll love it, especially if you're like me and you already spent over $100 on the base game (I pre-ordered the Guardian Edition, which came with the first two DLCs for "free").

    There's plenty of missions, but they're all very repetitive and boring. Collect a certain number of items, kill some enemies, protect your little A.I. companion... and that's about it, really. If you ever hope to get any better gear, you'll be repeating these missions over and over and over again until you're absolutely sick of them. The endless grind doesn't feel rewarding or even remotely fun - and this is coming from a person who's spent the past 10 years playing World of Warcraft.

    As far as multiplayer goes, you can do the boring missions in a group of three players. But really, why would you even bother? There are also drop-in/drop-out public events. You're in the middle of one of your boring missions when suddenly a massive tank appears from the sky, and you and any other player nearby need to work together to destroy it.

    Then there are 3-player strikes (it's like WoW's dungeons), and these are actually quite fun. There's a handy player finder tool, so if none of your friends play Destiny, the game will hook you up with two more players. Some of them are pretty bad, though, and more than once did I have a player tagging along doing nothing or simply sitting in a corner, while the remaining two of us did all the hard work. You can report these slackers, but there seems to be no penalty for this behavior whatsoever.

    Destiny also has raids, which are basically strikes with larger fireteams and tougher enemies. Unfortunately, there is no player finder for these. You are forced to go to various websites and find your raid team there. It's inconvenient, and the number one reason why I've never done any raids. They're supposed to be fun, but I'll never know unless Bungie adds a player finder.

    PvP was Destiny's biggest selling point, and it seems to be the focus of its developers, seeing how pretty much every single event they've introduced since launch was all about PvP (the only exception was The Queen's Wrath). If you're like me and prefer PvE over PvP, you'll find this rather disappointing. If you love PvP, add 2 more points to my rating. Bungie is constantly tweaking weapons and trying to make PvP more balanced, so that's good, I suppose.

    And that's Destiny - the game that promised to be the next Halo, but bigger and better in every way. It could've been good if Bungie was allowed to do their work without Activision's interference. As it is now, it just feels like a desperate money grab. Despite all this, Destiny seems to boast an active fan base (if the official Destiny Facebook page is anything to go by), so the game obviously isn't all that bad. Just really, really flawed.

    If you're interested and you'd like to give it a shot, I recommend you wait for a few months until the game gets cheaper, or ideally wait for some sort of an "ultimate" edition, which will inevitably come out and which will contain all the DLCs for a few bucks.    … Expand
  2. GamerJustice
    Sep 18, 2015
    0
    This game is simply built on greed. Bungie used us as Beta testers and put lipstick on their pig. It's still a pig however, equating to a terrible value for veteran players. The taken king is extremely short, as many predicted. Bungie used to make games that were fun to play. They now make hype better than any developer in history.
  3. Cstriker01
    Sep 18, 2015
    1
    I am jaded. I bought Destiny day 1 and I was hooked in quickly. So much so that I didn't notice something occur during my play time.

    The gunplay is tight and amazing, a Bungie hallmark, and the world has amazing set design and effects with a top notch Sci-Fi high fantasy atmosphere, all things that I enjoy. I even was an Officer in Dads of Destiny and my team was one of the first tackle    I am jaded. I bought Destiny day 1 and I was hooked in quickly. So much so that I didn't notice something occur during my play time.

    The gunplay is tight and amazing, a Bungie hallmark, and the world has amazing set design and effects with a top notch Sci-Fi high fantasy atmosphere, all things that I enjoy. I even was an Officer in Dads of Destiny and my team was one of the first tackle the Vault of Glass. My family suffered however, I was hooked in the same I was hooked into WoW and other MMOs, but not being single anymore, my family was suffering from the amount I played in the evenings. Of course that is a choice but I have to state that the interval RNG and behavioral science in the game had me pulling the slot machine handle over, and over, and over again.

    This game is addictive with little content. Two expensive expansions with VERY little content compared to other DLC expansions for other games left me pissed off. Then they announced and launched the Taken King....a promise of improvement based on a LIE. Destiny that I bought day 1 was NOT what was promised to consumers. The depth was shallow, the "open world" was a joke, and ENTIRE story elements were cut to the floor for possible DLC. This is a big Activision tactic to snake money from gamers pockets, and they certainly DO NOT respect their customers (look at Call of Duty and a gaming engine developed in 1998).

    They added in the Taken King, patching a lot of things that were badly developed with the game, but at the price of the FULL DAY 1 GAME!!!! This is insane, you are selling promises from Day 1 that were never delivered, and those that bought day 1 Destiny are crapped on having to pay upwards of $180.00 ($60 Vanilla, $20 Dark below DLC, $20 House of Wolves, $60 The Taken King), while a new player just needs to pony up 60$. This is by far one of the worst business practices I have ever seen.

    Which is sad, I look at the content, and I am so tempted to pay up and dive back into the game, and the pull is strong! I love the art style, weapons, classes, and the new subclasses look so cool! But the feeling of being raped by Activision/Bungie is pushing me to be more prudent and logical with my money.    … Expand
  4. Captiosus
    Sep 16, 2015
    4
    Sigh… Where to begin?

    Leveling: Going into a legitimate, second year, expansion, I expected the 34-40 leveling to take a while. Especially since one of their key selling points for their digital collector’s edition was the inclusion of exotic class items that increased XP gains. Nothing could have been further from the truth. If you had 10 or more bounties ready to turn in and an XP    Sigh… Where to begin?

    Leveling: Going into a legitimate, second year, expansion, I expected the 34-40 leveling to take a while. Especially since one of their key selling points for their digital collector’s edition was the inclusion of exotic class items that increased XP gains. Nothing could have been further from the truth. If you had 10 or more bounties ready to turn in and an XP booster – either the class item or the Red Bull promotion item – you could literally go from 34 to 39 in 5 seconds of mashing the X button. If you had a full complement of 16 bounties ready to turn in, not only would you go from 34 to the new max level of 40 but also have enough XP to get a set of Motes of Light. They may have taken Light Level out of obtaining max level, but leveling still revolves around increasing your average Light score regardless of max level.

    Story: Bungie heavily promoted the story of this expansion so imagine my surprise when the main story arc could be completed in roughly 3 hours. Oryx, the titular Taken King who is seeking revenge for his son, Crota, is shown to be a real bad ass of a boss in the intro cutscene. Yet he’s a complete push over from that point on. An entire defending fleet was obliterated by him but somehow our chump Guardians can manage to get into his Dreadnaught no problem. The final fight with Oryx is nothing short of laughable. The post-Oryx story missions – especially the chain that starts with the mission “Paradox” – are harder than the main story mission itself.

    And this is where the wheels really fall off the bus because the amount of recycled content used in this $40 expansion is nothing short of pathetic. During the main story alone, we’re sent through multiple pieces of old content rehashed; for example, being forced to run Chamber of Night backwards yet again. The front half of the raid from Dark Below is reused, as is the front half of Vault of Glass (again) in a secondary story arc line. There is even one mission where you literally do the exact same thing in the exact same place as the final boss fight in House of Wolves main story line – and Ghost even makes a direct comment about fighting in the same place. Quest chains with year old patrol missions as critical steps, running old missions backwards yet again… It’s almost as if Bungie is TRYING to troll people.

    But, the Dreadnaught! You might be saying. The Dreadnaught is new and a decent added area but, to be brutally honest, it’s really just four medium sized spaces that have a lot of empty areas connecting them. Exploration is fun, initially, but then it just becomes tiresome. In the main story, you only deal with the Dreadnaught three times. After the main story, you’re sent back to place patrol beacons which you then go back and get your own patrol missions from… No access to the sparrow makes it seem larger than it really is.

    Gear: Gearing took 10 steps backwards in TTK. There’s no consistency anymore. For example, the completion of the aforementioned Paradox post-main story arc provided a legendary armor reward. That reward was a measly 220 defense item, despite being a level 40 legendary. Statistically, it was inferior to level 38 rare armor. I got a better rare item from a Cryptarch Engram package when I went to turn in the quest. That same item from the faction vendor is 280 defense rating; earning the item from a drop could give the player an item with a rating anywhere between 220 and 300. This is all due to the new Infusion system: That piddly 220 item can be upgraded with the higher rated rare items by dismantling them and paying a cost of end game grind legendary marks, motes of light, and glimmer, in order to raise the stats. This has caused gearing to be all over the place, making little sense, with rarity and risk taking a back seat to total defense and attack stats (which are the sole items that determine light score and, thus, your ability to do more difficult things). Meanwhile, some legendary gear only has one perk while others have two. There’s almost no rhyme or reason to the gearing system now. And this doesn’t even get into the grindfest, especially if you want to upgrade your old year 1 exotic weapons and armor.

    Overall, the only real perks to this expansion are the few quality of life changes: The UI, the quest tracking, the bounty changesm and the new subclasses. Everything else is literally more of the same. I don’t understand these critic reviews because TTK falls victim to many of the same things that got critically panned in Destiny’s first DLC, The Dark Below, especially in terms of poor story and grindy gearing than penalizes long time players. Yes, they added more cutscenes, but that doesn’t mean they’ve made a better product. Far from it.    … Expand
  5. Blackout542
    Sep 17, 2015
    0
    TTK is another low quality money grab from Bungie and Activision. It's barely worth $30 only offering around 3 hours of new story content and then just having you run missions in the same areas over and over and over again. Go buy MGS5.
  6. atomkinder
    Sep 17, 2015
    3
    So far, not at all worth the $40 price. Trying to keep this objective: The game with the Taken King "expansion" does not live up to the expectations.
    - Depending on the player, the new story missions and Strikes can be very quick to complete. If you are a new player, you can start with the original story and the stories from the Dark Below and House of Wolves dlcs, which will add to the    So far, not at all worth the $40 price. Trying to keep this objective: The game with the Taken King "expansion" does not live up to the expectations.
    - Depending on the player, the new story missions and Strikes can be very quick to complete. If you are a new player, you can start with the original story and the stories from the Dark Below and House of Wolves dlcs, which will add to the play time, but it is still a short campaign with a mediocre, unengaging story. If you are a fan of games with a long and/or interesting storyline, I would recommend skipping Destiny altogether.
    - Bungie hyped strike-exclusive armor in their Twitch live stream: Only 3 pieces of armor per class across all Strikes. Similarly, preorder bonuses for the game were weak, "Uncommon" tier weapons, which is disappointing.
    - More content/activities have been taken away from the game than was added; this is not an expansion of the game. If you are buying the Collectors edition, or any other edition which bundles TTK with the base game, TDB and HOW dlcs, you are not receiving your money's worth, because all content previous to TTK is irrelevant now. Similarly, if you are a PVP player, be forewarned that without the Taken King, your options for PVP game modes has been severely reduced from what existed only a few weeks ago. On another note, the PVP activities are poorly balanced, with some weapon types and character classes being vastly superior to the others. Bungie has done nearly nothing to alleviate these problems.
    - Poor communication: across all sources, Bungie has failed to adequately communicate with the players and community, often providing misleading teaser information that ends up being a negative change. This has been a problem since the beginning, and will continue for the forseeable future.
    - You will need to be very careful about how you order the DLCs: With the Taken King dlc, you will not be able to play it on another account on same PlayStation, XBox, etc., and all previous DLCs _must_ be downloaded by the same PSN ID/Xbox ID as Taken King. Numerous people have been reporting issues with this, without any response from Bungie.
    - Nolan North: minor annoyance, but the new voice actor for the Ghost (a little companion which tells the "story" of Destiny) is incredibly annoying.

    Thanks for reading :)
    ~ Atomkinder    … Expand
  7. Guardian_187
    Sep 16, 2015
    6
    I was a huge fan of Destiny. I had put so many hours into it but now I just can't keep buying expansions for only 6 - 8 hours of "NEW" content if even that and then to just keep reusing the some old stuff. The original game itself on release day wasn't that big and the story itself was really bad. I couldn't get into or understand it clearly. I believe businesses need to make money butI was a huge fan of Destiny. I had put so many hours into it but now I just can't keep buying expansions for only 6 - 8 hours of "NEW" content if even that and then to just keep reusing the some old stuff. The original game itself on release day wasn't that big and the story itself was really bad. I couldn't get into or understand it clearly. I believe businesses need to make money but people want to play something that can justify the purchase. I believe Bungie is an awesome studio but it's under the wrong publisher. (Activision) To me, this game and all of it's expansions is what should have came out a year ago. Listen to your fans Bungie.... You're losing them.… Expand
  8. Thesomebody
    Sep 17, 2015
    0
    An overpriced expansion to the ultimate grind Fest! For 40$ you get better loot, new (and dull) maps and a much improved 2 hour long story.and don't forget the raids. What really ticks me off is how you locked out all the y1 players from content they already had and made all the loot they collected for the past year useless because they didn't buy the expansion.for me the expansion madeAn overpriced expansion to the ultimate grind Fest! For 40$ you get better loot, new (and dull) maps and a much improved 2 hour long story.and don't forget the raids. What really ticks me off is how you locked out all the y1 players from content they already had and made all the loot they collected for the past year useless because they didn't buy the expansion.for me the expansion made the experience a little better but I 's still a far cry from the scores critics are giving it.still what activision and bungie did is unacceptable and that's why they get a 0 even though no game deserves it… Expand
  9. SebbyMak
    Sep 21, 2015
    0
    Standard repetative garbage with bad business model. Die already along with COD, same game wit skinned garbage. Activision are horrific and leach on the stupid
  10. Stoppingpowerpr
    Sep 15, 2015
    1
    Bungie/Activison show the darkness of greed. Not only are people left with limited gameplay options without buying this overpriced nonsense, but the Story mode lasts a mere 6 hours.
  11. JustSteveWillDo
    Sep 16, 2015
    0
    $70 for DLC?
    $70 for DLC that costs $55 in the US?!
    $70 for DLC that if you don't buy you get locked out of most of the content you already purchased?!!

    This is hands down the worst act of money grabbing and customer abuse I've ever seen, it's so bad Activision should be under investigation by the ACCC.
  12. ColdHardFacts
    Sep 17, 2015
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bungie does it again. They tell the consumer that its totally changing the game and it hasn't.

    When they made the claim that it would be as much content as the original vanilla release, I was soo excited to see much needed change. The story mission addition..is 8 quests. It took me about 4 hours to get from 34-40. All the "new content" is either old content rehashed or entirely in the dreadnaught (other than the mission where you go to get the stealth drive.)

    The taken Do look cool but there really isnt much to them if you're a) older then 12, or b) if you are remotely intelligent. The mission where you kill oryx is a joke.

    The 2.0 update in preparation for the taken king made handcannon stability not even matter like hardlights range stat. Thorn needed to be adjusted, so did TLW but gimping every one and/or reducing magazine size..cmon bungie.

    The dreadnaught although huge..is bland and everything looks the same the second time around. We got 4 planets in vanilla release. Now we have a big boring ship where most of the new content drags us to. The new strikes are simple if you know how to stay out of fire/ electricity or how to avoid mobs clearly charging you.

    Rift seems fun..if you have a team. I played 15 games or so and if your team sucks you spend the whole time being rambo with the rift while everyone else is playing it like clash. Atleast they added the mercy rule.go bungie!

    The change to how light works is kinda cool but I'm not a huge fan of the upgrade armor and weapons change. Atleast you have a halo sword now though*swish swish*. I Do appreciate that players who don't play much can attain max level because before it was heavily swayed towards players who can grind endlessly to get their legendaries/exotics.

    For the people complaining about not being able to ascend their old legendaries and exotics...get over it. No game developer in their right mind is going to preemptively kill their new content. The lockout dilema on content Y1 players who haven't purchased ttk..that's crap. My hearts go out to you!

    Some of the new pvp maps have a ton of access points for controlzones but there is also a ton of places to fall off the map which is just annoying.

    The legendary expansion giving you both previous dlc's , ttk and destiny for 60 $ when year 1 players already payed 60 $ for destiny and 30$ for the season pass is definitely a slap in the face to the loyal    … Expand
  13. Erald
    Sep 16, 2015
    1
    For God's sake!! Look at the score of the users and then the score coming for "professionals". This is absurd, almost a 9 and the players think the expasion deserves a 4.

    ACTIVISION IS PAYING FOR THAT SCORE!!
  14. beegie_b
    Sep 16, 2015
    2
    Well isn't that lovely, I gave TTK a 3.0 originally, and spoke about how Activision as a whole was setting a bad precedent for the gaming industry... The review was the top 'most helpful' user review... and what a surprise my review has been removed!

    A legitimate review of the TTK, by a customer who had a lot of love for the franchise previously. *tin foil hat goes on* I guess being    Well isn't that lovely, I gave TTK a 3.0 originally, and spoke about how Activision as a whole was setting a bad precedent for the gaming industry... The review was the top 'most helpful' user review... and what a surprise my review has been removed!

    A legitimate review of the TTK, by a customer who had a lot of love for the franchise previously.

    *tin foil hat goes on* I guess being a top review that sheds a negative light on the game is worth removal on metacritic these days. So much for user feedback.

    This is sad indeed.

    Thankfully, the internet caches this website so I could pull my review from the dead.

    As an addition: piss off whoever deleted this review. You can't silence people legitimate opinions about a product. I'm reducing the score of TTK (which should be a 3/10) to a 2/10...

    Here's the original review:

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    I used to be a huge fan of destiny, I played the game for over 900 hours since day 1. Hell I even played both the alpha and the beta.

    But, it's time to stop.

    The business model promoted by Activision is a detriment to the gaming industry. It's already been confirmed that the story of Destiny was scrapped a year before release (check out the lawsuit of Marty O’Donnell vs Bungie if you don't believe me).

    Activision has turned what should have been an excellent game, into a cash grab, designed to get players hooked with finely tuned drop rates so that they spend just enough time hunting for gear (which mostly sucks anyway) so that they can start it all over again with the next DLC.

    The DLC is NOT WORTH THE PRICE. This is all content that was already seen by players since the original release of the game. The only reason it's getting shipped to you as DLC is because Activision's marketing team thought their customers were too stupid to understand the depth of systems and story that the original vision of Destiny had.

    Now they're finally starting to give back what was already made over two years ago, but reworked to fit in the 'new' crap story. All for the small fee of $120 for year 1 players.

    How can anyone with any sense stand by and accept this dick slap to the face? If you spend money on this crap and you're a year-1 player, you are a sheep. Activision is laughing at you. You do not think for yourself.

    There are tonnes of games on the market that provide you with way more content, way better storytelling, more compelling systems, and better player interaction than Destiny. But idiots will still spend their money for one simple reason: addiction. This game is designed to be addictive, not fun, but addictive. All you're doing is chasing a carrot, looking for your next fix, which is a terrible loot drop that you probably will only use a handful of times. All to repeat the cycle again, until activision decides to lock you out of more content unless you pay them another $20-$40.

    Stop being a sheep.

    The ONLY things going for Destiny are:

    - Raids
    - Gunplay / Combat

    That's it.    … Expand
  15. TheBarber
    Sep 18, 2015
    5
    When it comes to Destiny, the quote, “Those that don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” comes to mind.

    After a year, we all know what the game is about, how Bungie’s valuates its content, and how the DLC ‘pay walls’ will work going forward. From this point on in Destiny, if people choose to keep paying, it is their own choice. If they feel they were ripped off a few    When it comes to Destiny, the quote, “Those that don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” comes to mind.

    After a year, we all know what the game is about, how Bungie’s valuates its content, and how the DLC ‘pay walls’ will work going forward.

    From this point on in Destiny, if people choose to keep paying, it is their own choice. If they feel they were ripped off a few months from now, they have no one to blame but themselves. “Those that don’t learn...”

    It will be interesting to see if there will be a constant cycle of ‘new players’ entering the game and ‘pissed off vets’ leaving the game, throughout Destiny’s planned 10 years. It seems that a lot of Year 1 players have jumped ship.

    I wonder if in a year, the people singing Bungie’s praises right now will still be singing the same tune...

    To the people giving this content a 0 or a 10, thank you for corrupting what should be a fair assessment of a game.
    -The game actually functions, so a 0 is not warranted.
    -It is surely NOT a perfect game, so you can't give it a 10.
    Somewhere in the middle of those scores, you will find the HONEST reviews of people who have ACTUALLY played the new content.
    But like I said, at this point, we all know what Destiny IS and WILL BE.    … Expand
  16. SWERY_51
    Sep 17, 2015
    0
    Honestly good, but a way too expensive. This is what we were deserving from Destiny D-one release. Now we have to buy it at full price, i feel cheated...
  17. ItGoesInAndOut
    Sep 16, 2015
    0
    The single biggest rip off in the history of computer games, as a year 1 player I have been screwed by bungie yet again, basically the upgrade expansion for the taken king cost the same as the whole game plus all expansion packs for someone who has never played it before, way to look after your loyal fanbase bungie.

    As for the taken king itself, its short, repetitive, lots of content    The single biggest rip off in the history of computer games, as a year 1 player I have been screwed by bungie yet again, basically the upgrade expansion for the taken king cost the same as the whole game plus all expansion packs for someone who has never played it before, way to look after your loyal fanbase bungie.

    As for the taken king itself, its short, repetitive, lots of content from the previous expansions are taken away and your hard earned weapons are now useless.

    But the biggest disgrace is that for players like myself who bought the weapons pack, you are given green uncommon weapons that are worse than the weapons you already have, I really hope bungie gets in to some sought of legal trouble for this, As it is the most misleading thing I have ever seen in a game, and this is coming from someone who actually liked the game.

    PLEASE DO NOT BUY.    … Expand
  18. Weister
    Sep 16, 2015
    0
    To Sum it up you got to pay 80€ to be able to buy Taken king for 40€ more. That makes 120€ ! And if you dont havethe money or dont want to spend it, your stuck with a very limited version of the game. The thing is that nearly everything interesting you could do being high level, has been transferred to the taken king and is now inaccesable.
  19. ascedentevil
    Sep 17, 2015
    0
    Destiny. Destiny has had ups and downs. Anyone who isn't new to Destiny will know that the main mechanic of the game is to grind; which provides hours of frustratingly addictive game play. There is no doubt that destiny is a great game with a great concept behind it and Bungie have done a great job.
    That is, until they made the Taken King. For a ridiculous price of £39.99 you can download    Destiny. Destiny has had ups and downs. Anyone who isn't new to Destiny will know that the main mechanic of the game is to grind; which provides hours of frustratingly addictive game play. There is no doubt that destiny is a great game with a great concept behind it and Bungie have done a great job.
    That is, until they made the Taken King. For a ridiculous price of £39.99 you can download this 'DLC' from the Playstation store. Yep, £40, even though the RRP is $40 (or £26) and for this you get; two hours of story and leveling to 40, 1 new area, 4 new strikes a handful of PVP maps and PVP game mode and some bizarre new gear mechanics, which really isn't a lot if you think about it.
    What's that? You don't want to but it? well, good luck playing anything else then because Bungie/Activision in their infinite wisdom have locked out 90% of the game so that if you don't buy it, you are reduced to playing nothing at all. you literally will be reduced to 10% of the things you've spent 100% of your time doing.
    Oh, here's another thing; remember all that gear you spent hours and hours grinding and swearing and crying trying to get? well, that's all useless and obsolete now; expect to replace it all with green stuff.
    Essentially what I'm getting at here is; Bungie are making everyone pay £39.99 to unlock everything that they've already payed £85 for and have sprinkled on some DLC to try and cover it up.
    I've played the taken king for probably about 10 hours now and I am right back at running around the maps, waiting for things to spawn so I can kill them and then rinse and repeat the process. If you haven't brought it yet; don't. It is in no way shape or form worth £40. It isn't worth £20. Don't support this, don't believe the hype because this is a waste.
    Oh, the ghost sucks even more now too.    … Expand
  20. MelVicious
    Sep 16, 2015
    10
    Gostei da nova forma de contar a história que a Bungie arranjou desta vez...na minha opinião o jogo deveria ter sido vendido assim como está agora, com todas as expansions e o taken kings.
    Não compensa pagar o preço que o Taken Kings tem...para jogar missões que estavam bloqueiadas no teu Jogo, ainda se colocassem mais missões e mais planetas novos, e não apenas 1.
    Eu amo o jogo, mas é    Gostei da nova forma de contar a história que a Bungie arranjou desta vez...na minha opinião o jogo deveria ter sido vendido assim como está agora, com todas as expansions e o taken kings.
    Não compensa pagar o preço que o Taken Kings tem...para jogar missões que estavam bloqueiadas no teu Jogo, ainda se colocassem mais missões e mais planetas novos, e não apenas 1.

    Eu amo o jogo, mas é lamentavel a ganáncia e precipitação que a Activision tem...    … Expand
  21. Truth99
    Sep 15, 2015
    1
    Pointless Expansion, should have been called The Taken Kontent for locking all the main game content unless you buy the DLC. Bungie has failed us completely
  22. Brainlicker
    Sep 16, 2015
    0
    I am one to always try to find the best in everything and have been gaming since Nintendo first launched and this is by far the biggest insult to gamers. I liked Destiny when it launched but through each change and update it kept becoming a different game from what I purchased. Then came the DLC which in today's world I guess is just a given. Now.....now they want to drop more content atI am one to always try to find the best in everything and have been gaming since Nintendo first launched and this is by far the biggest insult to gamers. I liked Destiny when it launched but through each change and update it kept becoming a different game from what I purchased. Then came the DLC which in today's world I guess is just a given. Now.....now they want to drop more content at damn near the price of another full game? For what? Another area? A few more guns, etc? Not worth it. If they knew this was going to be a ten year plan like they say then why not actually plan it out and give the players the full plans for those ten years. Why not have made it a FTP model then? Other games with similar models have worked without alienating their fan base. Awful. Just awful.… Expand
  23. TheDahaka
    Sep 15, 2015
    5
    Way too many reused assests and a very large chunk of the main story line involves traversing through areas already in the game. Ignoring update 2.0 (which was free) TTK doesn't offer anything much above what the previous expansions offered and seems the higher price is to subsidise the stuff in update 2.0 that everyone supposedly gets for free. Basically, just enough here to tide us overWay too many reused assests and a very large chunk of the main story line involves traversing through areas already in the game. Ignoring update 2.0 (which was free) TTK doesn't offer anything much above what the previous expansions offered and seems the higher price is to subsidise the stuff in update 2.0 that everyone supposedly gets for free. Basically, just enough here to tide us over until the next expansion.… Expand
  24. Blamo
    Sep 15, 2015
    0
    The content is an improvement over that found in the base game of Destiny. Unfortunately you have to buy the game twice to unlock it. Furthermore, Bungie has stripped the original game of what little content it has to force players to pay more money to get back the content they already paid for.
  25. artimis
    Sep 15, 2015
    0
    This game and the expansion is nothing what it promises. Its the same grind over while other games have gotten it down better. While it may be a tiny improvement it is not worth the $40 price tag this DLC is asking for. Especially when the content and story are just not their. Bungie and Activision really show their greed with this one. sad to see what activision has turned Bungie into.
  26. Reph3at
    Sep 16, 2015
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Hype bomb again. The story is mabe slightly better than vanilla. Still, it's only 8 missions, which take places on vanilla maps, warlock stormcaller quest is on... blind watch. We have mission in crotas end raid. Personally I find this DLC a) pay2play b) slap to Y1 players c) totally not worth it's price. The pre order weapon pack is just a green piece of **** Definetely don't buy.… Expand
  27. Trivecta
    Sep 15, 2015
    2
    Over hyped garbage, everything is rehashed and a money grab just like the other DLC's except this one costs TWICE as much. Why is this DLC even 20$ extra dollars when it doesn't even add more content than the previous DLC's? Bungie has went from my favorite video game devs to my most hated ever since Destiny happened.

    *Don't buy this DLC unless you like playing a gambling simulator for    Over hyped garbage, everything is rehashed and a money grab just like the other DLC's except this one costs TWICE as much. Why is this DLC even 20$ extra dollars when it doesn't even add more content than the previous DLC's? Bungie has went from my favorite video game devs to my most hated ever since Destiny happened.

    *Don't buy this DLC unless you like playing a gambling simulator for gear that doesn't even matter. Where is the end game? Save your money and just buy a BETTER game.*    … Expand
  28. Anatamize
    Sep 15, 2015
    0
    This is pretty hilarious for an expansion. $40 is a lot of money. I got through the "6-9" hours of promised story content in 2 hours, and then was left to complete a myriad of quests I've already completed.... Rehashing same areas with reskinned areas. Many Quality of Life changes although the fact Bungie never even fixed the price for UK peoples and locked content out of Free players isThis is pretty hilarious for an expansion. $40 is a lot of money. I got through the "6-9" hours of promised story content in 2 hours, and then was left to complete a myriad of quests I've already completed.... Rehashing same areas with reskinned areas. Many Quality of Life changes although the fact Bungie never even fixed the price for UK peoples and locked content out of Free players is despicable.… Expand
  29. Ecto1
    Sep 15, 2015
    4
    The Taken King is decent enough, hell, its definitely Destiny's best expansion... BUT, I feel ripped off that I had to pay $70 just for the DLC... I already own Destiny and Expansion 1&2... I would have thought guys like me would be able to buy the taken king cheaper, as we already spent $120 on the rest of destiny... But now, we (in Australia) get charged $70 JUST for some new stuff!?!The Taken King is decent enough, hell, its definitely Destiny's best expansion... BUT, I feel ripped off that I had to pay $70 just for the DLC... I already own Destiny and Expansion 1&2... I would have thought guys like me would be able to buy the taken king cheaper, as we already spent $120 on the rest of destiny... But now, we (in Australia) get charged $70 JUST for some new stuff!?!

    The content is good (compared to Expansion 1 & 2), the price is not. Should have rather spent my money on MGS: V...    … Expand
  30. Kyoshuki
    Sep 15, 2015
    4
    You literally get the game that you have already bought a year ago with two codes for DLC that you have already got and another little code for the supposedly life-changing Taken King. I've tried to justify the marketing strategy for this game but it's painfully obvious that the people in question are using this title to exploit the community into wasting their money. Now, let's say youYou literally get the game that you have already bought a year ago with two codes for DLC that you have already got and another little code for the supposedly life-changing Taken King. I've tried to justify the marketing strategy for this game but it's painfully obvious that the people in question are using this title to exploit the community into wasting their money. Now, let's say you love The Taken King; you've bought everything related to Destiny in the past year and you've put over 100+ hours into the game: you know for certain that you'll love the new expansion as well. But does it justify the price? Honestly, the answer is no.

    Now let me tell you why:

    You can get to level 40 in literally 2 hours. You do the new raid for the week, a few nightfalls, which I think will be a lot of fun... but after a week of casual playing... what is left to justify the price?

    If, on the other hand, you are new to Destiny, then congratulations! You've got an amazing deal with all the Year 1 content available to you on launch of The Taken King. But for existing players... well, let me just say that it's a slap in the face -- you get the original game that you already have, codes for content that you've already played... and all that you are left with for your hard-earned money is another code for The Taken King.

    It's all so very disappointing. : (    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 81 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 77 out of 81
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 81
  3. Negative: 0 out of 81
  1. Gaming Nexus
    Dec 10, 2015
    85
    The Taken King shows off Destiny's full potential. This is a must have.
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  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 3, 2015
    100
    The Taken King addition corrects majority of errors that Destiny had from the beginning and finally brings a larger portion of the story and lot of new content to explore. [Issue#258]
  3. DarkStation
    Nov 16, 2015
    80
    For the first time, Destiny feels like it’s complete. It’s not perfect, far from it in fact, and I still can’t entirely disagree when they speak of the package itself as bad. But I’ve also been unable to put it down for the past month I’ve played it.
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