Destiny

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  1. artimis
    Sep 19, 2015
    0
    This game disappoints all across the board. The list is so extensive that i couldn't even list all of them in this review. The only thing this game got right is the music and the scenery. other then that i highly picking up other games that do it way better instead. World of Warcraft, Final fantasy 14 a realm reborn, borderlands, halo,
  2. Kcuf
    Sep 27, 2015
    0
    Disappointment is what this game is. I had such high hopes for this, but it is just not good. The game gets boring, the music gets boring, the game is just one massive borefest. This game is a rip off.
  3. venom1371
    Nov 6, 2015
    4
    While I thought the gameplay was solid, that was about it. The leveling system, the simple rehashing of enemies, the lack of a system to find other people for "raids," and simply doing the same "missions" over and over again became tiresome. I've heard rumors that there was something approaching a story in Destiny -- that seems false.
  4. Darrus_
    Jan 25, 2016
    4
    This game is pathetic. They expect me to shovel out my pockets for a bland, tedious, grindfest game with no innovation, and ZERO story. What's beyond me is there's fanboys who will actually defend this game to the grave. DO YOU NOT SEE THE TRUTH? Destiny is the poster boy of the downfall of the gaming industry itself. Game producers are releasing well polished games with poor story andThis game is pathetic. They expect me to shovel out my pockets for a bland, tedious, grindfest game with no innovation, and ZERO story. What's beyond me is there's fanboys who will actually defend this game to the grave. DO YOU NOT SEE THE TRUTH? Destiny is the poster boy of the downfall of the gaming industry itself. Game producers are releasing well polished games with poor story and gameplay for us to empty our pockets. The only way corporate greed can be prevented is if gamers themselves refuse to buy their product.… Expand
  5. Dsb87
    Mar 10, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Let me preface this all by saying I love the grind and generally don't care for FPS games as I'm only decent, not stellar at them.
    For people that are on the fence and thinking about getting into this game as I was a month ago do not waste the money but more importantly the time. This is my first review I've ever written and I'm 29, thats how strongly I felt about this game. The amount of time required to get any of the good stuff in the game is truly prodigious. Its the same stuff over and over and even with the fix of the massive loot drop system problems, which seemed either amateur-ish or ill intended, you get the same terrible things over and over and over. Rare engrams drop a common item 98% of the time, which really drives home the point that I'm wasting my time playing.
    DO NOT LISTEN TO ANYBODY who tells you its possible to beat this game and its various challenges, or raids without a strike-team of 6, which do not provide matchmaking. I got to a light level of 291 and I still wasn't able to beat a mission that had a light level requirement of 260 that not even a friend of mine with a light level 305 and I put together could beat. All that effort would be for 5 motes of light, an item you get in lieu of xp at certain level cap, hooray.
    Theres a tacked on collectibles sidequest component during strike and raid missions so being a jerk and running off is a requirement in this game, thumbs down.
    The behavioral RNG thing is a factor here as well. Translation, this game requires an addictive personality to enjoy and continue playing. That's not a good thing.

    People who say the graphics are great must require glasses. The lighting effects and amount of things moving around in the environment are the only thing remotely next-gen about this game. The clouds are ridiculously off theme and seems like they don't belong. Otherwise lots of loading between areas, wow; tons and tons of clipping(I have a ps4, which has the good frame rate of the systems), but sound is nice...
    The derth of content means you realize the game's limitations in one hour of play. Running around and shooting stuff in the head is awesome and fun for a few days but since theres not much of a story at all with a ton of questions and lots and lots of things vaguely referenced and never fleshed out, the compulsive addicting aspect becomes requisite almost immediately.
    PVP is also a requirement of the game of the game to get decent gear, no matter what I'm not ever gonna beat the 12 year olds who don't do sports or activities and thus have a ton of free time. My 30 some year old friend has played countless hours and again, has a light level only 15 or so above my own.
    All in all this is completely in my humble opinion of course. What do I know but what I like and what I absolutely abhor. Obviously Destiny and all of its terrible offspring are in the latter category and should be drowned in public to the worldwide cheers of spectators that have tuned in for the demise and eventual fading of the memory of Destiny    … Expand
  6. LoveeLand
    Apr 23, 2016
    4
    Destiny was hyped up to be the next great thing in the gaming world. It disappointed on almost every front. First off I will say that the idea and direction they were going in was great in my opinion. The whole concept of the plot was new and invigorating, however the game simply did not deliver the world to gamers in a great way. The opening intro gets you very excited for theDestiny was hyped up to be the next great thing in the gaming world. It disappointed on almost every front. First off I will say that the idea and direction they were going in was great in my opinion. The whole concept of the plot was new and invigorating, however the game simply did not deliver the world to gamers in a great way. The opening intro gets you very excited for the possibilities in the game, but then a few hours into it you realize there is hardly a story to the game. Rather there is just an overall goal: Protect the "city" that you never actually go to, but just get to see from the top of the game's social hub "The Tower." You don't even understand what your are truly protecting, and the story offers no interesting elements or twists to spice the game up. The good news is that you quickly learn it isn't the story that you play the game for. The game while advertised as a shared open world shooter and an RPG, is also in many ways an MMO, as it includes large, comprehensive raids and strikes. You can only do them once a week if you hope to get a reward however, leaving players waiting until the Tuesday "weekly reset" to do anything productive. The base game is very dry and has no depth whatsoever. The only good aspect of it is the only raid offered in the game pre add on: The Vault of Glass. It is incredibly fun, and difficult, and requires great teamwork to complete. The rest of the game however lacks in enjoyment. The multiplayer is fun if you are a Hunter with an exotic hand cannon, as Bungie has a hard time creating any balance at all without making all the weapons completely terrible. Same goes for the class specific "supers" as hunters dominated the scene with their offensive oriented supers. The DLCs have plenty of content, however that comes with a high price and little of the content in the first expansion Crota's End" was any good. The raid was a significant downgrade, as most of it could be BSed and was not complex or unique in any way. The House of Wolves brought in Prison of Elders where you fought hordes of enemies at a time plus a boss in the end in an effort to obtain terrible looking armor and useless weapons. The Trials of Osiris however were absolutely great. Every weekend this incredibly fun, challenging multiplayer mode allowed for a great competitive feature that rewarded great play with beautiful weapons and armor that you could actually use. The game is based around grinding out certain modes to obtain weapons in a random drop reward system. Meaning you do the same thing over and over every week to get a pistol. You put a lot of hours into this game, and when your character finally is a maxed out super soldier Bungie decides to release a DLC called The Taken King which makes all the things you've obtained absolutely worthless and makes everyone start from scratch. Now after this I stopped playing out of frustration so I cannot give an educated review of King's Fall. However I would caution people from playing this game as it is simply repetitive, shallow, storyless, and vanilla and offers no value, not even the graphics are impressive.… Expand
  7. DominoClub
    May 7, 2016
    0
    This is a awful game. don't play it. it has barely any substance and the RNG ( random number generator ) is terrible. you have to grind for days to get the equipment you want and the there should be better matchmaking, especially for MMO's like this. the entire game is horrible garbage. don't buy it. EVER!
  8. ImTosS
    Sep 16, 2017
    0
    Buying the game from day 1 with Season Pass... No content for the main campaign, missions are so repetitive and boring, multiplayer is so limited, lots of bugs, servers down, connectivity problems, etc etc. First 2 DLC with no quality content, backward missions? That was a strategy on NES video games, It's a shame that the supposed "new content" was backward missions... Taken King.. moreBuying the game from day 1 with Season Pass... No content for the main campaign, missions are so repetitive and boring, multiplayer is so limited, lots of bugs, servers down, connectivity problems, etc etc. First 2 DLC with no quality content, backward missions? That was a strategy on NES video games, It's a shame that the supposed "new content" was backward missions... Taken King.. more money to spend? thanks but no thanks, there are games that really worth it.… Expand
  9. Palmaero
    Jun 25, 2015
    1
    I bought this game after its release and it's worst game i ever bought. Period. It's stupid, boring and doesn't have ANY story in it. Cash milking crap.
  10. iddqd4
    Dec 23, 2017
    4
    Забросил на десятом часу игры, постоянный респаун после смерти, без штрафа прогресса, убивает весь интерес к прохождению, такое бессмертие мне не нравится. Пытаться проходить еще раз, уже вряд ли буду.
  11. ShunOugarden
    Jan 6, 2020
    0
    The same game as PS3...? hé no, you must pay first the disc and each month.... not for me.
  12. SaintJames012
    Dec 26, 2014
    4
    Bungie's name is the only thing that carries this title. It's a horrible game that hopes you replay the game over and over and over and over again until you hit level 20. Prestige levels (21-30) do not correlate to skill, but rather luck, as light points that level you up beyond 20 are only in gear which is dropped randomly based on a random number generator. Levels are boring and the sameBungie's name is the only thing that carries this title. It's a horrible game that hopes you replay the game over and over and over and over again until you hit level 20. Prestige levels (21-30) do not correlate to skill, but rather luck, as light points that level you up beyond 20 are only in gear which is dropped randomly based on a random number generator. Levels are boring and the same with every single level the same "defend the floating robot for x amount of time" each and every time. Boss fights are a large machine gun/ grenade launcher enemy with a large amount of health and shields in a room with the 3 players. The story is not a story, and no real attempt to tell you any characters does not exist. Multiplay… Expand
  13. ChristianVolet
    Nov 8, 2016
    1
    I can't reasonably go back and play this game because I do not own the expansions. I thought it was pretty fun when I played it in 2014. I would like to pick it back up and see new content, but I'm not going to spend more money on it. Not when it's been sitting unused for over a year. The expansions make me feel like I wasted $60 on the base game since it is no longer rationally playableI can't reasonably go back and play this game because I do not own the expansions. I thought it was pretty fun when I played it in 2014. I would like to pick it back up and see new content, but I'm not going to spend more money on it. Not when it's been sitting unused for over a year. The expansions make me feel like I wasted $60 on the base game since it is no longer rationally playable without the new content. I wonder if Bungie makes more money splitting their player base every expansion than they would if they released these expansions as free updates and just kept everyone interested. Surely, more people would buy the game if everyone was still into playing it. For such a high budget game, I expected to get more playtime out of it.… Expand
  14. bowsers2
    Jan 4, 2015
    3
    Staggering let down. Claims that the combat is good in Destiny is Ludicrous. Imagine shooting thoughtless enemies in no way near the level of Elites from Halo, enemies that have poor hit by weapon feedback and they show near zero personality that the Covenant had done decently well.
    It's got very similar weapons overall, and the new weapon loot which is doled out at a snails pace, that    Staggering let down. Claims that the combat is good in Destiny is Ludicrous. Imagine shooting thoughtless enemies in no way near the level of Elites from Halo, enemies that have poor hit by weapon feedback and they show near zero personality that the Covenant had done decently well.
    It's got very similar weapons overall, and the new weapon loot which is doled out at a snails pace, that only improve your stats in small increments, and for a loot game, that is a disaster.

    Those bosses again. OMG x 1000. Some of the worst boss battles in gaming that actually made Uncharted final bosses look good. YES DESTINY IS REALLY THAT BAD.
    Destiny's Early bosses - if the player shoots from a mid distance, simply slowly strafe side to side exclusively, exactly as though they are tied to invisible train tracks!! It's truly absurd.

    Sure the game has been balance pretty well. But that just shows you ( because balancing take multiple repetative increments over a long time to get right ) for how long Bungie knew about how underdeveloped Destiny really is. They knew exactly the boring turd that was released into the wild.

    There is virtually no mission variety, and you add in a no story, massive repetition of boring, way worse than Halos " 30 seconds of fun" combat engagement... or should I say ' en-rage-ment, and you've got a modern day x-file of why countless people like this game.    … Expand
  15. Cookiebooky
    Dec 5, 2014
    1
    Most pathetic game I have played this year.
    Lacks a decent story mode. 8?hours is weak and the story was the same **** over and over. Deploy ghost and shoot a wave of enemies. Fx other grinding games like Borderlands have humor and fun weapons. This game have 3-4 weapon skins per weapon class and rather boring design.
    Character creation is limited and uninteresting The biggest let down    Most pathetic game I have played this year.
    Lacks a decent story mode. 8?hours is weak and the story was the same **** over and over. Deploy ghost and shoot a wave of enemies. Fx other grinding games like Borderlands have humor and fun weapons. This game have 3-4 weapon skins per weapon class and rather boring design.
    Character creation is limited and uninteresting
    The biggest let down is the limited content in this game. Nothing to do except killingly boring rare drops grinding.
    But fear not. Get a expansion for 40$ to get content thatshould have been in this piece of garbage.
    Should have known better from an Activasion published game… bye forever Bungie. You have lost your soul    … Expand
  16. Thebeast1453
    Dec 12, 2014
    1
    Terrible. I preordered the game and it's just been the same thing since the first day. Promised open world MMORPG. I got watered down, I mean with a lot of water, pathetic attempt at that. Yeah there is a story, for the first 5 min the rest is filler. There has never been a game that was such a blatant lie as this piece of garbage. Save the sixty bucks and get a true MMORPG or just getTerrible. I preordered the game and it's just been the same thing since the first day. Promised open world MMORPG. I got watered down, I mean with a lot of water, pathetic attempt at that. Yeah there is a story, for the first 5 min the rest is filler. There has never been a game that was such a blatant lie as this piece of garbage. Save the sixty bucks and get a true MMORPG or just get GTA. that is a a game worth getting not this insult to Gamers everywhere.… Expand
  17. Mojodog360
    Dec 30, 2014
    2
    It's important to remember that many of the glowing reviews for Destiny were posted in the first couple of weeks, when the game still seemed like it had potential. After putting in some 200 hours, I discovered that Destiny eventually becomes the worst kind of loot grinder you can imagine. It includes some of the worst aspects of RPG and MMO games, namely the repetitive play as you lookIt's important to remember that many of the glowing reviews for Destiny were posted in the first couple of weeks, when the game still seemed like it had potential. After putting in some 200 hours, I discovered that Destiny eventually becomes the worst kind of loot grinder you can imagine. It includes some of the worst aspects of RPG and MMO games, namely the repetitive play as you look for loot. This part of the game can be addictive, but keep in mind that the game world is actually quite small compared to games like Skyrim and Dragon Age, so the boredom sets in fast.

    Something else to be aware of is that Activision has seen to it that the game pushes players toward the very expensive DLC ($20 each) packs by creating a variety of paywalls that will restrict your gameplay once you reach some of the endgame content. It's a cheap way of pressuring players into paying, or else excluding them from content they've already paid for.

    Something else to keep in mind is that the game is not meant for solo play. While you can do some content alone, if you don't have at least 5 good friends, you'll find yourself shut out of the "raids", which are considered the best of the endgame stuff. Bungie refuses to put matchmaking in, so anyone who doesn't have friends online is going to be out of luck.

    If you pick this up cheap, or wait for an edition that includes all content, it might be worth a play, but NEVER pay full price for it. The concepts had some potential, but most of it was squandered by game design decisions that revolve around making money, first and foremost.    … Expand
  18. monnq
    Jan 7, 2015
    2
    This game was just a hype bomb, nothing more. The graphics - ok it's really, really good on both ps4 and x1. But when we go off the technical aspects this game has nothing to offer. I am experienced player, 2x 32 chars, lots of exotics. First of all, reward system is simply retarded. You may not get your desired item after tons of attempts while one lil' **** comes intoThis game was just a hype bomb, nothing more. The graphics - ok it's really, really good on both ps4 and x1. But when we go off the technical aspects this game has nothing to offer. I am experienced player, 2x 32 chars, lots of exotics. First of all, reward system is simply retarded. You may not get your desired item after tons of attempts while one lil' **** comes into raid/nightfall/vanguard amd gets it. Next thing is the campaign. This is the worst gameplay that i've ever had to know. The missions are boring as f**k. It's variety is limited to number of types that you can count on fingers on your hand. Generally it's go somewhere, kill someone or defend something, or collect something or scan something. The sad thing is you need to do this to reach level 20. You can also play multiplayer which, for me, is pretty much boring. After that, you are collecting pieces of armor with specified amount of light that levels you up. The DLCs are just an effect of Activision's hunger for our money - the only worth might be the Comet coming sept 2015. Generally, the only fun thing im this game is cooperation included in raids and strikes. However, to do them you need a group of friends cause playing with randoms is a bad idea. And there is one questions that remains... How long can you repeat the same objectives over and over? That's the thing which at Destiny sucks. It just takes your time, you get interested in but after all, result is you will end up bored and then you realize that you wasted so much time you could allocate for better things...… Expand
  19. Schmukker
    Jan 17, 2015
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There is not enough meat on the bones for this game to make it worthwhile. Basically, you will spend a few around 8 hours a week before you become nauseously bored. The main part of this game are the raids which you have to find people to hopefully not rage quit or dc and if they do good luck as there is no matchmaking, blows my mind. Pvp or the crucible is decent other then the ridiculous loot drop system that sometimes rewards afkers more then the top players. I will not mention anything about the story as there is literally nothing to talk about. Finally, they need to add something different then the non stop bounties that Bungie says is content.… Expand
  20. JoshieeUpham
    Jan 21, 2015
    3
    Ive had this game since it came out, unfortunately for me I was conned into paying extra for the pre order. The game isn't terrible but to pay 80 dollars for this game is insane im sorry your paying for a product that is hollow and feels really bland. The classes offer similar combat tactics and don't add enough variation to replay with a different one. Repetitive enemies is a HUGEIve had this game since it came out, unfortunately for me I was conned into paying extra for the pre order. The game isn't terrible but to pay 80 dollars for this game is insane im sorry your paying for a product that is hollow and feels really bland. The classes offer similar combat tactics and don't add enough variation to replay with a different one. Repetitive enemies is a HUGE problem. I don't get how a game with a 500 million dollar budget cap can be so repetitive?! Hoards of enemies playing over and over again. And again. And again. You find out quickly that this is going to be the case through the whole game. Dinkle bot as they call him, stops and says some random stuff and then play the hoard mode, defend him. Wrinse and Repeat. Over and over again. This system is unforgivable. I didn't expect a game with a 500 Million dollar budget to use this, ofcourse I expect it from mobile games or even sometimes start up companies. But from Bungie? The godfathers of Halo? That doesn't make any sense considering how well produced the first halo games were. Its most likely Activision handing out marching orders and Bungie being broke as hell after being basically fired from halo, put it any way you like retired, stopped it doesn't matter at the end of the day they stopped making Halo to make this boring, repetitive, lazy game called Destiny. I hope next time Activision gives Bungie strict time orders, I hope they spit on their shoe and possibly give em the bird because I don't want to see great companies waste what they had. That's right what they had.....… Expand
  21. Shinji664
    Mar 18, 2015
    3
    great graphics- but very poor content and it gets boring and repetitive as its same content again and again. poor matchmaking features and is a major grind to rinse repeat as levels keep increasing.
    Rewards are purely RANDOM! regardless of effort put in.
    I do not recommend this game to anyone who does not like grinding to level up items and equipment as it stops the game fully played as    great graphics- but very poor content and it gets boring and repetitive as its same content again and again. poor matchmaking features and is a major grind to rinse repeat as levels keep increasing.
    Rewards are purely RANDOM! regardless of effort put in.
    I do not recommend this game to anyone who does not like grinding to level up items and equipment as it stops the game fully played as raids require items to be maxd out~!
    i wish i can give my game back but it was downloaded- therefore never buying a game on hype alone    … Expand
  22. Steven105
    Nov 6, 2015
    1
    Research shows that Joseph statin had been working on destinys story for 7 years ,but bungie seniors canned his story a year before destinys release because they said his story was too " campy" so thats why Joseph left bungie , and i cant help but think why would bungie think that theyre half assed cobbled up last minute story would be better than Josephs? I mean its dissapointing all theResearch shows that Joseph statin had been working on destinys story for 7 years ,but bungie seniors canned his story a year before destinys release because they said his story was too " campy" so thats why Joseph left bungie , and i cant help but think why would bungie think that theyre half assed cobbled up last minute story would be better than Josephs? I mean its dissapointing all the years and money put into this game and for what? A 60 $ demo? Its the biggest let down in gaming history.… Expand
  23. gx5cpx
    Jul 20, 2015
    3
    I've put 100s of hours into Halo, Halo:Reach, and Battlefield 4. I also put 4-5 years into World of Warcraft. I know games. I know when I'm playing a good game or when I'm playing a bad game. If anyone was excited for this game, I was. I mean the marriage of the two gaming genres I've played my entire life. An MMOFPSRPG!? I was all in on this game.

    But here's the problem with Destiny:    I've put 100s of hours into Halo, Halo:Reach, and Battlefield 4. I also put 4-5 years into World of Warcraft. I know games. I know when I'm playing a good game or when I'm playing a bad game. If anyone was excited for this game, I was. I mean the marriage of the two gaming genres I've played my entire life. An MMOFPSRPG!? I was all in on this game.

    But here's the problem with Destiny: it is actually 2 games. I'll explain.

    1) Early progression. When you first start playing the game it is a great experience. Leveling your class, collecting awesome new weapons and items, first unlocking your super, getting your first sparrow and killing your first strike boss. The beginning stages of this game are great. It's a very fun experience. Gameplay is great. Gun play is perfect, but once gameplay kind of sets in you start to realize where this game has flaws.

    2) Max Level - when you hit level 20, it's like you hit a wall. You are forced to play the same strikes over and over again for a chance at a better piece of gear. And in these strikes, there's no way to kick anyone from the party so now a days people will just sit there while you have to do all the work. No really, they will just sit at the beginning part of the instance and you have to run on and do it all.

    When you hit this wall, you also realize how completely embarrassing the story was. I mean horrible. One of the worst stories of any game I've ever played. Just embarrassing coming from Bungie. None of the characters even have a name....seriously. I still to this day don't know a single character's name from the base game.

    The raid was probably the most fun I've had in this game. I beat the raid multiple times, so I wasn't one of those people who didn't push through to get to level 30. I actually hit 30. I played WoW for years. I'm used to the grind, but WoW actually has good lore and story compared to this. Gameplay is EXTREMELY important in a game, but when you also have an amazing story and lore it's a perfect combination. Destiny has great gameplay, but I didn't care about what I was doing in the PVE because the story was so awful. It's like you're told, "Alright, you're the good guy, now go shoot the baddies because they want to kill that orb over there." Besides this there is no context.

    Then once I hit level 30, all the controversies started to come out: Reddit, figuring out they had cut content prior to the game being released (people glitched into them), lead writer and lead music composer had been fired or let go or quit. All these things started to weigh down on me because of what this game COULD have been. All of my friends feel the same way as I do about this game. My friends were so disappointed and hurt by bungie and Destiny that they sold their ps4 completely. They just couldn't over come the disappointment, false advertising, and trust that Bungie completely broke with their fans.

    The longer I write this review, the lower I click the score because honestly, this game cut me deep. I was really looking forward to this game from Bungie and I find it to be one of the most disappointing games of all time. Don't buy this game. Activision and Bungie need to be taught a lesson.    … Expand
  24. matty1475
    Sep 16, 2015
    2
    destiny is C R A P. it is for people who's parents won't let them play call of duty. the multiplayer is unoriginal and gets boring after about 1 and a half hours, they campaign has about 4-5 hours worth of game play. now Bungie believes that if they release a DLC that cost more than the game is will redeem themselves. it is more or less one of those games that only fan boys play who havedestiny is C R A P. it is for people who's parents won't let them play call of duty. the multiplayer is unoriginal and gets boring after about 1 and a half hours, they campaign has about 4-5 hours worth of game play. now Bungie believes that if they release a DLC that cost more than the game is will redeem themselves. it is more or less one of those games that only fan boys play who have too much time on their hands and have no life, to get to max level takes forever. people who go in groups of 6 and spend 10 hours paying one mission. i would not recommend buying it as it gets boring after about 6 or 7 hours… Expand
  25. 88MIKEll
    Jan 17, 2016
    2
    Huge disappointment, waste of money, greedy developers and publisher, and an endless grind-fest of a game. This game would make a heroin addict high. Do NOT waste your money on this game, get a better game that is worth the money and has content and story for one lump sum.
  26. Salasgz
    Oct 31, 2019
    3
    Es aburrido, no le termine nunca y no lo pienso terminar, lamento haber gastado en este titulo mas me consuela que solo pague 5 dolares y nuevo
  27. ruxpe123
    Mar 15, 2016
    1
    This is the first game i have wanted to burn the disk and write hate mail to Bungie. very glitchy, the grind is bad , and the struggle is real. thank god i did not buy the taken king. fool me once but not twice. Bungie for the love of God please do not make any more games, it is cruel and unusual punishment.
  28. losc
    Jul 8, 2016
    3
    One of the most dissapointing games ever.Gotta admit the graphics were amazing but it's the only positive i can say about the game. The overall gameplay is mediocre the story is non existentand you always have to be online in order to play. If you disconnect from the internet you'll get tthrown to the starting point of the mission and most enemies will respawn. Also, the quest are horribleOne of the most dissapointing games ever.Gotta admit the graphics were amazing but it's the only positive i can say about the game. The overall gameplay is mediocre the story is non existentand you always have to be online in order to play. If you disconnect from the internet you'll get tthrown to the starting point of the mission and most enemies will respawn. Also, the quest are horrible enemies can be extremely annoying from time to time and the layout of the quests is the same. What I mean is you start a mission you kill everything in your way find what you are supposed to find and hold off enemies until your Ghost (in game companion) finishes gathering information or finish whatever he is doing. I would not recommend buying this game unless all you care about is graphics if you want to enjoy a game buy something else. The only reason it costs around 50$ are the graphics. In conclusion the most disappointing game i have played in a while.… Expand
  29. Tallulah
    Nov 29, 2016
    3
    Just signed up here so I have post this.
    I really enjoyed Destiny for a long time. Between nerfing everything and ridiculous decisions they made the game worse as time passed. Then Bungie began making it nigh impossible to be a solo player. Deej kept insisting they'd continue to support the solo experience for a very long time. Well, he's just a damn show pony and a flat out liar. The    Just signed up here so I have post this.
    I really enjoyed Destiny for a long time. Between nerfing everything and ridiculous decisions they made the game worse as time passed. Then Bungie began making it nigh impossible to be a solo player. Deej kept insisting they'd continue to support the solo experience for a very long time. Well, he's just a damn show pony and a flat out liar. The tide shifted for me when Taken King came out and Eververse was introduced. I've never been so disgusted in my life. I could not believe I spent $150 on this farce. I really tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this was the last straw. People will pay for good content. Resorting to microtransactions just shows how incapable Bungie is of doing that. So, they add a gate for content which forces you to get DLC. Otherwise your character is essentially useless.
    I don't know what happened to Bungie (Activision?) but Destiny completely changed my outlook on games. I am now very cynical. I used to be happy go lucky and optimistic, but nowadays companies have to earn my money. I take very little on faith anymore.
    People quitting or being fired before release should have been a huge red flag.
    Their incompetence on having to rely on out of game assets to do things is also appalling.
    All of this is a damn shame, because Destiny was really fun to play.    … Expand
  30. Marxowski
    Oct 7, 2017
    4
    Underwhelming in every way. Bought the game back in 2014. Played it once, put it on top of my shelf and left it there for several months and forgot about its existence. Vanilla Destiny was like that girl who looked cute, but then you see how uninteresting and tiresome her personality really is, and you regret that you ever had anything to do with her to begin with...
  31. mordin1999
    Nov 5, 2017
    0
    What a piece of junk!
    Just to clarify: I am a network engineer in my day-job, so the network setup in my home is no problem.
    After wasting my weekend with troubleshooting (and adding port-forwarding ... etc.), I finally hooked up my PS4 directly to my cable-modem as only device with Internet so it can do whatever it wants to ... and it still says "marionberry" - no connection. I cannot    What a piece of junk!
    Just to clarify: I am a network engineer in my day-job, so the network setup in my home is no problem.
    After wasting my weekend with troubleshooting (and adding port-forwarding ... etc.), I finally hooked up my PS4 directly to my cable-modem as only device with Internet so it can do whatever it wants to ... and it still says "marionberry" - no connection.
    I cannot return the "game" to Gamestop as it is open. Now I have a $40 coaster.
    During my troubleshooting I saw others have similar issues where it does not work on their home-Internet-connection, but at a neighbor it works. Other had to change their DNS-servers to make it work ... and so on. Needless to say, I tried all of those suggestions as well - to no avail.
    What game needs tweaking with DNS-servers to make it work??? I only see issues like that with crappy written/ implemented software at my job.
    Save your money (and time of troubleshooting) and don't spend it on this junk (I would rather call it "time waster" and not "game").    … Expand
  32. AziDahaka
    Nov 24, 2017
    0
    this game is just trash.......................................................................................................................................
  33. scotto123
    Oct 2, 2014
    4
    I fell for the hype. Plain and simple. The sheer lack of content and over amount of pointless grinding is frustrating to say the least. Visually speaking, this game is amazing. Probably the prettiest looking game to date on the PS4. However, games are about content and gameplay, which Destiny does well on the latter. Gameplay is solid and has a great foundation to the game. However, inI fell for the hype. Plain and simple. The sheer lack of content and over amount of pointless grinding is frustrating to say the least. Visually speaking, this game is amazing. Probably the prettiest looking game to date on the PS4. However, games are about content and gameplay, which Destiny does well on the latter. Gameplay is solid and has a great foundation to the game. However, in regards to the content of the game, the model that Activision/Bungie and other companies seem to be operating on now is the "pay now for half the game, pay more for the rest later". This game is another example of how the gaming society is showing developers/publishers that the DLC model is the way to go. Remember when games were finished and actual DLC was HOURS worth of content? Remember when they were called "Expansion Packs"?. Destiny had (and has) a lot of potential. Although, in its current state, it's a failed attempt at a potentially wonderful game.… Expand
  34. Alityx
    Sep 18, 2014
    4
    To be completely honest this game was a severe let down for me. I wasn't really into the hype train that surrounded before it's release, but as an avid bungie fan I hoped I would be proven wrong. Then I saw Activision's investment skyrocketing this game's funding to some 500+ million dollars. That is an absurd amount of money for a game as lack luster, unimaginative, and repetitive as thisTo be completely honest this game was a severe let down for me. I wasn't really into the hype train that surrounded before it's release, but as an avid bungie fan I hoped I would be proven wrong. Then I saw Activision's investment skyrocketing this game's funding to some 500+ million dollars. That is an absurd amount of money for a game as lack luster, unimaginative, and repetitive as this one. This game seems to stem from already established franchises, takes what is perceived to be their best traits and smashes them all in one cluster **** of a game with really pretty visuals. The franchises they basically stole from are star wars (speeder bike and rancor bosses), borderlands (bit of cell shading type visual and overall gameplay style), Halo (arguably their own creation but it still is just too similar) and warframe (free mmofps with like 5x the amount of content but also 2x the amount of grinding). First off this game is far from an mmo, it's desolate infact it is almost a miracle to see someone outside of the tower and the public events borderline never happen. As everyone has already mentioned this game has quite possibly the most generic boring ass storyline I have ever seen. Whoever said it takes 20 hours to beat is insane me and two friends beat the story in just under 12 hours. We didn't rush it, just once you get the basic mechanics and since everything is rehash of itself, enemies and underground caverns alike. It gets pretty simple to recognize the pattern and quickly breeze through. I'm not degrading the game just because I'm mad I wasted $100 but because I made the same mistake I made with Diablo 3, and watch dogs. I believed in the company and paid in advance. If there is one piece of advice you take from this critique its just wait some time after an overhyped games release then purchase it based on the general mass' opinion. Hopefully this game will get better over time, however based on bungie's track record of post release content it generally takes them between 3-8 months to release a few maps for halo games. How long will it take them to release meaningful content, like more raids, better player interaction, a ****ing trading system... Anyhow going to take this game back and get what little money I can from gamestop and probably put this something worth it like freaking minecraft.… Expand
  35. Genghis03
    Sep 26, 2014
    4
    I've had Destiny for over 2 weeks and in the end I was disappointed.

    Destiny for me had a very promising start. The graphics weren't game changing but everything looked nice and the game had a nice feel to it. The gun play was very satisfying; enjoyed shooting aliens in the face. The biggest issue with Destiny I had off the bat was a very poor execution of the story. The story was just    I've had Destiny for over 2 weeks and in the end I was disappointed.

    Destiny for me had a very promising start. The graphics weren't game changing but everything looked nice and the game had a nice feel to it. The gun play was very satisfying; enjoyed shooting aliens in the face. The biggest issue with Destiny I had off the bat was a very poor execution of the story. The story was just some monologue or briefing before each mission with some cut scenes you can't skip that are occasionally mixed in. Other then that, my first week with Destiny was a blast.

    However, after about playing for the game for maybe about 15 hours and leveling up my character to 20, I suddenly found myself disliking the game. For me, after 15 hours I pretty much beat the game. At that point I already saw everything the game has to offer and playing the game further was just replaying the same things over and over. I get the impression that either rushed the release of the game or purposefully left out content so they can milk more money through DLC. Not a good feeling to have about a game.

    This shallow level of content is severely exacerbated by completely changing the leveling system from a traditional experience based system to a loot based system. Once you hit level 20, you can only level your character by collecting a certain stat called light on gear. The gear can be obtained either through drops like a MMO or buying gear from a vendor with a special currency called marks. Getting gear through drops is pretty much random. There is no guaranteed gear from killing bosses or completing their version of instances. Also the drops are some weird blank slate where you have to go the city and some guy transforms the thingy into actual gear you can use. I don't understand why they don't just drop the loot directly, as is usually the case before level 20. One can also buy special gear from a vendor using a different currency system called marks. I found that obtaining enough marks for gear would require lots of grinding. On top of that, their are weekly limits to how many marks you can get. So even if you wanted to do endless grinding, you have a weekly cap limit to deal with.

    The combination of lack content and designing the game to suddenly become a slow grind forced me to completely change my opinion on the game. I truly enjoyed the game the first week or so. Then I basically beat the game and the game tried to pass of replaying the same stuff over and over again as content. I honestly felt insulted. The designers think that I am willing to put in hours and hours playing the same missions to slowly level my fictional character and obtain fake gear. I like playing games because they are fun. Destiny after 15 hours is not fun at all. It suddenly becomes a chore.

    There is also pvp in it but its nothing special but its not horrible. The interesting part is that enemies always show up on your radar, so gunfights are always head to head battles and rarely does someone get the drop on another player. I'm on the fence about the radar but it at least you know where campers are. The worst thing about the pvp is that the weapon balance is awful. Everyone uses the same weapon load out.

    Destiny started off great but there was a huge and very sudden drop off in quality. I would have felt slightly better if they just ended the game after the 15 hours of content they had. I would have still been upset with the lack of content but I at least would not have felt so insulted like I do now. The game honestly does start out well but the game quickly runs out of content and this is made so much worse by the developers forcing players to suddenly put in hours and hours of grinding right when the player has seen everything the game has to offer.    … Expand
  36. Saber-Scorpion
    Oct 1, 2014
    4
    There are two good things about Destiny: the art direction and the core gameplay. The game usually looks pretty, and it's fun to shoot things (assuming you enjoy Halo's style of shooting, which I do). And the music is pretty good too.

    The good parts end there. Everything else is decidedly lackluster. The story is a complete mess. Almost nothing is explained, and what little is    There are two good things about Destiny: the art direction and the core gameplay. The game usually looks pretty, and it's fun to shoot things (assuming you enjoy Halo's style of shooting, which I do). And the music is pretty good too.

    The good parts end there. Everything else is decidedly lackluster.

    The story is a complete mess. Almost nothing is explained, and what little is explained either doesn't make sense or sounds downright silly. You spend 90% of the game listening to Peter Dinklage phoning in some lines as a faceless floating robot, and the hundredth time you hear him talk about "the Light" versus "the Darkness" you will want to grab a baseball bat and knock him out of orbit. A few other characters are introduced, but they never appear for more than 2 of the game's sparse cutscenes and never get any development.

    The world feels dead, like Mass Effect if you took out all the NPC's and story (the things that make Mass Effect good). If you want to understand what's going on, you have to quit the game and visit Bungie's website to read the "Grimoire" that explains the lore. Why is the Grimoire not accessible in the game, like Mass Effect's codex? Eventually you reach stumble upon the game's final mission without even realizing it's the "ending," and are treated to an unsatisfying "it's not over yet lol" final cutscene. Buy the DLC "expansion packs" to see more! As if you'd care?

    So, off to enjoy the multiplayer! But you'll get bored pretty quickly. There is no planetary exploration - every planet is a long winding corridor connecting a few playable areas. They are filled with random quests in which an barely-related stock voiceover is played and then some text tells you to either "go to a place" or "kill lots of things." Co-op "strike" (dungeon) missions always end with a final boss that requires no strategy more complex than "shoot it in the head for 10 minutes straight until it dies." The Crucible (adversarial PVP) is fun, but limited to a few "rooms" with pre-defined rules (don't expect to make your own like in Halo), and one-hit-kill "supers" start to get very annoying. And one of the worst things about the game when compared with Halo is the complete lack of vehicles (there are two - basically a Ghost and a Brute Chopper) and no large maps to use them in.

    Even the MMO/Diablo loot-grinding aspects are poorly designed. All enemies have an equal chance of dropping good loot, so there's no real incentive to go after hard boss monsters. You're better of slaughtering weaklings. If any enemy drops a purple "legendary engram" and you take it back to the Tower to "decode", it often gives you a blue-quality item instead. So why call them "legendary" and make them purple? Just to troll players? Leveling up past 20 is all about grinding for good loot with higher "Light" scores. Instead of picking your favorite equipment with the best looks and powers, your loadoutis dictated to you by whatever has the most Light.

    Don't get me wrong - Destiny can still be fun to play, especially with friends. And if you get addicted to loot grinds, this one has quite a lot of grinding to hook you, despite its weak design. But you know what? There are plenty of free-to-play games that provide those things. The only things Destiny might offer over those F2P games are its level of polish and art style. But you have to ask yourself: are those things worth $60 to you, plus online fees and DLC prices?

    If you want my opinion: No, not really.

    Pretty disappointing for a long-time Bungie fan.    … Expand
  37. redishlavalamp
    Oct 2, 2014
    4
    This is a piece of **** game it was empty.The only good thing is the multi player and still not very good.The bosses were just bulit sponges with no real good game play.
  38. Theeffingtruth
    Oct 1, 2014
    0
    It's basically an endless grind to get the high end gear and once you reach the higher levels there is basically just unbalanced pvp to go, as you need a six man fire squad to raid and the game wont search for mates to join your fireteam. You need basically 5 friends online to play the raids. ****
    The loot system in one word: ****
    You spend hours of hours to get a legendary engram and    It's basically an endless grind to get the high end gear and once you reach the higher levels there is basically just unbalanced pvp to go, as you need a six man fire squad to raid and the game wont search for mates to join your fireteam. You need basically 5 friends online to play the raids. ****
    The loot system in one word: ****
    You spend hours of hours to get a legendary engram and its a (worthless) blue item...
    The worst part is the story. I have reached level 27 without playing 3/4 of the story missions. They are uninteresting anyway (no storytelling, no immersion, just stupid go in and kill missions) and get reused all over the time. Its really really bad how much they let you revisit the boring missions: ****
    The game is nowhere done or cut in pieces by design to get the max out of the idiots. If Destiny wouldnt have been free for me (got it in a bundle) I'd be pretty upset.
    By the way is this supposed to be next gen gfx?!? Looks like killzone2 on ps3 imho.
    This is what a bungie game looks like when a greedy publisher pushes them to the effing limit in order to milk the cows    … Expand
  39. Mr_Tans
    Sep 14, 2014
    4
    Why is it that next gen seemingly means less, not more? In Destiny we're given a paltry four locations to discover, with missions that consist of go to a location, have your 'ghost' friend fix something while you fight of hordes of enemies and then come up against a boss at the end of the level with absurd amounts of health.

    There are positives in the game - the shooting mechanics are    Why is it that next gen seemingly means less, not more? In Destiny we're given a paltry four locations to discover, with missions that consist of go to a location, have your 'ghost' friend fix something while you fight of hordes of enemies and then come up against a boss at the end of the level with absurd amounts of health.

    There are positives in the game - the shooting mechanics are solid, sometimes fun but mostly monotonous and of course the planets you discover look great. The AI are very good as well, using shields and cover intelligently enough to make the game a genuine challenge at higher levels.

    The best thing about the game, however is the music - it creates a superb atmosphere and builds tension nicely during boss fights.

    Unfortunately though, that's where the good ends. The repetition in this game is completely unacceptable - four decently sized areas is not enough to cover a game, and with the power developers now have at their disposal it's lazy and seems like there will be bucketloads of DLC for customers to spend their hard earned cash on.

    Once you've finished the game, the only realistic option to further your progress is to replay the boss fights, but considering there are only four of them you can imagine this gets boring quickly.

    The weapons all feel the same and armor barely even makes any sort of cosmetic change to one's character, even though there are three sub classes and hundreds of bits of armor in the game everyone looks the same (color excluded).

    I know the story is tacked on and not important, but they could have given it more thought and imagination. It has to be congratulated for taking one of the most talented and recognizable voice actors at present and making him sound like a generic, uninterested voice. I genuinely had no idea ghost was Peter Dinklage until I read it after completing the game.

    PvP is okay, but nothing special. Higher level players gain too much of an advantage and weapons do too much damage - you can't have epic firefights when guardians are dead within a couple of shots. Map design is again just okay, and I can't say I like knowing exactly where enemies are all the time from the radar - if they're not firing they should not appear on there.

    Overall, Destiny is a massive disappointment - it will almost certainly improve with added DLC but I won't be around to purchase it. It seems to be a common trend for games these days to provide a bare bones games and then add to it with DLC and/or microtransactions (yes I'm looking at you EA). I hope Destiny fails, as it represents a lot of what's wrong with gaming at the moment, I don't like being part of this next generation.    … Expand
  40. AenimaD
    Oct 4, 2014
    3
    Destiny is the biggest rip-off on the ps4 yet. It features just 4 planets with a single 'level' each to explore. Missions on a planet all take place in the same area and consist of 'go from a to b and deploy a ghost, kill everything that lives' and the mission's done. Weapons don't feel as if they had an impact and your skills are a joke from the angle of originality. Once you hit level 20Destiny is the biggest rip-off on the ps4 yet. It features just 4 planets with a single 'level' each to explore. Missions on a planet all take place in the same area and consist of 'go from a to b and deploy a ghost, kill everything that lives' and the mission's done. Weapons don't feel as if they had an impact and your skills are a joke from the angle of originality. Once you hit level 20 levelling works by the 'light'-stat of found gear instead of XP gained, which makes gear choices very obvious (take the new gear and level to even get the chance to find better gear, no matter what its ability is). A story doesn't exist at all, apart from 2 (or 3) low quality cutscenes there isn't one. Not to mention the lack of any memorable character in the game, maybe the ghost itself might be highlight...

    Going to PvP, the sentence 'become legend' really becomes a fraud: No long-term stats, no PvP-leaderboards, not even something to achieve or unlock there. Not even statstics of your own game. Bungie, are you freaking kidding us?

    No matter from what perspective, Destiny didn't deliver and suffers from a huge lack of content. Greatest job Bungie did was the marketing.

    Don't get me wrong; especially because I love shooters as well as sci-fi this game screwed up on a massive scale. Shame on Bungie, this will definitely leave a scar. Maybe the game was a 5/10 if not sold for 70 bucks and having been announced a milestone by Bungie itself...    … Expand
  41. HypotheticBunny
    Oct 2, 2014
    0
    Destiny is the most empty game I've ever played. It looks pretty, but its beauty is only skin deep. The story is laughable and almost non existent. Whoever came up with the idea that you have to go to a web site to find out about story through Grimoire cards is an idiot. It's like making a movie that makes little sense and telling you that you have to read about key plot points and generalDestiny is the most empty game I've ever played. It looks pretty, but its beauty is only skin deep. The story is laughable and almost non existent. Whoever came up with the idea that you have to go to a web site to find out about story through Grimoire cards is an idiot. It's like making a movie that makes little sense and telling you that you have to read about key plot points and general story elsewhere. And by the way even the bits of story you get through extremely rare cut scenes sound stupid and generic, it's just bad unimaginative writing.

    Gameplay and enemy AI is worse than in Halo. The fact that you can't take enemy guns is a travesty, one of the best parts of Halo was that you could grab any Covenant gun and those guns were fun. In Destiny foes have cool guns, but you can't pick it up. You are stuck with standard set of Earth weapons, apparently several hundred years into future Earth defenders still can't produce a cool looking BFG on steroids.

    What Destiny does well is making you really appreciate Borderlands series. I liked Borderlands a lot already, but now that I see how with $500 million budget Destiny totally screwed up loot system and upgradable gun variety, making it boring, largely useless and ineffective, I understand what a visual and logical masterpiece Borderlands is.

    The vast variety of Planets and Worlds that we were promised is another load of ****
    Maps are quire limited, and same locations are being constantly reused for various faceless missions, placing it on different planets just made alredy dumb menu system even more clumsy, and don't get me started on those loading times when you see your ship hanging in space for a minute ot two without movement.

    Your ship, by the way, is another example how Bunjie didn't use brains. This ship does nothing, you can't use it in missions, it can't shoot, you can't fly it at all, but you can definitely buy more cool looking ships, and then just stare at it, nothing else. Idiotic.

    Destiny has decent pew pew, but on pew pew alone you can get only so far, and pew pew isn't as good as in Halo or as fun as in Borderlands.

    Environments are beautiful but most of it can't be explored, and none of it is built with logic of alien life forms in mind, there is a bunch of huge undeground spaces and look epic but make no sense, this is Bungie's problem since forever, they never understood that putting five weird objects into a room doesn't make it furnished. There are bunch of buildings you can't enter, cave and room entrances with dark mist not allowing you to enter inside, Really, there's absolutely nothing nextgen about this game, another lie from Bungie.

    As many have already pointed out, all the gameplay and missions are extremely repetitive, unimaginative and boring. Strike missions are the most fun, but once you've done 3 or 4 you've done them all.

    If you're a fan of Halo and don't mind paying $60 for mindless pew pew, you may have some fun playing Destiny. If you are a fan of Borderlands, this game will piss you off to no end. It's not a MMORP, it's just a bland FPS that employs remote servers even for single player elements.

    I gave it 0 (in reality it's more lke 5) because bunch of trolls here give it 10, and that's clearly someone who works for Activision or Bungie, there's absolutely nothing 10 about Destiny.

    I also don't know if Destiny franchise will be successful. First Halo was good and Halo story was quite epic. Destiny story is quite stupid, and its first game is a disappontment. Not sure how one builds on that.    … Expand
  42. Knight1Creeper
    Sep 18, 2014
    4
    Largely inconsistent. This game sets you up to think the pulling of that magnum will do the trick, but amazingly you'll get shot by something idiotic. They should definitely fire the person in charge.. and then stomp him.
  43. Rakesh-Qor
    Sep 17, 2014
    4
    You getting disc, you putting inside Station 4 Play, you not having gord time. Not gord. Very expense, but only online playing! I don't having friend to play with, I don't having fun! Graphic is gord, every-ting else not gord. I don't know whatting to do, but doooooon't buy it, MutherYaar. I watching you.
  44. Catuun
    Oct 3, 2014
    0
    Promised to be a game revolutionizing the gaming industry for hardcore gamers. Turned out to be the first ever casual console shooter. Devolution at its finest.
  45. EsquireAtLarge
    Sep 16, 2014
    2
    Invest in something else, this game is not worth your money. I've played the game since day one, and tried to give it time to see if it improved over the course of playing it.
    It did not. I made an account solely because of poor this game was (I guess I'll review Titanfall too). Mark my words, the game will swindle you with additional content, because that is the only way they can    Invest in something else, this game is not worth your money. I've played the game since day one, and tried to give it time to see if it improved over the course of playing it.
    It did not. I made an account solely because of poor this game was (I guess I'll review Titanfall too). Mark my words, the game will swindle you with additional content, because that is the only way they can improve this "experience".

    [-] "Shared-world shooter"
    The game was described as a "shared-world shooter". This is a marketing term because Bungie doesn't even know what it is. The only world you "share" is The Tower. You can't talk to anyone there, you can't interact with anyone in any way except through four gestures which do not convey any real meaning. This place exists only for the shops, which could all have been handled through menus to spare me another loading screen (IT ALWAYS LOADS). I have a feeling this level was put in just to make the game qualify as "shared world".

    [-] Interaction with others
    In order to talk to anyone, they must be in your fireteam, and half the time they don't talk anyways. I get the impression that people have been so used to the quiet that they don't think they can talk at all, thus they don't wear mics. If this game is so "shared-world", why is there no proximity chat? You can't market a game this way and not put in this CRUCIAL feature. If you are so hell-bent on FireTeams, why make it so difficult to invite people to yours? Unless you have friends who you are already chatting with, you must find a random player you want to invite, click on their name with the thumbstick, interact with them, and invite them to your fireteam. Chances are by the time you've finished this needlessly laborious process, the person will have left.

    [-] Story
    ...what is it? I've unlocked various planets and supposedly done several story related things, except I don't know what they are or why I should even care. I have no idea what's going on, the story is delivered poorly and there is no emotional attachment to any of the characters. I'm apparently brought back to life by a "ghost"? What is "The Darkness"? Why do they want "The Traveler"? Why is the only name you can think of for the defensive tower of Earth "The Tower"? Why are there two different kinds of enemies? Are they working together?

    The story is one of the worst aspects of this game by far.

    [-] Level design
    The game is further marred by its poor level design. Why are there all these caverns on the Moon that are empty? There are no side places to explore at all, and everything feels stale (and gray). You realize quickly how repetitive the game is when the next mission takes place on the same map as the previous one, except they open a small new part of it.
    This is somehow supposed to be "new"?! If only 5% of the map is new, then it isn't a new level design, you just removed an invisible wall (and they are everywhere by the way). This company received half a billion dollars in budget and they couldn't even design a decent level?! And forget "open world", this game is as linear as possible - wander too far and you'll just die or run into an invisible wall.

    [-] Enemy design
    The enemies are located in the same place, all the time. If you die you have to fight them all again, and let me tell you how this fight is bound to work: You fire a few rounds, the enemy teleports away, shoots you with their powerful weapon, and then you have to hide and build up your shield. Rinse and repeat: shoot, hide, shoot, hide. This is not how you design an enemy. Some enemies even have fancy titles, like "Sakrion, Nexus Mind"; it's too bad I have no idea how he is related to the story at all.

    [-] Matchmaking
    So let's say you try out the PvP aspect, you'll notice immediately that you are paired with players who are twice your level or more. Why? There is no possible way that can be fair - of course the level 20 will win against the level 10. He's unlocked the subclass, a more powerful weapon, more powerful melee moves, etc.
    This is not how you do matchmaking, you will be spending most of your time being frustrated at how you can't last more than a second in the face of these overly powerful enemies. You should be matched with people closer to your level, because that way there is a more even playing field.

    [-] Leveling
    This game forces you to do PvP, no other way around it. Simply playing the overly-repetitive story missions won't cut it, you will end up leveling too slow for how the missions progress.

    [-] Loot
    I keep getting loot in this game for no discernible reason at all. 99% of the loot is worse than what I'm already wearing by a fair amount, even the ones I find in chests. Why am I being given this? I can't sell it to my knowledge, it just takes up inventory space and I have to dismantle it.

    I'm about to hit the limit, so let me add this: It loads all the time, and you'll look like everyone else until level 20.    … Expand
  46. deeviousdeevy
    Sep 20, 2014
    4
    After playing for 30 minutes I knew I was going to be disappointed with the final outcome, the game-play was very repetitive and the storyline was just random words and noise in the background. The online plays well and the game modes are very good, but I feel like I play the same 4 maps over and over again. When buying a game I would expect at least 12 decent maps to play. In terms of theAfter playing for 30 minutes I knew I was going to be disappointed with the final outcome, the game-play was very repetitive and the storyline was just random words and noise in the background. The online plays well and the game modes are very good, but I feel like I play the same 4 maps over and over again. When buying a game I would expect at least 12 decent maps to play. In terms of the open world aspect, it is just a large desert like area with the odd building dotted around guarded by AI (but they aren't protecting anything of value). The actual missions are fairly entertaining once you move on to the final 'boss', but it's just the same stuff, different alien. Even the missions require you to walk through the exact same buildings several times until you eventually go into a different and uninteresting room.

    Despite all of my negative comments, the game plays very well and the graphics are okay. To me it just looks like Halo 4 (nothing special). None of the spaces are interesting or offer a good area for fighting an enemy. The only way this game would be successful from here is if they continued to add interesting DLC, but I will not be paying £30 for a couple of extra maps and missions. I keep going back to this game as I believe there are no other half decent games on the market in this genre. The biggest disappointment is how Bungie sold this to us and claimed it was huge open worlds with diverse game play. To sum it up in one sentence: More evidence next gen is underwhelming.    … Expand
  47. Markus_monty
    Oct 11, 2014
    4
    Hello game Destiny released in 2014, the games from 2000 (or earlier) want their mapping techniques back again when your finished with them. Seriously, losing a bounty because you fell of the massive 6 foot drop, a distance easily jumped, is lame and shows just how poor Bungie have been with this game. At least not every map guides the player with linear cliffs or caves, oh wait it does.Hello game Destiny released in 2014, the games from 2000 (or earlier) want their mapping techniques back again when your finished with them. Seriously, losing a bounty because you fell of the massive 6 foot drop, a distance easily jumped, is lame and shows just how poor Bungie have been with this game. At least not every map guides the player with linear cliffs or caves, oh wait it does. Well at least you can explore, no wait you fall off the edge of the map. I was less critical of this game when I hadn't spent time with it, the more time I spend with it the more I hate it. I so wish I hadn't pre-ordered the digital version, at least you can take the disk back to the store and trade it in for a real game like angry birds. What a heap of sh*&*t.… Expand
  48. Chaotic903
    Oct 6, 2014
    4
    This game would be the best game ever if it was actually FINISHED!!! Everything about it is great but the game feels like huge chunks are missing. If you buy, it's basically a free-roam CoD mixed with Halo.

    Buy with caution...
  49. Bellicose
    Sep 16, 2014
    2
    Destiny is boring, with not only no interesting additions to the genre, but poor execution of the basics. Not interesting, not fun, not challenging. Extremely disappointing.
  50. VonSeux
    Sep 23, 2014
    3
    It's a sign of BAD decisions ruled by marketing and hype arround videogames. Everything from bullshots, gameplayless teasers, downgraded graphics, DLC and lack of polish is included, Is this the evolution of gaming?
  51. mumbles
    Oct 3, 2014
    1
    Overpriced POS game. All these high ratings are people trying to justify their purchases. The fact that the story is non-existent that sends you to the website to read cards to piece together the damn story (which is allegedly from the original version of the game before they were told to turn it into an MMO-style game) should be your first warning. This game is such a big letdown. While,Overpriced POS game. All these high ratings are people trying to justify their purchases. The fact that the story is non-existent that sends you to the website to read cards to piece together the damn story (which is allegedly from the original version of the game before they were told to turn it into an MMO-style game) should be your first warning. This game is such a big letdown. While, I never was a fan of Halo I can say that this game plays and looks great (there is nothing inherently wrong with the mechanics of game play)... the problem is you're paying full price for a game with limited missions, limited weapons, armor and enemies.

    The fact that content was recently discovered to have been CUT OUT OF THE GAME only to be sold to us later is just a HUGE slap in the face to gamers everywhere. Ask yourself "why would I play DLC for a level 10 strike on Earth when many of us are already level 25?"--assuming that that cut content is actually going to be released. The fact that they've fired writers and composers didn't bode well for Destiny either. The soundtrack is the best part of the game to me... I could have saved myself $45 by just buying the soundtrack off of iTunes and gotten just as much enjoyment out of this game. If you like shooting things over and over mindlessly and playing the same levels over and over... grinding away to upgrade items then this game is for you. I beat this game in less than a week and I was only playing about 3-4 hours at a time most days and now there's nothing else to do... so unless they add in NEW content via their servers it's pretty much DOA.

    I thought there was going to be more to the game than what was in the beta but it's the same types of weapons and only 3 more worlds. You can tell they put a lot of time into the design of the characters, lore and ships to build this world but they just pissed it all away to appease Activision and get it out there. Destiny should be held as an example of what not to do when you're developing a game. I should also add that the fact that you can only play with 3 of your friends at a time for strikes and main missions is just stupid. Most games do 4 players these days and that leaves out one of my friends that could be playing with us. This game was without a doubt over-hyped... I wasn't even all that interested in it until I played the Beta and fell for it hook line and sinker. All these people telling you how weapons are customize-able--compared to actual RPGs and games like Battlefield--it's a joke. I don't normally buy anything from Activision and I have a feeling this will be the last time. Do yourself a favour and just go back to playing Borderlands or Diablo III. We had Titanfall, Watch Dogs and now... Destiny. Here's to a better year of well-designed games in 2015.    … Expand
  52. dmanizzle
    Sep 30, 2014
    4
    After numerous hours of grinding and repetition, I am really disappointed at Bungie. Destiny is like a poorly designed game with numerous faults and very little rewarding experiences.

    First off, the story was a freaking disaster. Compared to their masterpiece, Halo, this "game" was a nightmare. Next off, the repetition in this game that many agree upon is annoying. Daily missions and    After numerous hours of grinding and repetition, I am really disappointed at Bungie. Destiny is like a poorly designed game with numerous faults and very little rewarding experiences.

    First off, the story was a freaking disaster. Compared to their masterpiece, Halo, this "game" was a nightmare. Next off, the repetition in this game that many agree upon is annoying. Daily missions and strikes are all from campaign mission. Everything is a constant grind to grab the best gear to level up. Fighting low levels yield the same results as fighting high level bosses? The abilities and skills were pretty bland. Health and shield system is definitely ripped off Halo. No single player option. High level strikes require players to find their own groups of six which is annoying. There are other problems that I may have missed, but **** it. I am believe that this game is not worth the 60$. Do yourself a favor and spend it on something more worthwhile.    … Expand
  53. Caracas2
    Oct 7, 2014
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have a titan level 29 and a hunter and warlock both level 27 but i bought this game because of it's rpg element. it's become another pvp shooter and looks more like a prologue than a full game. I do enjoy the game and voice acting is really good. unfortunately it feels like a unfinished product. I was hoping the hall solar system to start and not a few planets. doesn't look to improve with dlc either.… Expand
  54. Well
    Sep 17, 2014
    3
    I´m afraid that Bungie/Activision have failed.
    It has turned out to be an extremely repetitive, unimaginative and twodimensional game. Can they fix it? Maybe, but that would force them to start almost from scratch and that won´t happen.

    To give this a 10 is as wrong and deluded as givin it a 0. 3 - 4 is fair in my book.
    Very very boring pretty much sums it up.
  55. Aragato
    Sep 21, 2014
    4
    Although the game was pitched and hyped very well, I find the content reminiscent of some Korean MMOs. In fact, the lack of story content is very disappointing. The FPS component of the game and the PvP portions of the game are what prop it up. The amount of the content on release is just poor and the game outside of PvP is grindy and RNG based.
  56. OmiNya
    Sep 22, 2014
    4
    Short: if you like MMO games and want to try FPS - its not your game, if the other way - its OK.

    It's a game for people who never heard about MMO games. If you rate it as MMO(rpg/fps), its 0 of 10. 4 dungeons, 4 small narrow zones, you will never see more then 15 people in one place. There is no communication between people (no chat or voice-chat, only among your PSN friends). So,    Short: if you like MMO games and want to try FPS - its not your game, if the other way - its OK.

    It's a game for people who never heard about MMO games. If you rate it as MMO(rpg/fps), its 0 of 10. 4 dungeons, 4 small narrow zones, you will never see more then 15 people in one place. There is no communication between people (no chat or voice-chat, only among your PSN friends).

    So, its mostly single, solo MMO (how the hell?). Amount of content available is for 20h really slow-paced gameplay.

    Levelcap game is really crap, story is so boring, no characters except your little robot.    … Expand
  57. bochen00
    Sep 23, 2014
    4
    I did not have sky high expectations regarding this game as I played beta and knew how it will play more or less - games nowadays don't really change from beta versus final product...it seems to be part of marketing plan.

    First thing I noticed, after buying the game soon after the release, was advertisement of expansion packs from day1 - this was the first warning message as I know what    I did not have sky high expectations regarding this game as I played beta and knew how it will play more or less - games nowadays don't really change from beta versus final product...it seems to be part of marketing plan.

    First thing I noticed, after buying the game soon after the release, was advertisement of expansion packs from day1 - this was the first warning message as I know what it smells like (LITE version of the product with DLCs which multiple the price of the final product by 4.
    But heck, if the game is really cool, I can survive that (have quite some experience with MMORPG products that follow the same route).

    So to give you an idea on my feelings after playing bit beta:
    Shooting felt satisfying, graphis were nice and the idea of online pve shooter in Sci-fi environment sounded plausible. After an hour or two sessions during the beta, I felt bit bored and always went back to other games I had. Game looked polished, shooting was fine, but it was just missing something which is not easy to describe with one particular word - it felt like a shooter mix with a little bit of other games, without actual good plan on how to put things together to give players a feeling of a complete product.
    - You do have Tower as a base, but I kind of assumed there will be few of those and they will be full of life and interaction once the game goes life.
    - There are different missions and areas on the planet, but you basically start from same point and go little bit further or turn once different direction for smaller area which is designed for this particular mission.
    - Other players are on the same map, but you cannot communicate with them unless they are in your fireteam and they might be basically doing some other mission or patrol in similar area, so wont help you much in your duty.
    - weapons have stats and slightly different looks, but we've seen them all and they look more like from game set in 2020 than production set long long time in the future.
    - there are skills but I did not really feel any diversity between classes

    Those were my few points I noticed after some hours with Beta, hoping that there is some more as lvl cap was 20 and I reached only lvl 6 and was on the first planet. After all shooting as a core was done very well!

    So I bought the game with hope that the full version has some more to offer than I already saw.
    Indeed there were more planets, the story went further (so I assume from poping up notifications to visit website), I leveled higher and improved my character.
    Problem is, it felt like "mishmash" and that the Beta had everything the full game has to offer.

    I tried to follow the story, but the missions were so uninspiring that I forgot what the story is about very fast. With nice cinematics at the beginning of the journey, you would expect some nice cutscenes implemented in the game. Missions are always the same... and I don't think the word "same" is exaggeration. You go to spot B, deploy ghost who does some decoding, etc. while he works you defeat few waves of enemies, go to another spot and defeat level boss with minions. boss fights are always the same - kill minions, jump out, hit boss weak spot and hide again to regenerate.
    I haven't played engame, as after reading that it is just same strikes I have just been to and doing them on higher level (which means more hp of enemies), I decided it is not my style of grinding.

    Communication and feeling of belonging to a community in this game is made very bad, in my opinion. Unless community is considered as a fireteam created with friends from PSN, then Bungie did heck of a job to prevent getting to know new folks and have fun together. Biggest flaws I find are little amount of people in Tower you can meet, no chat even though console supports external keyboard. There is also no trading with other players or any clan/guild functionality.

    Other issue is loot and its variety. There are few types of weapons but they are not really inspiring weapons. Shotgun looks like a shotgun, rifle like a rifle. Weapons have different stats and colours, but I have not noticed much of a difference between the look of weapon on lvl 3 till end of the game.

    Games I have played with focus on loot grinding were more enjoyable, but have to say that some of them started also from the wrong foot and improved as the game developed, which might be the case for Destiny's destiny.

    The game had some nice moments, like first strikes which I attended were quite fun and had this feeling of a relief after clearing the last boss. However, after doing it for a while, it lost fun factor and I had to force myself to clear them, which should not be the case.

    Please note that I did not have friends to play with, so I either played alone or strikes with PUG.
    I guess the experience enhances with few good folks you can have fun with, but well, I didn't buy into this game enough to keep it for months on the shelf to see how company develops it    … Expand
  58. BobBently
    Oct 15, 2014
    3
    Bungie created a full game, all the content that we need to make us happy, But the suits told them, Give the the players only 1/4 of the game & we'll sell the rest in bits & pieces as DLC's & make quadruple the money.
    (Some of the CEO's need $500,000 yearly bonuses) Unfortunately this plan just makes the game feel short & Sh++y. Thus getting poor reviews for becoming boring &    Bungie created a full game, all the content that we need to make us happy, But the suits told them, Give the the players only 1/4 of the game & we'll sell the rest in bits & pieces as DLC's & make quadruple the money.
    (Some of the CEO's need $500,000 yearly bonuses) Unfortunately this plan just makes the game feel short & Sh++y. Thus getting poor reviews for becoming boring & repetitive all too quickly. Not Bungies fault.
    Greedy suits killed this game & that's the bottom line.    … Expand
  59. ttmoraes
    Sep 29, 2014
    4
    Ripped off story, repetitive gameplay, lack of content and functionality. It really does deliver some nice visuals and music, but, apart from that, Destiny feels like an empty and soulless shell of what it could have been.
  60. Breaker_p16
    Oct 11, 2014
    0
    Destiny is a MMO styled FPS developed by Bungie and published by Activision. Now lets jump right in the pros and Cons and find out why I award this game a 0/10.

    Pros: I can't think of ANY pros for this game besides "Its made by Bungie." Cons: Repetitive: The gameplay element, the objective, the landscape. Example 1: Point defense Horde mode. Example 2: Same spawn location for    Destiny is a MMO styled FPS developed by Bungie and published by Activision. Now lets jump right in the pros and Cons and find out why I award this game a 0/10.

    Pros:
    I can't think of ANY pros for this game besides "Its made by Bungie."

    Cons:
    Repetitive: The gameplay element, the objective, the landscape.
    Example 1: Point defense Horde mode.
    Example 2: Same spawn location for every mission on a given planet.

    No Story: That's right, this game has no story or plot you just fight bad guys why? Because you do. Nothing is ever explained. Oh well, Maybe in DLCs...

    Everything is planned as payed DLCs: Self explanatory, everything is to be paid for. Even the story.

    End note: Thing of it as buying a bag of chips, but just the bag. You'll have to pay for the chips at a later date. I can't bring myself to believe the good User reviews are made by other people then fanboys. As for the critics, that's probably where most of the development money went. (Knowing how corrupt the gaming press has been this last couple of years.)    … Expand
  61. DerpMan456
    Jun 24, 2015
    3
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  62. motch6
    Oct 6, 2014
    0
    BORING! Seriously!?! I can now see why they packaged this with the PS4 white machine, and that reason is because it wouldn't have sold as much otherwise!

    I played several hours and the repetition was extremely annoying. The fact this is a one player, with NO local multi-player ability makes it even worse! It's a bit too easy to level up. I had a friend that leveled up to level 30 in    BORING! Seriously!?! I can now see why they packaged this with the PS4 white machine, and that reason is because it wouldn't have sold as much otherwise!

    I played several hours and the repetition was extremely annoying. The fact this is a one player, with NO local multi-player ability makes it even worse! It's a bit too easy to level up. I had a friend that leveled up to level 30 in a matter of days. The game will not have re-play-ability! That is a deal killer for me!. I can't believe all the positive ratings!    … Expand
  63. Richith
    Feb 16, 2015
    0
    The story is incredibly short and you never really care about any of the characters. The gameplay is very repetitive and you have to grind for countless hours repeating "dunegons" over and over and over until something good finally drops and all the previous attempts got you nothing at all except xp (up to level 20, then you are just plain wasting your time grinding away).

    There is    The story is incredibly short and you never really care about any of the characters. The gameplay is very repetitive and you have to grind for countless hours repeating "dunegons" over and over and over until something good finally drops and all the previous attempts got you nothing at all except xp (up to level 20, then you are just plain wasting your time grinding away).

    There is nothing innovative about the game, its a very standard shooter with bosses that you have to painstakingly wear down for 15-20mins. The multiplayer aspect of the game is very unbalanced, there doesn't seem to be any kind of skill/level based matchmaking at all. A level 12 character will face level 30+ characters with end game gear ! Don't even bother trying the multiplayer until you have reached the level cap.

    The areas and zones are boring as hell, nothing interesting about them whatsoever. It has loads of reputation grinding missions where you literally repeat the same mission over and over...

    The Dark Below expansion (only one out at time of writing) is probably the least value for money I have seen in DLC, £20 for almost nothing, it should be £5.

    And now onto probably my biggest issue with the game, no matchmaking for raids or weekly strikes. This means if you're like me and don't know anyone else who owns the game you're just out of luck I'm afraid, forget about endgame content. Do not buy this game unless your friends have it too.    … Expand
  64. kalu666
    Sep 20, 2014
    2
    a huge waste of time and money! a game of markenting and **** no bonus for you bungie! next time less talk and more work, the game is boring as hell!!
  65. Katalkyste
    Sep 26, 2014
    1
    Im not sure why... its a polished disney showcase.. nice to look at , but dont touch or use it.. death zones and invisible walls are like the glass cover on the plastic food in Disneyland. Random loot , disencourages doing difficult missions and encourages finding loot caves (you will always find some)
    defeating the Guardian in borderlands resulted in a RAIN of Loot.. ok. 99% was crap    Im not sure why... its a polished disney showcase.. nice to look at , but dont touch or use it.. death zones and invisible walls are like the glass cover on the plastic food in Disneyland. Random loot , disencourages doing difficult missions and encourages finding loot caves (you will always find some)
    defeating the Guardian in borderlands resulted in a RAIN of Loot.. ok. 99% was crap but it was there.
    in Destiny killing the hadest bosses grants you nothing. but sometimes ONE Chance to get a good loot =D    … Expand
  66. AfroSpectre7
    Oct 1, 2014
    3
    Destiny game = 0. Bungie / Activision hype machine = 10. Weighted score = 5. Destiny can be and should have been so much more. It should have been what was promised. It got the basic mechanics right, but then again so does COD. Here is to hoping all the dlc is free. Final score = 3. 0 is too low. I really enjoy pulling off headshots in it though. Everybody loves splody heads right.
  67. Minkshaman
    Oct 5, 2014
    4
    Not really satisfied with this purchase. I feel like the story is half there, and the only reason you should buy it is if you like multiplayer.

    I just can't believe Bungie of all people made this. This feels like it should have been made by DICE.
  68. daringo5
    Oct 6, 2014
    2
    If you enjoy shooting things on screen, this is the game for you! if you enjoy games with depth, story, good voice-acting, and music, then forget it. This is not the game!!

    I was so excited to get this and play it day one on the ps4. And honestly I cant seem to understand how the beta was so amazing but the final product is so bad. Lets get one thing out of the way - the voice acting    If you enjoy shooting things on screen, this is the game for you! if you enjoy games with depth, story, good voice-acting, and music, then forget it. This is not the game!!

    I was so excited to get this and play it day one on the ps4. And honestly I cant seem to understand how the beta was so amazing but the final product is so bad.
    Lets get one thing out of the way - the voice acting of the ghost is bad... very very bad... its a chore to listen to him and I hate that voice with a passion. Bungie... how could you waste so much money on that voice is beyond me...... sigh.. Honestly we dont care who you hire to do a voice for a silly A.I. character, whether its someone famous from a tv show or an unknown actor. We just want good gameplay and storyline!!!

    The gameplay, as others have said, is repetitive. You find a spot, deploy your ghost, then wait, then shoot waves of enemies until its over.
    The graphics are good but whats the point of having good graphics if the gameplay is dull.
    Music is non existent.
    Storyline is completely non existent. Then again they were aiming this at online players who enjoy multiplayer.
    But lets talk about the multiplayer. Its so dumb. You cant join others or have matchmaking facilities (they are currently discussing adding this in, but its too late bungie!). Leveling up seems boring and annoying and the fact that everyone is running around with the same armor is also a joke.
    This game reminds me of Microsoft, and how they were so arrogant with their DRM and that the Xbox One would sell well, but in the end they learned an important lesson that the customer is always king.
    Same thing happened here. Bungie thought, that just because it has their name from the Halo series on this game, people would talk good things about it, but that is not what happened.
    Overall was thoroughly disappointed with this game, as like others, I was expected something amazing but in the end all I got was a slap in the face by a wet fish.
    Thanks but no thanks bungie! The negative scores do not lie!    … Expand
  69. gamer5846
    Dec 9, 2014
    0
    This is the worst game I have ever played, don't buy this junk. This DLC adds hardly any content, all Bungie has done is raised the max light level to force its players to keep grinding over and over for little reward. And for all those loyal players who maxed out their exotics, Bungie decides to make their guns into a piece of junk, and force them to do it all over again if you want it toThis is the worst game I have ever played, don't buy this junk. This DLC adds hardly any content, all Bungie has done is raised the max light level to force its players to keep grinding over and over for little reward. And for all those loyal players who maxed out their exotics, Bungie decides to make their guns into a piece of junk, and force them to do it all over again if you want it to be any good. And most importantly the game is no fun. Everyone I know is just grinding to unlock more pointless loot.… Expand
  70. Hseeker25
    Sep 9, 2014
    2
    Average game, not a MMO, think Borderlands with the same "want all the phat lewt" mindset.
    So it may apear gindy, and unfair to fighting peeps who have grinded beter weapons to you.

    Races are bit of a drag since there just reskins, besides the exo.

    Game is fun if you want to play with a few friends.
    I give it a 6 not good, not bad, just average.
  71. D1g1t4lM0nk3y
    Sep 12, 2014
    1
    Take Borderlands and remove EVERYTHING except the shooting and bad guys!

    ZERO Character Interaction, ZERO storyline, Horrible voice acting, and extremely boring boss fights that are more about endurance than skill or strategy.

    I'd get my money back if I could. There's a reason absolutely ZERO reviews were allowed before release. Bungie new exactly how **** their game was.
  72. SirNord
    Sep 15, 2014
    4
    It is so sad to see what Bungie has become. This game is such a disappointment in so many ways. The story, for one, is a cookie-cutter, bland, rinse-dry-and-repeat adventure that lacks any form of narrative. I played through the whole story and couldn't tell you what happened at all. The multiplayer is the biggest fall from grace for Bungie. It's astonishing to see the developerIt is so sad to see what Bungie has become. This game is such a disappointment in so many ways. The story, for one, is a cookie-cutter, bland, rinse-dry-and-repeat adventure that lacks any form of narrative. I played through the whole story and couldn't tell you what happened at all. The multiplayer is the biggest fall from grace for Bungie. It's astonishing to see the developer responsible for one of the best multiplayers of all time take so many steps backward and create and unbalanced, chaotic mess. About the only good thing I can say is that the gunplay is on-point and still fun to play but, is a lifeless shell that tries to cram in as much stuff into it as possible.… Expand
  73. FragCzar
    Sep 15, 2014
    4
    I hate to pile on because i was really looking forward to this game. I played the beta and the released game. The game has solid combat mechanics, but the story straight up sucks and the gameplay is repetitive and dull. It is very difficult to form a pick up group for missions so most of my gameplay was a boring solo slog. I thought the released game would be much better and deeperI hate to pile on because i was really looking forward to this game. I played the beta and the released game. The game has solid combat mechanics, but the story straight up sucks and the gameplay is repetitive and dull. It is very difficult to form a pick up group for missions so most of my gameplay was a boring solo slog. I thought the released game would be much better and deeper than the beta, but it was not. I regret buying this game. Bungie has made a fool of me. I recommend you avoid this game until it's inevitably discounted to the price of a cup of coffee.… Expand
  74. PerfectJayDread
    Oct 2, 2014
    4
    A resounding meh. Less than even. This game has only one leg to stand on and its its multiplayer, and that's it. If this was solely a multiplayer game then it would be awesome, but its being sold as a complete game which it is not. At all. The campaign would be laughable if it wasn't so bad, and the overall plan for the game is disgusting. Make no mistake, this game is incomplete. It wasA resounding meh. Less than even. This game has only one leg to stand on and its its multiplayer, and that's it. If this was solely a multiplayer game then it would be awesome, but its being sold as a complete game which it is not. At all. The campaign would be laughable if it wasn't so bad, and the overall plan for the game is disgusting. Make no mistake, this game is incomplete. It was intentionally shipped incomplete, because they want to sell you DLC. LOTS of DLC. That's the entire purpose of this game, to sell you more and more DLC. Pass this up, don't waste the money.… Expand
  75. CarterMcFarter
    Sep 11, 2014
    3
    Does not feel like an open world game AT ALL. All you are doing is initiating missions from the so called "Orbit" (which is just a more fancy word for main menu). There are like 5 story missions and 3 strike missions on each of the 4 planets + a free roaming mode where you can grind extremely boring and repetitive quests like "kill 20 enemies" or "go to location XY".
    The story feels    Does not feel like an open world game AT ALL. All you are doing is initiating missions from the so called "Orbit" (which is just a more fancy word for main menu). There are like 5 story missions and 3 strike missions on each of the 4 planets + a free roaming mode where you can grind extremely boring and repetitive quests like "kill 20 enemies" or "go to location XY".
    The story feels repetitive, fragmented, emotionless and has nothing special to offer. I just played through the story yesterday and cant remember a single mission because the storytelling is lame and full of cliches. The different kinds of enemies are generic and have almost no storyline behind them. Not to mention the bossfights, which are just a complete failure. Basically spraying your gun into some big fat AI for 30min.
    For and open world/ RPG/ MMO game, the environment is extremely small and repetitive, nothing like borderlands AT ALL. Not even close.
    The multiplayer is just casual, random, generic and boring. Just some halo-cod hybrid that plays like some random f2p game on steam.
    I really dont get how ppl can give this game a 8/10 or something like that. I'm really dissapointed in Bungie and I dont think this game will go anywhere.    … Expand
  76. windyisle
    Sep 12, 2014
    2
    Seriously, screw this game! After all the hype, and waiting for months for something of value to come to the next gen consoles we get this piece of garbage. It's not that Bungie didn't put in time to make this game - sure, it looks okay, but its a generic shooter. "Fire teams of 6!" they boldly advertise. Damned if you can ever find 5 other people of your own level. I've invitedSeriously, screw this game! After all the hype, and waiting for months for something of value to come to the next gen consoles we get this piece of garbage. It's not that Bungie didn't put in time to make this game - sure, it looks okay, but its a generic shooter. "Fire teams of 6!" they boldly advertise. Damned if you can ever find 5 other people of your own level. I've invited everyone I've ever seen to a fire team (usually one or two people max who are at my level) and I've only ever gotten a fire team of 3.

    Stupid ammo drops in huge boss fights make it so you not only can't use your favorite weapon, since it only has 3 bullets and holds a max of 15, but then you run out of ammo for your second favorite and theres not a single ammo drop in the whole damn boss fight. Not to mention I'm playing by myself because I can't find enough players to join me!!!

    I may not have sunk the 15+ hours into this game that some people claim you need 'before it gets good' because I'm not spending full price for a 15 hour grind before I actually enjoy myself.    … Expand
  77. NemiJR
    Sep 12, 2014
    2
    Worst multiplayer in any fps I've ever played. Campaign as many have said is bland a boring unless you bring a few friends along for the ride. I suppose it's an okay game if you do so. I must state that I am also not a troll, the game legitimately is not very good. Probably the most overhyped and dissapointing game of the year.
  78. kr0_0gs
    Oct 4, 2014
    4
    We complained about the alpha, the Bungie fanboys told us to wait for the beta. We complained about the beta, they told us to wait for the release. We're now complaining about the release and they're telling us to wait for the expansions -- after all, it's a ten year game! As long as you fork out the cash for each expansion. This is a very common mentality among those who think it's aWe complained about the alpha, the Bungie fanboys told us to wait for the beta. We complained about the beta, they told us to wait for the release. We're now complaining about the release and they're telling us to wait for the expansions -- after all, it's a ten year game! As long as you fork out the cash for each expansion. This is a very common mentality among those who think it's a good game.

    The bottom line is that while it's yet another generic FPS, it doesn't even live up to that poor standard. It has absolutely fantastic art direction and vision, but it feels like they finished the game and then went back to tear out all the content so they could sell it to us as expansions. There is no story; the game only alludes to one but even then it's right out of a high school creative writing class.

    I could almost agree that the core mechanics are solid, except they're not at all -- and deceptively so. The critical hit box for PvE enemies is big enough that you can shoot over their shoulder, in their stomach, or sometimes even on their rear and still watch the head pop. Not to mention the extremely strong aim assist. It's designed to make people feel like they're good at it regardless of their actual skill level. If you're a player who typically prides yourself on getting head shots, you'll feel robbed once you realize it's lying to you with a smile.

    The PvP has much better hit boxes, but it has a whole slew of other problems. It's completely unbalanced -- Bungie themselves admitted as much in their public statement made after closing the loot cave. Need I even mention how broken the supers are? There's not enough class distinction, but the class distinction that exists makes this a laugh of a competitive game. Then of course, you have the persistent lag (count on killing someone, then having their corpse kill you 2-3 seconds later) and the frequent disconnections (it even fails to tell users what happened, so everybody thinks everybody else chose to leave the game).

    Continuing my critique of the PvP, they have a few different match types but for absolutely no reason. Kills are the most important factor in every match type. In control, you're far better off capturing a point and sitting in a corner for the rest of the match to slaughter every incoming enemy than you are actually trying to go capture other control points. I can't recall how many matches I've played where the person who captured the most points was last on the leaderboard simply because the only thing that really matters is kills. Furthermore, the game gives you zero ability to customize a PvP match -- this is 13 years after the very first Halo game, which gave us myriad different PvP match types and options to fiddle with.

    The last point I want to make is about the general amount of content in the game, the loot system and Bungie's "updates". Bungie's number one priority is to slow players down as much as possible, which is why they "fixed" the loot cave and basically nothing else. I don't think the loot cave should stay in the game, but they completely avoided fixing the real problem: the game's utter lack of content. The reason the loot generation is terrible is that they have to continue to give you the same atrocious gear over and over. The alternative is people progressing at a reasonable pace and then quickly realizing there is no endgame here.

    For any of you wondering (because some have assumed little playtime in order to discredit harsh but accurate reviewers), I've put north of 70 hours into this game — I have a level 27 Warlock. I've been very determined to get my money's worth in spite of the fury I feel every single time I play.

    To each their own, I don't begrudge anybody their enjoyment of this game or any other game which I consider to be terrible. But this is yet another example of publishers and developers treating their core demographic like mouth-breathing cash cows and yet they keep raking in the millions. It does say something about that core demographic.    … Expand
  79. DavidAdas
    Sep 10, 2014
    2
    I don't consider myself an MMO junkie. I have played quite a few over the years and I've even reached max level for a couple of them, but I've never played enough to be dissatisfied with any particular MMO's end-game content (or lack thereof).

    Destiny is a first for me on two counts. It is the first game in which I managed to reach max level within two days (which did take me a while    I don't consider myself an MMO junkie. I have played quite a few over the years and I've even reached max level for a couple of them, but I've never played enough to be dissatisfied with any particular MMO's end-game content (or lack thereof).

    Destiny is a first for me on two counts. It is the first game in which I managed to reach max level within two days (which did take me a while to do, I will admit) and it also marks the first pseudo MMORPG I have ever played that has truly bored me both during the climb to the end game and then after it.

    As many others have noted, the fighting is largely repeated from mission to mission. There is little variation and little excitement in the plot. The gear also fails to provide that sense of achievement and awesomeness that you'd find in Borderlands (largely because there is no sense of variety in what you find and equip).

    The end game raids, PVP, events, etc do mix things up a bit, but after a couple hours of any of the above, you will again be overwhelmed by a feeling of staleness and repetition.

    Overall, I'd have to say the game is...pretty disappointing.    … Expand
  80. CthulhuSaves
    Sep 19, 2014
    0
    Rather than try and convince you this is a shallow, bland, poorly written, over hyped, piece of crap Destined for the bargain-bin, I'll quote its wiki's contents on its plot and characters, ahem

    "Many generations ago (shortly after present day), the emergence of a gargantuan construct known only as "the Traveler" ignited a Golden Age of technology and exploration for humanity. The    Rather than try and convince you this is a shallow, bland, poorly written, over hyped, piece of crap Destined for the bargain-bin, I'll quote its wiki's contents on its plot and characters, ahem

    "Many generations ago (shortly after present day), the emergence of a gargantuan construct known only as "the Traveler" ignited a Golden Age of technology and exploration for humanity.

    The Golden Age would last for centuries, but human civilization fell victim to a cataclysm of extraordinary magnitude, known as the Collapse. A malicious entity known as The Darkness, an ancient enemy of the Traveler, waged a campaign of destruction against civilization. Few managed to survive the devastation.The Traveler is now silent and dormant, while those who survived united to build The City beneath it, establishing the last bastion of civilization in the solar system."

    500 million dollars and this is the best they could do. Notice I didn't capitalize those nouns; those are the names they gave their characters, their locations, their foes. If that doesn't tell you that this game lacks any sort of creativity I don't know what would.

    The gunplay is slick, the worlds look great, it can be challenging. Where's the soul of the game though? If this is supposed to sit on my shelf next to LotR and Star Wars, where's the imagination? It reminds of when Ubisoft said they had Assassin's Creed "down to a science". Sure it may play well and be incredibly stable and graphically rich, but it has no longevity or emotional conviction. It's soul less corporate trash, and that's what's wrong with this game.

    If you enjoy a competent shooter and do not need a deep plot or characters that matter, then you can enjoy Destiny for what it is. The rest of us were promised something more, much more. They failed to deliver anywhere near what they had said they would, and so their ratings shall fail so they will know we hold them to their promises.    … Expand
  81. mattbtheg
    Sep 18, 2014
    4
    This game is a massive disappointment. Every story mission follows the same pattern: fight through a horde of enemies, protect your ghost as it hacks something, fight a bullet sponge, and hope that the game gives you some piece of loot that isn't complete crap (which it almost never does). Also, the multiplayer is horribly imbalanced. Hunter and sunsinger warlock dominate every match, andThis game is a massive disappointment. Every story mission follows the same pattern: fight through a horde of enemies, protect your ghost as it hacks something, fight a bullet sponge, and hope that the game gives you some piece of loot that isn't complete crap (which it almost never does). Also, the multiplayer is horribly imbalanced. Hunter and sunsinger warlock dominate every match, and the weapon and armor bonuses still being active in pvp makes it near impossible for a lower level person to win. The bounty system is bugged as well, giving bounties for playlists that are only available on weekends during weekdays. Add on numerous cutscenes that you can't skip, an absolutely atrocious story, fairly bad voice acting, boring choices of weapons, a lack of a community, and making it a real pain in the ass to get a group for weekly strikes, and you have a pretty awful game. If this game were $30 or $40 I would have a different opinion, but this game is absolutely not worth $60.… Expand
  82. ransom34
    Sep 16, 2014
    4
    As expected, this much-hyped game turned out to be "just another boring FPS MMO", with the standard set of issues - poor loot drops, incredibly boring, tedious and repetitive missions, an almost total lack of "story", a short trip to the Level 20 cap, no generic chat function (other than set team), and worst of all, no open world.

    Yes, this is a very linear game, which is the antithesis    As expected, this much-hyped game turned out to be "just another boring FPS MMO", with the standard set of issues - poor loot drops, incredibly boring, tedious and repetitive missions, an almost total lack of "story", a short trip to the Level 20 cap, no generic chat function (other than set team), and worst of all, no open world.

    Yes, this is a very linear game, which is the antithesis of an MMO, and probably its greatest failing. It also smells of "pay DLC", with Bungie opening up new linear parts of the game for $$$ - why give an open world for free when you can micro-transaction buyers to death?

    Very disappointing and I already traded my copy in while it's still worth something. Once they start piling up at the game shop, you might not be able to give them away.    … Expand
  83. Nobilis1984
    Sep 12, 2020
    2
    It's been 6 years since Destiny came out. Back then, the trailer flashed me straight away.
    The fact that the content of the trailer was only fully available a year later and the graphics were worse as promised is a reason for the new rating for me. A lot had been promised but little had been kept.
  84. an55192
    Jan 21, 2018
    2
    So far biggest disappointment of the year for me. Lvl 15 titan and that's it, no more interest to play the game anymore. Boring as hell, story is bad, missions are very repetitive, looting is weak, PvP is terrible and overall lack of content. Graphics are great and so is the music, but that alone doesn't make the game good.

    Jack of all trades, master of none.
  85. jcarroll1
    Sep 17, 2014
    4
    This game is very poor. Each mission follows the same basic structure as the last, you fight your way to an objective and then defend the objective against several waves of similar enemies. The game offers no variation and consistently fails in delivering anything beyond standard FPS combat. Graphically the game is ok but nothing special, especially when considering i played it on a nextThis game is very poor. Each mission follows the same basic structure as the last, you fight your way to an objective and then defend the objective against several waves of similar enemies. The game offers no variation and consistently fails in delivering anything beyond standard FPS combat. Graphically the game is ok but nothing special, especially when considering i played it on a next gen console.… Expand
  86. Barefoot_Gamer
    Sep 14, 2014
    4
    Ok so all the hype pushed to one side. What we have here is a pretty poor game. Yes the FPS mechanics are superb and yes the graphics are nice BUT the game should have been called REPETITION. The game plays superbly well but it would be nice to have a decent game to play. The game is TINY. The missions are all almost identical. Fight past a bunch of enemies, take out a boss and return forOk so all the hype pushed to one side. What we have here is a pretty poor game. Yes the FPS mechanics are superb and yes the graphics are nice BUT the game should have been called REPETITION. The game plays superbly well but it would be nice to have a decent game to play. The game is TINY. The missions are all almost identical. Fight past a bunch of enemies, take out a boss and return for a pat on the back. No imagination, no variety and nothing to play for after level 20. The chests are hard to find and when you find them, what do you find in them? A really cool weapon or tons of credits - NOPE - if you are lucky a few coin and a flower.

    Borderlands literally DESTROYS this game without trying.

    All the promises and all the hype were just that - empty promises and BS hype. Anyone would guess that the developers went to the same lying school as the Fable developers.

    SO disappointed with this. It plays like the Rolls Royce of shooters but actually delivers a coconut shy of a game. Save your money.    … Expand
  87. Dannystaples
    Sep 21, 2014
    4
    Destiny is a brilliantly professional first person shooter, created by people who know how to make great FPS games. Bungie and Activision the father's of Halo and Call of Duty. Their experience shows.

    The world is BEAUTIFUL. You are on the Earth which is desolate and destroyed, on the moon which has a fantastic view of the Earth with visible ion storms, a broken up space station in the    Destiny is a brilliantly professional first person shooter, created by people who know how to make great FPS games. Bungie and Activision the father's of Halo and Call of Duty. Their experience shows.

    The world is BEAUTIFUL. You are on the Earth which is desolate and destroyed, on the moon which has a fantastic view of the Earth with visible ion storms, a broken up space station in the sky and a fantastic view of the Milky Way whenever you look above your head. Venus and Mars are equally fantastic.

    The combat in this game is the best part, enhanced by in depth RPG elements. You traverse these planets killing enemies with powerful weapons that feel good to wield. The game feels heavy, you can feel your legs bending as you fall from great heights. Each weapon and piece of armour has levels associated to it which can be specifically chosen to enhance your particular characters features as you see fit.

    But that is about all the positives I can say. The game is too short. I finished it in about two days of solid playing. Which is pathetic for a full priced game and one which is supposed to be lasting us the next ten years. Where the next expansion to this game isn't supposed to be hitting us until around the end of this year and it won't be free!

    The level cap is 20. But you can continue to level based on something called "Light" which is a feature of high level armour that adds levels to your level 20 maximum. Most people have started to level off at about level 27/28. I have been playing just under two weeks and I am already at level 27.

    This game is always online, so you need an internet connection. Despite this being online only, there is no in game voice chat. So there is almost no way you can find people in the game you don't know. If you play solo like me there is no way of making friends and playing in a group with people. Instead you have to go on the internet and sign up to a group manually and add the people on there to your friends list. Tedious and unnecessary in 2014.

    The story of this game is the worst part about it. It is slow, hard to understand and lacking any sort of interesting features. Not even Peter Dinklage who plays Tyrion Lannister in the Game of Thrones TV adaptation could make this story any less dull. The missions all play out in the exact same fashion except the odd one. Your Ghost companion tries to scan something or open a door and enemies come at you. You defend against waves of enemies and once the last one is dead, your companion conveniently finishes whatever it was he was doing.

    Once the story is over you have one task left. You have to scour the world for increasingly better armour to increase your light level and ultimately your characters level. The problem is once you have finished the main story line there is NOTHING new to experience in this game. PvP and Raids being the exception.

    To find armour and weapons you have to kill enemies. The only enemies you can kill are in the same maps that the main story was held in which means you are running through the same environments over and over and over. Plus the enemies do not scale with your level which means not only are you going through the same environments, with the same enemies, they are also still low level meaning they offer no increased threat.

    The process of finding armour is helped using Bounties and daily missions. They are easy and they have you doing the exact same missions I've just been talking about again and again and again.

    For doing certain missions you get reputation and a currency called marks. Once you hit a certain rank in a certain faction you can buy their armour using the marks you just painstakingly collected from doing the same missions over and over. This game is a quick ending grind fest. All you will do in this game is grind, grind, grind.

    The more astute amongst you will probably say "Well yes but MMO's are supposed to be like that. This isn't anything new.". Yes except that WoW didn't have ten years ago when it started ONLY TWO DAYS WORTH OF CONTENT! In WoW it takes many months building up a character before you get to the loot grinding. It appears Bungie didn't get that memo.

    PvP. Anyone thinking this will be like Halo you are wrong. By which I mean one of the best multiplayer games available. PvP is barebones, tedious and really rather boring. There is nothing to keep you engaged in this mode, not even a leaderboard. Not to mention so far I have also encountered a considerable amount of lag while playing. Crucible has its own reputation rank and marks currency and its own set of armour you can buy.

    Raids. Raids are a high end mission. Basically you need to be with a group of friends. Bungie refused to put matchmaking in for Raids so it is friends on your list or nothing. Needless to say the difficulty hump for this mode is considerable. The average gamer won't stand a chance.

    This game has TONNES of potential but it isn't finished yet.    … Expand
  88. Karljj
    Sep 16, 2014
    4
    30 minutes end level stand still bosses, being passive bullet sponges, with no challenge at all... really are you serious Bungie?!?
    -this is 2014 not 90's gaming!
  89. Dreamline77
    Sep 14, 2014
    2
    I feel like Bungie cheated me. They promised a "massive, open-world" experience, but they gave me a new version of Borderlands. I was thinking Destiny would be game of the year, but it won't even be game of the month.

    It is repetitive and dull. All the voice acting was phoned-in. There is nothing that makes the game unique. There is nothing that makes the game must-have. It is a dull,    I feel like Bungie cheated me. They promised a "massive, open-world" experience, but they gave me a new version of Borderlands. I was thinking Destiny would be game of the year, but it won't even be game of the month.

    It is repetitive and dull. All the voice acting was phoned-in. There is nothing that makes the game unique. There is nothing that makes the game must-have. It is a dull, lifeless shooter that is drowning in its own self-importance.

    I guess the dearth on great Next-Gen games continues.    … Expand
  90. adampwedgie
    Sep 16, 2014
    4
    Pros:
    - Outstanding soundtrack
    - In terms of look, perfection, i mean this game is beautiful - Vehicles add a new feel, but still has that "halo-y" thing to it Cons (prepare yourself) - Short, you can beat this game way to quickly, spend about a day and a half and you've seen everything there is to see - No legitimate reason to make any class twice - Advertised as an MMO, not an    Pros:
    - Outstanding soundtrack
    - In terms of look, perfection, i mean this game is beautiful
    - Vehicles add a new feel, but still has that "halo-y" thing to it

    Cons (prepare yourself)
    - Short, you can beat this game way to quickly, spend about a day and a half and you've seen everything there is to see
    - No legitimate reason to make any class twice
    - Advertised as an MMO, not an MMO not even close
    - The last city on earth is 3 building that you visit to only find out what drops you have
    - Teams consist of 3 (WAIT WHAT!?)
    - Earth/Moon/Venus/Mars, thats it, hope you dont beat the game too quickly, because you've just seen every area
    - No end game, no new stories, no new places to visit, just revisit all the old things..over..and over..and over
    - Drops are random, even in pvp, no skill, no end goal, just random (example i can go 56-0 and get nothing, but the 20 who just went 0-50 got a legendary drop)
    - In addition to drops are random, there is no true "worth" of any item, with the lack of at least a good trade system, or buy and sell system, its pointless.
    - Drops are happening WAY to often, the fact that its been out for less than a week, and i'm already fully decked out in rares/legendaries, its insane
    - Zero reason to really replay the game more than once unless you want a hunter for pvp
    - PvP is broken right now, if you want to truly rule, luck out with a great auto rife and a hunter class
    - No real cities where all the players can relax, a small hub that offers nothing but shops to buy things
    - One city...just once city
    - the inability to chat in the city to get a group of players going...even though you can only really run a mission with three
    - There is no point in just "roaming" a planet, no benefit, no secret crazy treasure, just a random zone event which means your either fending off waves of npcs or chasing an npc down to kill it
    - Virtually impossible to communicate to another player without inviting him/her to a party (imagine trying to find a party to play with none of your friends on..god luck
    - Why would anyone want to legit level a warlock when you legit found out the benefits of a titan or a hunter passed level 20. Titans get amazing armor, Hunters get great speed, warlocks get...recovery?
    - When you hit level 20, you gain more levels by light, to get this light you need to find armor that has additional light, to find this armor you have to either play PVP or redo the same missions over and over again. Basically replay the same strike missions until you realize your over it
    - It sad but i can keep going for at least another 15 lines, but i'm over it. HUGE disappointment and you can already see the people leaving the game

    All in all people expected a clash of Mass effect 3, Halo, and borderlands. What they got was an over hyped game thats aims at the only way to level is playing long hours to hopefully get a random drop that you essentially didn't deserve...    … Expand
  91. Ariakkan
    Sep 17, 2014
    4
    The best of this game is the marketing campaign. The actual game is dull and boring, falling short in everything promised / advertised by the developer and the publisher.
    I wasted 99.99€ in the digital edition and I cannot regret the fact enough. I also purchased Battlefield 4 for 20€ and I am having a blast.
    And that pretty much summarizes my experience with Destiny. If you want to play    The best of this game is the marketing campaign. The actual game is dull and boring, falling short in everything promised / advertised by the developer and the publisher.
    I wasted 99.99€ in the digital edition and I cannot regret the fact enough. I also purchased Battlefield 4 for 20€ and I am having a blast.
    And that pretty much summarizes my experience with Destiny. If you want to play any of the genres this game "touches" you do have cheaper and much better alternatives:
    Wanna FPS looting madness? Borderlands is better.
    Want an "old school" FPS? Battlefield 4 is better.
    Want a Sci-Fi RPG? Mass Effect is MUCH better.
    Trust me, if you have a single doubt do not buy this game, as in the end is a standard shooter with bland mechanics borrowed from other genres without contributing in any meaningful way to game development in the most wider sense of the term.
    An utterly forgettable experience. I am scoring it as a 4 due to the art and graphics (if this actually counts something towards reviewing a game nowadays) and out of pure nostalgia of the Halo series, as I cannot believe this game was developed by Bungie for over 5 years.    … Expand
  92. Frank1492
    Sep 12, 2014
    2
    This is a solid game. Its almost like a first attempt at making halo an mmo.

    Things I DO like: 1. Game mechanics - shooting feels amazing. I've been playing fps since CSS and this is one of the smoothest shooters I've every played. The weapons need balancing but that's to be expected. 2. Graphics - good graphics, could use some variance however. Bosses and terrain starts to look    This is a solid game. Its almost like a first attempt at making halo an mmo.

    Things I DO like:
    1. Game mechanics - shooting feels amazing. I've been playing fps since CSS and this is one of the smoothest shooters I've every played. The weapons need balancing but that's to be expected.
    2. Graphics - good graphics, could use some variance however. Bosses and terrain starts to look identical after a while, but what they did choose to focus on was well done
    3. Gear - I like the variety of weaponry and the way gear in general looks, character aesthetics in general deserves some praise.

    On to what I DON'T like:
    1. This was way over hyped as an mmo, of course they couldn't just come out and tell you that you would hardly ever interact with other players. Only if you're in a fireteam, which means you basically have to be friends BEFOREHAND wtf. Anyone who has played a true MMO like RIFT or WoW will be severely disappointed. I have a huge problem with the whole basis of P2P interaction in this game. I feel lied to.
    2. repetitiveness. I literally said multiple times throughout the game "oh I must just have to grind through this to get to the real "meat" of the gameplay. Wrong. You shoot aliens for 20 hours then guess what. you shoot some more aliens. Nothing about that is fun, we've all done it a thousand times.
    3. Did I mention that calling this an MMO is a travesty?
    4. "worlds" should be renamed to "maps" an entire planet...say...the moon, is just a bunch of missions on a closed map with identical spawns. Thats right folks, this is not open world, you don't "travel" you're loading a map.
    5. Someone else put it best when they said the main city hub is worse than starting locations for most MMOs.
    6. This is not an MMO.

    Conclusion: I like the game, its fun to play, but honestly we were straight up lied to about the scope, depth, and type of game this is. Its a good first try. They can build on it. But I learned my lesson. No more day 1 purchases from me bungie.    … Expand
  93. Ponskippa
    Oct 4, 2014
    2
    This game was hyped, and I fell for it. I played the beta, and I had fun with it. Mostly because I was playing with friends. Well I got it at midnight release like most others. We had fun with it for a lil while. Load screens are terrible. This game is not nearly as fun as borderlands. Your "fireteams" are limited to 3, so forget about playing with all your friends. I got bored of thisThis game was hyped, and I fell for it. I played the beta, and I had fun with it. Mostly because I was playing with friends. Well I got it at midnight release like most others. We had fun with it for a lil while. Load screens are terrible. This game is not nearly as fun as borderlands. Your "fireteams" are limited to 3, so forget about playing with all your friends. I got bored of this game on day 3, which is faster than usual lol. This game has mindless "MMO" wannabe grinding. Except in an mmo it is usually open world and the objectives arent repeated daily. Youll find yourself spending 5 hours completing "bounties" only to receive nothing worth your time. You hit level 20 in a day or two, then youll be stuck on a level forever. This game has the stupidest leveling system ever created. Level up with "light" points that is gear based. Stupid. LOL. If you've played a real mmo and are hoping for one here, turn away. If you want a shooter, get battlefield or call of duty. Multiplayer "pvp" aka crucible aka td or whatever you wanna call it isnt much more fun. Its HALO with special powers. I realize my review is just a rant of negativity but this game deserves it. Rating it a 2 because I had a lil fun playing with friends til I realized how dumb the game really is.… Expand
  94. TAFM17
    Jun 4, 2015
    0
    fun for all of 5 minuites. it's the same, all the time. it's crap. the graphics? nice. that's all. the bad? Same gun skins, no real feeling of weapons, all same armour, And the "Missions?" go to a planet, kill some grunts, defend your ghost, kill a reskinned enemy who is strong, find loot and that's all.
  95. Jumpy
    Oct 11, 2014
    3
    With Destiny being a game from Bungie, the creators of Halo, there was a lot of potential for a good game with an amazing story and really good multiplayer. It did however turn out to be a complete disaster.

    I'm not sure you can call the story a story, you're not really given any insight into the game world at all besides the fact that "you're the good guy, they're the bad guys and you    With Destiny being a game from Bungie, the creators of Halo, there was a lot of potential for a good game with an amazing story and really good multiplayer. It did however turn out to be a complete disaster.

    I'm not sure you can call the story a story, you're not really given any insight into the game world at all besides the fact that "you're the good guy, they're the bad guys and you have to kill them".

    Then we have the missions, which are repetitive and boring to say the least. You fight your way through waves of enemies, deploy the Ghost and defend it against even more waves of enemies while it scans a certain object. That's pretty much what happens 95% of the time.

    The multiplayer is barely okay, it didn't manage to keep me playing after the fiasco that was the story. The loot system in the multiplayer has gotten a lot of critique for the fact that players joining a few minutes before the end of a match (also players with really bad K/D) will end up getting the best loot. With player at the top of the scoreboards getting normal loot at best.

    There's also the raid/strike missions, which sees you fighting wave, after wave, after wave of enemies and eventually a boss. But the loot you gain for the amount of effort you put into them is little at best.

    All in all, Destiny had the potential to be a great game, but ended up being an overhyped game that failed to live up (or even come close) to the expectations.

    If you're planning on buying Destiny, all I can say is save you money for something else, Destiny is not worth it. If you really want it you'd do best to pick it up when it's on sale.    … Expand
  96. starcrusher9
    Oct 11, 2014
    4
    Destiny in my opinion is one of the most disappointing video games to come out this year. The campaign is barely explained and if you want some sort of explanation you have to go to their website which is preposterous, the lines in the story are bland and far between your own character doesn't even sound like he/she cares about what happens in the game they don't question why they areDestiny in my opinion is one of the most disappointing video games to come out this year. The campaign is barely explained and if you want some sort of explanation you have to go to their website which is preposterous, the lines in the story are bland and far between your own character doesn't even sound like he/she cares about what happens in the game they don't question why they are alive or why they were brought back they just go along with it. At random you can get kicked out of the destiny servers in the middle mission which they released a patch to fix. You have to be online at all times to play which is stupid beyond any belief. And then after you hit lvl 20 guess what you get to grind for light armor which is a terrible system. And then there are the engrams which are given through a random number generator that shown several times to favor people who do terrible in multiplayer or a mission and give the people who did good nothing. And then in crucible which is one of the only redeeming values in this game is currently filled with fusion rifle users that do one hit-kills and hunters using the subclass Blade Dancer that needs to be nerfed immediately. Also the bosses... I have never in my life seen bosses this poorly done in my life as a gamer I mean this is bad very very bad Spoiler btw the final boss (if you can even call it that) is literally 3 minotaurs which are basically Vex Captains and that is the boss ladies and gentlemen, the fight was so bland and easy that my friend decided to start jumping in front of the bosses to make the fight more exciting. And even before fighting the 3 enemies that are together the collective boss you don't actually fight the main villain which is the darkness it just explodes after you kill the minotaurs leaving the player sitting their in confusion thinking "really that's it". Also on a final note you build bonds other than bonds of hatred towards any character in this game your own vanguards barely speak to you the gunsmith is useless after lvl.16-18 the cryptarch is just an **** who will decode engrams that you finally get after killing so many enemies and can give you equipment that is a lower lvl and finally the mysterious stranger exo chick adds almost nothing to the plot. And finally the biggest thing that really isn't explained is the Traveler, in the entirety of the story you are never once told what the Traveler is capable of doing, how the Traveler exactly preforms it's miracles, and how it's even still alive when it's main enemy forces are surrounding it. From beginning to end not once is the Traveler acted by any of the enemy forces and one of them have the ability to destroy planets or move them at will and not once do they do this even they easily could. So in conclusion I give this game a 4/10 ONLY because it can be entertaining....if you have friends playing as well, it functions for the most part, and that before the Blade Dancer fad appeared Crucible was balanced for the most part.… Expand
  97. rhysmyself
    Aug 18, 2015
    4
    It is very rarely that I leave a game early or do not finish and I left this game within a week

    Mechanics, graphics were good and gameplay were really good, but it became really really repetitive within a matter of days. Missions became a blur of the same followed by the same, go to a location, kill, obtain an item, repeat...
  98. Colaflare
    May 23, 2015
    4
    Destiny is disappointing because of all the potential it had. You've probably already heard that it is a grind fest, and it truly is. There is almost no campaign at all and there is no context for anything that you do. If you've watched the Angry Joe review of Destiny, you may have saved yourself some pain. This game is painfully average. I loved Bungie and I hope they can redeemDestiny is disappointing because of all the potential it had. You've probably already heard that it is a grind fest, and it truly is. There is almost no campaign at all and there is no context for anything that you do. If you've watched the Angry Joe review of Destiny, you may have saved yourself some pain. This game is painfully average. I loved Bungie and I hope they can redeem themselves after this major disappointment..… Expand
  99. jessda123
    Aug 21, 2015
    4
    A real marketing scam took place upon Destiny's release, we were all suckered in by the TV ads, the hype, Bungie...what the hell happened?!

    Destiny is alittle more than pretty game with endless grinding for gear you're never gonna get! Graphically? its great. But the lack of any real story/content is unforgivable. Its such a let down. I'm convinced the only people who still play    A real marketing scam took place upon Destiny's release, we were all suckered in by the TV ads, the hype, Bungie...what the hell happened?!

    Destiny is alittle more than pretty game with endless grinding for gear you're never gonna get!

    Graphically? its great. But the lack of any real story/content is unforgivable.

    Its such a let down. I'm convinced the only people who still play this bought it digitally.
    Luckily i didnt buy digital so i could sell the game when i realised around level 20 that there is nothing to do!

    If you think 'oh she got to level 20, it cant be that bad' It is that bad. And levelling is very quick in Destiny.    … Expand
  100. RealTime
    Jul 30, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. As you can tell from the score, Destiny wins the award for "Big Poo Sandwich" for worst game of 2014. The game is very bland. The formula never changes from "go here, shoot these things for some reason." The story was an abhorrence to the entire game, and it rather brought the whole game down for me. The story didn't really exist. It was just an excuse for people to shoot things. Even Tyrion Lannister could not save this game from being a bland shooter. The only thing the game to do to mix things up is put it in another brown and gray environment, which gets boring after the first million aliens. This game lasted as long in my house than Pixels did when the Oscars were considering whether or not to nominate it, and I'm guessing it lasted as long on the shelf at the store than Larry King has ever breathed.… Expand
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#57 Best PS4 Game of 2014
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 95 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 60 out of 95
  2. Mixed: 34 out of 95
  3. Negative: 1 out of 95
  1. RPGamer
    Nov 25, 2014
    70
    Although Destiny isn't the brilliant start to a franchise that many had hoped for, it's a great game for those who can push through its flaws and enjoy the ride.
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  2. Edge Magazine
    Nov 5, 2014
    80
    What is most amazing of all is that despite its litany of weird little problems, Destiny is fantastic, its combat up there with the very best, the thrilling rhythm of its battles still not fading the 30th time through, and it has no single systemic problem that is not fixable. [Dec 2014, p.106]
  3. Pelit (Finland)
    Oct 25, 2014
    89
    Destiny is a flawed but still extremely fun first person shooter. While the Destiny universe itself seems intriguing, the storyline is told in such an incoherent manner that it's hard not to be turned off by all the technobabble. Fortunately the co-op shooter mechanics are absolutely perfect. The loot system can be maddening, but in a way it adds to the game's addictiveness. [Oct 2014]
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