I don't care which company, whether it was Bungie or Activision, caused the game to end up in this state.
I don't play Destiny anymore, as I got tired of the boring grind, playing the same missions over and over. That's my review of the content: Gunplay is fun, but there's not nearly enough content to play it on.
Storytelling, though, is where this game REALLY fails. The biggest problems here are, IMO, as follows:
1) The lack of focus on any one faction.
2) That the game assumes we already know everything about this universe, which we're seeing for the first time.
I'll only elaborate on point #1, since why #2 is a problem should be self-evident.
Without any real focus on any of the factions in the base game, I have no idea who any of these factions are, or why I should give a shit about any of them. The game has you fight Fallen in the Cosmodrome, then that mostly stops when we go to the Moon as the Hive take center stage, who are then dethroned by the Vex, who are then kicked out by the Cabal, then we go kill a trio of giant robots in "The Black Garden". Why?
I haven't a clue.
I have no idea what these three bosses are or what threat they present. When I don't know anything about the threats I'm supposed to defeat, any satisfaction of defeating them is wiped away.
Since none of the factions get any decent amount of screentime, they're poorly established and lack much background. Why are the Fallen attacking us? Why do the Hive want us dead? What's the Vex's beef with us? Why did the Cabal invade our solar system?
I haven't a clue.
If Bungie had just created one alien faction to fight, and told the story of humanity's struggle against them, I personally think it would have been far, far more compelling than what we have now. Hell, as disjointed as the base game's narrative was, it seemed to want to focus on the Vex, which, given their time traveling, apparently reality-warping powers, would've been very interesting.
As it is now, though, given Bungie's apparent apathy to its community, the lackluster weapons of Year 2, the obsoletion of all previous content, and the piss-poor storytelling of any non-Year 2 missions, I can't recommend Destiny.
Maybe Destiny will be great one day. I won't be there to see it.
Squandered Potential
This game makes me sad.
I don't care which company, whether it was Bungie or Activision, caused the game to end up in this state.
I don't play Destiny anymore, as I got tired of the boring grind, playing the same missions over and over. That's my review of the content: Gunplay is fun, but there's not nearly enough content to play it on.
Storytelling, though, is where this game REALLY fails. The biggest problems here are, IMO, as follows:
1) The lack of focus on any one faction. 2) That the game assumes we already know everything about this universe, which we're seeing for the first time.
I'll only elaborate on point #1, since why #2 is a problem should be self-evident.
Without any real focus on any of the factions in the base game, I have no idea who any of these factions are, or why I should give a shit about any of them. The game has you fight Fallen in the Cosmodrome, then that mostly stops when we go to the Moon as the Hive take center stage, who are then dethroned by the Vex, who are then kicked out by the Cabal, then we go kill a trio of giant robots in "The Black Garden". Why?
I haven't a clue.
I have no idea what these three bosses are or what threat they present. When I don't know anything about the threats I'm supposed to defeat, any satisfaction of defeating them is wiped away.
Since none of the factions get any decent amount of screentime, they're poorly established and lack much background. Why are the Fallen attacking us? Why do the Hive want us dead? What's the Vex's beef with us? Why did the Cabal invade our solar system?
I haven't a clue.
If Bungie had just created one alien faction to fight, and told the story of humanity's struggle against them, I personally think it would have been far, far more compelling than what we have now. Hell, as disjointed as the base game's narrative was, it seemed to want to focus on the Vex, which, given their time traveling, apparently reality-warping powers, would've been very interesting.
As it is now, though, given Bungie's apparent apathy to its community, the lackluster weapons of Year 2, the obsoletion of all previous content, and the piss-poor storytelling of any non-Year 2 missions, I can't recommend Destiny.
Maybe Destiny will be great one day. I won't be there to see it.