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Destiny 2 is an online multiplayer first-person shooter. You take on the role of a Guardian that needs to protect the last city on Earth from alien invaders. The game follows its predecessor, Destiny. The goal of the game is to return the Light that was stolen from the Guardians by the aliens.
Destiny 2 features two main activity types: player versus environment and player versus player. PvE is focused on exploration, story missions interaction with NPCs and side quests. PvP features 4v4 team matches in different modes. The game also allows taking part in group missions, such as three-player strikes and six-player raids.
Destiny 2 has a strong RPG aspect that includes character customization and development. There are three classes in the game - Warlock, Hunter, and Titan; they provide different playstyles depending on their specialization and unique abilities. To develop the character you can gain experience points completing the story and side missions.
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Let me set this straight: This game is fantastic - don't let this review take anything away from that. The set design is jaw-dropping, the gunplay is satisfying and clean, the music is fantastic, and I can keep playing this for eternity.
However, with all that said. I still cannot recommend this game. Whilst it is incredible, the new player experience NEEDS to be revised, as it will be with Lightfall. When Lightfall arrives, I will come back and revise my review and maybe change it if the new player experience is properly fixed.
BRO seriously why are you playing shooters? And more importantly why are you mindlessly grinding a shooter, go play skylanders. 3/10
This isn't a game.
This is a Skinner box. It's designed by sociopaths who don't even like playing games, specifically to play with how much they can manipulate people into playing this shit endlessly.
If you don't show up to this game with at least 5 other people and an insatiable hunger to exchange money for cosmetic shit, Bungo doesn't give a flying fuck about you.
This is a Skinner box. It's designed by sociopaths who don't even like playing games, specifically to play with how much they can manipulate people into playing this shit endlessly.
If you've ever played any other MMO, it will become immediately obvious that your ability to ever get any kind of loot worth having is going to be gated first by RNG, and then by other players. This may sound familiar, but the degree to which it's taken in this game is absurd, and the community, as a whole, couldn't be more toxic and n00b-hostile if it were required by law.
PVP, in particular, is absolutely not even worth considering at this point unless you've been playing since launch. The way Bungo makes droprates suck complete shit paired with how they've removed the ability to even get a ton of old weapons means that no matter what you do, if you start playing right now, you'll never catch up with people who have been playing since launch.
And that's to say nothing about how before you can even think about going into PVP, you're likely as not to discover if you do some research that you're going to want to go in there as Stasis, which means both that you have to pay for Beyond Light AND that you better get comfy, because in order to get the Stasis subclasses, you have to play through the whole campaign ON EACH CHARACTER, and then spend weeks grinding out bounties with Elsie before they're actually worth using.
And even once you do all that? If you don't instantly prove that you're the best to ever play this game, you'll be relegated to shit-tier ELO, where you'll exclusively be used as easy pickings for players you're never going to be able to beat. Sweat all you want. Tell yourself you just need to "git gud." Believe that you'll get better.
None of that will make a difference.
Particularly in Trials of Osiris, don't get suckered in by the fact that you can solo queue; that shit is only there to bait you in to get slaughtered by the players Bungo actually cares about.
And that's to say nothing about how before you can even think about going into PVP, you're likely as not to discover if you do some research that you're going to want to go in there as Stasis, which means both that you have to pay for Beyond Light AND that you better get comfy, because in order to get the Stasis subclasses, you have to play through the whole campaign ON EACH CHARACTER, and then spend weeks grinding out bounties with Elsie before they're actually worth using.
And even once you do all that? If you don't instantly prove that you're the best to ever play this game, you'll be relegated to shit-tier ELO, where you'll exclusively be used as easy pickings for players you're never going to be able to beat. Sweat all you want. Tell yourself you just need to "git gud." Believe that you'll get better.
None of that will make a difference.
Particularly in Trials of Osiris, don't get suckered in by the fact that you can solo queue; that shit is only there to bait you in to get slaughtered by the players Bungo actually cares about.
I would sooner recommend staring at a wall than starting to play this game in 2021.
It would be less of a waste of your time, and significantly less likely to spike your blood pressure.
It simply isn't worth the chance that you'll actually fall for their purpose-built addiction machine and find yourself feeling compelled to fall for the neverending FOMO cycle of them introducing shit for a limited time, then deleting access to <whatever>, then being continuously shit on by other players who got <whatever>.
To put the finest point on this I possibly can: If you want a game you can ever, for an instant, stop playing 24/7, you have no business whatsoever even considering this nuclear grease fire.
It simply isn't worth the chance that you'll actually fall for their purpose-built addiction machine and find yourself feeling compelled to fall for the neverending FOMO cycle of them introducing shit for a limited time, then deleting access to <whatever>, then being continuously shit on by other players who got <whatever>.
To put the finest point on this I possibly can: If you want a game you can ever, for an instant, stop playing 24/7, you have no business whatsoever even considering this nuclear grease fire.
«Waste of time»
«Reviewers bribed»
I've decided to quit this game.
(A d33p reflection on this game and how video games pair with real life as a whole.)
writing this review real quick and procrastinating schoolwork in the process....
Part 1: Destiny 2 review
I started back playing in February after stopping in early D2, and I enjoyed catching up with everything, raiding regularly with the boys etc. However, since I've started back at school I've finally accepted that this game just isn't compatible with my life. And I just don't think it's compatible with real life in general.
Definitely some people might be able to come and go freely from this game and don't care that much about keeping up with it, but I have always been hooked by Destiny. Hell, this game has been a part of my life for almost a third of my existence (although i did quit it like this on 2 occasions).
This realization was brought on by farming strikes for the current season's ritual weapon. Since the start of the new season (and school for me), I've played maybe an hour a week, only doing the "new" content. But yesterday I went down a youtube rabbithole and got the idea to grind out the ritual weapon and try some new builds along the way.
Let me just say that any game that incentivizes you to play the same exact levels OVER AND OVER AGAIN is not worth your time (I was speedrunning Lake of Shadows, which is probably as repetitive as content can possibly get. I could've been doing nightfalls but i didn't feel like it and, despite the extra rewards, playing content like That repetitively is Also not worth your time.)
I realized that I'm not playing this game because I actually enjoy playing it aka the act of gameplay and playing through missions. I'm only playing it because of the carrot on the stick at the end of it. I mean, I've known this game was pointless forever now, but I'm having a particularly strong reaction to it now.
The design and environments are pretty damn nice. The universe is pretty large scale and decently interesting even if the plots of the game have been extremely mediocre. These are two big appeals of a game to me. But I realized I'm only thinking about that pretty much 0.01% of the time I'm playing the game.
Even if those two elements of the game are nice, they are inseparable from the core gameplay loop of this game. There may not be a game that scratches the same itch as this universe (in reality there are multiple), but it just simply isn't worth playing this to experience it because of the package it's wrapped in. It's an amazing business model for Bungie, but it comes at the (non-financial) expense of the player in my opinion.
Part 2: Games and the real world
As with many things in human civilization, we don't know what we're doing when it comes to video games. We're still in an early stage with video games I think and we don't have a good enough understanding as a society on how they interact with our lives. The prevalence of games like this and mobile games that are meant to get you addicted and suck away your time is really not good. To me, these sorts of games, like social media, are just predatory in how they take advantage of the mechanics of our brains.
Honestly, China might be justified in limiting gameplay time to 3 hours a week and docking your social credit score for excessive gaming. The more time you spend playing a video game (or watching reality tv or whatever), the less time you're spending on improving your real life. In a pErfEct worLd, we'd be able to do whatever we wanted if it made us happy. BUT THIS IS NOT A PERFECT WORLD*. If we're spending our time living in fantasies, then our lives and the rest of the world goes to shit. Now this might not happen as immediately as that sounds, but I do think this is something as a society that we're going to have to grapple with. Do we want to focus on real life and improving this shitshow of a world? Or do we want to sedate ourselves with media or whatever and neglect that? so basically just the message of Serial Experiments Lain.
Obviously it's not THAT binary and you can play video games/watch shit and still have a decent life. But it is honestly a verrry slippery slope imo. I don't have the data on-hand to reference for this, but we are seeing problems with these latest generations who've grown up on the internet and their competency as adults. (i'm very much in this category....). So i think this is something we're going to have to think about going forward (as if we aren't already doing enough wrong....)
How should video games be? How should they/entertainment as a whole interact with our lives?
In my opinion, stuff like battle royales that don't require you to grind for shit, that you play solely because it's fun, is much better than stuff like D2. Games with immersive stories and worlds, that might actually have some substance to them, are far better as well. Even with these though, I feel like you can very easily have too much of a good thing and neglect your real life as a result. I guess with forms of recreation prior to movies, tv shows, video games etc, we were probably doing things that were either A) beneficial to our physical health or B) more than likely had some kind of real world benefit to them (becoming a chess chad and meeting people through playing them, winning MONEY. playing instruments and getting clouted up thru it, etc). Basically parents were right when they said stop watching so much tv/playing so much vidja. Idk, i'm just letting this shit fly. Time for me to actually do this frickin scoowork
*the video i'm referencing in case you ain' know: https://youtu.be/Kl3H4vMqYNo
(A d33p reflection on this game and how video games pair with real life as a whole.)
writing this review real quick and procrastinating schoolwork in the process....
Part 1: Destiny 2 review
I started back playing in February after stopping in early D2, and I enjoyed catching up with everything, raiding regularly with the boys etc. However, since I've started back at school I've finally accepted that this game just isn't compatible with my life. And I just don't think it's compatible with real life in general.
Definitely some people might be able to come and go freely from this game and don't care that much about keeping up with it, but I have always been hooked by Destiny. Hell, this game has been a part of my life for almost a third of my existence (although i did quit it like this on 2 occasions).
This realization was brought on by farming strikes for the current season's ritual weapon. Since the start of the new season (and school for me), I've played maybe an hour a week, only doing the "new" content. But yesterday I went down a youtube rabbithole and got the idea to grind out the ritual weapon and try some new builds along the way.
Let me just say that any game that incentivizes you to play the same exact levels OVER AND OVER AGAIN is not worth your time (I was speedrunning Lake of Shadows, which is probably as repetitive as content can possibly get. I could've been doing nightfalls but i didn't feel like it and, despite the extra rewards, playing content like That repetitively is Also not worth your time.)
I realized that I'm not playing this game because I actually enjoy playing it aka the act of gameplay and playing through missions. I'm only playing it because of the carrot on the stick at the end of it. I mean, I've known this game was pointless forever now, but I'm having a particularly strong reaction to it now.
The design and environments are pretty damn nice. The universe is pretty large scale and decently interesting even if the plots of the game have been extremely mediocre. These are two big appeals of a game to me. But I realized I'm only thinking about that pretty much 0.01% of the time I'm playing the game.
Even if those two elements of the game are nice, they are inseparable from the core gameplay loop of this game. There may not be a game that scratches the same itch as this universe (in reality there are multiple), but it just simply isn't worth playing this to experience it because of the package it's wrapped in. It's an amazing business model for Bungie, but it comes at the (non-financial) expense of the player in my opinion.
Part 2: Games and the real world
As with many things in human civilization, we don't know what we're doing when it comes to video games. We're still in an early stage with video games I think and we don't have a good enough understanding as a society on how they interact with our lives. The prevalence of games like this and mobile games that are meant to get you addicted and suck away your time is really not good. To me, these sorts of games, like social media, are just predatory in how they take advantage of the mechanics of our brains.
Honestly, China might be justified in limiting gameplay time to 3 hours a week and docking your social credit score for excessive gaming. The more time you spend playing a video game (or watching reality tv or whatever), the less time you're spending on improving your real life. In a pErfEct worLd, we'd be able to do whatever we wanted if it made us happy. BUT THIS IS NOT A PERFECT WORLD*. If we're spending our time living in fantasies, then our lives and the rest of the world goes to shit. Now this might not happen as immediately as that sounds, but I do think this is something as a society that we're going to have to grapple with. Do we want to focus on real life and improving this shitshow of a world? Or do we want to sedate ourselves with media or whatever and neglect that? so basically just the message of Serial Experiments Lain.
Obviously it's not THAT binary and you can play video games/watch shit and still have a decent life. But it is honestly a verrry slippery slope imo. I don't have the data on-hand to reference for this, but we are seeing problems with these latest generations who've grown up on the internet and their competency as adults. (i'm very much in this category....). So i think this is something we're going to have to think about going forward (as if we aren't already doing enough wrong....)
How should video games be? How should they/entertainment as a whole interact with our lives?
In my opinion, stuff like battle royales that don't require you to grind for shit, that you play solely because it's fun, is much better than stuff like D2. Games with immersive stories and worlds, that might actually have some substance to them, are far better as well. Even with these though, I feel like you can very easily have too much of a good thing and neglect your real life as a result. I guess with forms of recreation prior to movies, tv shows, video games etc, we were probably doing things that were either A) beneficial to our physical health or B) more than likely had some kind of real world benefit to them (becoming a chess chad and meeting people through playing them, winning MONEY. playing instruments and getting clouted up thru it, etc). Basically parents were right when they said stop watching so much tv/playing so much vidja. Idk, i'm just letting this shit fly. Time for me to actually do this frickin scoowork
*the video i'm referencing in case you ain' know: https://youtu.be/Kl3H4vMqYNo
«Waste of time»
I played Destiny 2 for around one year, from the middle of Shadowkeep to the middle of Beyond Light. It was fun at first. Played solo for a while, then joined a clan to be able to do more end-game activities. Still fun, learning dungeons and raids. The release of Beyond Light was fun, as was attempting a day one raid. Shortly after that it started loosing the appeal.
The game world is not that big, you'll be running a lot around in the same environments. There's just too much of repeating the same activities every week and completing bounties within those activities that force you to use something other than your favorite gear or play style. Everything seems to be about completing bounties and it's boring. On top of it, they started adding gear that was only possible to get if you solo kinda difficult content, while the game is much more fun with others.
I don't know... the game was fun, while the mechanics felt new and fresh. The gun play and movement is good. It's just that all the new content is doing more bounties for a different reason.
The game world is not that big, you'll be running a lot around in the same environments. There's just too much of repeating the same activities every week and completing bounties within those activities that force you to use something other than your favorite gear or play style. Everything seems to be about completing bounties and it's boring. On top of it, they started adding gear that was only possible to get if you solo kinda difficult content, while the game is much more fun with others.
I don't know... the game was fun, while the mechanics felt new and fresh. The gun play and movement is good. It's just that all the new content is doing more bounties for a different reason.
«Boooring»
Chores the game.
If only this game had deeper and more interesting characters and narrative threads.
It's so addicting because it has some of the best gunplay of any game. It feels so good to get new weapons and get those sweet kills, while the progression loop is always rewarding the player.
But it is an empty shell that never leads anywhere. The PVP is very unfun, and it can be hard to find the right crew to play with.
The music and art-direction of this game are top notch.
If only this game had deeper and more interesting characters and narrative threads.
It's so addicting because it has some of the best gunplay of any game. It feels so good to get new weapons and get those sweet kills, while the progression loop is always rewarding the player.
But it is an empty shell that never leads anywhere. The PVP is very unfun, and it can be hard to find the right crew to play with.
The music and art-direction of this game are top notch.
«Sit back and relax»
«Better with friends»