He spends the entire game telling everyone who's around during his cutscenes about how he wants to be "chosen" by the Traveller to receive the light, and then at the end of the game, decides **** it, Ima take the light like everyone's been telling me to the entire game" with absolutely no acknowledgement about this sudden and drastic change of heart nor any justification. The main baddy, Gaul, has no motivation for anything he does other than "he's a bad guy", no backstory, and no reason for doing anything he does. The plot is shallow, filled with characters that are generic, lifeless, and utterly devoid of any reason as to why you might care about them. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.įirst, the good: The game looks amazing and the music is great. Lets stop companies from pushing out half ass products. Not convinced? Look up Destiny 2 reviews on Youtube by original dedicated Destiny players, and you'll see the same response. Again, it essentially feels like a remake of Halo with different lore. The only saving grace for this game is the game play. They are all nearly identical, with differentiating factors being grenades and small stats. The class and subclass system are over hyped. Once you run through a few "Public Events", you'll see they all follow the same pattern.
The story itself lasts roughly 6 hours or less depending if you skip through all the action packed cut scenes. It feels like a half finished game, where the developers hastily threw in elimination side quests on steroids and called it content.
That alone should flare a red flag that this lack of content is unacceptable by any company. For 60 bucks, you earn yourself a remake of Halo, where instead of fighting Elites, grunts, or brutes, you fight robots (sums up a majority of the antagonists) and mutated naked mole rats for 5 days. It's only been less than 5 days, and I consider myself a casual gamer. I've reached what is in essence, the endgame for Destiny 2. My biggest problem with Destiny 2 is CONTENT. For the love of god, do yourself a favor and read the User Scores first before you consider buying this game. It's only been less than 5 days, and I consider myself a casual It's extremely laughable that a critic could rate a game so well by its potential rather than by what it is. It's extremely laughable that a critic could rate a game so well by its potential rather than by what it is.