Destiny Angry Review

[Raidyr]

[QUOTE=Batmoutarde;46044842]Idk they had an alpha and a beta that you could play and figure out pretty quickly that this is how the game would be.[/QUOTE]

IIRC only the last two days of the beta were open; you had to pre-order or get a promotional code to play it otherwise.

Also the beta showed off arguably the best parts of the game. That one scene AngryJoe shows with the three ships warping in? Yeah, that was in the beta. And nothing else that cool happens afterwards.

Plus as already mentioned, the press utterly failed to hold Bungie to task over their comments about the size of the game which, at best, is lazy or at worst is colluding.

[Windy]

I've not really bothered watching many Angry Joe videos, but i can respect him and i'm leaning towards agreeing with most of his views, although i've not actually gone out and bought the game. It lost it's appeal after i played the Beta of it.

I was put off from buying it because it really felt to me like a mish-mash of things that, although separately they work pretty well, when joined together, don't work as well as they thought. The game felt hollow and at times, amateurish from Bungie. The game felt more like a theme park MMO more than a "living" world. There are a lot of games out their that do what Destiny does a lot better and like Joe said, they selling off those two expansion packs is a bit sketchy.

Hopefully though, they are actually big "expansion" packs like what you'd see on the PC that add more than just a few missions. They could do a lot more and yet it feels like they either got scared and decided to play it too safe and simple, or there was some sort of executive meddling with Activision demanding that they add, alter and take away features and paint over their original vision, just to keep the shareholders happy.

To me, it felt like Halo + CoD Iron sights, Sprinting Linearity and Simplicity + Borderlands Loot/Level progression + World of Warcraft's "AI". It tries to be a jack of all trades and end's up being the master of nothing.

Warframe is rather similar to Destiny and yet it does a better job in what it tries to do and that's had a much less development time and it's free, and yet that feels like your actually progressing. Plus you don't have to worry about being shafted for loot when if one member of the squad finds something, the entire team can obtain that loot, just as long as they pick it up. There are a lot of design decisions that make sense in that and a lot less in my head when it comes to Destiny. If anything, you could say that Destiny "1.0" isn't feature complete like something you'd see at early access.

I'm very mixed on this game, i'll buy it when i see it being sold second hand or if there is some sort of edition that comes with those two expansions and whatever else they add, so i can experience it myself and make a more solid and intelligent opinion. I'm a little bias with Warframe since i've spent at least 80 hours on it and i've been enjoying it so much that i'll happily support Digital Extremes with some of my money.