IGN:
"If someone had secretly installed Destiny’s first expansion, The Dark Below, onto my hard drive without telling me, it would’ve taken me a while to notice. To call it an “expansion” is generous, roughly equivalent to calling a moped a motorcycle. The dearth of completely new content for the price is only half of the problem here though; the other half is how recycled and tacked on nearly every element feels."
Here, Twinfinite is writing that Destiny, despite being a T rated franchise, is full of dark and brooding moments that showcase the best of the team's narrative potential. They further write that, while Destiny 2 has not delivered as much as it should have on this front, Forsaken appears to be the big step that it needs to return to its greatest moments.
Destiny has amassed a small collection of Strikes. Check out how they stack up against one another.
I miss the Summoning Pits, bring it back!
Omnigul is still the hardest Strike even with the new ones added.
I never found Omnigul too hard, I welcomed the change of pace from everything that came before it.
As part of the My Games Lounge look back on the first year of Destiny, David game has had a look individually at the expansion packs to the core game.
A (personal) breakdown of this score?
Story: -
Crucible Maps: -
Strike: 0.5
Raid: 5.5
Overall, 6/10. Raid is the best (only?) part worth even considering.
This game is the current AAA blunder of this gen. Hard to imagine anything topping it.
Glad I never got into this game. Locking players out and forcing them to buy DLC to access parts of the game they were able to access a week ago. Slippery slope, bungie. Careful what lessons you learn from activision.
I laughed when I saw the DLC prices and they weren't listed as "free."
If there had been enough content in the original release to justify the purchase I could see these as the equivalent of the monthly payments someone would make to a service like World of Warcraft, but as it stands now, there is barely a full game in the original.
I think what peeves me the most is the use of the word "expansion". Ive seen dlc that blows this away in terms of story progression (although in Destiny i think this is impossible to salvage at this point), content, and overall progression of the series. I mean they reused the same models and areas. Bungie is still silent on when any new planets will be released and oh look Iron banner returns!