This will be an opinion piece, but an honest one. No I don't want your clicks, recognition, praise, hate; whatever the case, I just want to be honest about my experience with Destiny on the X360 version. Yes, x360, No I am not a M$ fanboy, it's just the platform I chose to play on. All consoles have their pros and cons and this is just what I choose to play Destiny on.
So who shouldn't buy it?
- If you prefer single player and soloing things
- If you don't like communication
- If you are expecting Halo/COD/Borderlands
- If you expect to be badass at PVP just because you've played ' COD/Halo/other generic shooters and get frustrated when you lose.
- This game sold a lot! The world is a big place, sadly there will be
13yr olds who are legitimately better than us 20 somethings or older.
So if you can't take a few losses and rage, well if you pizza when
you should've french fried, you're going to have a bad time.
- You want a story that has hours of cutscenes out the gate and lore
spoon fed to you through awesome expensive voice acting.
- If you don't enjoy Peter Dinklage's monotone voice (no one does), but
it's a minor irritation.
- If you frequently use walkthroughs, it only takes away and shortens
your time with the game.
- If you grief/troll/ and just like to watch the world burn. (Don't
bother, you aren't fun at parties)
- If you expect to be able to trade your money for a higher levels hard
earned gear/weapon.
So who should buy it?
- If you can see it as a NEW IP that promises new DLC and updates
- If you have friends that you party with and looking to try new things
- If you want a story that will take a full 10 years to fully
understand it and enjoy.
- If you enjoyed Unreal Tournaments fast paced multiplayer where one
miss will be the difference between getting a kill or getting killed
- If you are social, have friends, whether casual or hardcore. This
game has Patrol Missions/Strikes/Raids/Bountie s/Loot
- If you like the idea of UPGRADEABLE loot. Not just a new scope or a
different skin, but upgrading the weapon to do more damage
- It has 3 classes, which has other subclasses, so a reason to have
multiple characters.
- If you understand the beauty behind not being able to trade. Everyone
earned their own gear. You can't pay to win or trade to win. Earn it
like a champ.
- If you like stress, play PVP, if you want casual, play patrol
missions
Basically I can add way more reasons to either side, but for now after a 12 hour workday and two 16 oz Red Bulls, I just wanted to say my piece. Unbiasedly biased.
So how was my experience? My friends didn't buy the game yet but they will. At the Tower in my first hour of the game I noticed a player waving at me and dancing. I waved back. Seconds later I had a friend request and party invite. Jumped into chat, introduced myself to him and vice versa. We did a few missions on Earth. Then we noticed we only got 2 of 5 chests. We wanted that gold sparrow, but refused to look up online the locations. Why screw myself on exploration because I want something and it is time consuming to look for it. That's where the fun really took off. Hunting for those chests. I wanted that damn sparrow. At This point I am LVL 8. My helmet is gold looking with something that resembles a unicorn horn, yes unicorn, because I am magical, whatever. I have a mighty need for it. Anyways, we eventually got all the gold chests, met some other players at the tower. Got into a party of 6 and away we went to the crucible. OMG THIS IS HARD. Why am I dying so fast? Why are the murdering us with ease? Alright, we got our bearings, started to coordinate positions. Playing Control. Two 3 man Teams. Each team sticks together to get A B or C. One group holds A, the other B. Enemy team isn't organized. We start winning. Continue to win. Match after match we are winning. Communication and tactics matter in this game. Don't forsake chat. IT MATTERS!
Guess what? Back to Venus. Feeling ballsy. Level 12. Me and bro I met on day 1 put it on a harder difficulty for first run through. Got to strike. HOLY SHIT, our 3rd guy wouldn't join chat, dropped from game during planet end boss. !^@# Bro and I have each others back. Communication is important. We are both Titans, however he is auto rifle man, I am the Scout Rifle man. We designate jobs. He handles mobs incoming through door. Blasting Knights left and right, keeping them off me as I snipe/scout rifle the wizards. Jesus the Wizards. There's 5 of them. Finally clear all mobs out and it's just Bro and I against Boss. Super is ineffective. Find the Critical spot. Eyes, head, stomach, ass? Where does the damage get done most at. We find it. We unload hell on boss, weaving through cover opposite of bro, boss' sends me to hell. Respawn in 30. Boss is walking all over corpse. I find myself calling out respawn time every 5 seconds. Don't die bro, hold position. 25....20...15.....10...5....Al right I'm back. Adrenaline pumping because who wants to restart? We will win. 15 minutes in now, boss has sliver of health left. Bro and I have Supers. We both Titan Super on top of boss opposite of each other. Without even planning too. Boss gets wrecked, dies. Mission complete. Sweet loot! Better go to the Cryptarch and check it out. Get to the tower, postmaster has news.
A bounty only a guardian can do? Go see bounty guy, new bounty. Bounty tells us to go and beat that same boss, on heoric difficulty just as we had done before. Feeling initially stilted because we had just done it. My Bro Tier gamer friend says, "Hey man, we can do it. We are badass" On the same page we get right back to it. Playing it again, this time a little higher leveled, with better upgraded guns. What's this? It's easier, but the mobs keep coming. We are powerful lords of destruction. Standing atop the level, just mowing them down left and right. Laughing having a good time. Bro has to work early the next day, as do I. We log out, say we will see each other online and wreck the game again tomorrow. Login today. "Hey bro, how was work?" "same old same old." "What you feel like today?" "Let's focus on doing Patrol Missions for a few to work towards awesome gear" "Sounds good man."
In short I made a really good gamer friend out of no where. I had to deviate from my real life friends because they didn't have the game. His playstyle compliments mine and the game is just limitless amounts of fun to us. The stories we are creating from our experiences are unique. You won't find in a walkthrough. You won't find in tips and tricks. Only we experienced what we experienced. It was a unique meeting that developed into a unique friendship, where someone had my back and I had theirs in game. If I can't revive, instinctively we knew to hide for cover, kill enemies to keep them off so we can regenerate health. I made a FRIEND. This game is social in that aspect. I never played COD, Halo Reach, or any other game, where I find myself logging in and staying for hours to experience something similar and something unique each time. What stories and moments you can create are up to you and your imagination, your willingness to chat, your ability to adapt to new game mechanics or adjusting from what you already know about shooters, and tweaking it, making it a new experience and new feel. In short, if you made it to the end of this and my poor writing skills, if you don't already own Destiny, try it. Not just for 6 hours. You have to really play it. Not just pop in for 30 minutes here and there, but really play it. Really explore. Learn the levels like the back of your hand and I promise you, what others scream is a 10 hour game, can turn in to a 100 hour game. So what gamer are you? 10 hour or 100 hour? Casual or Hardcore? There's a little something for everyone and 10 years worth of support is all the more reason to hang on to and not trade it in. Why buy it twice? It's only uphill from here and the sky's the limit!
Destiny has made over $160 million in MTX revenue, and these numbers only account the data from late 2017 to early 2019.
That's extremely low for microtransactions, especially for a game that's essentially designed around it
This was back when the game wasn't free to play.
The figures are from November 2017 to February 2019 (1 year and 4 months).
Based on that projection, the MTX revenue for Destiny 2 likely would have been closer to ~$240m for 2 years.
Not sure if premium expansions are included in that figure either although ... I'd hope that they are though and that most of the revenue was for actual content like Forsaken.
People spend way too much money on cosmetics.
Seasons($10 and just got bumped to $12) and dungeon keys($10 each, two a year) are through the eververse(micro transaction) store.
So for those two years, in order to play a season, you would pay through micro transactions.
Bungie Marathon will be worse since it's designed around it as well
It makes me sad to agree... but at the same time I am looking forward to giving it a go. Destiny 2 is so far in, I find it difficult to figure out what I am meant to do first.
Let's compare something similar. Apex Legends and its ridiculous $18/$40 skins make EA a billion each year.
For as much as ppl complain how much they hate microtransactions, they sure don’t act like it. No wonder they aren’t going anywhere.
By "people" you're referring to millions and millions of people. Obviously the ones complaining aren't necessarily the same as the ones spending all that money.
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In Episode 1 of Spot On, a new weekly news show, Gamespot talks about the dangers of chasing a trend.
Welcome back Link Cable Gaming fans, Zahi here after the aftermath of another huge announcement in companies buying more companies. Sony Interactive Entertainment bought one of them (at the time) a few active independent studios out there, Bungie for 3.6 billion $. As a personal long-time fan of the company and of the worlds they create, where could a partnership like this lead?
Sounds like it's more of a partnership/investment than Sony's typical acquisitions, giving them better security and growth but staying multiplatform and slightly more independent. I was hoping we would see a single player affair as a result, but it sounds like live service is where they wanna stay which is a bummer to me, but whateves.
Thank you for your comment isarai. Love to hear the feedback.
You know, I’m hoping one of the games they have in development is a Sony single player exclusive.
You're just gonna sweep it under the rug about Sony churning out a bunch of Live Service stuff? Man if this was any other company it would be pitchforks at the gates. A few Live service games is fine and dandy but releasing 10 in 4 years is going overboard and it doesn't guarantee quality of those games. I can only see 2 or 3 being pretty good.
Seems like Sony gets a free pass on everything they said they're not gonna be doing.
Ummm... what? This is about Bungie, not their statement on "10 live service games". Since you asked i'm not "sweeping it under the rug" i already stated in another comment that i hope they arent using their top talent for that because Sony 1st party games have always had a something special about them, and turning them into live service shills would ruin it for me. And honestly would really kill the platform for me, or at least drastically damage my affinity for it. They dont get a "free pass" i criticize them all the time, demand better and you get better.
No. We're just going to sweep this comment under the rug.
The one thing Gamers said Sony lacked on was multiplayer online games. They have single player on lock. They bought Bungie who does service games. They didn't announce that Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Sony Santa Monica etc would start making service games.
Horizon FW, Spider-Man 2, Wolverine, GOW, a future Ghost of Tsushima 2, etc don't look like service games to me. Sony knows to take care of single player gamers. Just like making or publishing VR games like Farpoint, Astrobot, Iron Man, and Blood and Truth didn't cut into single player flat games.
2 possible games a year for online players is not extreme. That's the investment in Bungie. Give online gamers something for them. There will be possibly another announcement or acquisition of a company that only does service games. Or, the Bungie hiring spree and 3.6 billion is to cover and invest in those games.
"But but but the sky is falling. The wolf is near."
You tell us what Sony should do to keep online gamers on their platform who like playing online games? And, after recent announcements of Microsoft buying publishers who specialize in making online games, that might lead PlayStation gamers to migrate to Xbox. After 70-80 billion dollars spent, that still puts Microsoft behind Sony. Sony wants to keep their position and their market share and keep their profits from slipping.
Ummm... what? This is about Bungie, not their statement on "10 live service games".
You mentioned live service in your comment hence the comment.
I agree as long as it doesn't become a huge focus and Sony continues to deliver their bread and butter which AAA narrative story based games.
I also mentioned the word "sound" doesn't mean we're talking about music or sound design. Subjects are more than a single word bro.
Still waiting for those answers.
They bought one company that does online service games. The question is on who is the other developer or if Bungie is capable of launching 2 a year like Activision making their yearly COD. Now, compare those 2 service games to the amount of developers Sony has that makes single player games.
What if Sony announces MAG online reboot or Socom online or the return of Warhawk online reboot for PS5. Does that interfere with games like Wolverine, Ghost or Spider-Man 2? Nope
Unless Sony drastically changes their model of making single player games in favor of services games which we know they won't, it's fear mongering.
But the question remains, what does Sony do to keep their online base from migrating when there's over 40 million online Plus members currently? What does Sony do to counter and keep their revenue position compared to a big publisher buying company that pushes online gaming and will soon take away multiplatform online games.
We're all waiting for these answers instead of, "if this was any other company" spewing.
I've got the game on ps4, but my friend, unlike the journalists out there, you get this game. You understand what it is that makes it like crack where you cannot let go. You understand how the game is designed to be played and because of that you appreciate
This is probably the best fps I've played and I've been gaming for 24 years.
9.5? jesus.... your expectations for videos games must be really low then
lmao whats even more funny i just read the fun factor section, it seems like everyone that supports destiny says that same line "theres alot that you can do". I think that line should say "there are a few things you can do, but youll be doing them over and over alot".
I have to disagree.
I like most the things in the "If you like" list - but I found the Destiny Beta one of the worst games Ive played in a long time.
It was technically sound, ran beautifully and I cant say a bad word about its stability - it was more stable than most final releases, but my god the gameplay was so dull and boring! When you put the game into words on paper its great but playing it there was just no magic.