Destiny would be a good game by this point if bungie hadn't removed 90% of content. The 3 reworked subclasses and stasis plus red war, osiris, warmind, forsaken and the dozens of strikes and gambit maps added since would make a game that while rocky and a bit obtuse, is an easy recomend for the sheer breadth of content and variety it has to offer.
At the first half of its lifespan destiny had the issue of having a lot of content but the gameplay was shit. Now the gameplay is halfway fun but it has shit for content because they removed it all, so while we have good subclasses now we have nothing to use them on.
Honestly I don't why bungie is so retarded about this. Cutscenes and audiofiles for all the different languages take like 30 gb alone, but mercury who's filesize was less than 1 was a priority to remove?
"Hurr, we're getting rid of the old content to reduce bloat!"
Fuck off. If I wanted to experience the videya equivalent of slamming a door full-force on my balls for three hours every day, I'd go back to Warframe before I'd consider blighting my drives with this dogshit again.
At least warframe realized size was getting to be a problem and remastered all their textures to the point where they game literally halved in filesize instead of removing content.
it is and with luke smith fucking it up harder it'll get worse, lore was always shit but holy fuck they try their best to outdo their own retardedness.
Destiny lore is 100% a retarded badly writen mess filled with self contradictions and shorthands (take a shot everytime something is paracasual). Storylines are writen then instantly tossed, every expansion is a monster of the week, consequences don't exist and the status quo is eternal. Even warframe moves the story forward with each expansion more than destiny does. At this point destiny is pulp magazine tier.
Take the simplest and most core thing: The last city.
The setting of the game is "Humanity is facing extinction" and everything we're doing is in the name of saving and preserving humanity, but we have never visisted the last city, we know nothing about its government, we know nothing about what life is in it, and in 10 years of destiny we have never actually tried to expand outside it. If we're trying to save humanity shouldn't our #1 priority be actually trying to increase humanity's numbers so they aren't all at a SINGLE place market on the map with a huge white orb? Starting colonies and new cities to repopulate?
But my personal favourite little detail is how the main setting is "Humanity is on the brink of extiction" but somehow like 60% of characters appear to be groomers. Not even joking, from an old thread on reddit:
Straight: 5 - Cayde-6 (His queen of hearts. She may not be really but is fantasized as female) - Clovis Bray/Banshee-44 (Had a wife, children, and a mistress) - Drfter and Orin (See comments) - Eva Levante (See Comments)
Gay: 9 - Eriana-3 and Wei Ning (The single most important relationship in Destiny, kicking off the current series of events with the first Crota fireteam) - Saint-14 and Osiris (Just confirmed) - Ana Bray (her girlfriend in the Warmind comics) - Devrim Kay (Marc) - Hawthorne (See comments) - Maya Sunderesh (See Comments) - Eramis (Even funnier that Eramis is a lesbian AND she has kids)
Bi: 2 - Mara Sov (Shaxx and Sjur have been partners) - Shaxx (Has literally married thousands of our guardians with the Vow, but in all seriousness I would not be surprised, he’s the more passionate man in destiny)
Transgender: 2 - Oryx (Aurash to Auryx to Oryx) - Micah-10 (See comments)
No wonder humanity is going extinct when half of the population takes up the ass. Its starting to become clear why destiny's writing is shit.
