Well I never played the first Destiny, but I was bored and grabbed the sequel. Boy I hope I’m not confused about what is going on with the plot.
Yeah nothing to worry about there. I am some galatic “guardian” with cool powers derived from some giant sphere called the “Light.” This power/sphere also protects Earth for evil aliens and such too. Well that is until a race called the Cabal show up to ruin your day and hijack the “Light” sphere. These Cabal aliens are an army called the Red Legion. They strip the guardians of their Light powers and start attacking the solar system.
Now playing a guardian I have to save the day using various guns and special guardian powers.
Alright, the plot feels recycled and I am literally missing nothing by not playing the first Destiny.
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| The main villain is a mix of Darth Vader, Bane and a walrus. |
Gameplay?
Well it is the standard first person shooter. We have all played those by now. Very easy to pick up and start blasting away at aliens from the Cabal, Taken, Vex and Forsaken species.
Guns! Do you guns? There is a plethora of ranged weapons here. Well until you get far enough and the same ones seem to always drop. Still, there is enough gun variation to make sure you find some ranged death dealing weapon that fits your lifestyle.
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| Do you like lazers? Do you like ricochet? Do you like colors? This gun has all that in spades! |
There is a jumping element to the game and this I abhor! A few missions and strikes ( think dungeons from Warcraft) have various platform jumping bits. You know what I like about platform style jumping in any game? NOTHING! Platform jumping is just something I hate. Hence I don’t play those games. Adding this to a first person game is confusing and stupid!
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| Such as annoying boss battle! |
There is an experience point system that leads to a max level of 20. The XP gained add skill points for a weak multi-class skill tree system. After level 20 you still gain XP, but it when you would level you now get stuff for character customization (think transmog from Warcraft) instead of skill points, hit points etc.
There is also a weak attempt at a multiclass skill tree as well. Yup the guardian classes have three separate builds for whatever playstyle you prefer. Well for supposed playstyle. Well they don’t change playstyle, they just adjust how you jump and shoot bad guys. It gives you three different grenade and jumping options. It also has a couple of buff and a couple variations of your melee attack to choose from as well. Yeah it doesn’t do much to alter your play style and feels a bit tacked on for show.
There is a single player campaign that is just long enough to be fulfilling.
There are public PVE events that occur on every planet all the time. These are good places to grind money, XP, gear and reputation.
If you like a certain gun you can keep it indefinitely. All you have to do is breakdown newer more powerful weapons of that same time and infuse them into your favorite gun. I love that ability! Now you never have to dump that gun you like the range, handling , rate of fire again.
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| Nathan Fillion voices CAYDE-6. His dialogue is some of the best stuff in this game. |
I did enough of the PVP to get the one mission/gear reward.
Then I walked away because I hated it.
Why?
Well because when playing with three other randos you never know what game you get, but I always seem to know what I’ll get. If the mission is kill all the other team then the best strategy is to split up so it is easier to be taken down by the other team. Right? NO! Yet this always happened when I ran the PVP. It made it simple to wipe us out and win.
If the game was capture control points then once again split into singles and try to secure control points. NO! This once again made it easy for the opposing team to wipe us out and win.
Who does shit like that and think they will ever win a PVP match? It took 5 matches of getting pants down spanked ,thanks to dipshit players, before I was thrown in a group that worked together. That was amazing! We rolled all over the enemy team because we ran in a group and worked together.
Ok enough about the PVP element. Ummm…. What else?
Oh yeah Destiny 2 is also first person World of Warcraft.
- You can customize your armor and weapons to match the appearance, color, style, etc. that you desire. Like the transmog stuff in WOW (and Diablo III).
- There is a gear score that you acquire as you gain weapons and armor. You need said gear score to reach 240-280 to be able to run certain “strikes” and a weekly raid.
- Strikes are dungeons for three players.
- There is a weekly raid.
- You have abilities to use that have cool down timers.
- You eventually get a jet bike (mount) you can summon to travel faster.
- There are season events for reputation, PVP and gear (you know like the holidays with being the holidays).
- There are planetary and faction reputation grinds to get weapons, armor and color patterns for transmog.
- There are “clans” that are basically guilds that give you a XP boost and gear drops. Clans have an invite feature and some have specific requirements and all that associated garbage. I guess if you know people or want to know people then deal with this clan stuff.
Final Thoughts?
Destiny 2 is fun.
It has a good single player campaign.
It looks pretty.
It is stupid simple to jump into and play.
There isn’t a ton of plot to deal with before starting. I literally missed nothing by not playing the first game.
The ability to keep the gun you like and just level it’s gear score is good stuff. I have been using the Origin Story and Hardlight all game. Love those guns!
Sure the character building skill tree stuff is weak sauce. The transmog weapon/armor stuff is meh!. I find PVP is just terrible. There is some really really terrible stuff going on there.
I HATE PLATFORM STYLE JUMPING GAMES AND EVEN MORE SO WHEN IT IS FIRST PERSON!
Destiny 2 is a fun and fairly easy/forgiving first person shooter that feels like it ripped a lot elements from World o’Warcraft (or anyother MMORPG) .
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