[h1] This game does NOT respect your time or money [/h1] (TLDR at the end) I've made beautiful memories in this game, bonded with people over the years, and bonded with the people i now will love and cherish forever. The developers do not listen to their community, it's always 1 step forward, 2 steps back You will always be playing what the devs want you to play, not what you want to play, not your favorite gear or class. All of your gear will be obsolete at some point, You will be lucky if it was powercrept, several events have happened in the past (like reworks to how armor and weapon mods function, or just restricting the level of those items so you can't use them [b] search sunsetting D2 [/b] ) that makes your gear not worth using, the new direction makes it so if its not the featured gear, you will be handicapped for using it. The game is not hard, it has a LOT of artificial difficulty, the enemies don't change or have fancy moves, they just one shot at higher levels. The mo...

[i]Destiny 2 isn’t a live service game.[/i] [b]It’s a shell of a game that’s been abused, butchered, and cannibalised by the live service approach of game development.[/b] It’s important to make that distinction as Destiny 2 was never designed to be a live service game. It was meant to be an “ever-evolving world and story,” mostly consisting of new additions to the gameplay experience rather than progression (new Locations, Strikes, Exotics, Raids, etc.). [b]Shadowkeep changed everything.[/b] Suddenly, playing the game the way you wanted wasn’t enough. Instead of organically improving the base game experience, Bungie would from this point continually find means of curating your engagement and how you chose to play. Shadowkeep: Want to play endgame content and get the shiny new Ascendant Shards? [b]Use the newly introduced Champion Weapon Mods[/b] that can only be equipped by a select group of weapon types. Beyond Light: Want to bring your Midnight Coup from Leviatha...

Well, I told myself if I ever broke 1,000 hours on a Steam game, I'd write a review for it. For better or worse, Destiny 2 has been that game... So here it goes. [h2] What Was [/h2] When I first started playing this game (Beyond Light, 2020. I took a long break after Lightfall), you could still experience the entire story, from the beginning up to the content that was new at the time. And that’s where it started. I went through the campaigns, then dove into the seasonal content. And that was the loop. Half-way enjoy the story, grind seasonal content, make numbers go up. It doesn’t take long to realize what’s happening. They’ve got me hooked. Once the campaign is done, I play the same missions over and over to get a drip feed of gear upgrades. Gear score goes up, I play harder versions of the same missions. But I look past it. I rinse and repeat this cycle through the post-Beyond Light expansions and seasons. But I don’t care. Numbers go up, colors flash on the screen riv...

Here's the thing: The game, if it's fun, is REALLY fun. The gunplay is amazing, the lore is great, the graphics are solid. As an aesthetic and creative package, the game is GOOD. But in its current state, I simply cannot recommend getting into it as a new player. Even as a returning player it's tough. Right this time (August '25) Bungie is trying to change the backbone of how the entire gameplay loop works, but the latest DLC drop (Edge of Fate) only implemented what looks like the backbone of the backbone. It's a barren, bug-riddled, work-in-progress that is lacking adaptation of older content and is pretty much completely explored within a matter of a month, if you're taking your time. You might not notice this as much if you get into the game fresh and have a lot of old content/story to catch up with first, but if you're keeping up with content as it releases, you're very quickly running out of things to do and the leftover "grind loop", as mentioned before, is barren. It feels...

Planned on coming back to check out the latest updates with the newest expansion only to realize I have to pay $24 dollars just to catch up to the current version plus an additional $40/$80 for the latest DLC. $104 dollars for the shell of a game I put 1200+ hours into as a returning player is not a good value proposition.

Over the last decade or so I've played 1000's of hours of Destiny and Destiny 2. Bungies recent ensh*ttification of this game has destroyed any desire i have to play.

It is like every design choice now is based on how to eliminate your fun. Like the developers are actively trying to provide you with the worst possible experience. They must be completely out of touch. Every aspect of game play is micromanaged and manipulated. Maybe a new project lead is needed.

With the release of Edge of Fate, Destiny ceased to be Destiny. Literally everything that made it attractive, beautiful, and wonderful was destroyed by the new addition—perhaps not an addition, but the addition of a portal and a tier system—which added the feel of a mobile game. They arranged a kind of sunset, simply adding a modifier that allows you to use only new equipment, forcing you to farm what you don't want in order to complete activities and get more points while grinding. The new system of armor sets and stats seems okay, but it's as if nothing has really changed, except for pumping weapon stats to 200, the rest depending on the build, which isn't particularly cool. I also want to add that they removed the absolute equipment pattern! In new expansion, nothing particularly new has been added to the activities, they just made a system where you can get rewards from past seasons' activities, raids, and dungeons, which were the most beloved part of Destiny, where frien...

The game was good once. It's been on a downward trend for some time, but now it's hella ass until they have devs that actually play and test their own game at a higher level than open-world patrols and lost sectors, the game will continue to go down drain of an absolute garbage powergrind & balance in the endgame a piss poor early game / New light with a somewhat decent mid-game. But guys don't worry Art-raid... I mean Marathon will fix all our problems for sure yea.

Studio routinely puts out a mainline product, it's crap, live team improves product until it's incredible, and then mainline team puts out mainline update that undoes everything they spent the last 1-2 years improving. It's actually incredible how bipolar this game is. Also, do not start to play this game today as a new player. The new player experience from a story perspective is quite garbage due to vaulted (no longer accessible) storylines, and the experience purely from a gameplay perspective is overbearingly grind focused.