The Stanley Parable & Destiny. (Destiny)

by CyberKN , Oh no, Destiny 2 is bad, Thursday, June 18, 2015, 20:59 (3253 days ago) @ dogcow

...I just don't understand why Destiny was criticized for it so much more than other games, maybe it just stands out more in Destiny for some reason. (Dinklebot?) I dunno. I'll just blissfully keep pushing the button to make something happen because I'm told to do, and I'll have fun doing it, that's what gaming is after all.

Because you don't do anything interesting in Destiny's story.

In Halo you've got stuff like boarding a scarab, or assaulting a Covenant-held forerunner tower with a squad of Hornets, or the warthog trench-run, or investigating a "weapons cache" that ends up holding a long-dormant alien parasite, which you must then flee from. Straight-forward Run-and-gun levels are there, but they're palate cleansers. In Destiny it's the main course, over and over.