Is it worth buying Destiny? (Destiny)

by Decom , Thursday, April 21, 2016, 20:12 (3231 days ago) @ Kahzgul

I was looking forward to bungie applying their last 20 years of lessons learned to this one, but that didn't happen.

I was, too. But I realized (some point after Destiny launched) that Bungie's no longer the same company. Many of the people who worked there during/before the Halo days are gone and took their knowledge with them, unfortunately. I'm hoping the Destiny team has now learned the ropes. Time will tell.

Anyway, I'd say that base model Destiny is worth about $15. Your real mileage is coming from TTK, which is pretty great, so if you're able to get Destiny + The Taken King for $40 or $50, you'll get your money's worth. Just know that the endgame (after you've beaten the raids once) is very, very repetitive and also quite frustratingly grindy. And the PvP has the best feel with the worst netcode, so - again - it's very frustrating. This game is to us what hades is to Tantalus.

Yeah, I'd be getting the complete set. It's a shame the VoG was rendered pointless, meaning I'd get to the repetitive endgame that much faster. Thanks for pointing out how the poor netcode affects PvP. I had heard plenty of complaints about it last year, but had figured it would've been fixed by now. Some quick googling seems to agree with you. :-\