It is. (Destiny)

by Funkmon , Friday, December 08, 2017, 22:54 (2620 days ago) @ Avateur
edited by Funkmon, Friday, December 08, 2017, 23:12

I didn't ever think I would see the day when video game reviewers could be so wrong.

Destiny is the best game I have ever played.

Destiny 2 is still...top 10? Maybe?

Reviewers have continually and universally been wrong about Destiny and what it's doing since launch. It feels like we're in groundhog day. Won't they ever learn?

I am beginning to stop trusting reviewers and start trusting guys. I will see any Tom Cruise movie. I don't think he has made a bad one. Reviewers took a dump on The Mummy. Way off, that movie was boss. Reviewers say Wes Anderson is the next coming of Christ but his movies are lame. I will listen to every Ted Nugent album, even as reviewers say they're worse and worse. Reviewers like Lana Del Rey who makes awful music.

I don't think they are dishonest. I think movie critics like Wes Anderson because his movies are so novel to them, full of largely samey films that are formulaic. I think game critics can't really grade a game on being fun, so have to talk about other things as proxies, like story, or UI design, or difficulty. They need a good story to get them to like a game. It's their job. Destiny doesn't have that. They need a reason to try to keep playing past the story. They don't, they got the game for free, and no matter how much fun it is, they have a deadline and need to play another game. We see highly rated games like Halo 4 fall flat in the community, because while it ticked all the boxes for the developers, we didn't like it very much.

Destiny 2 is much higher rated than Destiny 1...and it's totally worse for the players. They ticked too many reviewer boxes and not enough player boxes this time. Then the new expansion came out.

Much like The Dank Below, this expansion is getting dumped on left right and center by both the fans (who are let down by Bungie capitulating to their asinine requests), and reviewers, ticking neither of their sets of boxes.

And yet, we will see the tide slowly turn. Bungie will make basic conceits to the whiners. Reviewers will have been invested in this game by virtue of being forced to play its expansions and interacting with the community.