A question for the Elders (Destiny)

by CyberKN , Oh no, Destiny 2 is bad, Sunday, August 17, 2025, 20:19 (4 hours, 32 minutes ago) @ Vortech

Aside from the abominable sin that was moving from mac to xbox-first, was there any push-back from the community on Halo when it was released, from a purely gameplay/story/presentation perspective? Any sentiment that it was somehow a lesser game than Myth or Marathon?

I ask because at no point has Destiny ever felt like it even began to fill the Halo-shaped hole in my heart. I miss the Bungie that made those games, because I *really* liked those games, and Destiny decidedly less so- It's such a huge project, and yet felt so shallow to me in the ways that actually mattered.

I think that's the thing that makes me ambivalent towards whatever happens to Bungie as a result of this merger, I don't see them as having any kind of alignment with my personal tastes for what makes games fun anymore, and I've felt that way for a long, long time now.