At this point, I'd just wait (Destiny)

by RC , UK, Sunday, September 07, 2014, 15:30 (3737 days ago) @ manti452

Reviews will be flooding in all this week. So you can have a look at those. The Raid won't be playable until the 16th either so no-one is missing out on that during launch week

It's not quite like anything else out there, but it borrows from a lot of places so it's difficult to describe properly. Plus, if you go in expecting it to be 'X', you'll likely find it's not and will be weirded out. Destiny is Destiny.

Once you really start getting into gear and builds it does get quite complicated to wrap your head around. But the campaign and initial leveling kinda serves as one massive tutorial; elements of the gameplay are slowly unlocked, and you slowly gain access to more complex pieces of gear. You're not going to be overwhelmed at the start: it just gives you movement with a single-level jump, then a single gun and you go from there.

The 'shared world' stuff is pretty unobtrusive. A few players will wander around in your game in bigger, kinda cross-road areas. You'll sometimes see people playing trying to play football in the Tower. You can ignore them.

There will be timed events popping up, but you can ignore those too.