Bungie says they see this game lasting ten years. Even if they drop lots of dlc I will bet it will be forgotten in less than five years. I feel that's even too generous.

Apologise for what?

I am sorry but the criticism is legitimate, this guy also makes out story does not matter? WHAT?!

Sorry but this was typed up by a complete hack of a journalist, to turn around and make an apology for the likes of Jeff Gerstmann who do you think you are?

The need to defend this multi million game is frightening, The fact people think 6/10 is a BAD score is frightening, the fact people think a game that made 500 million in its first 24 hours needs defending is lunacy.

People just cannot be comfortable with their own opinion and they need reviews as a yard stick to measure their own personal enjoyment.

What is also delusional is thinking a game deserves a baseline review score....just NO.

The people obsessed with defending this game are becoming like some sort of occult offbeat religious sect with their mantra that it deserves no lower than a 8/10.

On a closing note if anything is "clickbait" it is trying to act like the cool underground reviewer who goes against the curve and who is "real" who tells everyone what they want to hear and lambastes bigger publications for their own gain.

Nah, I think everyone agrees that Destiny is solid. I haven't seen the first review that suggests that the foundation isn't sound, or the presentation isn't top notch. But there are some flaws in execution as well as some misrepresentation of the games scope in the marketing. These things lead to disappointment, which leads to mediocre reviews. Most reviews peg it around a 6 or 7, which isn't a score that demands an apology. Assassaims Creed 1 got 5s for many of the same reasons, now it's a giant franchise. Bungie and Destiny will be fine in the long run. But they have tons of room for improvement

I don't think there's anything to apologize for, certainly not the low scores (which more critiques should use). It's a hollow game to the core, and that's the sad truth.

Or... maybe Destiny really is just an average game with pretty graphics/presentation and we all have been so "wanting" there to be an actual great new 1st person shooter IP that many of us are not really minding the grind or lack of story. Sometimes things are just fun even if technically they are kinda crappy when you really look at it.

Its cool to hate popular things

I came to the same negative conclusion before any of the reviews were released. The game is littered with poor design choices, hugely repetitive missions, threadbare story, goofy writing, and questionable voice acting. Not to mention the game has a serious identity crisis and seems to adopt the worst qualities of each genre its imitating.

I'm not writing off Destiny, as history has shown that games can evolve dramatically (Diablo 3 anyone?), but as it sits, it's not a great game.

There's a belief out there that just because a game is "fun" for you, that automatically makes it a good game. Sorry, but that's not the case. I had a lot of fun with Jaws Unleashed on the original Xbox, but I'd never try to convince someone it was a good game. Or even an alright game.

That's the thing about reviewing a game like this I think. It seems to me that most if not all of the reviewers knew ahead of time what this game was all about. It was made to be built upon in the future somewhat similar to an MMO, with expansions, raids and other content added in the future after the release.

I'm not defending the game, as I have not purchased it nor have I played the full version yet (I was however in the Alpha).

After playing the alpha version I thought that they had a solid foundation laid down for a great game. But reviewing a game like this so early in it's life (as is the norm for video games) seems to only be a hindrance to it's longevity, because I doubt very much these websites/reviewers will constantly go back and change or alter the scores given to it to reflect the added content available in the future.

That being said maybe a 6 or 7 is fair for this current version of the game, but will that score still be accurate in 6 months or a year from now?

Apologize?

Lmao, that's insane. There's NO NEED FOR AN APOLOGY.

It is what it is, a solid game, 7 or 8.

If you want a better reception for your game, make a BETTER GAME NEXT TIME, simple.

Not gonna play BS POLITICS cause the Industry spent $500mill on a game that didn't live up to the hype that the INDUSTRY CREATED.

Your all the same, publisher, developer, media...it's the INDUSTRY'S FAULT, not the game consumer.

And Destiny got what it deserved, and the reception it deserved.

And you love Destiny then ok, just don't cry and whine & get but hurt and defensive, feeling a need to justify yr purchase if your a gamer.

And then the Industry trying it's hardest to sway public opinion, get lost you losers.

Destiny is just a solid game, nothing more.....and its NOT MY FAULT.

The Journalist who wrote the article should be ashamed, Destiny s scores had nothing to do with gamergate. You are a LIAR.

"I have paid VERY little attention to the story and it’s entirely possibly it comes off as extremely amorphic and obtuse, but we could easily say the same of games like WoW, Diablo or Final Fantasy XIV"

You are comparing Destiny to MMOs...i'll say that again, Destiny is not an MMO, it's a coop shooter with rpg elements.
And then you say that FFXIV has an extremely amorphic and obtuse story which is not true, it has a story comparable to the offline FFs, something that can't be said for the majority of MMOs.

1 more week and this game's hype will be forgotten.

I've never played a game that you can play for 2-4 days and realize you've played it all. Theres just no sense of progression or accomplishment. You play the same levels over and over to get better gear so you can play the same levels over and over again!!! I don't see how anyone will be playing until December let alone in 2024.

Destiny - this is the 1st game someone pre-ordered for me, and I have em' send it back. The reports of what _FantasmA_ said "I've never played a game that you can play for 2-4 days and realize you've played it all." is the core reason why. In my opinion there is no excuse for this. How did this happen, or could someone educate me on why I'm wrong.

It has to be conspiracy? It can't simply be that other people have a different opinion of the game than others?

So this person doesn't pay attention to story yet wonders why the game is getting hammered in reviews in the story department while comparing FFXIV to WoW's story at the same time.
Maybe he should start writing about things he does pay attention to.

Can't wait for Halo on my ps5.

I always thought Guitar Hero was boring the button clicking with the plastic guitar also got annoying. I played it twice with friends but I was also drunk and stoned. There are people who like Destiny but I never liked the game.