Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Destiny disabled gamer review: My first thoughts a week in

Has Destiny lived up to the hype? Is it accessible to all? Here are some of my thoughts about it in only my first week of playing the game. At first glance, Destiny looks like a wide open MMO, but after playing it for a couple hours, you will see that it's a linear, no story and a quest based world. I will get more into that. The story is basically about fighting the Darkness and you get no explanation why you are fighting them. So you don't care about the story, all you do is shoot, kill enemies, do quests and collect armor. Kind of like Borderlands, but without the humor. The open world that they were promising isn't there at all. You can basically hoarded between  the Tower and your quests. Yes once you get into your quests, the world gets wide open, but your on a quest so you ignore that basically. This game is also meant to be played with friends, but what if your friends played the shit out of the game already, and you have other things to do besides play Destiny like college, organizations, homework and other stuff. So then you see what levels they are in the game, and I am like oh shit, I cannot play with my PlayStation friends, I am only level four and one hit will kill me from the enemies.
 Now for the accessibility, Activision and Bungie what are you doing?! Having only three controller presets! That kind of limits Destiny's accessibility greatly. This is a ten year project and your limiting the player to three presets of remapped buttons. Really?! Although I can play the game fine, I would have liked to remapped the controls to my liking. I know this is a ten year project, but I will not want to play because the story is not sucking me in! Yes it is a fun game if you like to kill enemies, collect loot and upgrade your character, but is it for me?! No because I want a good story to be told as well as those aspects. Time will only improve Destiny I am hoping!  At this time, I would wait until they make some mass improvements to Destiny, if you are like me and got to have something other then fun gameplay! I will give this is a: 6/10!