I don't have a XB1/PS4 to get this game. Really don't want to play it on 360, so probably next year when I get my PS4.

Only played up to level 7, and almost finished the moon I think. So far..... I couldn't tell you whats happening in the story, but its insanely fun to play coop w/ people you know. Had an absolute blast shooting the shit outa some bad dudes and picking up loot.

Quick impressions (PS4 version):
-Way less loot drops, like seriously, where are the loot drops?
-Hard feels REALLY hard now, think they tuned up the monsters a bit
-The story mine as well not even exist, I have no clue why we're doing anything we are doing (go here, use your ghost on a thing, kill shit, you win!)
-Game is really pretty, runs flawlessly, super fun (especially with friends), and hard to put down
-Only played one PVP match, sniper rifles seem OP... no scoped a few guys and almost felt bad about how easy it was

The story and mission design are the two biggest letdowns, but its somewhat forgivable for how fun the combat is. If you're in it for an epic "halo-like" story... you should NOT buy this game. Coming from playing The Last Of Us... the stepdown in storytelling is jarring as hell. Bungie is better than this.

Watch some on Twitch last night. The lack of epicness in boss battles and gameplay overall was a shame.

Yeah, you don't get a "feel" for the missions or why they're actually important. Your just "doing them" and that's about it. If there's a greater plot to be discovered then Bungie has done an excellent job of concealing it so far.

Things absolutely smoothed out though. When we first started we were getting booted after about 20mins of play. Made it very hard to progress forward. But by the evening we weren't experiencing anymore boots and com drops.

It IS fun, there's no doubts about that. But I don't see my friends and I playing this as long as we played Borderlands together.

I tried to resist after player the beta but I unfortunately fell for the hype. The game just feels unfinished to me and I dont think Bungie actually knows what they are trying to create. It's feel like an amalgamation of lots of different games (Halo, Mass Effect, COD, Borderlands etc) and ideas that have all been executed in an inferior way when compared to the originals.

I can't understand how a game that's been in production for so long by a HUGE team that brought us Halo can feel like such a lackluster campaign experience. Even on coop, it gets boring very fast shooting zero-intelligence bullet sponges across the same areas you've already been on multiple missions before it.

The MP on the other hand is a different story, it plays rather well and very much a breathe of fresh air when compared to the campaign.

Overall, it's a decent game but those of you expecting that Halo level of quality in an open world will surely be dissappointed. I know it's early day but I'll be very surprised if the game reviews well.

So does the game reflect the Metacriric score at 74?

Destiny unfortunately proves that pre-release awards and "best of show" commendations (184 in total) don't mean anything anymore. You simply have to play things for yourself in order to be clear about what you like or didn't like. Depending on who you're talking to, Destiny seems to be a hard game to nail down in terms of it's identity. And that's also what makes every praise worthy thing said about the game valid, and consequently every critical review of it absolutely justified. I know it's weird to say everyone is right, but Destiny is one of those odd-ball circumstances where you find yourself agreeing with what everyone is saying about the game.

That doesn't mean that I agree with the zero scores or even the 6/10 reviews. What I mean is that when someone points something out about the game, you find that your play experience lines up pretty much the same way. Like everyone else I have a list of things I don't like but they don't take away any of the fun I had playing. The problem is over the stretch of the game those minor things start adding up to quite a considerable pile. It becomes harder to defend the game against the 6/10 reviews when you personally acknowledge how large the pile is growing. lol

It also becomes hard to recommend the game to anyone when my own feelings on the game are so mixed. I've gone all digital so far, but Destiny is actually the first game this gen I would tell a gamer to buy the physical copy in case they didn't like it in the end.

The first thing I noticed was that the scale of the game looks huge but actually plays very small. When I saw enemies arriving in dropships ala "Phantom" style, I thought "Boy this is familiar" But unlike the Covies, the enemies of Destiny don't have any real personality. It's not like I expected any of them to start preaching the way a Zealot would but there's just really nothing remarkable I could say about them. Accept that some can take horrendous amounts of damage while others charge at you like a stampede.

Didn't anybody else think it was weird that our main mission wasn't liberating Earth? It actually felt strange traveling off-world and going to all of these other locations while Earth is still occupied.

Now without going into everything, I don't think we need to worry about Bungie not coming into fix AI issues, balance or even communication. Activision and Bungie have invested far too much time and capital into Destiny to allow it to remain in this state. The issues that do concern is content and depth of play. How much of it is actually coming, and can we look to Bungie to open these missions up so that they feel less scripted and confined? I'm not so sure about the later. In fact it may take Destiny2 before that happens.

My biggest gripe is that I think Bungie just played it safe. They seemed to grasp at a ton of concepts without ever fully embracing any of them. Is it the mission? Is it the loot, the armor, the XP? What is the gamer playing for? I know we're supposed to awaken The Traveler but that's not what the end game feels like. It just feels grindy and repetitive, and with little rewards in the end.

Despite all of this, I still look forward to playing the other classes and of course playing with my friends. Destiny has a kind of charm to it that I wouldn't call addictive, perhaps engaging is more appropriate. But there's one thing my friends I agree with whole heartedly. Destiny needs way more content or it's charm is going to fade sooner than Bungie expected.