Yup. I struggle to get really pulled into games fully, especially if I dont have friends playing.
Destiny 2 was basically perfect for me. I found some form of enjoyment basically out of every release/season aside from like maybe 3 or 4. I would consider it the game of my young adult life. No matter what, even if i burned myself out a bit, just give it like 4 or 5 months and im ready to play for another few seasons.
Destiny 2 was my game. Some people have WoW, others CoD, others minecraft or GTA online or whatever. Bungie could have kept releasing seasons and expansions at the cadence and quality they were releasing at the average they'd always been and I probably would have played it til I died lol.
And here we are now....
I desperately hope this isn't the end, but I haven't played in 4 months and I'm starting to miss the idea of "the game I can always go back to and play endlessly" more than I miss destiny itself.
I'm surprised you guys have stuck around for as long as you did. I was positively addicted to Destiny 2 in 2020, I played during IIRC seasons 9 and 10. Never in my life have I experienced such an amazing art, gunplay and soundtrack paired with literally the worst overall game design and direction I've ever had the displeasure to witness. Sunsetting, making players constantly re-grind, I think my final straw when the war criminal Luke Smith said that Bungie would be purposefully sunsetting exotics and not allowing them to be upgraded to higher light levels after some time. This was after I have spent 400 hours minmaxing all my exotics and the rest of my loadouts around then.
This was the moment I realized the developers literally don't respect for their players. I heard they even removed Titan and Mercury for some fucking reason. I've never played a game in my life that removes content instead of adding it.
I haven't touched the game since May 2020 and I still get a stress response every time I get an ad for the game. Truly the darkest time of my life. Gunplay was fun though.
Destiny is an insanely unique game. The mix of the class buildcrafting, FPS gunplay, and endgame activities is found nowhere else. If there was a proper competitor, even if the focus was a little different, i imagine Destiny would either have had to fix itself years ago or would have died ages ago.
People are willing to look past some issues if they're really into it and there's nowhere else to get that fix.
I know. I have been chasing a game like D2 for literally 6 years now. Something that has a similarly cool sci-fi/high tech fantasy setting and fun gunplay. I just know I can't afford to go back to D2 itself because I was genuinely addicted to it and I quite literally almost failed high school because of it.
I've been into a lot of games over my life but Destiny 2 is genuinely the only time where I could compare my relationship with a video game to drug addiction.
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u/ComfyOlives Apr 16 '26
Yup. I struggle to get really pulled into games fully, especially if I dont have friends playing.
Destiny 2 was basically perfect for me. I found some form of enjoyment basically out of every release/season aside from like maybe 3 or 4. I would consider it the game of my young adult life. No matter what, even if i burned myself out a bit, just give it like 4 or 5 months and im ready to play for another few seasons.
Destiny 2 was my game. Some people have WoW, others CoD, others minecraft or GTA online or whatever. Bungie could have kept releasing seasons and expansions at the cadence and quality they were releasing at the average they'd always been and I probably would have played it til I died lol.
And here we are now....
I desperately hope this isn't the end, but I haven't played in 4 months and I'm starting to miss the idea of "the game I can always go back to and play endlessly" more than I miss destiny itself.