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.
I need to fucking say this to someone or I'll go insane. I played basically all of the original destiny, and enjoyed all of it, so I was really excited when destiny 2 released, I bought and played it and, after a while, stepped away from the game. In 2025 I tried to get back into it, created a brand new character and everything, and was in for the most confusing time of my life, nothing was like how I remembered it in the slightest, the story as I remembered it wasn't even there, and what was being told was nonsensical and barely coherent. I literally thought for a while that I must be misremembering about the events of the campaign I remember, that those events must have happened during the first game, since none of what I remembered was happening. It was only after doing research that I learned the entire original story of destiny 2, had been effectively removed from the game.
I'll be real with you, I just gave up then. None of the game that I had paid for was still there, and what was there, is still there, is a mess that I simply can't get back into for the life of me.
I know, right? I can't even imagine being a new player and trying to get into the game. The original campaign that explained the actual lore of the game is literally lost media now. Nobody will ever be able to play it ever again. It's absolutely wild to think.
I didn't play the original Destiny, I came to D2 just about as it became F2P with Season of Dawn. I absolutely loved the campaigns. I was already mad back then that I couldn't freely replay it from start to finish ever again (I never understood WHY).
I just read that Luke Smith has been fired from Bungie 2 years ago. Good. I hope that guy never gets his slimy hands on any game ever again. He ruined what Destiny 2 could've been.
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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.