So bare with me, a bit long I know and I’m sorry it may seem like another rant but hopefully it’s more interesting than that. I just wanted to put my feelings out there as I’ve been a near daily player since year 1.🙂 Ok so once you finish the campaign (like in D1 that doesn’t take long) and then finished all the challenges etc, there is simply nothing left to keep you WANTING to play it. For starters you have an armour set you’ve built up throughout the story and set up looking nice and you’ve already gotten most of the weapons. So what more do I need when everything is the same. None of the armour looks particularly special the only thing they have is shaders. And with all the “perks” being so meaningless, (on nearly everything) armour does nothing helpful or impressive and a gun is just a gun, it has a different rate/pattern of fire. Even the gameplay itself is dull and slow. Especially PvP. Destiny 1 had flash, was fast and exhilarating to play. The colours were vibrant and the atmosphere was intense, Destiny 2 just feels the same no matter what you are doing. Even Lost Sectors are just another room of enemies to kill. Why make them out as an achievement if they are no different from anything else. Even the music doesn’t hype anything up like it did in D1. Its that same depressing tone throughout. Don’t get me wrong the music is excellent as usual, but it never seems to fit the mood of what is happening or build up to anything. Do you guys not talk to other departments at Bungie or something? Or did the guy who handles choreographing everything leave? I just don’t understand how you can suck the life out of something to such an extent that it doesn’t even feel related to it’s predecessor! D1 was epic and magical and now you give us D2 that just has no drama, pretty much anywhere. Except maybe when the Speaker tells Gary to go kill himself or Cayde-6 is involved. Destiny 1 STILL has stuff to do, besides the gear grind, and even if you just do something random it at least still feels satisfying, like you actually did something. Destiny 2 just feels pointless and it really saddens me because I don’t think that can be fixed, short of taking the game down and rebuilding it with an overhaul. With what has happened recently on all the streams and press stuff, I know that I’m not the only one that feels the game is a let down but I don’t hear much about the production quality (or lack of) side of things. It may be bigger with more cinematic scenes but that seems to have distracted from the simple disconnected feeling the game has. If anyone knows what I mean and feels the same i’d love to read your thoughts on the matter. And if anyone at Bungie reads this, for one thank you, and two please breath the magic back into this franchise asap. I think I’ve still got a spark of light in my D1 vault if that’ll help? 😜 UPDATE: there’s so much wrong I keep editing, thinking of stuff that I want to mention, so I’ll put it here instead. Like what’s with the Strikes having no introductions? They don’t feel like part of the same story line at all. Why doesn’t our Ghost tell us what’s going on and what has to be done any more? Instead we just launch in and that’s that, kill stuff. It just feels like you couldn’t be bothered to mesh it all together this time and I think all this is why the games issues have hit people so hard because it just doesn’t have the quality of D1, PRODUCTION wise. Ok I’m done now 😉