I wholeheartedly agree. Destiny is the worst looking fantastic looking game I've ever seen. The quality in direct and ambient light is fantastic, the textures and materials look like they are physically lit with convincing specular highlights and reflections depending on the material. Bungie's problem has always been in how [i]detailed[/i] these physical objects actually are. Characters and objects have very simple, clean silhouettes - an absence of physical detail that no pixel shader can fill (unless that shader supports tessellation or displacement mapping of some sort). Things like the Guardians having no proper layering or extrusion to elements such as overlapping cloth or layers of clothing/straps/metal. The very best character work they've done was in Reach, where at the time and on the system the models were very nicely detailed and carried this very clean look to them, a step-up from the blocky, very low poly models of Halo 3. Armor designs for the Covenant were sleek and had great form, while the Spartans had a particularly utilitarian look to their armor, with great proportion and some outstanding designs. In Destiny, that same level of detail has been more or less carried over. Texture resolution has improved, so we get really sharp looking foliage and physical materials, but the density and detail of physical objects simply doesn't cut it (unless they're very close, where they implement some sort of tessellation, particularly visible on the great looking weapons up close). All things considered it still looks great, but has the same downfall in its visual presentation that Halo 3 had.