Time to get the daily dose of gaming news in all the sense of Good, Bad, and the Ugly. No matter the source of choice -N4G (my personal favorite), Gamespot, IGN, Kotaku (My least favorite, almost as biased as IGN), Game Informer, Giant Bomb, the list goes on and on, even for very unknown and independent sites - you will see not one, but [i]multiple[/i] Destiny articles. You can't escape it, no matter the context; A new loot cave, negative reviews, a group 3-manning the Vault of Glass.
[i]Yet this game still receives mediocre reviews. [/i] Metacritic still has Destiny sitting at a non-stellar 76, which usually, nowadays, indicates only a smaller group of people will find enjoyment out of such an experience. No matter what how people degrade this game, they always say the same thing: [b]I can't stop playing Destiny.[/b]
Abnormally low review scores for a AAA game, especially one with such a ludicrous budget, no one can stop playing, everyone is talking about it, yet every review score and publishment about this game is full of negativity. Hell, I can even agree with virtually every aspect, having an extremely extensive gaming library going back to 1990 with my first NES. I've had the experience with games for years, let alone all the FPS's and MMO's that this game can relate to.
What could all of these oxymoron's mean? How, when a game so well polished, yet agreed upon as an established disappointment by a large number of the gaming community be continuously played and written about, a month after release?
Crazy idea - [b]Maybe, just maybe... Destiny is a good game.[/b]
Hopefully, some day, Gamergate will be over, reviewers will stop taking cash under the table, and maybe an entirely new review process will take place. I honestly have no idea what it could be, but perhaps, in time, the gaming community could actually stop flame-warring over specs and resolutions and come up with a solution.
[b]TL;DR[/b] - Destiny is good, despite reviews and articles, because no one can shut up about it or even stop playing it. The above link was just something I picked up today, having thought of my written topic for a while, now.
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Well, F my thread. haha