re: Is it safe to say the Destiny franchise is done?

Dude, you guessed. Everyone was jamming on this because they thought it was just going to be more of the same, Destiny 1.2. No one could have guessed they would have gone backwards and ran with the money.

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i was with you in your thread and many before it - well done. it was clear from the get-go that D2 would be a lazy mess, but cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.

congrats on being accused of "carsoning" and "having carsonitis" in your original thread; those things apparently translate to "being correct"

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Nope after the frick fest that was so called "Destiny 1", i vowed to never support bungie products ever again, frick bungie.

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Wut

Destiny 1 sucked at launch, but after TTK it was a great game.

You seem like a fun person to be around.

I mean I had fun for about a month, you just sound like a miserable prick.

Wife was into D1 really intense and got me into about the time of RoI....but I struggled with my first FPS on a console since it was both new to me. I learned but sucked at crucible. I still don't like the PvP aspect. Met up with some great guys from Houston and Baton Rouge playing the game. Then some personalities got involved and it just got to be more work than fun.

We started playing D2, but it's just not there for us. In fact we actually went back to playing WoW more than D2. Not to mention Bungie and PSN has more issues than Blizzard does with their servers. Kinda sucks..the game had great potential if they would have kept a longer quest line/mission line up rather than making the endgame about PvP.

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But congrats on "being right". Has to happen every once in a while, I suppose.

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what have I whiffed on? Division, No Man Sky, For Honor, Andromeda, Destiny, etc were all terrible. much more than "once in a while."

I agree with almost everything you said except that D2 had an improved story.

While D1 had next to nothing in terms of a cohesive story, what we did get was largely dark in tone and fit the grimoire.

D2 could have been written by a 4th grader. It is full of cliche's and just awful characters. I'm surprised they didn't insert a laugh track for the repeated, failed attempts of trying to be funny in the dialog.

So while D2 had a story, that doesn't mean it was an improvement over not having one if it is so awful.

After beating it once, I had to convince myself to beat it two more times for my other builds. It was a chore.

D1 is better than D2 in nearly every imaginable way and D1 was far from a perfect game. But I love(d) it.

D2 stripped away every element that made D1 a fun game and gave us a piece of dry toast with dumber AI, no reason to grind, god awful tokens, and overall just a neutered experience.

D2 started off great. The opening scene, the music after you thought ghost was dead. It just hit all the sweet spots. but then it fell flat on its face.