Destiny 360/PS3/XBOX ONE/PS4 review

[H-Man]

I'm not a fan of the multiplayer - why stray away from Halo, which is great, and give us some weird CoD in space hybrid? - and single player is pretty samey. It's certainly not a patch on Halo's. But playing with a few mates is brilliant fun. So far i'd say Destiny needs to be played with people on comms.

[Tobal]

They won't fix anything anytime soon as those that stick around and reach lvl20 won't have the lvl gap problems and it doesn't appear all that hard to hit 20. Next complaints will likely be the ilevel equipment when everyone is 20.

[S3M]

Wow just wow, I can't believe Bungie would be that stupid. Just inserted the PS3 disc into my machine and didn't have the internet connected turns out that the game on the actual disc is the Beta...........

Guessing the patches are what undo the Beta.

[Edit] Yep now patched Beta message now gone, least have though the retail version would have a non-beta front screen.

[Golgo]

I'm really enjoying this. Got to

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the moon

with level 8 so pretty much where the Beta left off and about a qurater through the campaign. It's terrific when everything kicks off and you're caught with other players in the midst of

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Fallen and Hive going at each other. Although I don't see why they'd do that seeing as they're all meant to be in service to 'THE DARKNESS'

. Not that the hokey plot matters really, or the awful voice acting, which goes from comically over-earnest - e.g.

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boss of the Titan clan or robot weaponsmith with regional drawl

- to utterly can't be arsed - e.g.

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the ghost and the multiplayer voice over

. Fishbowlhead is right about the needless difficulty of getting coop working, which is not helped by lack of in-game comms in favour 4 useless gestures. I'm enjoying Control on multiplayer where the special abilities refresh the usual formula a bit, but in the straightforward deathmatch modes they seem to serve only to make a bit of a mess of things. All in all it's 'just' a grab-bag of a whole bunch of FPS staples with the joins smoothed over pretty nicely. I also like the smooth integration of RPG elements - so easy to compare stats, clear crap from inventory, et.c RPG afficionados would no doubt sniff at this as RPG-lite, which I guess it is, but at least you don't have to faff about in menus comparing numbers for any length of time. Considering buying a new spaceship but I don't know if there's any point other than cosmetic...

Right now I can say I could never play this for anything near approaching ten years , but it'll do for a few enjoyable weeks of popcorn entertainment.

[fishbowlhead]

Wow just wow, I can't believe Bungie would be that stupid. Just inserted the PS3 disc into my machine and didn't have the internet connected turns out that the game on the actual disc is the Beta...........

Guessing the patches are what undo the Beta.

[Edit] Yep now patched Beta message now gone, least have though the retail version would have a non-beta front screen.

What now? You can't play offline on your own out the box?

[Lebowski]

old news destiny requires an internet connection to work you cant play it offline at all, its always connected to the servers, my two boots to the title screen when i was playing solo really made me question why this is the case.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-17-destiny-requires-an-internet-connection-to-work

[RobRoy]

Had a couple of hours on this last night so not got past the beta stage yet (which I loved) looking forward to more tonight!

On a side note has anyone else noticed that its Peter Dinklage doing the voice of the Ghost?

[speedlolita]

Is anyone playing on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3?

I'm kinda interested in this but I fear I'll be waiting until the PC release next year.

[fishbowlhead]

I'm on ps3.

[speedlolita]

I guess I'm just wondering if it is a reduced experience - or whatever.

How are you finding it on PS3?

[Golgo]

I'm also on PS3. It's exactly the same game apart from some jaggy shadows when inside, muddier textures (lower-res generally), and some minor pop-in. Runs perfectly well and looks good, I think, considering it's had to be scaled back.

[EvilBoris]

What now? You can't play offline on your own out the box?

it's an online only game, you can't play offline full stop.

[fishbowlhead]

it's an online only game, you can't play offline full stop.

No reason for it to be like that though, its got a pretty comprehensive single player, which doesn't need a connection to progress through, in theory. Its not like its a death match only title that would be useless without others.

@speedy, it looks pretty good for a current gen, id say it was just upscaled with some extra assets for ps4, xbone. Your guna get exact same experience on all consoles whatever you get. If you only have ps3, 360, the extra for the new console and game isn't going to blow your mind or even warrant the extra really, in my opinion, waiting for a pc version would be daft too.

[dave heats]

As someone who is massively on the fence about buying Destiny, I found this early impression discussion from Kotaku the most informative out there so far. Would you guys agree with it?

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/09/10/heres-think-destiny-far

Will be getting one of those sexy white PS4s when they're available solus, or potentially with Destiny soon, just waiting to see how longer term reviews pan out. Seems a proper mixed bag of opinions out there.

[Brad]

Those early impressions mirror my time with the Alpha and match my predictions for the game. Unlikely to be any fun whatsoever on your own and missing the magic of Borderlands when you're in a group. High budget mediocrity. Note that I haven't played the finished game (although going by what the giantbomb guys say, perhaps I actually have). Hope those that are enjoying it continue to but I would urge any that are enjoying it but never tried Borderlands 2 with friends to do so.

EDIT: note though that Borderlands suffers similar level disparity issues as are present here.