Destiny

Destiny will be the video game I would like to be trapped in. Imagine getting trapped in a world where you travel across the galaxy fighting evil with super human powers and the ability to revive, with a personal, magical robot as a companion?

It’s the only video game I play, ever, whenever I have the chance to play anything these days. It has something for everyone. If you just want to dip your toes for a few minutes and hop off, you have the crucible, where you get to battle other players in combat. If you have hours to kill, you can assemble a team of six and delve into one of the multiple Raids (Vault of Glass is my favorite), long missions where you solve puzzles and defeat bosses as a team using specific mechanics. Or, for three-member fireteams, you can go into dungeons or lost sectors. And, for the competitive, you can head on to Trials of Osiris over the weekend and try to win seven consecutive matches to get your coveted pass to the lighthouse, where untold rewards await.

The soundtrack alone should win an Oscar, or something.

And, if you just like walking around beautiful landscapes, you can also simply patrol a planet and walk around and discover things on your own.

The only things I would add to the game is: more cohesiveness to the story. There’s an amazing backstory to the game and I think it’s not told well enough. Specially for new players, it can be extremely overwhelming seeing so many open missions to play, without anyone telling you the actual sequential order to play them in. There is a Timeline feature, but it can be improved, or some kind of setting where you unlock missions only as you progress through the storyline? There’s several ways to play old storylines but, as mentioned, it feels scattered.

Another thing I would change: reduce the steps on the quests. Sometimes there’s eight to 16 steps, and some of the steps are literally walking from one person to the person standing next to them and talk to both… Or traveling to different planets just to do one simple task. Seems like a way to simply keep people in the platform longer but it gets exhausting.

It’s an imperfect game, but all in all a must play for everyone. It’s a million times more fun to play with friends.

Playing Destiny is one of my “rewards” after my writing work is done for the day.