r/DestinyTheGame • u/USArmyOldTimer • Mar 01 '23
Byf blasts Lightfall campaign Media
In his new video MyNameIsByf expresses his profound disappoint with Lightfall and concern for Bungie's narrative capabilities and for the future of Destiny 2, particularly The Final Shape.
Here is a link to his video :
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u/Hassadar Mar 02 '23 edited Mar 02 '23
This is exactly why I can never recommend Destiny to any of my friends that ask me if it is good and if they should play it. There is just so much uncertainty when it comes to Destiny in terms of how long the good times will last. I've already invested in the game. I can take a bad expansion because I'll keep going. There is something about Destiny that just keeps me hooked. Maybe it's some weird relationship of putting X amount of money into something it makes it harder to let go as you feel you wasted it all. I'll sit on the hopium thinking of the potential that the game has and it can become and I briefly feel I made the right choice in sticking with it because you get those moments of Taken King, Forsaken, and Witch Queen but they are never one after another and that's why I never recommend.
Destiny is often good for already current Destiny players. You can get by a poor expansion if the seasonal content over the year holds up. You look back and you had good times that kept you playing but for any non-Destiny players, any decent seasonal content is not enough for them to want to play if an expansion is bad.
When it comes to my friends asking to play, it always follows the same script: They start seeing more and more content surrounding Destiny because the general consensus of the game is positive so it starts getting talked about more, popping up on their feeds, news articles and so on. So they ask should they jump in as a new expansion is releasing soon and I just can't find myself saying ''YES 100% jump in with me now'' because I know what can potentially come based off Bungies track record with Destiny.
I was really hoping Lightfall would knock it out of the park because it would have been back-to-back expansions of high quality that would give me no hesitation in finally recommending the game. But now, I don't think I will be able to recommend Destiny to my friends until after Destiny 3 (whatever comes after Final Shape) because a very good Final Shape expansion will not change the history of Bungie taking 2 steps back when all they needed to do at the bare minimum was a half a step better of what they just released (WQ). They never establish a baseline of what is the bare minimum quality of an expansion. Everything about this expansion feels last minute knowing they needed more time on Final Shape which was originally Lightfall.