I would actually recommend this game if you enjoy a good shooter. The mechanics and gunplay are top notch. The issue is that Bungie has gone at the story with a chainsaw and hatchet ripping huge chunks out and trashing them. I originally started playing on release and have alot more hours that Steam shows. I didn't get to play Destiny 1 since it was Xbox One exclusive, but Destiny 2's original opening with the Red War campaign was awesome and I felt like I got enough of a sense of who the players are to pickup a thread of a story. I took a break after Forsaken which was an amazing story line imo (RIP Cayde-6). I came back recently kind of near the end of Witch Queen only to find they have permanatly trashed all content prior to Shadowkeep. Content I paid for no longer exists. They reset and rewrote the intro under the banner of "Beyond Light" and went F2P with a battle pass system.

The fact that they have permanantly removed very lore relevant paid for content from the game is enough for me to say don't spend a dime on this game. Now they have come out to say they will no longer remove campaign content.. but that doesn't really matter since a large part of the story is now delievered via seasonal content which is removed with every major DLC release.

I have no idea who many of the NPCs are or what the heck is going on with the story. The story is hacked together between seasonal content and main story quest. They way seasonal content works is basically every week they release a new story quest. It usually invovles talking to a NPC then going to the related open world battle area to do some gathering/killing. This is followed up usually by a soloable mission and then some dialogue. The missions and story are usually very well done.

The problem is.. all the previous seasonal content had alot of story related information that is no longer accessable in game. There are several websites and videos that try to lay out the history of Destiny but it's not the same as playing it. I have the season passes for the Witch Queen and have had to circle back (confusingly) to run season 16, 17, and 18 before they go away at the end of Feb with the release of the next major expansion Lightfall. This content is really good, and in a couple months it will be permanantly gone, and I can't help but really feel let down by the other content that I will never get to play.

As a returning or new player, the story experience is just a hot mess of "I have no idea who you are or what I'm doing, but the pew pew is fun I guess." I really wish Bungie would rework Destiny 1, Destiny 2 "vaulted", and old seasonal content back into the game in a soloable format and allow the creation of a "storyline" character to play through linearly. I'd pay (again) just for that experience.

There really is a great story woven here.. but as it stands it's like trying to watch the last hour of Return of the King without having seen any of the other movies. Sure it looks awesome.. but I have no clue wtf is going on or who these little people are.

I would actually recommend this game if you enjoy a good shooter. The mechanics and gunplay are top notch. The issue is that Bungie has gone at the story with a chainsaw and hatchet ripping huge chunks out and trashing them. I originally started playing on release and have alot more hours that Steam shows. I didn't get to play Destiny 1 since it was Xbox One exclusive, but Destiny 2's original opening with the Red War campaign was awesome and I felt like I got enough of a sense of who the players are to pickup a thread of a story. I took a break after Forsaken which was an amazing story line imo (RIP Cayde-6). I came back recently kind of near the end of Witch Queen only to find they have permanatly trashed all content prior to Shadowkeep. Content I paid for no longer exists. They reset and rewrote the intro under the banner of "Beyond Light" and went F2P with a battle pass system. The fact that they have permanantly removed very lore relevant paid for content from the game is enough for me to say don't spend a dime on this game. Now they have come out to say they will no longer remove campaign content.. but that doesn't really matter since a large part of the story is now delievered via seasonal content which is removed with every major DLC release. I have no idea who many of the NPCs are or what the heck is going on with the story. The story is hacked together between seasonal content and main story quest. They way seasonal content works is basically every week they release a new story quest. It usually invovles talking to a NPC then going to the related open world battle area to do some gathering/killing. This is followed up usually by a soloable mission and then some dialogue. The missions and story are usually very well done. The problem is.. all the previous seasonal content had alot of story related information that is no longer accessable in game. There are several websites and videos that try to lay out the history of Destiny but it's not the same as playing it. I have the season passes for the Witch Queen and have had to circle back (confusingly) to run season 16, 17, and 18 before they go away at the end of Feb with the release of the next major expansion Lightfall. This content is really good, and in a couple months it will be permanantly gone, and I can't help but really feel let down by the other content that I will never get to play. As a returning or new player, the story experience is just a hot mess of "I have no idea who you are or what I'm doing, but the pew pew is fun I guess." I really wish Bungie would rework Destiny 1, Destiny 2 "vaulted", and old seasonal content back into the game in a soloable format and allow the creation of a "storyline" character to play through linearly. I'd pay (again) just for that experience. There really is a great story woven here.. but as it stands it's like trying to watch the last hour of Return of the King without having seen any of the other movies. Sure it looks awesome.. but I have no clue wtf is going on or who these little people are.