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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 600.9 hrs on record (6.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: 3 Jul, 2023 @ 4:44am
Updated: 6 Jun, 2024 @ 4:07pm

Early Access Review
Update: this game is better than Destiny 2 in literally every way. That is all.

First Impressions:

I can't really explain exactly how perfectly this game hits the sweet spot for me. I'm a massive cyberpunk nerd who writes and composes around the genre. I'm obsessed with dense lore and excellent writing (50k words deep into my own cyberpunk worldbuilding project, but that's not really important) and even more than that, I make and love the exact genre of the OST. I would've played this game for these three alone, regardless of gameplay.

But it goes deeper than that. I've played Destiny 2 for wayyyy too long. I found Deadlink at a time when I was quitting D2, but in need of the same things that lead me to fall in love with Destiny to begin with: the gunplay, movement, and buildcrafting. This game nails all 3. Granted, I've only played the Soldier so far, but this is first impressions hahaha. Once I'm done writing this, I'm going to go try out the Hunter.

Okay, maybe I can explain it.
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26 Comments
Vern Carson 9 Aug, 2024 @ 8:43am 
I agree. Amazingly talented people wasted by corporate greed and incompetent leadership
■■■■■■■■■■ 8 Aug, 2024 @ 6:30am 
I feel sad for all the creatives at Bungie, they’re incredibly talented and deserve way better leadership.
Vern Carson 7 Aug, 2024 @ 12:47pm 
God I love getting clown awards for this review
Vern Carson 29 Jun, 2024 @ 8:31am 
I had a discussion with some friends recently who were deciding if they wanted to get into Destiny. They're lore junkies, so they asked me how the story is. I told them it's great if you played from year 1.

"What do you mean?"

Told them the first two years of content are simply gone from the game, removing tons of much-needed context. They didn't ask about d2 after that.
■■■■■■■■■■ 29 Jun, 2024 @ 6:35am 
Destiny 2 does have the worst monetization systems I can think of outside of mobile games and asian MMOs that I absolutely would NOT want to see replicated. And I think the downfall started when they sunset like 6 planets, tons of content and some DLC people paid real money for (including me, which pissed me off so much that I only got the rest of Destiny 2's DLC by giving all the money I paid to charity and zero to Bungie, years after).

Sadly, everything outside the monetization is pretty awesome in my eyes. But I'm still giving Bungie zero dollars for Destiny.
Vern Carson 7 Jun, 2024 @ 7:41pm 
Destiny has its good points, but it's gone downhill in the past few years. The community has gotten insufferable too.
■■■■■■■■■■ 7 Jun, 2024 @ 6:58pm 
Deadlink is fucking awesome.
I also think Destiny is fucking awesome, for different reasons.
Vern Carson 7 Jun, 2024 @ 7:37am 
Yep, you're right. I did use that wrong. That's my fault. The words I'm looking for are "convenient ignorance"
frank 7 Jun, 2024 @ 7:35am 
I don't think you know what the word cognitive dissonance means. You're close though!
Vern Carson 7 Jun, 2024 @ 7:33am 
Nice cognitive dissonance. Did you already forget someone else replied to you?