The well-known YouTuber Angry Joe now reviews Bungie’s MMO shooter Destiny and comes to a rather negative conclusion.
Angry Joe, a YouTube entertainer with a short temper, has taken Bungie’s MMO shooter Destiny into account in his latest video review. Angry Joe’s videos are known to be polarizing. They are presented passionately and have a high entertainment value: The speech is repeatedly interrupted by scenes from the game, and pop culture clips are also used.
He has created a character called Cobra Commander, a villain from G.I. Joe, to clearly illustrate and symbolize the “commercial side” of video games. And this character appears several times in the review of Destiny. This is not a good sign. Angry Joe believes that the publisher Activision has pressured the developer Bungie to hold back some great elements of the game now to make a business out of them later as DLC. For him, there is no other explanation for why Destiny, despite the huge budget, feels so empty and unfinished.
Therefore, the biggest criticisms are the story, which in Angry Joe’s eyes seems unfinished, and that there is simply so little to do. Bungie has primarily laid the groundwork with Destiny to sell paid DLCs. In doing so, they have overlooked the enjoyment of the base game. This is a dangerous path that game developers are treading. One must be careful that this does not become the norm.
The unfair drop distribution (which leads to one of the mentioned outbursts of anger) and some repetitive quests disturb Angry Joe’s enjoyment of the game. Peter Dinklage’s lack of enthusiasm as the exposition-provider Ghost also provided reason for complaint.
On the positive side, he highlights the graphics and sound of the game. Moreover, the gunplay is fantastic, and he also enjoys the PvP. He seems to have a hard time letting go of Destiny, just like many others.
By the way, in German and semi-vulgar language, a worth-reading and similarly … “enthusiastically” presented article on Destiny has appeared on gameswelt.
What we have to say about Destiny can be found on our topic page.
