DESTINY 2: CLASSIC COLLECTION 2025 (STEAM)(DLC)(HL)

I'll be the 3k+ hours kid (lots of hours logged on Battle.net as I preordered) that comes in and say I don't recommend buying this... even though I played the game for 3k+ hours.

"You have 3k+ hours, it can't be a bad game unless you're stupid", I hear everyone ask. And yes, that's true, there were a lot of fun bits and as a whole, I had fun with the game with my clanmates.... but you're a fool if you trust Bungie to ever make the right decision. They have been messing up significantly on every single game that they have ever worked on for a nigh decade at this point with their latest game, Marathon, being delayed and having stolen assets, which is embarrassing. Playing a GaaS requires you to trust the people that are making the game and I don't. You can also see it from the playerbase numbers that people aren't happy with Destiny 2. This new expansion had a lower peak than most of the start of season peak, which doesn't even have that much content.

If you want to go in and play just the campaign and not deal with the GaaS, you know what, sure, can't go wrong with $8.43. The gunplay is fantastic and there are some good campaigns (unless they've been sunset [removed from the game for arbitrary reasons]) in that bundle. There's some fun that can be had, but I can't recommend engaging with the end-game and making anymore purchases. I'm happy to be 3 years clean of this game.

Don't buy, the game died years ago and Bungie is just milking the playerbase.

I got the game bundled with my GPU i think it was, and had fun with the base content. The bundle came with Osiris and Warmind expansion, and that is where i left it.

A year or so later i tried to join again and they absolutely fucked all the progresion system, added bunch of crafting materials that i didn't have because i didn't keep playing and a ton more of microtransactions... I felt so lost when i logged in that inmediatly uninstalled and never even tried to play it.

Had fun with gunplay and missions/history was cool... But that's it.

They can remove the story content at any time just like they did before, so it's not worth a single penny

There's always topics about this game, about people wanting to give it a try or not...

Long story short, stay the f*ck away from this game and bungie. Thank me later.

Reason to stay away: Game can become addictive if you are into shooter looter with super powers (and control of elements) type of game, lore that involves aliens invading your lawn and you have to send them back to orbit somehow. Gameplay can be addictive overall because it is good. Game is predatory in terms of money scheming (they are always trying to squeeze money out of you), studio is predatory towards their community because they do not care about you at all and continue to rub you the wrong way as much as possible, they reuse assets from removed content that you paid for and pay again to see that reused content. They butchered the storylines by removing the first 2 years of story, so good luck getting into the game and understand wtf is going on. HUD can be a clusterF of a mess for new players, good luck figuring out what to do and in what order. PVP is plagued with cheaters or people with thousands of hours that do nothing else for a living (yes, i have thousands of hours and have been there as a "try hard" myself, but this was during the lifespan of destiny 1, stressing over a game is not good for your health. This is why i went more PVE focused with destiny 2.). Monetization hell is a thing in this game.

Yes i bundled both good and bad into a paragraph, game is a mixed bag of good and bad put together. You get this formula of game is just good enough to hook you on, but the more time you spend playing it, the more you will understand how bad it is in reality, but then you are addicted to something that feels good but looks bad and you have no god damn clue what to do to move on.

The rabbit hole goes much deeper than what i describe here.

I've followed the development cycle of destiny, since its alpha/beta on playstation 4. Played the game on a friends ps4 to get a feel of how the game was, i liked it, bought a ps4 with the game, then started buying dlc. As time moved on, i started loosing my interest slowly, untill i reached a point i couldn't take it anymore, along with the people i started the journey with (everyone moved on). I still get ingame from time to time and still see addicts from back in the first year of destiny 1, still playing nonstop, probably with over 100k hours clocked at this point. How do i know this? All it takes is to look at their achievements ingame, some of the stuff requires lots of grind or time in general to achieve. This is something i did with destiny 1, played frequently, 3 characters every weekly reset for way too damn long.

If anyone does ignore this warning and decides to play the game, do keep in mind to not take this game seriously and try to avoid sinking too much time into it. Otherwise you will be caught on the hook and will suffer long term for as long as the game is viable to make money. This is one of those games the person has to have good self control to avoid falling into a predatory/psychological never ending loop of abuse.

Won't lie, I'm tempted just for the sake of (what I assume to be) a fancy AAA campaign that's about the equivalent of going to watch some random popcorn flick, but I'm worried it gets shut down at some point and that since there's constantly new content streaming in that buying this would be silly in the long run unless you immediately plan playing this.

They're going to have to pay me a lot more than that to dirty up my laptop. What's that? listening to ear piece

My apologies, ladies and gentlemen. I've just now been informed that they expect YOU to pay THEM for this "honor".

I'm very confused and bewildered.

All of these comments have already said it better but allow me to +1

Highly addictive and quickly becomes a loot-management chore. Then better loot next week. Did I already say highly addictive?
Shiny, fun, almost-RPG, definitely MMO, hard-to-put-down monstrosity from Hell. Don't do it.

Loved the game when it launched FTP but I'm not paying 1-2 times a year for an "expansion" which is just small story content and access to an area/raid. I can buy tons of good games for the money I would be spending yearly on Destiny to get all "content".

And yes, there's the removed content issue, or the more friendly wording they use "sunsetting".

May as well be a subscription game, because it pretty much already is.

NO. Don't, just don't. It went to shit and it's a daily grind.

damn i wished they did it during summer sales :/

Tempting offer, but I keep remembering that parts of Destiny (1+2) are locked away because Bungie do not give a damn about improving the game's backend to actually include all the game content at once or have a way for players to choose which parts of the game to download. Not even asking for Sony's help.

What does it mean "Legacy Collection"? There are more DLCs in the store asking for much more money, is this collection enough?

Never played Destiny 1 or 2. Would it be worth getting for some casual games with friends?