Destiny | The Final Review of this Brilliant Mess of a Game (before the release of Destiny 2) 

Guys, this is the kind of video that doesn't get a lot of likes (40 mins, controversial topic etc) but it's the sort of the content I really enjoy making (long form, scripted, highly edited). If you enjoyed it, I'd really appreciate your hitting the like button on the video- it helps me in a big, big way :) Regardless, I hope you enjoyed the video and got something out of it. Destiny is far from perfect, but there's something in it that keeps me and many others coming back. I wanted to tell that story today- I hope I did the true-believers proud :)

For me, Destiny is like that old friend from high school. Sometimes you'll go ages without seeing each other but when you do finally get together its like you'd never separated. Sometimes you'll have new stories for each other and sometimes you'll just sit there, looking back fondly on times you've spent together in the past. Either way, it's always familiar and always fun :)

I find myself frequently coming back to this video.

"... I can't wait to see where you take us next." Oh Skill, if only you'd known. EDIT: D2 turned out pretty darn good. :)

Excellent! My only 2 complaints about destiny are 1. The amount of money I have dropped on the game 2. There was no Led Zeppelin song for rise of Iron.

Just like Destiny itself, I find myself always returning to this video. Such a nostalgia trip

On point with this review man. Looking forward to d2 with you!

Year 1: The confusing grinding game. Year 2: The game that fixed it story but broke it's pvp system Year 3: Where new guardians can have fun because of all the shit the year 1 and two players went through.

This was so well done, it blew my mind. Possibly the best game review on RU-vid. If you are thinking about playing Destiny, watch this first.

Arrrggghhhh Im working night shifts and just saw this posted as I was getting into bed. First thing, I'll watch it at work. Skillup, crack a beer and kick back mate, fuck knows you earned it.

A 43 minutes long review of Destiny? FINGERTIPS ON THE SURFACE OF MY MIND. Excellent work.

Ok...I've watched your Destiny review a second time and I must say that you give the most complete, professional, and nostalgia generating review I have ever seen on a video game, movie - ANYTHING! The historical recap is absolutely *FANTASTIC* - really well done. Absolutely *BRILLIANT* work, sir! Kudos again to you and everyone who helped you with this!

I'm a day one player. I can't begin to describe the countless memorable experiences I've had with this game. The friendships I've built while struggling though one of the games many raids. The rage I felt as I struggled to keep my team together during a bad Trials run. The excitement that coursed through my veins when I finally got that one piece of gear I had sought after for what seemed like an eternity. It's almost unbelievable to think that I really have sunk just about three years into the frustrating, unfinished masterpiece. I love it.

To those that say Destiny is garbage. I say: It's some of the best garbage out there to last this long.

How did we go from THIS, to Destiny 2. I almost don't want to believe Destiny 2 exists. By the end of D1 the game was perfect in my eyes.

Day 1 Guardians you know, just the fans that believed and supported in this game the most, had to pay an average of $170 to play the "final" game.

Your reviews are the best. I love watching your reviews, my wallet not so much.

Is this what watching a documentary feels like? Or maybe reading a research paper? Either way, you've made a really good video!

Very high production value. PSOe1&2 is still better than launch Destiny; now 3 years later it can compare :P

Finally a site that gave me a full updated review for Destiny. I keep seeing it pop up on sale on the PS Store and I have talked myself out of buying the collection every time, because all of the reviews are so negative. I want to try it and think I would like it even if I prefer to play alone. So thank you for doing a updated review, I think I will give it a shot.

Unfortunately although the game has been massively improved but it doesn't change the fact that it's taken 3 years and for me personally, £120 pounds to get a complete game I won't deny I enjoy the game but people should not be required to buy DLC to make a game competent, DLC should be an optional enhancement to the game, not a requirement. I actually really like this review as it acknowledges the flaws of the game even now but I my should of been great to begin with

You definitely captured the essence of Destiny in your review. It cultivated friendships, provided challenges and obstacles to overcome in addition to endless gameplay. Well said Guardian!

I've had Destiny sitting on my shelf for over a year now. Guess I'm gonna dust it off and Play. Thanks SkillUp!

No one did a "complete" review because thats not how it was sold.

Destiny is all I play anymore. Bungie really have hit the sweet spot with this game. As you said Skill Up, it took a while, but they got there. Anyone interested in Destiny now owe it to themselves to watch this review. Well done!

If only we had appreciated how good we had it back then. Now... Destiny 1 content sold back to us with every expansion. Constantly reskinned enemies and gear. Eververse. No more Trials or Factions Broken quests Even more progression grind Still no dedicated servers for pvp Emphasis on attracting new players at the expense of Legacy players This franchise had so much potential and Bungie blew it. Not Activision. Bungie.

This is certainly not my favorite game....skyrim and oblivion hold that title But this review perfectly sums up why I still play destiny and is a MUST WATCH for any person considering to buy

This is just... awesome. Not gonna lie, I even cried a little bit. Outstanding work Guardian.

"Mom I got the horn" "that's great son, now use it to make me some grandchildren"

Brilliant ! Keep up the Good Work Bro ! Cheers ! 1500 Hrs And Counting \m/

Perfectly written and Cut Review of a fantastic Game! Well done sir.

This right here is a review, you earned a sub!

It's 5am and I just bought destiny on PS4 because of this, hope it's good!

from a year one player to another i will say thank you for this review. All you ever see is negative reviews of this game in 2014. so when i saw this i was hesitant to click, but we share about 90% of all points of this video. I love this game for a simple reason, it was my first game that i broke 100 hours in. This game helped me forget my stress, depression, and just upright felling useless. Though i gained a game i love, i gained a game i hate to love. Thank you for a review that talked good about the game. You sir gained a sub.

Seeing the difference of the destiny subreddit form 3 years ago to today saddens me immensely. Every other post is “I’m quitting the game”. I miss when I could honestly say that I was confident about the future of destiny.

finally someone from the community that gets it! love your reviews. well polished and edited.

Absolutely brilliant review...captured everything I've felt being a year 1 player...

And then Destiny 2 released and Bungie shat the bed... again. And now they're fixing through their DLC's... again. I'm sensing a pattern. Can't wait for Shadowkeep xD

This video is spot on, great job Skill up, arguably the best single piece of content I've ever had the pleasure of watching on RU-vid.

These Reviews Should Become Netflix Documentaries ! Great Video Bro ! Another Hit In The Collection.

"Before CoD... there was Halo" Hail to the king, baby.

thanks for all the hard work and love that went into this video it's a Masterpiece!

The nostalgia factor on this video is insane, great work guardian.

The music made the game for me.

I really didn't think that Destiny 1 was going to be so hard to top. Apparently it was. I got off the Destiny 2 treadmill a long time ago.

Can I just say, that jump that was your favorite moment, was made so much more beautiful with the caption above your light bar saying "Guardians make their own fate" Gold.

you really cant describe the feeling you get playing destiny 1

This video pretty much sums up my feelings on Destiny perfectly. The sense of community, camaraderie and satisfaction this game has given me over the last three years is unlike anything I've ever played. Sure, it's had its rough times, but it's like that good friend that no matter how long you're separated from, you pick up right where you left off like no time passed at all. Excellent video.

This is nostalgia at it’s finest! Love this game! 🥃🖤🎮🖤🥃

Destiny 1 was at it's best early on somewhere around the house of wolves DLC. At this time it didn't have the content still but it was the best designed version of itself. The light levels change, the infusions, the new currency, eververse, constant nerfs to boss health, permanent addition of burn modifiers, removal of all the difficulty settings from everything, and continued ever easing of access to powerful loot were not positive changes. Taken King may have given Destiny 1 what it needed the best and biggest chunk of gameplay content added to the game. It also started all the systems that would destroy the game for years to come. After the initial loot changes the game needed content lots of lots of content to make up for the absolutely empty base game... it didn't need a complete revamp setting up the systems for D2.

Great review, well composed and great points covered. Can't wait for Destiny 2 and all the improvements I am sure bungie will make.

This is the most accurate and fair Destiny review I've seen. Great job, man.

This whole franchise has been such a fucking rollercoaster of emotions... But I'm still on... and I'm never getting off.

0/10 didn't even give it a number wow is this your first review?

I've played this game since vanilla and actually even the beta before that and continue to play it today.. All I can say is that I had no idea how much I needed this video until you put it out there. Thank you skillup and great work.

I find MANY points in this video that directly tie to the vast criticisms of Destiny 2. I believe that I am not blinded by nostalgia in this sense, but damn if I don’t miss Destiny 1. The mystery and chase aren’t the same.

Mate, that was something else.... you've gone next level my friend :)

Despite my hatred of this game, I can't deny the proof you've shown here. But the fact remains that we got ripped off on release and were sold parts of the game that should have been in from the start and I just don't know how to forgive that kind of grime.

pure poetry! I discovered you thru the Division in my post apocalyptic (after Destiny or my break until ROI) world, but I had no idea you were all about Destiny. This video was truly amazing and so on point. I never comment, but could not resist.

Now thats a video that deserves a like!

Good retrospective of the game's development over time but I have to say it's difficult to see it as being as influential of a game as you do when borderlands and warframe exist and neither were mentioned in your video. The idea of combining loot grinding and class based shooter mechanics had been done before.

As someone who jumped into Destiny with D2: New Light, I wish so deeply that they'd port The D1 Collection to PC.

I played the Alpha, and Beta. When I got the full copy of the game. I absolutely hated it. I quit and traded the game 2 times before I picked it up for the 3rd time (because of my friends and brothers relentless badgering) and found what has turned out to be the game that has absolutely ruled the last 2 years of my gaming life. Seriously other than Overwatch, it's the only game I play. Because of this game, I have two best friends that live in opposite directions of the country, and some of the best memories I have with any game. Thank you Bungie, and great review my friend. "Eyes up Guardian"

Amazing video man, SOMEONE GIVE THIS MAN A COOKIE!

thankyou for speaking the opinion of the community as a whole. I am truly thankful for this. you forgot to mention the sound track though haha.

In your video the people behind Destiny explained that some of their decisions were based on the type of community and environment they wanted to create within Destiny. They let go of certain good game play opportunities because they didn't want to compromise on their vision: "if you see a guardian your instant reaction is: hey there is someone I can help!". The Division took 100% the opposite approach and based its core game play on player grief creating a toxic environment where everybody is against everybody else. This is why I will never buy another game made by Massive and I will never buy another game that the following directors and designers have been involved in: Magnus Jansén, Julian Gerighty, Ryan Barnard, Matthias Karlson. If you support this studio and/or these people who are supporting making money out of people's grief as a viable business model.

Still one of the best reviews on this platform

memories, played so much pso on the dreamcast, i remember having to wait all day to play it because my mom wouldn't let me tie up the phone lines before 7pm lol

I'm gonna show this to my friend who I've been trying to convince to get into Destiny since TDB. He's been going along with the people who still blindly shit on the game... If he doesn't buy the game or at least agree to buy Destiny 2, I'll fucking punch him :) Thing is, he's 1.90 and I'm 1.75, so if he punches back... That's how confident I am of your video's quality.

Excellent review, quality content as usual good sir. I look forward to venturing into Destiny 2 with you!

I got my gjallarhorn during the third month of Destiny One release. I killed a random drag in the cosmodrome and he dropped the legendary engram. after I decrypted it it was the Exotic the gjallarhorn

one of the most respectable reviews I have seen on RU-vid

It kind of annoys me that well thought out and expertly crafted long reviews like this are such a niche thing. Maybe more so to me because every time I see this happen it justifies the word count / time limits enforced by educational institutes that I hate so much. Anyway amazing review as always keep up the good work :)

personally for me, I have 400ish hours in D1 and 600ish hours in D2, but there's this weird supergood feeling I get when I play D1 that I can't shake. It's just more fun. I feel so bad that I forced myself to play D2, just because it had a much higher player population. It was hard to find matches in D1 crucible, for instance. But when I do play D1, everything is just amazing, even when I have almost all of the loot I could want. There's so much to chase in D2 but I don't want any of it anymore; I realized one night that I was just chasing bounties and deleted the game. D1 though, I feel like I'm playing just to play - it's hard to explain

Congrats, you have made a long a** video that I actually took the time to not just listen to what you had to say but made me really consider picking up this game. I am not a fan of fps, but I have been trying to get used to the whole action funess that I am missing out on. I think that I will start playing this game indeed, kudos to you sir.

Played since the pre-alpha (before beta). It's amazing how much this game has evolved. My favorite part was every week being swordbearer in crotas end. I did that and the vault 5 times a week. Also when I got a fatebringer rolled handcannon in year 3 before age of triumph. Somehow beating the #33 player in the world on my 9th game in trials and getting stomped by kjhovey and aorimoon (the #2 player in the world at the time). I remember going on my ps vita from my room using remote play every Friday at 4am to see xur, getting the necrochasm on the vita secretly when I was grounded, farming materials, spending over 30 hours in a week to get a god rolled imago. Farming a god rolled grasp of Malok which was overpowered for over a year before it got nerfed. Finding the best weapons regardless of what youtubers say like the weylorans March which has the highest aim assist and can still two shot body shot. This game gave me over 1200 hours of entertainment.

Wish d2 was more like this, d2 is so fucking boring

MOOOOM MOM, I GOT THE GJALLARHORN

I was "yeah this is fine" *hears Gwyn's piano notes* "ok come on you just had to make me cry !"

Destiny 2 turned out to be shit in the same way (and in some aspects even worse). So it comes to show they do this shit on purpose to make more money.

5:57 Hearing this, it's no suprise that he eventually took a liking to Warframe.

Fantastic review, you got the good and bad spot on. I think in the distant future year 1 players will look back and say I was there, yes I was there when the destiny adventure started " I am legend". Can't wait for number 2.

It should be more common to make launch reviews and then final update reviews.

I love this review. It resonates with me! You expressed my own heartfelt sentiments while I played this game the last 3 years. Thank you.

You earned a subscriber. One of many. But thank you. I enjoy your content.

So im very late to the game. Started playing destiny 2 because it and all the expansions are on gamepass. Absolutely loving the game ashamed I'm so late because apparently I'm missed out on some content. Well point of my comment I was thinking of grinding through destiny 2 current content Go back and play 1 and catch up on all the lore, I hear the taken king is really good. Is destiny 1 in a state that's worth going back to and playing through its campaigns? Do the strikes or is the community dead? But either way dam, a game that continues to evolve, has the next few years planned out and soon to be cross platform. I am all in on this franchise

The story was poorly executed but the lore is some of my favorite in gaming

I wish all my friends who ditched this game back in early year 2 would watch this and decide to start playing again. So glad I stuck it out as a year 1 guardian. I've never invested as much time and energy into a game as I have Destiny. I'm sure D2 will have the same effect on me.

Still patiently waiting for the day Destiny 1 with all DLC gets a PC release. A man can dream lol

One difference though, Dark Souls lore was inside Dark Souls, not on a website where you had to put the game down to get to. Although they did increase the story for dlc, they were often short and the conclusion left behind raids. The loot system is still a broken mess, just less broken. Still a grindfest, just a slight bit more guaranteed end tier stuff but thats only because you need more purple to level up stuff you actually want to keep. The ground collectibles from year one are about moot for a few places, the easiest to see/farm getting the shortest stick ie becoming almost completely pointless you question why they are still there. The simplest and most guaranteed loot comes from factions. Arena, your chosen faction, and the guardian faction. Two of which you can level up doing the repeatable benign missions in free roam at a slow drip, or you could trade in collectables (the ones the devs chose based on how hard it is to farm good luck finding orange items in a field of orange) or ammo to speed it up which requires money that also takes farming to get enough for one ammo pack. To say that any of this is good is an overstatement. Its better than it was, not good. 18 minutes in it still feels like brown nosing than a real review, but I'd probably be on the other side if I had people to play with to mitigate the shortcomings to minor issues than glaring ones.

This is the best review of destiny i have ever seen

When Ghaul says I have become legend I’ve never cringed so hard in my life

FLAWLESS REVIEW!!! BRAVO!!!

I’ve been through it all with this game, I can’t say I was pleased with its initial release but I can say one thing. The connections, memories, friendships, and accomplishments I’ve made are unforgettable and so I must recognize this game for what it’s done. Yes, upon an initial view of the package we all received wasn’t the best, but that wasn’t what made it special. Think of all those times you’ve had with fellow guardians. Pushing Atheon off the ledge, attempting to solo Crota, attempting to go 9-0, getting up filled with excitement to see what Xur was selling, getting your first legendary/exotic and defending it even if it was garbage, screaming empowered right/left because your so filled with adrenaline and excitement because maybe, just maybe you guys will get the chance to finally complete Wrath of the machine this time, etc. I understand everyone’s experience with this game was different and unique, but I think most of the player base can connect with what I’m trying to say. Thank you, Per Audacia Ad Astra. See you star side.

gameplay in destiny is perfect but in the vanilla game it is harmfully underutilized with the rinse and repeat formula of the main quest. honestly the sneaking mission in the taken king was brilliant where i had to steal a piece of crota it changed up the gameplay and felt like a breath of fresh air. the variety in combat in a game like destiny is important. problem is in the base game that unique experience is mostly restricted to the raids and some of the strikes, i've yet to complete the vault of glass with a competent team but the accelerating feel of being on lifes edge completing tasks to get into the vault was ridiculously addicting to me. Personally i think they have played it too safe with the classes hence why people refuse to call this an RPG of any kind because there isn't really any role playing elements like there is in a fallout game due to the choices you can make or like borderlands due to how different the classes work in that game. the titan, warlock and hunter all work and feel the same as do the exo, human and awoken which makes them nothing more than aesthetics separated by a different jump and super. the striker could of been a CQC specialist who gained buffs to shotguns, hand cannons and sidearms who dependent on his movement speed from walk to sprint would have a different value of damage resistance whilst fighting, hunters could of got buffs to snipers hand cannons and scout rifles, warlock classes could buff and debuff enemies for teammates which would help during raids and strikes. the exo, human and awoken could have different stats to change gameplay such as exo's having high damage resistance to kinetic damage or awoken taking a percentage less damage from vex and hive. aside from the aesthetic of picking a character all you are in game is the guardian who destroyed the darkness and that really isn't roleplaying the only subclass that gives me that roleplay feel is the defender if i'm honest. it's an MMO but no way in hell is it an RPG otherwise call of duty is an RPG. Also the final review thing is a bit of a cop out to devalue the reviews on the original game because although it eventually became a good game it's not how it was released at launch and over the next few years people spent copious amounts of money on DLC's which made the games total price $140. nowadays you can pick up a copy with all dlc's from £4 to £12 but as an active consumer i'd be furious if i was scammed the way i was for vanilla destiny. destiny should be a masterclass example of how not to release a game as a complete package.

"I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain." Best quote in video game history.

Thank you for actually judging this this game the angry joe shows review is awful they out no time into leveling up grinding the ecstatic feeling of completing a raid with your best friends and randoms after 8 hours of shenanigans was truly unmatched by any other game truly you gave a wonderful reveiw well done and thank you for making this "you are the light against the darkness"

I came back to this video after all the craziness of recent news and the release of The Final Shape. It's interesting to see how far it's come and I look forward to hearing what you have to say now about it!

Watching this after experiencing what a mess D2 is, is truly depressing :/

This was an awesome review.