Gaming Doesn`t Need Destiny As Its Ambassador. Here`s Why…

I’m going to be really bloody mean to Destiny.

Because if somebody doesn’t nip this in the bud, then Bungie and Activision and their ilk and their imitators will think this standard is acceptable. And it is not acceptable.

Um… also, because it’ll be a larf…Destiny was billed as a sweeping Science Fiction spectacular. This is evidenced, not least of all by the sheer multitude of Star Wars references. The Traveller is the Death Star. The Sparrow looks like a speeder-bike and sounds like a pod-racer. The Fallen look like General Grevious. Even the quotation “I have a bad feeling about this…” makes an almost mandatory appearance. Ironic then that in a bid to ape the most beloved Sci-Fi in pop culture’s history, Destiny narrates, characterises and sounds consistently poorer than its universally reviled prequels.