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Destiny: The Taken King
Destiny: The Taken King - Legendary Edition is perfect for new and existing Guardians that are ready to jump into the Destiny universe or continue to carve their legend in the stars. The Legendary Edition features the complete Destiny experience including The Taken King, the next evolution in the Destiny universe, Destiny, Expansion I: The Dark Bel...
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Destiny: The Taken King Reviews
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Hello. My name is Esat, and I’m a Destiny addict. I’d rather not share my total play time stats in an effort to preserve my dignity, but let’s just say I’ve more than dabbled in Bungie’s FPS/RPG hybrid since day one.
Destiny might be one of the most polarizing games of the 21st century. The original product and its follow-up expansions (The Dark Below and House of Wolves) established a base of players who love the game, but naysayers were quick to point out Destiny’s many shortcomings. A lack of mission variety, a nonsensical story, a clumsy quest interface, confusing leveling, and a misleading loot system are just a few of the complaints Destiny faced during its first year.
The Taken King and the patch that it brought with it have been a grand revisionist move by Bungie. Very few parts of how the game works haven’t been touched, tweaked and altered in some way to improve upon the flawed aspects of the game’s original release. With a fun new story, plenty of content that runs alongside it and an outstanding new raid, it’s a good time to be playing Destiny.
The Taken King is the third DLC package released for 2014’s Destiny, a shared world FPS MMO with a lot to prove after its successful but controversial first
Destiny has not been without its critics. From the day the game first launched many people have voiced their opinion as they have either hated it or really loved it. There have been two expansion packs since the game launched in September 2014 and, as with the original core game, there have been critics and lovers of this content. Well, it’s been a year since Destiny was released and Bungie has dropped its’ biggest content update yet, and that content is of course The Taken King. We visited Bungie almost a month ago for an in-depth early look, and we’ve also played the DLC for a couple of week...
The Taken King shows off Destiny's full potential. This is a must have.
Destiny: The Taken King may not have made this Bungie's best series yet but it's certainly changed it for the better while offering tons of new, fun things to shoot.
Despite these issues The Taken King is a massive improvement from what Destiny once was. It delivers the game that was promised and more, reinvigorating the franchise from a mediocre shooter to outstanding space odyssey. It’s still a shame that the matchmaking system remains limited, perhaps this will be solved in a coming patch. Despite this once you start The Taken King it’ll be hard to stop playing.
So what are we left with? The Taken King is still my favorite game to hate. God, how I hate it sometimes. In its current state if you have never played Destiny before it is more than worth the £45 investment to pick everything up and jump right in. For those who have been with it since day one and already paid that £45? Well… do you still play? If not, then what’s here probably hasn’t changed enough to make it worth the full price of admission again. It’s still Destiny. The first 10-15 hours of initial discovery are still its best but once it settles in to the loot treadmill and cranks on the ...
This is very close to the same competent but flawed shooter you played last year. Brand new players should probably jump on this opportunity to try the game out with the “Legendary Edition,” which provides the base game, both DLCs, and the Taken King expansion, but anyone who hated Year One will only find the improvements to be incremental at best. Slowly but surely, Bungie is morphing this chimera of a game into something more presentable.
Destiny's myriad problems at launch were exacerbated by its promise: The game was that much more disappointing because Bungie's execution failed to follow through on the potential of the studio's purported dream project. Bungie took some moderate steps forward in The Dark Below and House of Wolves, but The Taken King feels like the first effort to make good on the hope that Destiny players have been holding onto for the past year and change. The Taken King finally makes Destiny not just fun, but great.