So I mentioned in this post that I wasn't going to be getting Destiny 2 because I disagreed with its business model but while I was out getting food today I got to thinking about the other reasons it just doesn't appeal to me, outside of it being an FPS that is (FPS as a genre is one of the ones I find to be the most boring and generally any game in that genre has an immediate black mark against its name so the fact that I think Overwatch, Destiny 1 and Timesplitters (I want to say 2, might have been 3 although I liked the series as a whole) are great means they are fucking excellent) is that it doesn't DO all the much different to what Destiny 1 did which then led to me comparing it to Guild wars 2 (not as games, just as sequels.)

The way I see it a sequel has to walk a fine line between changing stuff to keep it feeling fresh, and maybe bring in new fans, but keeping just enough the same so as not to alienate the previous games fans and I feel that both Destiny 2 and Guild Wars 2 failed in doing these things but failed in two completely different ways; Guild Wars 2 changed too much about what made people love the first game (didn't help that they literally could not escalate the story any further after nightfall considering in that expansion you killed a fucking GOD) they turned a game that was never meant to be a WoW killer into a WoW killer and they fell into the trap that every "WoW killer" MMO has fallen into before; they made it TOO MUCH like WoW meaning they lost many of the fans of GW1 who liked it for NOT being a WoW killer and didn't really bring in many WoW fans because those fans already had WoW, now I know GW2 still has a good amount of players but I still see it as a failure. Where does Destiny 2 fit in this you may ask? Well Destiny 2 is on the other side of that spectrum, sure its made tweeks to aspects of the game (the single use microtransaction bait shaders being a major one) but it hasn't done ENOUGH to warrant asking you to pay £80+ for it, it is just Destiny 1.5 a cabal related expansion if you will.

So yeah that's my take on those two sequels and why they failed (without ranting and raving about all of GW2's other failures as well I may add, which is weird) and if I'm honest I haven't ever played a sequel that 100% gets that fine line correct (and yes I know I haven't technically played Destiny 2, but I did play the beta and my mate has banged on about it enough for me to make a judgement on it imho.)