The Tower is lost and the Traveller compromised, taking the Light from the Guardians, including yourself. You are pitted against the Red Legion, a group of Cabal led by Ghaul whose quest for the Light drives this invasion of Earth. Even the most ardent Destiny fan would admit that starting out Destiny got off on the wrong foot with the story.ĭestiny 2, while not perfect, does tell a compelling narrative once you get into it. One of the major reasons besides the frame rate and controller that made me stop playing the original Destiny was down to story. The saving grace for Destiny 2 is that the story it does tell has more of a semblance of structure versus the original bits I played leading up to The Taken King. The problem is that even reading articles beforehand and watching videos attempting to explain the story, it’s still a moment of massive disconnect for a platform that is coming into the Destiny universe halfway through.
I’m most likely not the only one in that same boat – struggling to wonder why we should be engaged in the opening moments with something that likely had a profound effect on players who spent hundreds of hours socializing in the Tower on console. If I had fully played Destiny 1 their individual plights during the opening sequences – their pain, their struggle, their defiance likely would have had a more profound effect on me.
As someone who played Destiny 1 on Xbox One, but could not get past the inaccurate feeling controls and 30 frames-per-second lock on a game that clearly belongs at higher frame rates, I found myself wondering why I should care about Ikora Rey, Cayde-6 and Zavala – the three Vanguard who help the players along their journey. That’s the largest issue for me personally. Unless you played the original on a console you don’t really know what’s fully going on in Destiny 2 at the outset, other than the Tower and the giant floating orb known as The Traveller are in trouble. The first Destiny was not a pillar of storytelling – Bungie going so far as to blame its terrible writing on Peter Dinklage’s delivery and replaced him with Nolan North – and that works to the detriment of Destiny 2 on PC.
The major problem plaguing Destiny 2 on PC is the very simple fact that Destiny 2 is the first entry on the PC platform. On the other hand, it’ has all the trappings of what Destiny 2 does poorly: storytelling and worldbuilding in a cohesive package. On one hand, it’s a masterclass in PC port quality.