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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
How can you call it personal when the critics are pretty universal with their complaints of the game?  |
Of course the reviews are personal, they are a reflection of the personal experience and expectations of the reviewers. Listening to a lot of the recent IGN/Joystiq/etc podcasts, people seemed to have had this hyped up expectation built up in their heads (even though there was an alpha and a beta).
I've barely had time to even open the shrink wrap myself but as an outside observer, it's almost the opposite of Titanfall (ie. high critical review scores but people try it out for a week or two and the player base is essentially done and gone after a month or two). Destiny appears from the outside as something fun and engaging and the player base (so far) doesn't seem to care that the critical review scores aren't sky high, they're too busy playing the game to worry about it.
Again, what I find interesting is for all the complaints from the various reviewers, they're all still talking about it and still playing it. As you mention IGN, their recent Podcast Beyond #360 talks a bit about the hype, how it didn't necessarily live up to it but it doesn't really matter, they're still playing, enjoying it, and looking forward to continued support for it. They mention Brad from Giantbomb summing it up pretty well:
https://twitter.com/bradshoemaker/st...36928671617025
Starting to feel like I'm on the high end of public opinion on Destiny? I don't think it's perfect, but it's all I want to play right now.
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Sometimes you just have to accept that what you like isn't considered as great as you think it is.
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Not really worried about it being "considered great or not". It sounds like a lot of people are enjoying it and I look forward to giving it a spin as well.