Destiny: The Taken King Reviews
The Taken King shows off Destiny's full potential. This is a must have.
An essential update and a sensible improvement
Refined and balanced, a better offering than before
Destiny: The Taken King is a testament to game-as-service that feels richer, less random, and more fun than the game Destiny started out as. It's telling that the base game is being phased out in favour of a "complete" package: this is much closer to what Destiny should have been from the beginning.
The Taken King is an important step forward as a franchise and more often than not feels like the Destiny we should have gotten last year. Bungie is finally adding meat to a game that was mostly bones. Year 2 is off to good start with a story that matters, improved loot drops and leveling system. At the end of the day, Destiny: The Taken King has become an easier adventure to revisit and an even easier recommendation for new players. Now, who wants to raid?
Bungie decides the best way to fix Destiny is by changing less than you might expect
At some point, it dawns on me that my new friends-in-loot and I have become the sad souls playing the dollar slots in Vegas at 2 a.m.—sitting alone with watered-down drinks in hand, blank faces peering into a screen, moving only to insert another token and pull the lever. But so what. They can't stop, and I can't stop, and none of us can stop and oh god, will I hit it big tonight?
Destiny: The Taken King makes the Destiny universe worth exploring and finally makes it a fun experience. The endless grinding and vague, confusing storylines are gone. Now we have a clear, understandable and enjoyable storyline with a streamlined levelling-up system.
The Taken King is a much welcome expansion that fleshes out Destiny's lore while streamlining some of its more cumbersome aspects. Matchmaking continues to be an issue, especially for folks who don't have plenty of friends online. On the plus side, the changes with The Taken King helps make things right after the initial release and gives hope that Bungie just might be able to truly realize this game's destiny after all.
The Taken King easily eclipses both previous Destiny expansions in quantity and quality of content, and goes a long way towards making Destiny the game what so many of us have wanted.
Bungie has finally delivered something akin to promises it has made in the past. Destiny is still not the open-world exploration adventure everyone thought it was going to be, but it is carving its own path in the videogame world, and it's getting better and more fun with every step.
A lot of fuss was made when the price point of The Taken King was announced and despite a vibrant community, the vanilla Destiny was originally rife with issues and needed many improvements. But now Bungie has fixed most of those issues and as a result, Destiny: The Taken King is one of the most fun, fulfilling and social shooters you'll play this year and next.
Whether you're an ardent fan who has logged into Destiny every week since launch, or someone who set down the controller the moment the credits rolled at launch last September, everything has been tweaked and changed for the better for everyone. And if you've yet to sample Destiny's brand of compulsive sci-fi shooting, with a year's worth of modes, missions and updates also behind it, there's no better time to jump in.
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.
The Taken King is a sophisticated return to Destiny that makes it the best its ever been.
It doesn't fix everything that was wrong with Destiny, but The Taken King does enough in all the right places to make it a highly enjoyable FPS experience overall. A renewed focus on narrative and a streamlined progression system helps to push Destiny in the direction it should have been heading all along.
Refines and improves the things that made Destiny great while fixing things we didn't realize were broken.
Destiny's biggest expansion to date makes the game a whole lot more enjoyable and easier to recommend.
Much of the late game still feels like a needlessly punishing grind as it embraces artificial difficulty before fun
Destiny finally feels like the big deal that Bungie wanted us to think it was last year.