10 Most Disappointing Video Games Of The GENERATION
2. Destiny
Never before has a game so half-baked; so disastrously handled during development and so thoroughly deflating... still gone on to influence an entire wing of the triple-A market.
Yes, we can point to Overwatch as popularising loot boxes in 2016, but it was Destiny's attempt to mesh MMO game design with a set of enjoyable gameplay mechanics, that everybody from Agents of Mayhem to The Avengers totally ran with.
Still, Destiny 1 was such a monumental cockup, you had to convince yourself it was fun to play. The sort of game where the fanbase itself admitted they have an addiction problem, and average playtime across those who stuck around was a whopping 500 hours per person.
Yes, Bungie's immaculate shooting kept us glued to the screen, but because of Activision's "10 year plan" for the IP, at some point Bungie had to abandon stapling this together and move onto Destiny 2.