Destiny 2
Shares rank 22 of 24 first-person shooters by recommenders
Recommended for dropping loot-box and FOMO design in year 1 of its life. Critics note the disc no longer plays offline and the game is repetitive.
Recommended for dropping loot-box and FOMO design in year 1 of its life. Critics note the disc no longer plays offline and the game is repetitive.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 7
- approval share
- 42%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Disc no longer plays or works offline
“there never has been and never will be any form of offline function for Destiny 1 or 2”
Comment from 4 Aug 2026 in “Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc” “The Destiny 2 disc does not have a single playable mission on it anymore.”
Comment from 1 Aug 2026 in “Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future” Studio cuts seen as killing the game
“They just gutted bungee and basically killed Destiny 2, not because the game won't sell”
Comment from 6 Jul 2026 in “Resetting Xbox” “they had to cancel the much more popular Destiny 2”
Comment from 25 Jun 2026 in “Apple Is Going to Raise Device Prices – But When?”
Other first-person shooters people recommend
The four most recommended other first-person shooters, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quake | 118 | 29 | 80% | 12 | 28 yrs8 owners | Approved |
| Doom by id Software | 102 | 24 | 81% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 | 51 | 12 | 81% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Quake III Arena | 49 | 3 | 94% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Destiny 2This page | 5 | 7 | 42% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
12 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it's quite engaging to spend an hour or two a week mastering one of those missions at the hardest difficulty”
“its inner loop, the gunplay and abilities, and variety of builds, really works for me”
“the entire game is just running through the same 9 sandboxes and 12 raids over and over and over again”
“Doing a strike and joining right at the end of it, missing the entire story of that strike, was like a mandatory experience for D2.”
“there never has been and never will be any form of offline function for Destiny 1 or 2”
“Destiny 2 year 1 was enjoyable because it pivoted the game away from loot-box gambling and FOMO addiction-driven player hours”
“The Destiny 2 disc does not have a single playable mission on it anymore.”
“they shipped new updates that simply didn't run on Windows 7”
“They had trouble at Destiny2's launch because they tried to skip the first person quality game play”
“They just gutted bungee and basically killed Destiny 2, not because the game won't sell”
“Destiny not working,this is a related but different problem”
“they had to cancel the much more popular Destiny 2”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.