Should ‘Destiny 2’ Be Doing A ‘Star Wars’ Expansion?

While Bungie just announced three additional Destiny 2 expansions spanning two years, and dove deep into the first one, The Edge of Fate, that was not really what anyone was talking about after the showcase.

Rather, that was the “Renegade” reveal, which is a licensed Star Wars Destiny 2 expansion. The story is “inspired” by Star Wars (dealing with a criminal underworld on a sand planet, possibly Mars), but features full-on additions like Han Solo’s blaster and lightsabers to be used in combat, plus armor ornaments that are literally Darth Vader, Kylo Ren and General Grievous, as seen above.

This has split the community, at least to a certain extent. On Twitter I’m seeing maybe a 50/50 ratio of whether people think this is cool or lame. On YouTube, it’s about a 3:1 ratio of positive to negative likes on the video. You can compare that to the Edge of Fate gameplay trailer at roughly 20:1.

Is this good? Bad? Here’s how I see it on a few fronts:

The actual plot will be Destiny canon and will not be some actual universe crossover like the Death Star shows up to blow up Neomuna (though I would not be opposed to that). The synopsis, ignoring all the Star Wars stuff, sounds cool:

“Dive into the criminal underworld and take down an evil empire. Venture into a lawless frontier and reveal deeper mysteries about a new Dredgen in Sol. Build your power, credits, and notoriety.”

That sounds cool? I get how you could craft a neat story based on Star Wars vibes, as I mean, all science fiction is inspired by other fiction to some extent, so here we are.

Buuuut a licensed, full-on Star Wars expansion? The optics are…not great, especially as soon as I saw Titan Darth Vader armor that is just Darth Vader. Not “inspired by,” that guy is Darth Vader. We saw tease of this recently with buyable Stormtrooper armor, which was clearly testing the waters, but now we’re diving headfirst into the pool. I cannot escape the conclusion that it is going to look inescapably stupid to see a Darth Vader in an end-of-activity screen standing there with an auto rifle.

I will say about this armor specifically, you can mix and match pieces and shaders in Destiny to make things less…lame, shall we say. For instance, forget the Vader helmet, that set is the first one to give Titans a cloak, which will be cool by itself. So this isn’t a Fortnite skin.

However, all of this does feel very Fortnite. Literally Fortnite, given that as we speak, Fortnite is doing an entire Star Wars season. As such, Destiny 2 doing an entire Star Wars expansion, “inspired by” or not feels kind of weird given that this is meant to be the kick-off year to this big new era. I don’t love that.

The counter to this is “I love Star Wars, I love Destiny, this rules.” I get that perspective but I’m divided here, as is the community. What do you think?

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