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what's up internet Kevin here now as I've told you guys before I don't get stuff in advance so it's pretty much near impossible to get a full review out for a game on release day or very shortly thereafter but I also know that really soon early content is important to you guys because you want to know what I think on games especially for really big name titles for instance let's say oh well destiny so I'm going to start doing more of these sort of first day impression videos now where I just sort of play the game a little bit and give you guys my thoughts right away on release day but instead on the following day after release I'm gonna let you know all my experiences have been like for my first full 24 hours with the game so that's we're gonna today let's talk about my first day with destiny so first off just to be clear all the gameplay are going to be seeing here and my experience with the game is based on the Xbox one version now before you guys start yelling any kind of console war stuff in the comments just to be clear the reason why I picked Xbox one is because I have more friends that play on that system and of course I want to play a co-op game with my friends that's why I got that particular version of the game so I started up yesterday I create an EXO hunter as my first character i'm planning on trying all the classes at some point down the line blush what I picked first and I played throughout most they really just focusing on the story mode and cooperative aspects of the game I really haven't spent any time on the crucible mode just yet and I ended the night at around level 12 now if you guys haven't looked too in-depth into the games character creation just yet the way it works is you pick one of three races which are purely cosmetic you've got old fashioned humans awakened which are like giant colorful Smurf humans and EXO's which are robots but more importantly you pick one of the game's three classes which are the Titan the warlock or the hunter now as I said earlier I went with the hunter first which is the most agile class it has the highest agility stat which affects movement speed they also had get a double jump or even triple jump ability down the line and their special moves are the most focused on just pure dps so it's kind of the roguish class flavor-wise as opposed to the Titan who's just a walking tank and conventionally even erect barriers or the Warlock that has a mage flavor going on with AOE moves and even a healing power later on so after you've made your character you get thrown into destiny story mode which has you as this long dead person that's been brought back to life as a guardian to help save the universe again darkness and protect humanity and blah blah blah that holy traditional stick lots of terms are going to get thrown at you right away in this game even makes kind of an inside joke right away by saying you're not really going to understand a lot of the things you see you right away the game really takes almost no time introducing a lot of the backstory to it you just kind of get thrown into the action a lot and have to piece together things bit by bit from what little you understand which normally would bother me a little bit in an RPG but this is an FPS game as well so there's a much heavier emphasis on the action so it doesn't bother me quite as much but I still would have liked a little more of a slower introduction to who all the different races are and why we're fighting different enemies and just the backstory to everything aside from just the fact that you're a guardian of light and darkness equals bad so playing through the story is a really straightforward experience when you check out a planet to go to you'll have your choice of either tackling a specific story mission right from the get-go or you can do a sort of free roam option where you just run around on the planet finding extremely simple fetch quests in order to get a little extra experience or find loot one thing I noticed right away is that just doing story quests is not going to provide enough experience for you just go right from one quest to the next you have to take time on occasion grinding some extra XP either by doing those fetch quests I mentioned earlier or by accepting bounties which are a more FPS style quest system things like needing to get a hundred head shot kills or by taking down so many tougher enemies bounties generally end up taking a lot longer to complete than fetch quests but you can just do them in the background as you progress the story or free roam and they give you a lot more experience for your trouble they also come in crucible themed forms so if you want to take time playing the competitive modes a lot then you can still get rewards that way to you can also replay any story mission as many times as you want if you just want to grind experience the old-fashioned way and you can also reach a caliph achill T mode featuring higher level enemies so you still have a little bit of variety going on in terms of how you want to grind up your XP so when destiny was first revealed a lot of people were starting to build buzz for it a lot of people were throwing around the term that it was going to be an MMOFPS hybrid which isn't really that accurate in fact even Bungie one destroyer away from using that word because well it does have certain similar characteristics there's not a lot that you can really directly compare it to for real MMOs likes a world of warcraft or Final Fantasy 14 it ends up having a lot more in common with something like save Borderlands the big difference being that rather than having straight up drop in drop out co-op the game does give you the chance to run into other players on the field and maybe even join up with them on the spot but each instance area normally doesn't have that many players active all at once I've seen that most seven other people in one fairly large region and as soon as you enter any kind of major instanced part for a quest they'll disappear very quickly so it's all still very much a more personal smaller scale co-op focused game that just gives you more ways to encounter and interact with other players but doesn't go to the same full scale as what many people would think of as a traditional MMO so as for how I've been enjoying the game so far I'd be lying if I said I wasn't completely sucked into at the moment but to be fair I do have a habit of doing that with any game that has a leveling system just cuz it gets so hooked I'm trying to reach the next level and a lot more and more abilities to mess with and on that note a similar tangent i wanna talk about real quick is how they integrated experience into weapons basically when you find rarer or magical weapons in the game the way that's handled is that they have their own experience bar so when you use them often over time you unlock a new special abilities and upgrades for them it might be something as simple as more damage for your weapon or passive bonus to reload speed Szohr max ammo or might even be something changeable like what kind of site your gun uses which as I said I like leveling up and that adds just another thing to try out and develop now another thing I'm liking so far is the way they've approached environments each planet just has one large area that you can explore and tackle quests in but they're all appreciably pretty large and each one has offered a very different kind of world so far I've tackled the first three major locations which are the Earth's specifically old Russia the moon and most recently Venus which is just all very yellow so for now at least I'm pretty hooked on the game but of course that doesn't really mean much since it's only been a day I will say that the one thing I'm really curious about is how the endgame will work out for this or if there will even be an end game stuff to do outside of the crucible you know once a character hits max level what is there to help drive you to keep doing cooperative missions or is it just about competitive at that point which I plan to find out by just playing the game a lot more so I'm going to go ahead and get back to work and just keep playing destiny and once I feel satisfied that I've tried out all of its different aspects I'll bring you guys my full review hopefully sometime in the middle of next week now if you guys enjoyed this video and you to see more of these 24 hour first day impression vids go ahead and let me know by thing that thumbs up button or letting me know down in the comments as well also if this is your first time stumbling upon this channel and you like what you see and you don't want to miss that full review next week make sure to hit that subscribe button as well you guys can also follow me on Twitter at Kevin kensun that's a more direct way of contacting me if you want to ask me any questions or if you just want a way to stay up to date on what videos i'm uploading when and where as always guys thank you so much for watching the video i'm kevin kensun and i'll see you guys later