I've played a lot of Destiny since its launch - just under 96 hours' worth, all on one character: a level 31 Hunter.
People who play Destiny have plenty of descriptions for it, none of them particularly flattering: 'the best bad game I've ever played,' 'best 6 out of 10 of the year,' 'a fundamentally flawed game.' I have two words for my own relationship with Destiny: 'Stockholm syndrome.' This year we've decided to run a series of opinion pieces by members of the Polygon staff explaining why certain games earned top marks from them even if they didn't make our staff-wide Game of the Year list.ĭestiny is, without a doubt, one of the games of the year - by which I mean, it is a game that was released in 2014.
Every year, the Polygon staff chooses 10 excellent games to award our Game of the Year honors, but that means some games we love don't quite make the cut.