The best PC games of 2018: Destiny 2: Forsaken

For most of 2018, Destiny 2 has been difficult to love. But Forsaken has been a remarkable turnaround, and all the more so for its suddenness. Where Ubisoft’s no-less impressive resurrections of Rainbow Six Siege and For Honor were dogged marathons, Forsaken was a dropped bomb. It addressed almost every one of the community’s grievances and inverted their perception of the game in one blow. So comprehensive was the transformation that some aspects of it have gone almost unnoticed. Take single-use shaders, a miserly change from the original game that dominated the news when they were first discovered on Destiny 2’s launch. They’re still single-use but, as with other gear, Forsaken lets you make infinite duplicates for a tolerable cost once a single copy has dropped for you. It’s almost as flexible as the original’s system, and yet there was so much else to praise in Forsaken that it got lost in the noise. The story is the best and darkest that Destiny has yet told (not a high bar to clear, I know). The remixed weapon slots, sensational new Supers, and exciting new Exotics have players feeling powerful again. The Dreaming City, the Last Wish raid, and long-term grinds for ‘pinnacle’ weapons have added fathoms of depth - or at least activity - to the endgame.