*** The Official Destiny Thread (now includes 2.0 and TTK) ***

Shamikebab said:
You're just trying to find the negatives. I'm expecting that a lot of the comments from these people who have a playtime of over a hundred hours is there isn't enough content. Which is clearly not true if they've played that much.
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don't mistake repeating content to grind resources as content.

As already suggested, the story missions are nearly always "go to this point, deploy ghost and fend off waves of enemies, move onto the next area" without fail.

Each time its accompanied by some spliced together dialogue from dinklebot that barely explains why you're doing what you're doing.

The game has replay value because it feeds the parts of our brain that finds gambling addictive and enjoyable, which is why they chose for everything to be random. Its no co-incidence there is a lack of content and random loot system.
 
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I'm already getting it because I bought the LE version, but I could see that being a factor in the expansion purchase if I knew others weren't getting it I wouldnt but also as I only now own a PS4 apart from diablo, Final Fantasy there is no other option really. I played Guild Wars n WoW for years, also played Battlefield and Call of Dutys hopefully in time they will be able to turn Destiny into a marriage of the 2 but that is a massive hope. It has the potential to offer what i like about both the MMORPG genre and FPS but i'll admit it has a long way to go but they'd be the first to do it if they did so far.
 
Fr0dders said:
don't mistake repeating content to grind resources as content.

As already suggested, the story are missions are nearly always "go to this point, deploy ghost and fend off waves of enemies, move onto the next area" without fail.

Each time its accompanied by some spliced together dialogue from dinklebot that barely explains why you're doing what you're doing.

The game has replay value because it feeds the parts of our brain that finds gambling addictive and enjoyable, which is why they chose for everything to be random. Its no co-incidence there is a lack of content and random loot system.
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Replaying content is still content. Otherwise Dota only has 1 map, what a crap game right?
 
I doubt I will bother getting any of the expansion packs unless they add a large amount of content at some point. The only reason I have played it as much as I have it for the better armour and weapons and I have plenty and no real urge to play anything to use them on.
 
Shamikebab said:
Replaying content is still content. Otherwise Dota only has 1 map, what a crap game right?
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in which case the comparison should be on the size of that map

and the problem is that the M in the MMO part of this game is rather lacking. To be honest, battlefield feels more massive than this.

You could walk around each of destinys planets in about 15 minutes.
 
i like destiny a lot. the game suits me down to the ground

when i buy a COD/battlefield i only ever play the multiplayer and for that we have the crucible

i never bother with singleplayer on the above mentioned games because you can never coop it. in destiny i can coop everything
 
I've kicked a football around The Tower that was some epic content :P any idea where that ball came from? All sliding and smashing it about until it somehow got stuck for a long time under a wall that no one could get under it was eventually freed on for some titan to kick it over the fence and well that made a lot of us just sit down and think about that titan's actions...
 
Fr0dders said:
in which case the comparison should be on the size of that map

and the problem is that the M in the MMO part of this game is rather lacking. To be honest, battlefield feels more massive than this.

You could walk around each of destinys planets in about 15 minutes.
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i think this is a fair comment. i knew very little about destiny before it was out (deliberately) but i wondered how they were going to allow you to roam around a planet and the answer is they dont! i was definitely disappointed when i realised the maps were quite small
 
For me it depends on how many people I know get it, and I'm hoping CD Keys will have this at a better price. £20 is steep, especially with upcoming releases for other games.

The main thing that annoys the hell out of me, is the recent patch. They changed the "bug" at Atheon where the furthest 3 people got teleported, and replaced it with more RNG....OK I can deal with that, we still ran the VoG in ~1hr last night. But to focus so much on that one "bug" and completely ignore all the other glitches during that boss fight, come on!

Also, why are Chatterwhite and Ascendant Materials even on the final drop table for HM Atheon?!

/rant :P
 
LackyT said:
For me it depends on how many people I know get it, and I'm hoping CD Keys will have this at a better price. £20 is steep, especially with upcoming releases for other games.
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I can't see CD Key making it any cheaper.

The Expansion card you buy is essentially a £20 or £35 gift card, which you redeem and then actually purchase it from PSN / XBL.

Only real way of getting it cheaper is getting the odd 10% off Giftcards, where £50 giftcards are sold for £45 etc.
 
LackyT said:
Also, why are Chatterwhite and Ascendant Materials even on the final drop table for HM Atheon?!

/rant :P
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Because if they weren't you would end up getting nothing, those drops are in addition to having a chance of getting raid gear/exotics, not instead of.
 
Shamikebab said:
Replaying content is still content. Otherwise Dota only has 1 map, what a crap game right?
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If you actually believe that statement it just means you've run out of ideas...

If you'd said they only had 1 champion then you'd have a point.

willems said:
i think this is a fair comment. i knew very little about destiny before it was out (deliberately) but i wondered how they were going to allow you to roam around a planet and the answer is they dont! i was definitely disappointed when i realised the maps were quite small
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Yeah the planets are ****poor in all honesty. I was expecting so much more from the PLANETS we are supposed to be visiting. For all it matters, these 4 'planets' could be different tilesets of Earth. Once you stop paying attention to the skybox there is no difference at all. Why not vary the physics a bit? Give more locations to visit?
 
That's RNG for you.

I think I read you have the chance of getting a Shader, legendary loading screen, the sparrow and materials as one drop and the raid gear/exotics in a 2nd separate drop, but you can get both dropping at the same time it's just a separate chance for both.
 
its a valid point.

when the beta was talked about people had grand ideas about there being an almost eve online like aspect to the game. The first mission alludes to this as well when you need to get a warp drive to enable your ship to fly.

And then its never talked of ever again and is just your loading screen. No doubt something else that ended up getting cut.
 
Captain Planet said:
Can you buy expansion packs on CD, or will they all be digital DLC?
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downloadable

what DLC could you ever buy on disk ? I haven't bought DLC on CD since I bought my Special Forces Expansion Pack for battlefield 2 :p

Alrik said:
That's RNG for you.

I think I read you have the chance of getting a Shader, legendary loading screen, the sparrow and materials as one drop and the raid gear/exotics in a 2nd separate drop, but you can get both dropping at the same time it's just a separate chance for both.
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all of which is guesswork as nothing in destiny is documented and they never put anything like this on record.
 
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