There is nothing wrong with the unique content in the game at all.
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Glitch in Destiny reveals DLC details and content is partially on Disc
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There is nothing wrong with the unique content in the game at all.
Discotheque
Banned
jakonovski
Member
If Destiny is an MMO, it's one of the smallest ones ever made.
MurkyZebra2417
Member
Yes I can.
Story + Strikes - 12 hours
Weekly challenges - ~ 2 hours every week
Raid - 6-10 hours for the first time
That is ~24 hours of "Co-Op" Content in a shooter. Not counting the PvP.
ProvenDeadly
Member
Souldestroyer Reborn
Banned
Probably, but the difference being, they held their hands up and said shit guys we need more time, this isn't what we want it to be yet the went back to the drawing board for around a year or more.
My point still stands, I'd rather have delays to receive a fully fleshed out game, than a rushed game to meet it's release date with loads of cut content in comparison to what was shown as 'Destiny' at the reveals and not 'Destiny DLC 1 aka cut content'.
DLC Which was shown in game 2013.....
Why?
WickedLaharl
Member
『Inaba Resident』;132050960 said:
Defending dinklebot and bullet sponge bosses is pretty much a guarantee.
Maybe they will spice it up and we can defend dinklebot while ON THE MOVE!
But after 2 years, how many raids were in WoW, beginning from vanilla?
MurkyZebra2417
Member
Like in EVERY MMO there ever was. I did the same instances in Vanilla WoW over and over and over for months until I was geared for the first Raid.
Yup. 50 more missions of fending off waves of generic enemies while robo-Dinklage scans the area would not have kept me from trading the game in.
The game shipped with an adequate amount of "content" (I hate that nebulous term), but what was there just wasn't good enough.
It's not a MMO.
Maintenance
Member
Same, I almost even bought a whole new console just for it.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
A white sphere.
Nop, you are just a Grey Guardian capable of using the Force against the convenant. Because reasons...
The Traveler but Evil...
lol, The Traveler...
Robots made by the no-moon to make zombies from the dead...
LookAtMeGo
Member
The mission structure is very repetetive but the level design and different enemy types make each encounter feel different IMO. The fact that the gameplay mechanics are so good and that you spend most of your time using it is what keeps people hooked.
Completely agreed, but I think the OT isn't an echo chamber at ALL. I mean, the latest thread title is based on a huge fundamental problem with the game, and every page you can find complaints about the loot stream and the cryptarch. This is another part of the backlash I don't understand, how narratives are pushed so far when there's never been a game I've seen with so much agreement between people who like it and who hate it about what it does good and what it does bad. One side can accept people might enjoy it for what it does well, the other side can not, however.
If you don't even bother to read what I'm criticizing, and then reply with this that affirms you don't even care for discussing the content of what I am criticizing, I'm not going to bother arguing.
MurkyZebra2417
Member
Okay, then I bought a Shooter with 24+ hours of "Story" content and PvP. Good value.
Seriously, it is like you people never bought a game in the last 10 years.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Did they? How do you know it's already completed?
It's an implication that anyone who likes Destiny must be an irrational zealot because Real and True Gamers have rejected it or something like that.
SneakyStephan
Banned
No but it is true way too often
the concept of dlc opens up a path to abuse and plenty of publishers and developers are more than willing to take it (and are taking it)
MurkyZebra2417
Member
What are you even getting at? Destiny was released 3 weeks ago and the first two DLCs, that probably arrive in the next 5 monhts, add 2 new Raids. More than WoW had in a similar timeframe.
Lol not surprising its like they stripped the story out, turned it into dlc, then took what was left and stretched out by filling it with killing enemy (getting drops) and/or standing in a spot missions. Everyone knows it, it reflected in the reviews. Whoever decided to strip the story out condemned this game to have mediocre reviews and meh word of mouth. IMO they lost more in sales then they are going to make in the dlc.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Yeah, but not that different specially when you go there even in the patrol missions...
What's completed? I never said anything is completed.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
The Gamergate thread is in the other way...
What. No lol.
Assault on the Control Room has more unique encounters than all the Destiny strikes combined.
AHA-Lambda
Member
1) A macguffin that looks cool on promo art.
2a) Because The Evil -- I mean The Darkness
2b) Not a clue.
3) The Evil
4) A macguffin that looks cool in cutscenes.
5) Phoned in voice actors.
ProvenDeadly
Member
These are the same people comparing the missions to Uncharted, size and scale to Skyrim, and saying they have not completed the story after 40 hours.
I'm going to correct your last statement to "Phoned in voice actor".
A world of Dinklage Ghosts for each and every one of the millions of Guardians.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
If you think those two DLC packs are coming out in five months, you're going to be disappointed.
Yeah, wtf am i going to do with a bunch of level 10 missions? Who are they even going to be made for at that point?
ultratruman
Banned
The argument can be made that cosmetic stuff like multiplayer costumes models can be on the disc in the interest of online synchronisation, but locking actual gameplay in a game sorely in need of more is inexcusable.
My interest in this game has hit rock bottom.
My interest in this game has hit rock bottom.
stump sock
Member
I would literally pay for DLC that replaces Dinklage's VO.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
To be fair, I don't know how you can save some of the lines of the game:
"Be careful! Its power is Dark."
Storm Raider
Banned
Absolutely pathetic.
Wish the core game wasn't so addictingly good.
Wish the core game wasn't so addictingly good.
It is completely possible to not finish the story for a long time. You can get to max level and start doing end game stuff without doing any of the last missions.
Jacksinthe
Banned
The game in a nutshell:
Go here, press square.
Fight waves of enemies.
Go here, press square.
Fight waves of enemies.
Go here, press square.
Fight a boss who is more or less a stationary turret since there's never any room for actual, honest to goodness mechanics. During said turret/bullet sponge fight, waves of enemies will spawn as a "fight mechanic" to aid in ammo replenishment since the boss is a bullet sponge since there is no engaging boss mechanic in the current game that feels like gameplay.
8+ more hours, huh? Huh.
You know, maybe if there was some compelling gameplay coupled with a story that was just as compelling... Maybe if every enemy did not use the same AI routines (OK, fine, some run at you, to be fair) and maybe if every box fight wasn't: sponge, weak spot, enemies, sponge, weak spot, enemies... Maybe, just maybe we can get more excited.
Just my .02. Nobody is "braindead", as you suggest, some people just want diversity of content and not the same drivel mission after mission. The structure is god awful in Destiny. Piss fucking poor and its a damn shame.
Personally I've put in 33 hours and I'm just at the point of "why do I keep doing the same shit over and over?" I'm disappointed with the base content solely by what Bungie was propping it up to be. Having chopped content behind a pay wall is not a way to get me to come back to the game. Their "free" content (Tthe Queens bounties stuff) is a joke.
MurkyZebra2417
Member
Yeah, these "people". Get off your high chair, seriously.
I showed you that the original Destiny game has 24+ hours of content WITHOUT the PvP. Show me a comparable sized shooter in the last years. The DLC will have 8+ hours of content, more than most DLCs (First Light was the same price and only was 6 hours to Plat for me).
And yes, WoW Raids were more complex, but you didn't get 3 Raids in the first 5 months after launch.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Hitting level 30 has something to do with content? Get real.
ProvenDeadly
Member
I mean, sure, you can replay the same missions over and over and over and play the 4 MP modes but that's sort of everyone's issue with the repetition in this game.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Dunno how that will help when the are worst lines than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlOYatDYC40
Nah, what I'm talking about is a general phenomenon where a person convinces themselves that they're on the "right side" of a controversial game, better than all the suckers who bought into the "manufactured hype," etc. Of course, it's basically just an inversion of some people who get a little carried away defending something they like and make sweeping statements about "haters."
Both of those things happen for any game that's even remotely popular and/or contentious, so Destiny is a lightning rod for that stuff.
The rumoured DLC content doesn't sound like the type of story content you're desiring, and from the way they describe it too, it sounds like more of the same endgame content. I don't think they stripped anything explicitly for DLC purposes; of course it was probably in development simultaneously (this leak pretty much confirms it, unless what we're seeing doesn't come out).
Borderlands. Defiance. These series both had more content, and more variety of content, and they're both shooters. Defiance is even a "shared world shooter" and had public events much like Destiny, with more boss variety than "I'm a giant blown up enemy that's a bullet sponge". Not to mention that the base single player in Destiny took me 8 hours to beat.