It's easy to tell the difference between Destiny critics who play regularly and critics who haven't even played the game (or gave up after a few hours). The former have many of the same legitimate complaints -- like "why are there still no POE checkpoints?" and "how has Bungie still not figured out a solution for lag switching?" -- while the latter go on and on about voice acting and grinding as if it's still September.
Oh, yuck. I certainly hope Destiny 2 is announced a lot sooner than that would suggest. My biggest beef with the game at the moment is 30fps, terrible load times, all of my friends play on PC, and controlling an FPS with a controller.Not as far as we know.
The image below has been back on forth on it's authenticity however They list the new location for Plague of Darkness as a Hive Ship. I think this was previously entirely unknown until E3 2015 in which it was shown The Taken King takes place aboard a Hive Ship
If the below image is fake then they did a really good job at predicting it.
However it does show the DLC plan they intended to follow and so far have. The comet was just an expansion which Taken King is classed as. However it's been said that the next to expansions will change.
You don't know how people are addicted, and admit yourself that you never even got into the content that most people find addicting? Okay then. As a hybrid MMO, the game thrives off of community. If you're playing everything solo, of course you're going to get burnt out and run out of content.
lmao, what is this post supposed to be? The only things Destiny has going for it are its gunplay, visuals, and soundtrack. The actual structure of the entire game is a mess. Consider the existence of space ships for example. What purpose do they have? Developers had to model, texture, and do various other things in order to create them, which took a lot of time. The space ships are literally loading screens. That's all they are.
A had a post in an earlier thread detailing a lot of this stuff. To add to the OP, here's some additional information.
An interesting quote from Penny Arcade's Tycho:
Gabe chimed in with his thoughts from that play test:
There was another report from a play test that describes a story that starts the same way as the final game, but then goes off in a distinctly different way:
(I'll give you a minute to chuckle at that last line). The source for this has gone offline, but I had copied the whole thing in an earlier post I made about Destiny's cut content. The play tester makes mention of the Seraphim Vault, a location that had not been revealed when he made that post, and wouldn't be for months, so I am inclined to believe the post.
The official site for the actor who does the voice of the Queen's Brother lists his character as "PRINCE ULDREN SOV (MASTER OF CROWS)," and the character's Grimoire Card also says he is the "Master of Crows." As the OP mentioned, this name was seen in pre-release materials, namely the very first Vidoc, Pathways Out of Darkness.
It is interesting to note that both in this early mobile app and in an early mockup of the main menu, the story is described as being split into "Books" and "Chapters." This terminology is missing from the final game.
The name the menu uses for the Raid is also interesting. It doesn't quite fit the Vault of Glass, but does seem quite reminiscent of Crota's End, which bears the description "He waits in the dark below." Later in that vidoc are several shots of areas on the Moon that don't feature in the main story (they may be in Crota's End, but I haven't spent much time in that activity).
The large enemy in that last screenshot is also unfamiliar to me. It could just be an early version of an Ogre.
Speaking of unknown areas from that vidoc, there is a shot of a spacecraft approaching Mercury. This would be unremarkable by itself, by as the OP mentions, there appears to be a screenshot of an old man (possibly Osiris) on Mercury.
And then there's Saturn. As the OP said, in a later vidoc, Technical Art Director Ryan Ellis said "You can go from Earth to Venus to Mars to the Moon to Saturn." The Reef is in the asteroid belt (according to a Grimoire card), far from Saturn. So what, exactly, would we be going to Saturn for? It was shown in several videos, as stated by the OP. Maybe the location of the Reef was changed at some point, but that does beg the question, why?
One last note about that first vidoc: some of the interviews were 2 years old and were done for the "O Brave New World" documentary that was released in August of 2011.
Fun fact that kind of relates to the OP, but is interesting nonetheless: according to Jaime Griesmer in a recent Game Informer podcast, for about a year early in development, Destiny was a 3rd person shooter.
Yeah, but I'd even be fine with it if the game ran at 60fps on consoles and didn't have long, meaningless loading screens everywhere. At least at some point in designing the game, you would think someone would consider the fact that you have to go back to the tower to do anything meaningful would be an issue.
I should have probably seen the Marty drop for what it was.
I don't want to get into specifics that would piss off the people who chatted with me about it, but basically a lot was axed at a point in time where it was too late to fully re-create that amount of (story) content. I will say that despite Destiny 1's shortcomings when it comes to the story, it allegedly could've been a lot worse. That's something I heard from all 4 of them.
And Bungie's held up with Activision for how many more years again?
I think you should spend your time and money however you'd like.
Did the voice acting and grinding somehow get better and disappear since September? Is the story and writing fixed? How are these not legitimate criticisms? They're only legitimate if I'm still playing the game? What exactly am I supposed to talk about in the community thread?
Yes. You can download today if you pick up the digital version of Taken King.
It was the right call.
