What? No way. BL2 is massive pre-DLC. the variety of zones on BL2 is more varied too.
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Destiny: Only one area per planet
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What? No way. BL2 is massive pre-DLC. the variety of zones on BL2 is more varied too.
Zombie James
Banned
Wait, so Old Russia is all we'll see of Earth? Wow, that really, really sucks. All that money invested in so little explorable area... hype seriously deflated.
This. Bungie has never once promised multiple zones or all of the areas that have been shown in concept art. There's tons of awesome concept art for every game that has never been used.
Uiki
Member
I found destiny lacking the loot part of pso2 (let alone the social aspect).
But even pso 2 has tons of maps and content right now, the class system is way more deep and economy is a big part of it. And that's why you keep playing.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
Logic and reasoning? This is no place for that!
EL CUCO
Member
I guess the fact that Bungie is not in this thread solidifies most of our concerns.
Welp.
Atleast in the ND threads whenever GAF goes into a frenzy Arne or Q is there to settle us down. lol
This is exactly why I didn't pre-order the expansion pass without having an idea of what I was getting into. I'm done buying things on blind faith. Destiny got a pass because the gameplay was solid, but can't say that I'm happy bout this.
It wouldn't ruin anything. It hasn't ruined any MMO, any Diablolike, it wouldn't ruin Destiny.
Bind purple items to account - problem solved. You still could trade materials, consumables and green items that would be useless for your legendary-clad raid-clearing character, but a lifesaver for someone who just joined the game and would like to catch up with everyone who reached the level cap a long time ago.
lulz
DaleinCalgary
Member
The problems with the game have very little to do with the graphics.
We're delving into opinion now. I was on the fence before, but after exploring the moon for an hour... I strongly disagree.
BaraSailey
Member
Ehhh, I'll probably wait on getting this if this is true. Even though I enjoyed the beta, I ran out of stuff to do fast. I definitely want to play this, but I don't think it'll be worth sixty bucks if it's only five maps. I'll wait till closer to release to properly judge it. Here's to hoping that this isn't true, or these four other planets are packed with more stuff to do than Earth.
IAmRandom31
Banned
Dhruv_hanom
Member
Ahh, that makes sense! I can go with that. Damn, to have a population of 7bl+ reduced to a few hundred thousand the collapse must have been horrible.
qa_engineer
Member
IISANDERII
Member
I hope there's some more challenging settings because shooting the occasional fodder isn't so satisfying in the open world. If they were tough battlefields to get through, then I'd really like that.
Make it a challenge of skill, not attrition[having to go back to the same places multiple times].
Make it a challenge of skill, not attrition[having to go back to the same places multiple times].
cause it's not a Diablo FPS. They never even said it was going for that. Why can't Destiny be it's own thing?
Alpha had 3 difficulty settings so yeah there are harder modes.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
They both have one similarity though! Both have environments that feel deader than a doornail!
I enjoyed BL2 and finished it four times
The Rain King
Member
Was hoping for ~Skyrim, getting <Wolfenstein. Disappointed.
MCC will save us.
MCC will save us.
Remember how every type of planet in Star Trek was completely represented by a small area? (Desert planet, jungle planet, etc...)
hehe.
If you watch the blurays, you also get to see just how common painted styrofoam was in the universe. Sometimes SD fuzz is a good thing.
RandyBobandy
Banned
Don't worry. You'll get more areas and levels in the already planned expansions
The content argument seems to come down to perspective.
If you're comparing it to a typical console game, Destiny will have plenty of "hours" of content.
If you're comparing it to other loot based open world online games, Destiny seems to have very little content. These games are typically designed to keep you entertained for months -- if what we've seen of earth is 10% of the content, we're going to blow through all the Destiny content very fast.
That's normal for a typical console game, but it's tiny for an online loot game.
It seems that Bungie's expectations is that, unlike other online loot games, you're expected to spend most of your time in Crucible (similar to games like Halo/Call of Duty) rather than building out your character over months as you level up to max level and do end-game missions to max out your loot. Did I hear right that there's just going to be one raid in the full game? That's incredibly disappointing.
If you're comparing it to a typical console game, Destiny will have plenty of "hours" of content.
If you're comparing it to other loot based open world online games, Destiny seems to have very little content. These games are typically designed to keep you entertained for months -- if what we've seen of earth is 10% of the content, we're going to blow through all the Destiny content very fast.
That's normal for a typical console game, but it's tiny for an online loot game.
It seems that Bungie's expectations is that, unlike other online loot games, you're expected to spend most of your time in Crucible (similar to games like Halo/Call of Duty) rather than building out your character over months as you level up to max level and do end-game missions to max out your loot. Did I hear right that there's just going to be one raid in the full game? That's incredibly disappointing.
Disagree. Bandit inhabitants, robot invaders, lots of aggressive animal life. BL2 doesn't feel as dead in the environments. Each zone has a purpose, style, and specific enemy types.
After playing it some more, I was initially getting the PSO vibe from the game during alpha, but after playing SWTOR and Planetside 2, I realized Destiny offers me nothing more then these games really do. The co-op is Halo gameplay and animation with loot, the story so far has been dull, and the planet like so many have said is lifeless so far. I dont pre-order new IP's to begin with, but instead of planning on buying it fairly soon, I'm going to just wait and see if it can give me a good reason to play this over SWTOR and Planetside, so far I'm not seeing it.
The beta was more content for me than the 15 hour once and done campaign of Wolfenstein.
Judging by this http://destinydb.info/activities it looks like you'll get gear to bring you up to either 30 or 31, with weekly increased difficulty strikes, so you can gear up to do the raid at level 31.
How is this even comparable?
I am fine with the content level. I'm still very excited for this game. I always viewed it in line with PSO, and that's exactly what I want.
People are really turning on this game fast. I though people were enjoying playing it. We don't know what the actual zones will cover and we don't know what Destiny's content schedule is like (dailies-updates-expansions-sequels)
People are really turning on this game fast. I though people were enjoying playing it. We don't know what the actual zones will cover and we don't know what Destiny's content schedule is like (dailies-updates-expansions-sequels)
Borderlands can feel very lonely though when you play it on your own. I'm not sure why...
Destiny on the other hand is very social however I feel that kinda ruins the atmosphere at some points. Especially on the moon, I was quite enjoying that mission until some random person got matchmade with me and started dancing... Completely ruined the whole feel of the game :l
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
I've been very optimistic about the continued support of Destiny, but yea, this is kinda BS, if the content (compared to other loot/exploration based games) is really this small, only to serve it to us piece meal, later =/
...they're pretty similar games.
edit: though his points about framerate/price aren't necessarily useful
Mr. Luchador
Member
And yet they've already announced and created a pre-order SKU for the Expansion Season Pack. Good job!
That's kinda my point.
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Whoa, really? That stinks. :/
Now you know why.
Is it social? There's no way to talk to those random people unless they're on your friend list right? You're seeing random people fighting the same stuff as you and I guess that can make the game feel less lonely than Borderlands, especially during random events that players converge on, I'll give you that. But there's no real communication going on with them.
Gordon0Freeman
Member
Has Urk been in here yet?
Sakura
Member
Hmm... Pretty disappointing.
I was planning on preordering the Destiny bundle once I got paid, but I'm not sure I will any more.
The Earth is a big place yet all we get is Old Russia...? No thanks.
The gameplay is fun and all, but I have no interest in playing the same areas over and over again.
I was planning on preordering the Destiny bundle once I got paid, but I'm not sure I will any more.
The Earth is a big place yet all we get is Old Russia...? No thanks.
The gameplay is fun and all, but I have no interest in playing the same areas over and over again.