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Edited by ANever-EndingWar: 12/8/2014 5:44:52 PM
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How big is the free roam, playable terrain compared to what you had expected?

Basically 100% of what I was expecting

25

About 75%

25

About 50%

65

25% or lower

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I am one of those people who heard about Destiny back when it was first being presented to us. I had seen all the trailers and interviews regarding the new franchise and couldn't wait to get my hands on it. The game is pretty good, the gameplay mechanics are great. We all know the story and amount of content fell short of expectations for many of us, but one of the things that I haven't been able to get over is basically just the size of the maps and how much we can actually explore. I for one believe that based on the trailers and statements made by the teams who made the game, I feel as though the open world has about 25% of the playable terrain that I was expecting. Many of the friends that I play with have felt the same way. Don't get me wrong, I believe that this was a good start to a new franchise, but I probably won't see much of the open world potential that I had seen from all of the game footage and trailers until Destiny 2 comes out most likely. I also believe that Destiny 2 will be far better than the prequel as Bungie will learn a lot about what the players want between now and then. But I've had this on my mind since launch. I'm sure many people have seen the posts, articles, and videos criticizing and joking about how the playable terrain in the game isn't even close to what we were led to believe. The whole concept of "You can run out there, that is all playable terrain" and such in the distance of the maps. So I was thinking I'd make a poll to see how the size of the playable maps throughout Patrols actually compared to the community's expectations. I'd love to see what other players think.

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  • Check out that no mans sky game. Bungi should hire them. It would be epic.

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  • This is one of those feedbacks where the hype machine oversold it, but it in the end I think what we got works really well for the game. They're large enough to have multiple missions being run within them without feeling like the same cookie cutter room repeated ad naseum but also not so large that public events are a complete rarity.

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  • Edited by Shyassasain: 12/8/2014 6:29:38 PM
    They lied so much, in the gameplay demo trailer, someone asked if you could go to that mountain over there. The answer was a very vague but very confirmative one. Also I don't expect the next destiny game to be much different from this one. They won't just outright change a huge amount of stuff they've established already. Even if it is for the better.

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  • It seems extremely small because of sparrows, but without them it would only add like 2-4 minutes between traveling to certain areas of the map.

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  • Um.... TINY. You can loop the entire work in any planet in a couple of minutes... with the SLOW sparrow.

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  • Anyone seen how big the new Zelda will be?

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  • I expected a Fallout size and populated explorable area PER PLANET.

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    • I don't remember the exact quote, but I recall somebody in pre-release saying something along the lines of "If you can see it, you can explore it". Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhh no. Turn back warnings EVERYWHERE.

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      • I think it's a huge world but not completely "Open World" [i]We were never promised we could go anywhere they said "We would like to send you out there I'm the future"[/i] I 100% expected the world I was given.

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