I believe this is the direction they should've leaned towards. But for now, they're treating it like any ol' other FPS game, wasting its potential and not communicating on their long term vision clearly along the way. They've flirted with MMO and RPG elements and people have responded positively to that but then they don't take advantage of it and provide more. They have the opportunity to evolve past being a basic FPS title and they've almost flat out said they wont.
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Final fantasy was supported on ps1, different discs and such to access different parts of the world in the same game.
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Edited by Fox314: 11/8/2014 10:24:59 PMNot sure what you're getting at there. Moreover, that was likely due to the limitations of the disc itself at the time. We have much greater capabilities/options now.
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Well I mean Destiny 2 could just be a separate disc to Destiny 1, battlefield 4 has this when switching from multiplayer to campaign. Accessing different parts of the game take different discs etcetera.
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BF4 has two disks? Must be on 360 then.
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Edited by Fox314: 11/8/2014 10:44:59 PMAh, okay. That might be a troublesome. Being that Destiny is an always online/multiplayer game and you must be able to shift seamlessly between different parts of the game, especially when you consider you might be with a fire-team, having to stop the game to swap discs could be problematic IMO. (But what do I know, I'm not a game dev, so you can take that with a grain of salt.) Edit: In any case, I agree that Destiny 2 should be an expansion of sorts and they should add it on as such. It should be substantial and they could sell it at, say, $30-40. I believe that they should not be working on a sequel without first beefing up the original and fixing many of its significant flaws. If they're just going to abandon it that way then that's not good for anyone.
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Yeah thats definitely my thoughts on it exactly. With new gen, most of its going on the HD anyway so they wouldn't even need all the discs to play. Old Gen has limitations though.
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Edited by Fox314: 11/9/2014 1:12:23 AMAgreed. Its sucks for people like me who are still on last generation but the honest truth is that having to make things work on the that generation as well handicaps them in terms of what they can do. You have to accommodate for the weakest link so there aren't two completely different experiences. Of course though, it can be argued that consoles in general are limited from the start in respect to growth/power.
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Wouldn't need to stop the game. Just need to preload what you need on the hard drive, and launch off either game disc. The rest is "magic".
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Edited by Fox314: 11/8/2014 10:50:57 PMMaybe, like I said, I don't know a lot about how that works. However, Xbox 360 (don't know about PS3) always required you to have the disc that you installed in the tray. And as their old contract (could've been amended since then) states, D2 is likely to be on both generations (I suppose it will depend on how many people are still on it by next year). That's if, of course, it came on a disc.
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Edited by Fox314: 11/8/2014 9:55:57 PMTo add on to what I said. Destiny has the chance to become an experiment that when we look back we can say it successfully blended MMO, RPG and FPS genres together into some unique. Or we'll look back on it and say ask ourselves what it could've been. Will we reflect on Destiny years from now and say: "it was just a simple FPS that didn't capitalize on its own unique qualities in order to become something greater in the rush to just cash in on its own hype and the prestige of predecessor, a blip in the gaming continuum," or something else?