Bungie Describes How The Dark Below Will Thread Into Destiny

Bungie Describes How The Dark Below Will Thread Into Destiny

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Lee Bradley

Bungie has been discussing how Destiny’s upcoming expansions will work, describing how they will thread into the full game. The first of these expansions, The Dark Below, launches in December.

Speaking to Joystiq, Bungie’s Director of Production Jonty Barnes said, "The Dark Below is actually a really interesting expansion; it's got its own story. We call it an expansion because it has one of all the activity types from Destiny, so it's story, strike and beyond – and competitive and cooperative experiences in there. As well as new gear, new armor, new weapons and everything else. 

“Some of that attaches to existing places that you're familiar to, so you might find that as you're going through new areas, that you actually collide with players who are just playing the existing Destiny content. You'll have those collisions. We always want to create spaces where people can get together and cooperate, and we feel like that is a big innovation in Destiny.”

Destiny hits on September 9th.

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  • IDC about the expansion... yet. I just wanna play the original content for now dammit.
  • "We always want to create spaces where people can get together and cooperate" We just don't want you to be able to communicate in any sort of effective way.
  • As much as I want to believe that these expansions will be good, I can't help but feel that they are going to be very underwhelming. I completed all of the Beta missions including the Strike boss mission in a couple of hours. I think there are 6 planets/ locations to play on so that's about 12-15 hours of gameplay for the base game (not including multiplayer). If these expansions are basically the same as one of those locations, it's just going to last another 2-3 hours. I think it would be better served calling it DLC as a pose to an "expansion". Expansion implies something on the scale of WoW where it effectively adds on a whole new game (albeit smaller) that adds a lot more playability to keep players coming back. As I said, I want these expansion packs to be good, but I just have a feeling that the term "expansion" is just overhyping them a bit.
  • @3 LOL...why so angry?
  • @4 What I have heard is that the Beta was only a small sampling of what you can do on Earth. There should be many other locales available to the player on each planet. So the 12-15 hours that you stated may be an assumption on your part. I would expect at least 30 hours of nothing but story missions, plus running through each again in order to get the best weapons and armor.
  • #4 A game like Destiny is meant to be explored and grinded. It's not meant to be a speed run game so that's on you if that is how you play, not the game. And as #6 said that was still only a part of what they had to offer. I guess we will see for sure when Sept 9 comes and goes. If each expansion has the free roam explore zones added to the game too that should add some good time to the game as well. Speaking from my experience from the beta I am gonna love this game but none of us really know until it hits.
  • I'm not sure what I think of the 3 person fireteam limit. Seemed restrictive, there was always 4 of us wanting to play the beta. Can 6 of us get together on the same server and just use party chat? Two fireteams but do the "outside" stuff as a group? I still had fun. I'll get it and the DLC as well. I think there's going to be a season pass type of thing too.
  • Just to clarify, I wasn't saying that the Beta wasn't enjoyable. I actually found it really fun. I was just trying to make the point that from what I had seen, the missions seemed really short and if the expansion was meant to be the same size as one location, calling it and expansion was a bit overhyped compared to what most expansions are in other games. @6 I hadn't heard that each planet had more than 1 location. Hopefully that is true as I really want this game to last for a long time. @7 After playing all of the missions I played the free roam for a fair amount of time and really enjoyed it, my main worry was just that after completing all of the missions, would there be much point going back and grinding to find extra items when everything was already done or would it start to get a bit stale.
  • What I thought I read before was over ten years: 3 games, couple major expansions between games, and a handful of minor add ons between expansions. The fact they're clearly calling this an expansion is kinda disheartening. Doesn't sound too major.
  • Looks like Bungie is getting a head of itself. Just focus on the first original game. It seems like they're already focused on the two sequels they already have planned out. Focus on what's in front of you Bungie. I have a feeling that this game is going to be overhyped, hopefully my feelings are changed in September.
  • Still unsure about these expansions to be honest, I probably will end up getting them as I thoroughly enjoyed the beta, but when I think of expansions I think WoW. I wonder how much story will be added, because if it's just one or two missions it will be pretty underwhelming. Not only that but exclusive armour and weapons tied to the expansions is gonna piss off the people that can't afford it.
  • So thay've already finished the game and are now making DLC, I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of DLC. What I played of free roam the mission were very repetitive, go there and kill that, go there and kill this and collect what thay drop etc.
  • I'm all for DLC if it's made after the game is out we should pay as is the right of things but if they have made if before the game is even out and held onto it as DLC we shouldn't have to pay for it as it was made before the game was even finished
  • Start working at home with Google! It's by-far the best job I've had. Last Wednesday I got a brand new BMW since getting a check for $6474 this - 4 weeks past. I began this 8-months ago and immediately was bringing home at least $77 per hour. See Freely ........... www.MoneyKin.Com
  • But not everybody who works on a game is still working on the game towards the end. What are those people going to do? Do nothing so gamers have nothing to bitch about. Don't work on dlc ideas art guys, it makes ignorant gamers cranky. I wish people understood that games aren't made by "game makers" who do everything. 100 people all doing the same thing. In what world and what job is that a reality?
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