Bungie is promoting its latest Destiny expansion as more than downloadable content. "It's more than DLC," the developer said in a blog post. "It's a game." Whether or not that claim is a bit too bold, we will say that there's lots of new stuff coming to Destiny in September. In the words of Bungie itself, here's what you can expect to find in The Taken King:
- New story missions and an array of side quests that conspire to tell the story of our battle to defend our Solar System against Oryx and his Taken army
- New narrative driven by cinematic cutscenes starring an engaging cast of characters
- New Exotic Weapons, Exotic Armour, and Exotic Questlines
- The Dreadnaught: a full new destination, with unique secrets, rituals, and treasures to uncover
- A new breed of enemy combatants, The Taken, armed with new abilities and weapons
- An increased Level Cap, and new ways for your Guardian to grow more powerful
- The most substantial injection of new, unique, and redesigned weapons, armour, and talents to date
- New subclasses with all new Supers and abilities
- New cooperative Strikes with unique and dynamic new Boss battles
- Redesigned and reimagined Strikes – Dust Palace, Undying Mind, and Cerberus Vae III – are now overrun by the Taken
- New Crucible multiplayer maps with new Crucible modes, including the previously revealed Rift and Mayhem
- And, of course, last but not least: our biggest six-player Raid yet
In addition, those eligible for some Year One exclusive items can expect an announcement on Bungie Day: the 7th July. Bungie has also promised regular updates in the weeks to come. What do you make of this update? Will it live up to its big promises? Boost jump to the comments below.
[source bungie.net]
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If this really is a whole new game, as Bungie describes it, then I'm interested - to an extent!
But without sounding rude, we've been burned before!
It should be more for my $40. The lack of a new game mode is also laughable. Considering what all the DLC has already cost players in addition to the base game, they're not offering enough content. This should only cost $30. I love Destiny, and I've put over 100H into it, but I don't know if I can justify it.
@Jaz007 I've always said - if the expansions were half the price, and this was $20, or $30 like you say, then it would seem far, far more reasonable.
I'm interested in seeing what the free perks but I'm still going to wait for significant discounts on the expansions.
I think we all like destiny, but....
The price tag is disgusting. #screwthegamers
We've all paid £60-£80 so far taking this game over £100 - £120 with the taken king. If it was cheaper its a no brainer as a fan, but when they price like this you have to think twice.
It's no good telling me there's new missions and new weapons, I want to know specifically how many.
For the ridiculous, and regionally inconsistent, price point, I would expect at least as much content as there was on the original disc. I'd also put more emphasis on the gear than on missions; hunting for the gear is what keeps you playing, missions quickly merge into the grind regardless of how good they are first time around.
@ShogunRok If you compare it to Destiny itself it sounds like 50% of it, or even less. But Activision thinks that gamers are junkies... I mean, even Destiny's loot system looks like something that came from casinos... I relly afraid for children who allowed to play Destiny by their parents.
@Gemuarto I'm kinda see what you're saying and to a point I agree with you; if my kid approached me on TTK's release date and said I want this, and I had to buy the game itself, AND the three dlc's, then yeah that's a massive investment. For me though, considering I've been buying the dlc's as and when they've been released it doesn't feel that bad. I totally agree that the dlc itself is overpriced but still, I've definitely got my money's worth out of it over the months.
@AhabSpampurse In terms of money I think that Destiny is around 100$ per year. And for that amount of money, it has not so much content, if you ask me. The only way to make this sytem work is to make people addicted to loot. Make them loot junkies =). I think it's just unhealthy. I meant that Destiny is dangerous for children's mental health, not for their parents money.
@AhabSpampurse
You can buy Destiny Plus the two DLC with The Taken King for around £42.99 off the PSN store if its still there.
So you mean don't play other games with loot in it like Borderlands, Diablo etc?
The only thing that matters to me are the new subclasses with all new Supers and abilities. No one really cares about story missions - people on play them once the first time around or sometimes for bounties after that. Same goes for new Strikes - play it once and then only during Nightfalls or Weekly Heroics. As for the raid, its too early to tell if it'll be broken like Crota's End. Hard to justify that $40 (or above if you're in EU or Aus) price tag if you ask me.
Plus, I hate the fact that the re-used areas for missions and strikes as well as re-skinned old armors and gears.
It's easy to give this a miss. There's a bunch of great games coming out and I'd rather spend my money running around and killing stuff while facing different challenges in a totally different environment. The last couple of Destiny expansions were laughably trivial and totally uninspired. Think I'll reserve my time and money for The Division.
I can see why people think Destiny and the expansions are expensive, but i for one get a ridiculous amount of enjoyment out of this game and have been solidly playing it since the release given a few days break every now and then but find, despite my ridiculous games library that this is what i come back to.
I think at the minute people are comparing the size of The Taken King to House of Wolves and The Dark Below, and from what we know, The Taken King is bigger than both Expansions I and II and we paid £34.99 for those if you pre-ordered the season pass.
Destiny is a 10 year game and our efforts will carry over to Destiny 2, i have never seen a game like this before
That is no more than expected on the baseline, just peppered with PR speak. Come on now.
@Jaz007 "It should be more for my $40. The lack of a new game mode is also laughable. Considering what all the DLC has already cost players in addition to the base game, they're not offering enough content. This should only cost $30. I love Destiny, and I've put over 100H into it, but I don't know if I can justify it."
Nail on the head, activision is exploiting people and friends of mind who i know are addicted to destiny. game needs to die & go away
Can we skip cutscenes yet?
Also please don't make the story missions mandatory to do the end-game content again.
I wish they would remove the mandatory online for single player missions. I'd snatch this up in a heartbeat.
@alphadrago5 Yup, they let you skip custscenes in the TTK. However, only implementing that feature a year after the game's been released is kinda stupid.
@banacheck no you can't, it is £75 (or £40 for just TTK assuming you already own the previous 3 parts)
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