Those documents that have been dug up following a legal battle between Bungie and fired soundtrack composer Marty O'Donnell have turned out to be a bit of a gold mine, eh? Following on from yesterday's report that Destiny's story was considerably altered one year before it launched, more digging from VideoGamer has revealed that you could have been playing Destiny 2 in just a couple of weeks.
Originally planned for launch on the 20th September 2015, Destiny 2 was going to be the first sequel to the sci-fi shooter. Taking into account that Destiny was supposed to launch in 2013 before it was delayed for an entire 12 months, this original plan was all about releasing a new game every other year, with Destiny 3 hitting in 2017, and Destiny 4 launching in 2019. Furthermore, things would be capped off with the franchise's biggest ever expansion in 2020.
Given Activision's track record, it's a release schedule that makes sense. Presumably, each title would be padded out with expansions like The Dark Below and House of Wolves - but does all of this mean that we may end up seeing Destiny 2 this time next year? We wouldn't like to say, but it could easily be possible. After all, why wouldn't the company stick to its original plan of launching a sequel every other year?
What do you reckon? Do you think that a sequel is inevitable in 2016, or would you rather see the original game be built upon with more downloadable content? Resist pulling out your wallet in the comments section below.
[source scribd.com, via venturebeat.com, venturebeat.com, videogamer.com]
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I'm really bothered by all of this and i don't know what is best, downloadable content or a sequel and should i even bother buying anything that is related to Activision
I think they've decided to just release expansions to the original base frequently.. I doubt we will be seeing a Destiny 2 any time soon. If Bungie can pump out good content then it is all fine by me!
Of course we're getting Destiny 2 in 2016...it's a biannual thing.
I just hope Destiny 2 won't have an Online Always requirement.
I would like to see Diablo 3 do this.
@Azikira It's an online game so it will always have to be online.
No one needs Destiny 2
@PMasterTy9 Then that leaves us who have crappy satellite internet in the dust. At the least they could have a single-player only mode.
@Azikira They can't do that because of the type of game that it is. It would be like saying I wish they had a single-player only offline mode for World of Warcraft. Destiny is part MMO which the "O" in MMO stands for "online".
@Azikira Just be glad the campaign wasn't adapted into single player because people (including myself) would have bought it just for the story and been sorely disappointed. It would have easily been possible for a single player mode to exist since it's divided into levels rather than a big open world but it wouldn't have been worth playing.
Oh gosh. I hope they changed plans with all the expansions they've released. If Destiny 2 drops next year, they might find people wait for Destiny's Taken King equivalent. Why pay an extra $80 when you could wait one year?
@ZeD this haha no one needs destiny 2 or destiny 1.5 (taken king)
@ruckus757 I am glad I am not the only one
@PMasterTy9 Im sorry but you're wrong. Destiny could easily have an offline mode to allow players to playthrough the campaign by themselves. The reason for this is that Destiny isn't an MMO in the same way as WoW or ESO. If anything, Destiny sits somewhere inbetween Borderlands and a more simple MMO. It isn't an open world game like most MMO's, its just hub area's which would have been simple to work into a single player offline mode. I played through it by myself in just a few hours.
Trouble is, Destiny had a complete rubbish campaign/story and most people would have traded it in once they'd finished it.
@WARDIE Pretty much exactly my experience. Got to the end of the campaign very quickly and just thought "Wow...that's it? What even happened?"
Adored the mechanics, sound and art direction of the game but the content was just not up to scratch. Tried to get into the online-focused side of things but the only things I could use matchmaking for were just too repetitive. Started a couple new characters instead but traded the game in for Bloodborne so I could get it on launch day. Tempted to go back with the Taken King, but undecided.
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