Proposal - What if... (Destiny)

by ZackDark , Not behind you. NO! Don't look., Monday, June 23, 2014, 14:05 (3806 days ago) @ Cody Miller

What if Destiny's main campaign did not require you to grind at all? What if all the leveling up forcefully required (and we all know there will be, based on the alpha) is naturally done as you progress through the campaign? Sure, there'd be a lot less incentive for people to grind, but grinding would obviously make things easier. Would that still make the investment system broken?

You might argue about the side-missions and hidden dungeons. Ok, what if those can be reasonably done even before you finish the main campaign?

Using your puzzle game analogy:

You have a puzzle game with 3 main puzzles (easy, medium, hard) and 3 bonus puzzles (easy, medium, hard). You get IQ points when complete puzzles, but instead of buying you the next level, the IQ points buy you power-ups (like trap-bypassers, tile reveals, hookshots, etc). While you can complete the main medium puzzle with only the IQ points provided by the main easy one, the extra IQ points you'd get from the side easy puzzle certainly makes things easier.

While none of us have played the final build yet (heck, they don't even have a final build yet), I can't say that that's how it works, but my gut feeling is that it will be very similar to that.