What if Destiny was $60 with 2 FREE expansions? (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, July 15, 2014, 23:08 (3790 days ago) @ Cody Miller
edited by Ragashingo, Tuesday, July 15, 2014, 23:12

It had big, open world gameplay, many many quests to complete, and several larger storylines that affected the world. But it also had two great optional DLCs that affected the world just as much as the main storylines. The DLCs were just as well integrated as any other part of the game. They added new locations, new enemies, new gameplay, new weapons, new abilities, but they were only a positive for players. Not having the DLCs didn't break or confuse or diminish anything in the base game in the least. Neither DLC was critical to the main story, but then Skyrim's main story wasn't exactly critical to Skyrim either. Skyrim's fun came from being in the open world of Skyrim. You could complete a major story quest, that would end with real changes to the world, or you could at the start of the game turn around and go the "wrong" way and have fun doing something else. It wasn't a TV show with a middle, beginning, and end that had to be tightly maintained, but that's why I can load it up today and still find significant new to me content some two years later.

It's not always about story. It's about aesthetics, mechanics, the entire simulation. Think bigger. The integration has to encompass all of that.

I'm not sure I get what you trying to say here. Both DLCs added significant new locations to explore with their own new aesthetics. They added new weapons to use, new gameplay mechanics to experience, and new story missions as fully voiced and animated and complex as any in the base game. They even did some cleaver things where they took some gameplay elements and subverted them to provide a nice surprise to the player while still being entirely consistent with the world and story. All in all, they complimented the base game, significantly extending it without getting in the way of it.

What bigger is there to think? I don't understand what you would want in expansions that these didn't provide.