DLC: Skyrim and Destiny (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Wednesday, July 16, 2014, 11:16 (3786 days ago) @ Cody Miller
edited by Ragashingo, Wednesday, July 16, 2014, 11:19

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

I feel like I'd need to play this Skyrim DLC you mention to continue this discussion, however that won't happen since I think Skyrim is a bad game.

Look, I've gotten myself in a lot of trouble around here recently, on Bungie Day, by posting while I was angry and right now I'm angry. At you. So I'll keep this short and controlled:

I don't appreciate being told to "think bigger" only to have it revealed that you don't know what you're talking about because you haven't played the game in question.

Did I say I haven't played it? I said I thought it was a bad game. BECAUSE I PLAYED IT AND IT WAS BAD.

Read what I say and do not jump to conclusions. I tried to even phrase it nicely ("I think it's a bad game"). Why bother when you don't even read.

I said: "I don't appreciate being told to "think bigger" only to have it revealed that you don't know what you're talking about because you haven't played the game in question. Or maybe you've played it but don't trust me when I said the DLC was very well integrated?"

Note the part in italics. I allowed for you having played it. Cutting off someone's quote then accusing them of not reading and jumping to conclusions. Not cool.

Of course you might think the DLC is well integrated, because Skyrim was bad to begin with and itself not really that well put together. It's easy to add a piece of trash to a pile of garbage and have it not feel out of place, but toss a butterfinger wrapper on David and it will stand out and ruin the sculpture.

As to Skyrim, I think I get it now. You decided to switch to talking about your dislike of Skyrim's "aesthetics, mechanics, the entire simulation" in the middle of a discussion about DLC integration without telling me. That you went on to mention "The integration has to encompass all of that." certainly helped confuse your point. I disagree that Skyrim is a bad game, but that's largely beside the point. If you want to discuss the merits of Skyrim start a new thread...

Skyrim did DLC right. That's the point here. Destiny, in all likelihood, will be a much more solid game than Skyrim, but thanks to its similar ongoing "living world" gameplay it might be able to integrate DLC just as well as Skyrim did. Where new stories, gameplay, graphics, weapons, enemies, locations, etc can be added in a way that doesn't confuse or detract from the main game but in fact only adds to it and makes the core game better.

Do you disagree with that? Can Destiny's DLC be done right?