Loved the lack of a Map (Destiny)

by kapowaz, Monday, July 28, 2014, 09:19 (3770 days ago) @ ZackDark

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with you that a real map would lessen the experience.

I'm not sure I understand why a map would lessen the experience. If anything, having maps helps sell the illusion of a fictional world — it didn't harm the sense of immersion in ODST, and they're pretty standard in other MMOs. Here's an example of a zone map for the upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion for WoW. Note that you can see points of interest, fortified walls, hills, valleys, rivers and other things that help you navigate:

As well as in video games, maps are pretty cool in fiction too — I've always enjoyed staring at the maps that come with works like The Lord of the Rings and the ASOIAF series. They enrich the sense of there being a real world underlying the stories, and I'm sure it'd help do that with Destiny too.