With the official announcements both of Destiny probably last DLC that will introduce players to the game’s 3rd Year and that the old consoles will be abandoned due to obsolescence, those same players are left confused.
What are they supposed to expect from Destiny after Rise of Iron. What to expect from Xbox One and PS4, Xbox One S, and then PS4 Neo and Xbox One Project Scorpio.
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/25/11774294/xbox-one-slim-one-two-scorpio
https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/14/xbox-one-s-vs-project-scorpio/
They are confused by Microsoft because they don’t understand the difference between Xbox One S (just 4K for video that's it, there's nothing else that meaningfully special about it), Xbox One Project Scorpio (Xbox 4).. and what that means for the future of console games because of terms like generationless games. I figure understanding that the next big xbox.. scorpio, isn't really a new console generation being confusing, but that's Microsoft's fault. They could have made Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One all compatible with each other but between 'generations' they decided it made more sense to drop what they had and start over and use that as an excuse to sell more software.
So what do I want?
A story. With Characters. With a player’s character that grows and is part of a story that allows for fireteams and raid teams with other characters that aren’t just resurrected zombie people.
A ship. One that I own. One that I found and fixed up and then can trick out with whatever I need. And or later on new ships that I can build from a variety of parts and materials to make it even better.
Space battles for that ship. And that I can use it as a social hub like the Normandy in the first mass effect trilogy. I could get merchants and workers to show up too by doing work for the various businesses in the game. Hell it would be fun to just ship stuff around as a pirate or smuggler or legit ferry.
If even Infinity Ward can make CoD a better scifi space shooter than Destiny.. I’m playing the wrong fucking game. They don’t need space magic to make billions.
I mean otherwise from the above and everyone else’s wildest dreams.. what IS the point of a new set of consoles with 16+ gigabytes of RAM and a GPU and main processor that rival gaming PCs.. if Destiny 2 and any other games that could be exclusive to generation 9 consoles, of the ever escalating battlefield of the console wars, minus Nintendo, Sega, Atari.. um.. what makes them worth it to gamers and developers? IF the games aren’t much more than what we’ve been getting for the last x many years.
Arguably the memory bandwidth, the GPU and CPU horsepower and expectation that online will be present for any boosts a connection to services like Microsoft’s Azure cloud or Nvidia’s GRID could provide.. games at the very least should have zero or insignificant load times and lag.
Game worlds can be significantly larger as described and demonstrated by such existing titles as No Man’s Sky and Star Citizen (not on console).
Taking Destiny as an example that should mean fewer dead zones (basically the entirety of the games public spaces are dead zones because the only active things are players and NPC enemies. There’s nothing out there else.. War took its toll or whatever, to me at first it just meant extremely lazy developers that couldn’t put enough effort into the public spaces for there to be almost no wild things like animals (besides extremely low resolution birds? And wolves in the new DLC’s trailer? sigh).
But wtv, looking forward and at current things like No Man’s Sky.. why can’t one expect Destiny 2 to at least have entire planets to explore. Because they’ve established lore that makes it nearly impossible to revisit Earth, Venus and Mars because they are dead.
Could we visit new worlds and actually explore them? Possibly.
But as I’m playing the game, while on patrol, I happen by some resource nodes that could be contested by vex and cabal. How cool would it be for each faction to have their own bases and needs and for there to actually be spontaneously spawning resources that have to be scouted/prospected then contested by several resource hungry factions.
That’s not Destiny.
What if each player was actually resurrected and could die and have to retrieve their bodies and items like in Ark?
That’s also not Destiny but the established game play IS actually very fun.
Would be interesting to see a Destiny or Mass Effect mod for Ark running on Scorpio by the end of next year. And for Studio Wildcard to mention even more updates to the game to make it even smoother and fun to the point maybe it could rival the current Destiny.