Biggest Difference between Destiny 1 & Destiny 2? Destiny 2 won't have to support 360, PS3. Seriously, Destiny has complete feature parity on 10 year old systems with 512MB of RAM. (PS4 has 16GB). It's best to think of Destiny as a last-gen game with a current gen port that's fast & pretty. That's why there's no real clan system. That's why the vault hasn't been increased. That's why you can't view your rep in the menu. They don't have the memory for these things without spending huge amounts of time optimizing and trying to eek it out.
Destiny 2 will be the first current-gen only version. The sky's the limit.
That's fair. I hope Bungie pulls it off, because a FPS by the guys that made Halo with a MMO-like content structure for consoles is a super exciting idea. When I play Destiny now, I still get moments where it all comes together. Playing a raid for the first time is the best example.
When WoW first launched, it had a lot of potential too. Vanilla had its issues, but by Burning Crusade WoW became a juggernaut. It has a lot of content both in terms of end game content and story quests as well as secondary things. It was polished but varied. It fulfilled the potential the original showed.
Bungie is in a similar boat. It has amazing potential. What bothers me most is not the big things it got wrong because I can understand that the game likely was meant to launch a year later and that they also have to cater to last gen consoles. It sucks, but I understand. What bothers me is that with each small step forward they take with a piece of content or update, they take two back.
At the end of the day, what it boils down to is I think Bungie needs to put in a concerted effort to prove to fans that they can do more than what they have so far. More weapons, more enemy variety, more dungeon and raid variety, more mechanic variety. I also think they need to prove they are willing to invest the time and resources into fixing things/preventing things that shouldn't be prevalent. I know I'm going to sound like a broken record, but Xur not selling Heavy Ammo Synthesis is indicative of how little they are trying right now.
So I don't expect The House of Wolves or the Comet expansion to play like an entirely new game. But I do think it's important for them to try to make improvements. Otherwise, I have to have faith they can realize Destiny's potential in the sequel. And if they can't fix and prevent such nagging issues now, it's hard to have faith.
