Someone said that Deej was on a Twitch stream with 2old2play, and when asked how many areas each planet had, he said there was one.

No:
European Deadzone?
Mumbai?
Old Chicago?
Twilight Gap?

If that's true… man I'm going to be so sad. I was just about to post how hype I am after the moon mission, but I guess I'll just wait and see on the 9th.

All and all though, the Beta was great and I had tens tons of fun. Going dark, and will see you all release day.

I've been pondering: what if Destiny didn't have sequels?

What if the next ten years are spent with the same "Destiny" base experience, which is slowly expanded via expansion packs, which add new areas similar in size to what we've seen.

So those places you mention above might come as a series of 4 expansion packs over the years. A pack could have 1 new area for each planet/moon, slowly building the number of areas on the game... this would essentially operate like WoW, where the game itself hasn't changed, but they keep expanding it and making it deeper.

Someone said that Deej was on a Twitch stream with 2old2play, and when asked how many areas each planet had, he said there was one.

No:
European Deadzone?
Mumbai?
Old Chicago?
Twilight Gap?

If that's true… man I'm going to be so sad. I was just about to post how hype I am after the moon mission, but I guess I'll just wait and see on the 9th.

All and all though, the Beta was great and I had tens tons of fun. Going dark, and will see you all release day.

I think the Twilight Gap is in Russia (or "Old Russia"), but yeah, I hope there are other areas. One per planet would kind of fit with only one raid, though, and they'd have multiple little maps and some way to go between them, or map the whole planet but have most of it not have missions, and that last one will have people complaining about how empty the planets are, probably. I want to see the ruins of Chicago and London and other places.

I was afraid of this.

Unfortunate, but not surprising; the interface for selecting areas isn't really visually designed to support more than one area per celestial thingy.

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Didn't anyone see this coming? 14GB for two zones and 4 MP maps? We wont get more than 5 zones of the size we have seen in the Final due to Blue ray size.

It's how they use it that matters. I'm confident given how much fun I've had out of this brief taste that there will be plenty to do, maybe not like an MMO, or grindfest like Borderlands, or like the randomised fun of Payday 2, but the quality is there to make up for it.

And hey, we might be very pleasantly surprised!

5 personality and content rich, secret filled, action heavy zones is better than 20 bland ones pumped out for a content starved playing public. Yes they will re-use assets between missions, Halo 1 style, but like that title it's a weakness that can be turned into a strength, with the sense of place and consistency it can give to a narrative.

Looking forward to this big time, I cannot even imagine a worse case scenario (Only 8-10 hours of SP content) disappointing me at this stage.

-Vince

Someone said that Deej was on a Twitch stream with 2old2play, and when asked how many areas each planet had, he said there was one.

No:
European Deadzone?
Mumbai?
Old Chicago?
Twilight Gap?

If that's true… man I'm going to be so sad. I was just about to post how hype I am after the moon mission, but I guess I'll just wait and see on the 9th.

All and all though, the Beta was great and I had tens tons of fun. Going dark, and will see you all release day.

This is what I've been expecting. We've never seen the Director suggest multiple locations per planet. Cool concept art like that city, buried in snow, now seem to be replaced with stuff like the Mars city, buried in sand.

The only gameplay footage I've seen of the Reef shows a character walking in 3rd person, which aligns with the suspicions that it is a social space like the Tower. Could just be Bungie using some dev camera, though. But I'm not optimistic.

So,

Old Russia
The Moon
Mars
Venus

Doesn't seem like a lot, but we haven't had access to all that these spaces have to offer. I'm hoping Mars is a larger environment designed for roaming vehicles, but the open world design so far seems to focus on small environment pockets connected through narrow passages.

The information available for the first two "expansion packs" suggests to be that they won't be adding new worlds, just additional areas to the existing worlds.

Has anyone found out what the Vanguard icon next to the Crucible on the Director does? Raids?

There is one aspect of the game that you seem to be forgetting about.... The Crucible. Perhaps there are multiplayer maps set on a majority of these locations. We will be able to visit them, but they won't be even remotely close to the scale that we see in Single Player. If Deej said that there was only 1 area per planet, this is the best explanation I can come up with.

Isn't Earth kind of over used in a lot of existing games?

I really am not interested in a destroyed Chicago or heaven forbid, another Statue of Liberty disaster site.

This is on Destiny's Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2bv20d/spoilers_this_is_what_we_can_reasonably_expect_at/

That would suck. I mean, the levels are big, but only four of them is not a lot of variety. Unless they plan on adding new levels via expansions, then this game may not seem as epic in scale as I was hoping for. My hype levels have declined a bit from this news. Still, it's going to be a fun game, but I would have rather them put all their effort into the story/campaign part of the game and not bothered with multiplayer at all.

Urk's response (Hi Urk!) to the "one area per planet" rumblings on NeoGaf.

Oh, hello.

Destiny's pretty big. It's the biggest game we've ever made, by far, and we're sort of known for making games you can play for months, years, and even decades if you're a little bit...dedicated.

With Destiny, we're looking to exceed what we've done before, not just in terms of scale - the Moon is our smallest destination - but in terms of scope and breadth of activities. That's true for day one, as you expect, but it also means we want Destiny to have super long legs.

If we're fortunate enough to have you playing months after launch, you still find lots of compelling stuff to do. That will manifest itself in a myriad of ways, from straight up content to cool activities we've yet to show off.

We think we did a decent job supporting Halo, post launch, but we were only ever able to cater to the competitive set. That left a lot of players out in the cold. That made a lot of the team grumpy. We wanted to do better. So, Destiny is philosophically built support every type of player, and all modes with ongoing activities and events. We look at it quite a bit like television programming, as opposed to a singular film, as we had in the past. We think it's gonna be pretty great, but we wanted to test out a bunch of our new stuff with Beta, to make sure we could flip knobs and levers live, reacting and responding with lots (and, ho boy, did we see LOTS) of players online and playing.

Beta was water wings. Level 8 is nothing. You barely scratched the surface, and it seems like some folks had fun with what was there.

If you did, good news. More soon.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=122942974&postcount=2709

Replayability.

B.net is telling me I sunk 30 hours into my main Hunter character in the Beta. With all the limitations that had.

With another 3 areas to properly explore (I only had a hour and a half on the moon), another 12 character levels to unlock, another subclass, and two other classes (I only played with each for maybe 90 minutes) to explore, and deeper customisation with the Legendary and Exotic weapons and armour; I'm definitely going to be spending a lot of time in Destiny.

It says I also played 48 matches of multiplayer - which seems a lot compared to any other MP games I've played. I felt like I was only just starting to get the hang of it on the last night. Despite some frustrations in the middle of last week, I kept seeing new ways to play right up to the close.

Plus, what looks like space for a 3rd subclass at some point, 2 expansions in the first year, promise of more active management of both PvP AND PvE...

Well worth it.

Of course you can always want MOAR but I really, really, really want it to come out NOW.

My only concern is that the story missions won't do the gameplay mechanics justice. Hopefully they turn up the dials later on in the story mode.