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Rise of Iron won’t be another Destiny reset for year three

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To say that Destiny had a rocky road in the beginning, is an understatement. Usually the kind reserved for suicidal strolls into the Antarctic. Vanilla Destiny was an alright game on launch, but it was hardly special. Bungie’s first big stab at something new since they left Halo behind was average, earning middling scores and not a whole lot of confidence for a ten year future that they had envisioned for this brave new world of theirs.

Fortunately, improvements were on the way. With expansions came progress, and a retooled Destiny that finally began to gel with its players and lead into the phenomenal Taken King saga that began year two. It was Destiny at its best: Tight, polished and fun. Since then, even more polish was added to the game and news of one more expansion to keep year three rolling as work begins on the first proper Destiny sequel.

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But Rise of Iron isn’t another reset for Destiny like the Taken King was. Instead, it’s taking what really works well for the franchise and building further on that foundation. “I think with Rise, the opportunity for us is not to reset the entire experience,” Bungie’s head of community Eric “Urk” Osborne said to Polygon.

It’s to tee off on what is working really well for us right now.

Rise of Iron, I think, is a great culmination of that sort of put into practice. With The Taken King to start, and then this year with Rise of Iron, we have the ability to sort of not just guess at what people are going to want to see in the game. We actually have a direct pipe to our players. And so that’s in the telemetry. We see what they’re doing in the game.

I like where Destiny is right now. It’s less experiment, far more confident and it knows exactly where it wants to go in the future. Hell, I’ve even begun playing again, fine-tuning my forgotten Warlock Guardian so that I can give my Titan a break when Rise of Iron arrives and kicks off year three later in September.

Last Updated: July 6, 2016

8 Comments

  1. Will have to check this out, sounds like they may be heading in the right direction, finally.

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  2. VampyreSquirrel

    July 6, 2016 at 12:40

    That header is awesome Darryn. Nice one.

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  3. Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

    July 6, 2016 at 12:41

    Sold, because I’ve gone this far. But this is the most I’ve spent on a single game ever. Hopefully Destiny 2 has a decent season pass in place….

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    • GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness

      July 6, 2016 at 14:03

      activision…..you will get a season pass for each year now… so they can charge you for early access to all the new exotics before general release, and to ensure that with each “expansion” you will be vested in downloading the additional 15GB for 3 hours worth of Story

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      • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

        July 6, 2016 at 14:37

        Savages

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  4. Admiral Chief Maximum Effort

    July 6, 2016 at 13:04

    [MWIBC]

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  5. Jonah Cash

    July 6, 2016 at 13:35

    I just went back to my Titan who is definitely a better character now, but if they revert to making it impossible for me as a single player to progress then I won’t buy Rise till much later.

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  6. UbaSaint

    July 6, 2016 at 14:47

    As a Year one 1000 hour plus Destiny player, i loved vanilla destiny, yeah it was a bit grindy but i knew that going into the game. Lets be honest, Atheon is still the best Raid. CAN’T WAIT FOR RISE OF IRON

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