Destiny 2 Already in development

[Foxi4]

Destiny was buckets of fun for me, I'm totally cool with buying sequels. I would prefer the expansion pack route, but oh well - what can you do?

 

[The Catboy]

It's Activision. Did you really expect anything else?

I was hopping that Bungie would have said something.

 

[chavosaur]

I was hopping that Bungie would have said something.

I lost my faith in Bungie the day they left Halo in the hands of 343 ;^;

 

[The Catboy]

I lost my faith in Bungie the day they left Halo in the hands of 343 ;^;

Fair enough, I know that feel

 

[Obveron]

If it gets split screen I'll check it out.

 

[NostalgicMillennial]

If it gets split screen I'll check it out.

so your friend doesnt have to buy a console or game? never.. this is the era of greed and less games are allowing split screen to be programmed due to "mo money"

 

[JulietStMoon]

so your friend doesnt have to buy a console or game? never.. this is the era of greed and less games are allowing split screen to be programmed due to "mo money"

I'm pretty sure it's a hardware limitation more than anything. The game already runs only in 30fps as it is, even on the 8th gen consoles. Can you imagine how it'd run in split screen?

 

[JoshuaBojangles]

If starting work on the sequel this early gives them time to make Destiny 2 what Destiny was expected to be then Im game for it.

I dont usually care for big AAA releases but I enjoy Destiny and Id be happy to have moooarrrrr.

 

[Obveron]

I'm pretty sure it's a hardware limitation more than anything. The game already runs only in 30fps as it is, even on the 8th gen consoles. Can you imagine how it'd run in split screen?

Meh Halo 4 has 4 player split screen on last gen and its pretty. Destiny could run at the very least 2 player splitscreen. The resolution is halved per player its not that big of a deal.

 

[JulietStMoon]

Meh Halo 4 has 4 player split screen on last gen and its pretty. Destiny could run at the very least 2 player splitscreen. The resolution is halved per player its not that big of a deal.

There's a huge difference between a linear stage-based game like Halo where all players stay together at all times, and an open world game like destiny, where separate players are allowed to go anywhere at once. Also, Halo 4 only supports two player split screen in campaign mode. It's much easier to make split screen in arena maps than in a huge open environment like Destiny.

 

[CathyRina]

There's a huge difference between a linear stage-based game like Halo where all players stay together at all times, and an open world game like destiny, where separate players are allowed to go anywhere at once. Also, Halo 4 only supports two player split screen in campaign mode. It's much easier to make split screen in arena maps than in a huge open environment like Destiny.

Pretty much this.

 

[Obveron]

Pretty lame explanation if you ask me. Borderlands has been open world and splitscreen on old hardware. The graphics aren't more complicated if your characters are separated, the GPU still has minimal more work to do with 2 player splitscreen (particularly because the resolution is halfed per player). Also some visual assets can be scaled back to improve performance if necessary. The CPU needs to keep track of two player's inputs, locations and such. Not a big deal.
The reason that there is no splitscreen is lack of interest on the developers as it would take a great deal of coding to build a splitscreen UI and coordinating the various open world interactions possible across two players. They would need to build the game from ground up while making the necessary splitscreen considerations to make it work. This is a development time issue, not a performance issue. I'm sure it could look as beautiful with splitscreen. The developers don't put in the extra work for a feature they think is not popular amongst consumers.
That is why I'm outspoken about my desire for splitscreen. It's an essential feature to me and I have very little interest in console games that don't offer local multiplayer/co-op. I know I'm not alone, and I wish others would be more outspoken about it. As it stands devs don't care about splitscreen anymore.

 

[CathyRina]

Pretty lame explanation if you ask me. Borderlands has been open world and splitscreen on old hardware.

Well yes, and I remember the game lagging like f*ck if both players wouldn't be next to each other. In a Action orientated game that relies on a lot on precision you don't want lag at all.

This is a development time issue, not a performance issue.

I don't think so.
First of all there is the before mentioned performance issue. Especially since Consoles can barely keep up with having a 1080p resolution and fluid 60 frames per second in singleplayer campaigns. Even Hyrule Warriors has to reduce it's resolution to 720p during splitscreen coop and gets frame drops every now and then. Which isn't too bad in a warriors game but could be critical in FPS games.
Secondly it's not like Bungie never did a coop Splitscreen before so they already had the necessary experience to work with. It really shouldn't take them that long to do a splitscreen coop if they wanted to.
Lastly this game was and still is a FPS MMOG. Have you ever seen a Splitscreen MMO? I surely haven't. You would probably need a Destiny account with the game attached to it anyway so at this point why not play it over the Internet at home?

 

[CompassNorth]

Hope Destiny 2 fixes the issues that Destiny 1 had, I want the franchise to do well.