Bungie’s upcoming RPG-styled FPS title Destiny is easily one of the hottest title releases that are set to happen in the upcoming year. And while all us single player buffs out there are pretty happy that we can play the game on our own although friends are eligible to join in anytime they want, a new revelation regarding the same states that players might need to form into groups to tackle the game’s final missions.
Speaking to Game Informer via its recent massive exclusive interview for the game, Bungie co-founder and design director Jason Jones mentioned the fact even though the game allows players to get on with the game on their own, they might need to team up with other people to see through the final remaining missions in the game.
“You absolutely are going to be able to play Destiny by yourself and have the same kind of fun shooter-experience that you could have in a single-player campaign, which is a word that we’ve weeded out of our vocabulary, but we’re going to give you this great player-progression on top of that, and we’re going to give you as many opportunities as we possibly can to expose you to other people, so that hopefully you’re drawn into some social experiences, because those are incredibly powerful and interesting, but we’re not going to force those on you,” he stated.
“We describe it in a lot of ways as sloping the floor towards socialization, without putting a requirement on it. I would say that there’s some sort of – if you wanted to talk about it in MMO terms, you’d say ‘end-game activities’, but some of the most intense non-competitive activities in the game do require cooperation.”
“They require a group of players to tackle at once. I guess at some variable, distant endpoint we are going to say, ‘Yeah, if you show up at this door, and you don’t have five friends, you’re not going to be able to succeed,’ but the core experience that solo players have enjoyed in shooters, they’re going to be able to get that, and we’re going to pull many of them into social experiences as well,” he further added.
Bungie’s Destiny is currently slated to release on September 9, 2014 for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3 and PS4.
