Key Takeaways
- Destiny: Rising offers a better new player experience than Destiny 2 by gradually introducing its mechanics and narrative.
- Destiny 2 struggles with new player retention due to an overwhelming amount of content and a steep learning curve.
- Destiny: Rising capitalizes on Destiny 2’s pitfalls to create a game that welcomes new players and ensures no one is left behind.
Destiny: Rising is an upcoming mobile gacha game by NetEase Games that takes place in the world of Destiny but is set in an alternate universe from the mainline games. As such, Destiny: Rising has a lot of wiggle room to work with regarding its narrative and gameplay — something Destiny 2 hasn’t had in quite some time.
Destiny 2 does a lot of things right, one in particular being its gunplay, which is some of the best in the FPS genre to date. However, it does fall very short in one major area that has plagued it for many years, and Destiny: Rising is capitalizing on that pitfall by implementing a system that Destiny 2 should arguably have but doesn’t.
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Destiny: Rising Makes a Massive Change From Destiny 2
Destiny: Rising does a few things differently than its predecessors besides being playable on mobile devices, but one stand-out change sets the tone.
Destiny: Rising Tops Destiny 2’s New Player Experience
Destiny 2 Has Long Struggled With Its New Player Experience
For quite some time now (in fact, since the game’s first year), Destiny 2 has struggled with its new player experience. Today, it is very difficult for new players to get into Destiny 2 and remain committed to it, as it doesn’t work too hard to ensure newcomers feel comfortable during their first moments playing the game. This all boils down to the fact that Destiny 2 is a massive game with an overwhelming amount of content, especially after having been alive for over seven years now, so not gradually introducing new players to its many elements ultimately drives them away before they’ve had a chance to grasp its full potential.
There are a number of factors that contribute to Destiny 2‘s lackluster new player experience. Firstly, Destiny 2 has a bit of a steep learning curve. It’s not necessarily difficult to learn the game’s most basic mechanics, but there are so many different systems in play and Destiny 2 essentially just throws them all at players at once. Secondly, the game’s narrative has been disjointed lately due to it locking its older story content in the Destiny 2 Content Vault. As a result, new players essentially have no clear idea what’s going on in the world of Destiny and the role they can play in shaping its narrative.
Destiny 2
‘s constantly shifting meta and frequent updates can also prevent new players from feeling comfortable committing time to it, especially since FOMO is the game’s main source of player retention.
Destiny: Rising Has More Accessibility for New Players
Now, it could very well be that Destiny: Rising‘s new player experience is better than Destiny 2‘s simply because it is a brand-new game, whereas Destiny 2 has now been around for over seven years. After all, Destiny 2 was a new experience for everyone playing it when it first launched in 2017, and with Destiny: Rising taking place in an alternate universe from Destiny 2, it’s an entirely fresh start, even for those who have played Destiny from its beginnings. Even so, Destiny: Rising also has some systems in place that Destiny 2 doesn’t — systems that can contribute to new players feeling welcome in its world.
Today, it is very difficult for new players to get into
Destiny 2
and remain committed to it, as it doesn’t work too hard to ensure newcomers feel comfortable during their first moments playing the game.
What Destiny: Rising currently does that Destiny 2 hasn’t done in many years is it introduces players to its mechanics very slowly to ensure they get a firm grip on everything (even jumping) before they move onto the next big system. It isn’t just gameplay that Destiny: Rising treats this way, however, as it also gives the overarching narrative the same treatment by slowly building its world around the player, introducing them to each significant part of its world, bit by bit. Even when Destiny 2 attempted its New Light service for new players, it wasn’t nearly as intentional or extensive with its tutorials as Destiny: Rising already is.
Again, this could merely be an advantage that Destiny: Rising has over Destiny 2 because it’s a brand-new experience. Nevertheless, Destiny: Rising is already ensuring it won’t leave any new players behind once it launches. It’s refreshing to know that it isn’t just targeting Destiny veterans, and it might very well even lead to an upsurge in Destiny 2‘s player count.
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- Franchise
- Destiny
- Developer(s)
- NetEase Games
- Publisher(s)
- NetEase Games
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer , Online Co-Op