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UltimateUnknown on 17 September 2015
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AEGRO said:
Shiken said:
To those who don't know, the legendary edition is the new retail meta at 60 bucks. Those who already owned the vanilla version can get it for 40 as an expansion. The Legendary edition for new players comes with ALL content to date including TK and the other 2 DLCs.

So in a sense, this is a reboot for year two and by the looks of it from playing it and reviews, it will be a successful one at that.


Hows the single player campaign? Is it worth the 60 bucks?

You can't just say how's the "single player campaign". It's not as simple as that in Destiny.

You'll have what are known as "quests" that give you various objectives to do to unfold the story. A lot of times within the quests you'll have to do story missions, which are similar to your traditional FPS levels, but from time to time the objectives within the quests will ask you to do various other things such as exploring the open world for some material or going out into the world to slay some particular targets in some location whom you have to summon in some way, which is also feeds into the story.

The story itself will initially be told through a main "Taken King" quest, which some people might think is the story of this expansion. However, once you complete this quest many other quests open up that essentially carry on the story in various directions, mainly that you participate in what is known as the "Taken War" on various planets as a continuation. So there's a quest line for each of the planets. It takes a long time to do all these and there are quests that aren't even related directly to the taken king or taken war and explore other areas of the lore. 

Overall it's like a lot of branching paths that lead in various directions and once you complete them it leads you onto the raid (releasing tomorrow) where the story culmiates as you fight against the final boss in his strongest form. I've spent close to 20 hours in the past 2 days and I am nowhere near completing all the quests (maybe done 20-30% overall). I'm still participating in the "Taken War" and there's just a lot to take in. This of course is on top all the sweet loot drops you get to increase your light level to the max and that's a whole game in and of itself.

So overall the campaign will take you through traditional missions, then to objectives in the open world where you'll probably be fighting alongside random people who are in the world to summon and defeat a very powerful boss to complete the same quest line as you. So yeah, if you go in, don't go in with a mind set of completing a simple linear "single player campaign", rather a lot of quests that gradually tell you the story through traditional missions but also many other open world type of objectives.