Here's How Long It Took Us to Beat Destiny

Time Well Spent. Destiny may be longer than you think.

[vishmarx]

ign 9.5/10 paid score confirmed!!theyre already doing reassurance articles
/s =SARCASM

also telling people it took them 6 hrs isnt gonna help

[FsterThnFTL]

I always subtract 2 from the IGN score to get the real score of a AAA game and always add 1 to the IGN score for a smaller game.

$500 million spent to make a 6 hour campaign, lol.

[16bitNutritionist]

That's kinda stupid in every way possible....

[LazyGoron]

You must not have read the article on IGN... they stated that it took "6 hours" of the in-game story based mission time. They then said this was not truly accurate as they did patrol bounties, strikes, replaying missions (which doesn't add into the "6 hours") on the harder difficulties for leveling, weapon leveling, loot collecting. Who knows if they've done free-roam and gone gold chest or ghost hunting.

Me personally I have played for over 10 hours (all coop/story/SP) and am level 7. I have looking for ghosts, doing free-roam patrols, playing with friends, going through levels myself, trying the strike missions. I am not sure what I am doing that's making me play the game longer than 6 hours but I am enjoying the hell out of it.

Please read and comprehend the article you're quoting (not saying IGN is trustworthy, but get the facts straight about the article)

[ScottyHoss]

Couldn't agree with you more @lazy, I played this game for around 15 hours with friends and we're just hitting Venus (subtract maybe 3 hours of backtracking for my low level friend and crucibles), and I am loving it! One of them said "this game makes me want to stay inside for 3 months", and he's a casual player. But if people dislike it that's alright :) I got my fireteam, I'm set! It's fun to hate destiny, but it's more fun to love it

[HiddenMission]

@FasterThanFTL

The game is amazing so don't try to downplay it.

Plus the $500 million was for the whole franchise not just this one title...da hell is wrong with you kid...

[CorndogBurglar]

You need to re-read the article and underatand what they are saying, because you clearly missed the point.

They said it took closer to 18 hours, and I believe that because i've got about 8 hours in and i'm only level 6 and i've only one mission in to the moon.

I also haven't played any Crucible matches or Strikes yet. Only story missions. In all fairness, i replayed 2 story missions to help level up my buddy, but still, thats pretty impressive.

The people that are still hating on this game because of "lack of content" obviously haven't experienced it for themselves.

[n4rc]

I'm at about 6-7h in... Done earth and the moon minus the strike.. Still have venus and mars

[kaizokuspy]

Does anyone realize their is a limit on how many Vanguard points you can get in a week? Impossible to get all legendary and or exotic loot in what three days? Seriously, most of the reviews you read are terrible. Gaming journalism is dead. Metacritic and other sites are biased and just need your "clicks" 6 hr campaign? What did they do, spawn a sparrow and just fly to each checkpoint without exploring? Without stopping to kill mobs? Seriously, people just want to see this game fail, because gamers want what they want. Everyone wants something unique to them and to no one else. This game should get a 9.5. If you don't enjoy it, it's because its different than any game ever made up to now in how it plays. If you don't like playing with others and chatting in a headset or dont like shooters, dont buy the game. If you are a loner, you wont enjoy this. If you are trying to say the lore should be as good as halo, you wont enjoy this. We will get the story over a 10 yr period. Not in one sitting.

[Loktai]

HALO 1 is 5-10 hours, HALO 2 is like 5 hours HALO 3 is 5-10 hours HALO 4 is the same...

Destiny if you do NOTHING but plow through the story is about 6 hours on NORMAL difficulty and
there are two announced expansions. Two.

HALO games are full priced games and Destiny is a full priced game, why are people holding it to a higher standard than any other bungie game? Dont try to tell me they didnt hype every halo release.. Dude they had mountain dew cans with HALO on them and junk... its a pretty unfair thing to be pissed off at Destiny for being larger in scope than any existing HALO game and still not be good enough.

[avengers1978]

You can spend all day just doing patrol missions, you could spend all day looking for ghost or gold chest, there are side missions, bounties, and strikes, and raids, plus the multiplayer or PVP... While it's nothing special I still enjoy playing that once in awhile. I think destiny is a solid 8, and who knows what expansions will bring.

I would s tell anyone to buy Destiny for something FUN to play.

[its_JEFF]

I find it fascinating that people are still quoting the "$500 Million" figure, especially when that quote was taken out of CONTEXT.

What he, CEO Bobby Kotick, actually said was something like "Destiny is a 10 year game, in the end we may end up spending $500 million on it" Not the exact quote, but that sums it up.

But still, it keeps getting quoted... SMH, the internet is such a powerful tool for knowledge/facts yet not a lot of people seem to use it. They just take a word of one person/article and run with it, never bothering to see if it was in fact true or not.

[OrangePowerz]

They actually said it took them around 18 hours.

[harrisk954]

The problem is that IGN said it took about 18 hours, but (as usual from IGN), this is a poorly written.... the focus of the article is on the Bungie mobile app telling them 6 hours. The author even notes that the app is likely wrong.

[3-4-5]

I'm lvl 18, been playing solo, I've got well over 15 hours in and I'm not even close to beating the story.

* DO THIS:

* Story--Patrol--Crucible---Stri ke---Story

Repeat some variation of that....

It keeps the game fresh and then your not plowing through the Story like it's a checklist.

[ramiuk1]

well i just done reef and i done over 6h40 of the story

[DeadMansHand]

I'm playing every mission on hard with two of my friends. We are 7 hours in and on the second Venus mission. We also explore in between battles. The game is not short by any means.

[mcarsehat]

Bad for an open world game (Supposedly open world.)

I remember Prototype getting a lot of crap for that and it was 15 hours long.

[amnalehu]

Who said Destiny was an open world game?

[Patrick_pk44]

Well you can freely choose to go to a certain planet and it's territory and explore the landscape freely. It's open world in the sense that the world are no stitched together as one, but instead spread into multiple levels.

[mcarsehat]

"Who said Destiny was an open world game? "

Really? that's the answer i got??

[Neixus]

Then stop calling it an MMO if it isn't open world.

[UnwanteDreamz]

MMO stands for

Massive Multiplayer Online

Has zero to do with openworld. Not saying Destiny is an MMO, just saying you dont know what an MMO is.

[amnalehu]

Disagree with a question. That's logical. Per Bungie's own website it clearly says Destiny is an "ACTION" game.

[Kurisu]

Different people play different games at different speeds. All these "it took me this long" articles are pretty annoying.

[once_a_jedi]

I agree. I tend to take at least twice as long as game site reviewers. I don't sit down & play until the game is finished,and I'm fairly certain they get more practice than me.

[HanzoHattori]

I completely agree. The only time that elasped time to complete should matter is when a developer tries to pawn of a demo as an actual game, ah lah Metal Gear Solid GZ.(2 to 3 hours for 30 dollars is kinda steep)

[moegooner88]

18 hours for a first playthrough, sounds great, gonna get it soon.

[listenkids]

This isn't an MMO. This is a £40 game with a boat load of content outside of a standard length story. It has PVP to rival MP focused shooters, and PVE to give loot hungry players something to play for, it's a pretty healthy balance with (supposedly) a lot more to come.

[g-nome]

Means nothing , some people could finish Dark Souls in 1 hour ... took me 100 hrs.

[Run_bare]

LOL, true true, can't argue with that logic.

[-Foxtrot]

You know what bugs me with big sites, just like the Sims 4 when it released instead of reviews we are getting reassurance articles and ones that focus on turning around the criticism of the game

[xReDeMpTiOnx]

Beat the game in about 8hrs including all missions not just story. Already level 22 but still enjoying the game masses

[Tex117]

I think Im about 6 hours and only level 8. Im taking my time with the missions and patrols. Just enjoying the ride.

[StrawberryDiesel420]

I do believe most are rushing just to troll the game, just like Demon's Souls and Dark Souls which are notoriously long games, we see speed runs of people completing the game in under 20mins. We all know for damn sure that those games have a hell of a lot more content than that. This is probably a similar situation.

[MrCherry]

500 million $$$, and I get this? What thiy do with the $$$... if you say you put that $ into a game i'm thinking THE GAME!!! not add's for tv and online and ext.... I had HIGH hopes for the game.

[Loktai]

You dont even own the game... clearly.

[kingdom18]

*Ah 18 then, still not as good as one would think, especially considering how much money went into this.

[StrawberryDiesel420]

MP + Coop, I put over 250 hrs into COD4, MW2=200hs, W@W Blops & Blops 2=750+hrs collectively(mainly due to zombies), MW3=250hrs and Ghosts=150hrs. People bitch about COD but all I know is I get my $60 worth every time. This game seems to be a little light on content in comparison, for me at least. I'm about to jump into TitanFall for the first time tonight, expecting 100's of hours of fun gameplay!

[megajon]

Technically it only takes 5 hours or so to beat Call of Duty yet people put 100s of hours into the game. The PVP in Destiny is enjoyable and, coupled with the loot collecting, should make this game an easy 100 hour game.

[Codewow]

So when is the PC release so I can even consider it?

[pcdaley21]

The game came out on Tuesday and people are saying they've played over 15 hours and it's only now Thursday? Wtf?

[Azzanation]

Theres nothing wrong with the games story length. Theres alot more to it then the story. Remember its also a MMO. TLOU story can also be finished in under 10 hours. I think people are complaining just because they can. Destiny is the best next gen game iv played in 2014, its no Halo killer but it stands it own as a bright new IP with a good future of upcoming content.

[FifthRocketeer]

I don't understand what people are complaining about at all. I have spent 13 hours in game so far. 5ish hours of that in the story, and the rest of it exploring, strikes, and messing around with friends. I am really enjoying it.

Who cares how much Activision spend on the franchise. At the end of the day it's no more expensive to buy than any other next gen game.

And they already have free content coming.

[Father__Merrin]

seems like a game you can get stuck into, it will only get better. a must have game for sure

[gano]

This shyt is garbage.
That truly is 500mil well spent, pay them all.
just saw the ad during the football game, hell the people posting here
to hype got their cut too.

I guess its easy to pay people what to think......