Destiny: The Taken King's New Player Experience Sucks

The new player experience is an aspect of design that serves to not only explain the features of a game, but it also facilitates the enjoyment of the game. There is a minor spoiler in order to clarify some examples.

Bungie's 'The Taken King' expansion for Destiny has injected a wealth of content, streamlining, and intrigue to the game. The Legendary Edition of the game was released as a bundle that packages the base game along with all three DLC's for newer players to jump right in on the action. While the practice of bundling games with post-release content is typical enough with other similarly structured games (such as MMO's), Bungie has yet again neglected to learn from mistakes and wisdom of other titles. In this case the lesson not learned is that of how to maintain a New Player Experience after the base game has been iterated on with several updates.

The Pixel Forecast: New Game Releases (week of 10/12/2015)

(The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone)

        The first major expansion for CD Project Red's The Witcher 3 is out this week. This expansion adds more of almost everything; quests, enemies, equipment, gwent cards, and more. This is the first expansion created for the game and is expected to give players at least 10 hours worth of gameplay. 

 (Dragon Quest: Heroes)

Dragon Quest: Heroes is a spin off to the Dragon Quest franchise which takes famous characters from the series and pits them in an open-field action combat, similar to the likes of Dynasty Warriors. Many of these games have been coming out such as the recent Hyrule Warriors and One Piece: Pirate Warriors. This game is an exclusive to the PlayStation platforms.

Tuesday, Oct 13
Back to the Future: The Game (30th Anniversary Edition)(PS4, XB1, 360, PC)
Corpse Party: Blood Drive (Everafter Edition)(PSVita)
Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below (PS4, PS3)
Jackbox Party Pack 2, The (PS4, PC, XB1)
Legend of Legacy, The (3DS)
Minecraft: Story Mode - Episode 1: The Order of the Stone(PC, PS4, XB1, PSVita, WiiU, 3DS, PS3, 360)
Talos Principle, The (Deluxe Edition)(PS4, PC)
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut (PS4, XB1)
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, The - Heats of Stone (PC, PS4, XB1)

Wednesday, Oct 14
Goosebumps: The Game (XB1, 360)

Friday, Oct 16
Warhammer 40,0000: Deathwatch - Enhanced Edition (PC)

The Pixel Forecast: New Game Releases (week of 9/21/2015)

Interesting game releases this week are rather sparse.

PC will be getting a Final Fantasy V release via Steam. This version of the game will feature updates to the original including a new Interface that looks like it belongs on a smartphone and a devisive graphical update. That being said the content should still be intact

SOMA, for PC, is a science fiction horror game created by the devs who also brought you the Penumbra series and the original Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Look below if you'd like to see a list of other noteworthy or interesting releases for next week.


Tuesday, Sep 22
SOMA (PC)
Blood Bowl 2 (PC, PS4, XONE)
FIFA ’16 (PC, PS4, XONE, PS3, 360)
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 (PS4, XONE)

Wednesday, Sep 23
Extreme Exorcism (PC, PS4, XONE, WiiU, PS3, 360)

Thursday, Sep 24
Final Fantasy V (PC)

Friday, Sep 25
NBA 2k16 (PC, PS4, XONE, PS3, 360)
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS)