Understanding how Destiny will play

by electricpirate , Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 09:25 (4363 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I don't know, if true this is going to be very disappointing. I don't recall anybody ever saying anything like 'Myth will be very much like xxxx' or 'Halo looks a lot like yyyyy'. Most of Bungie's games were kind of their own thing that other later games were compared to, not the other way around. The ones that weren't (Marathon being compared to Doom) were at last compared to groundbreaking good games, rather than the bland garbage that is bored-er-lands. If you are inspired, shouldn't you at least be inspired by good shit?

Really? Nearly all of Bungie's game's were compared to other games. Myth was just Warcraft with no economy, Halo was just Tribes for consoles, Marathon was just doom with a story etc.

Inevitably these comparisons don't end up panning out. While at a high level Bungie games have a ton of similarities, they always end up with hosts of mechanical and design points that set them apart. Scores of little innovations are the Bungie signature, not having crazy high concept ideas.

In many ways, Destiny's crazy social connectivity/ shared world elemenents have the potential to be a bigger single innovation than anything they've done previously.