Better question: (Destiny)

by Monochron, Friday, October 03, 2014, 07:21 (3947 days ago) @ Revenant1988

Past Bungie, filled with the likes of Staten, Mary, and other quality employees generally did a bang up job of releasing good PvE maps. That statement probably sounds odd so let me explain.

First, Bungie's previous DLC successes have been in releasing new multiplayer maps. They put a lot of effort into designing them and release pretty good new ones. They are trying something completely different with this new DLC however, including Strikes, Raids, and Story missions. They haven't done that before (especially trying to integrate story) so I'm skeptical.

Second, Destiny disappointed me in a way that previous Bungie games never did. I'm not going to attribute that solely to the loss of a couple employees, that would be stupid, but to me there is a clear and disheartening difference between the games Bungie makes now and the games they have made for the past 20ish years. I see it like this, the only evidence of the quality of game that Bungie is currently making is Destiny. There are many aspects of Destiny that disappoint me a lot. It isn't far fetched to assume that Bungie will continue to make games that disappoint me in similar ways. Until they prove me wrong by releasing things that don't disappoint me in that way, I won't be interested.

That last paragraph isn't trying to argue for the objective good-ness of the game. Just saying that to the best of my knowledge, Destiny is a game that will continue to disappoint me. And thus, it isn't for me. Bungie hasn't communicated any issues with Destiny's development ala Halo 2.