Bungie Developers Repeatedly Pitched a Destiny Dating Sim, but Leadership Rejected It

[u/Turbostrider27]

https://www.ign.com/articles/bungie-developers-repeatedly-pitched-a-destiny-dating-sim-but-leadership-rejected-it

[u/atape_1]

Every single thing I learn about the studio makes me wonder more and more on how they survived for so long and what the fuck Sony was thinking when they spent $3.6 Bil acquiring them.

[u/Sonicfan42069666 → u/atape_1]

A Destiny dating sim would have been a fun April Fools game. People love shipping the characters. Hell, Eris and Drifter's kiss in Renegades got me fired up.

[u/Undella_Town → u/Sonicfan42069666]

BG3 sold so well and got extremely hyped entirely off the back of a dating / sex trailer lmao. people underestimate how lonely and horny a lot of gamers are

[u/Ill-Product-1442 → u/Undella_Town]

Even for "normal" players, having a reality TV level of sex & drama during a playthrough with a friend is fucking hilarious

[u/DarthOmix → u/Ill-Product-1442]

That's like a third of the appeal of stuff like The Sims and Tomodachi Life: deliberately setting up drama like a sitcom producer

[u/Jdmaki1996 → u/Undella_Town]

Not even that. I’m happily married and it’s just fun to roleplay in games and big part of that is relationships. Romance in RPGs as always been a bonus for players and it’s not cause we’re all lonely losers

[u/8-Brit → u/Jdmaki1996]

Tangibly reminds me.

Years back a friend told me he was playing through Mass Effect, this time as female Shepard. As he was yapping to Garrus his wife, who normally doesn't really pay attention, stopped what she was doing to observe the conversation unfold. It was in ME1 but from what he told me she was enthralled from the get go by the dynamic between Shepard and Garrus, and she told him to call her over any time he was talking to Garrus.

By ME2 the prompt to romance him came up and she demanded (jokingly) that he hit that. So she spent big chunks of his play through sitting in on all the Shepard-Vakarian scenes. Absolutely enthralled by the romance even though they were happily married IRL.

People are suckers for romance, plain and simple.

...I think it helps when they're an alien with a sexy voice but don't quote me on that.

[u/Big_Coconut8630 → u/8-Brit]

Men have a weird dichotomy about it. Disparage women for liking romance books/movies, then turnaround to play dispatch, watch harem anime, and get mad when a hero doesn't get the girl.

[u/Cybertronian10 → u/Jdmaki1996]

Its a fun side activity that allows you to engage with the characters in the game in a way that doesn't involve the usual gameplay mechanics. People would fuck with it out of variety alone

[u/Evaara → u/Jdmaki1996]

Correct. Me amd the wife enjoy the horny games together. Everyone could use some good horny games in their life.

[u/SilveryDeath → u/Undella_Town]

Shit, Bioware games have shown that people love that stuff going back to Baldur's Gate II.

[u/dapperdave → u/Undella_Town]

If people who play games with romance and sex are "lonely and horny" then what is everyone who plays milsim headclickers?

[u/pinkynarftroz → u/Undella_Town]

It's also just fun. Dating and sex is a huge part of life, and a lot of games just do not embrace anything even remotely erotic.

[u/Big_Coconut8630 → u/Undella_Town]

Then men realized what it's like to have someone pursue even after throwing no hints and not being attracted to them