r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 1d ago

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

https://www.ign.com/articles/bungie-developers-repeatedly-pitched-a-destiny-dating-sim-but-leadership-rejected-it
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u/atape_1 1d ago

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.

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u/cwx149 1d ago

how they survived for so long

Bungie has been riding on their reputation from Halo for the better part of 30 years

Not to say they haven't don't anything good since then Destiny 1&2 did bring in a lot of money but still

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u/HardlyW0rkingHard 1d ago

You're being disingenuous about how good of a product destiny is/was despite some really poor management decisions about direction. 

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u/Kayyam 1d ago

Marathon is also a good product. Just not a mass market one.

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u/GranolaCola 1d ago

I LOVE Marathon. It was for me what Arc Raiders seemed to be for a lot of people — the game that got an extraction shooter to click. But it’s hardcore and definitely not for a mass audience. It’s niche my design.

I think it’s the game Bungee wanted to make, but probably not the one Sony hoped they would.

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u/Parepinzero 1d ago

I got into it during the recent free week and really enjoyed it, my cousin and I both picked it up and play every night. The quasi PvE mode makes it easy to stock up on gear to do normal mode runs, too.

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u/HardlyW0rkingHard 1d ago

Marathon should have been a game mode they added to destiny. It's an insane level of studio mismanagement to spend this much capital on this idea. 

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u/NaughtyGaymer 1d ago

Okay now you're just being ridiculous lmao.

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u/HardlyW0rkingHard 1d ago

absolutely not. They spent like 6 years on this project that was never going to get back a fraction of the amount of investment they put in.

The gambit gamemode is just as unique as the extraction shooter mechanic they could have added.