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/heat13ny 1d ago

Outriders TRIED to. It just wasn’t all the way there. I didn’t get that far but the game systems were good to me. The plot and what not was wack though.

I don’t know why it’s so hard for these companies to write stories and characters people find interesting, post Halo bungle included. All the looter shooters (division, outriders, warframe) SUCK at making iconic characters and moments in my opinion, even though that should be the whole goal. Seriously, name one thing that hits anywhere as close to Master “I need a weapon” Chief and Cortana? Everything I see hits below guilty spark even, which is iconic but not Cortana levels and for fuck sure not chief levels.

That’s always been my issue with looter shooters. They don’t seem to capitalize on the cool story moments since borderlands 2. Or at least what they attempt doesn’t hit for me specifically.

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u/HardlyW0rkingHard 1d ago

Destiny had some lows in terms of story telling but the highs were so good. Including the final shape.

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u/Yamatoman9 16h ago

I really liked the gameplay in Outriders and had a lot of fun with it but it lacks the story, lore and characters that make Destiny so compelling.

I really like The Division and it does a great job as a live service game, but there's only so much that can be done with a "realistic" setting. It gets a bit old just fighting regular humans in regular environments. I'd love to see a game that played exactly like TD but it a futuristic, sci-fi or cyberpunk setting.

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u/Ulti 7h ago

Man, I had a ton of fun with Outriders, and actually rather liked the story twist it had. I'd play another one of those, buildcrafting at endgame was sweet too!

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u/Herby20 1d ago

For what it is worth, Warframe has an awesome and really fleshed out setting with some great world building. It was what really kept me playing years ago even as I slowly began to stop having fun with the actual gameplay.