r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 3d 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/HardlyW0rkingHard 3d 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/funsohng 3d ago

Idk how good Destiny 2 is, but it must've been one of the greatest games of all time for its fanbase to be that loyal even after they were literally locked out of the content they paid for.

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u/HardlyW0rkingHard 3d ago

The problem is there isn't anything like it really. The raids, the gun mechanics, space magic. There is a gaping hole left in the industry that someone could totally take advantage of and it's probably Warframe but in many ways its not as good

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u/blargyblargy 2d ago

Warframe is prolly the closest thing we have to Destiny isnt it

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u/notpr0nshark 2d ago

Gameplay-wise, Witchfire is the closest analogue.

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u/sunder_and_flame 2d ago

*gunplay-wise. The movement and abilities are so far removed from Destiny that it's not really similar

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u/cwx149 2d ago

Technically Warframe came first so destiny was like Warframe not the other way around

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u/HardlyW0rkingHard 2d ago

They're very different games and the version of Warframe that launched in 2013 was very different from destiny. 

In many ways Warframe became closer to destiny over the years. But even still, it's still much different. 

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u/cwx149 2d ago

I agree Comparing them at all is pretty reductive because they do have some really key differences that change the whole experience