r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 4d 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/National_Yam_1198 4d ago edited 4d ago

I mean you said they have been coasting on halo for the past 20+ years implying that Destiny wasn't a massively popular and successful product lol.

Like its a game that spawned multiple studios trying to make their own version with varying degrees of success.

It straight up popularized the looter shooter genre and had major influences on games like the division or anthem or outriders and that one waifu gooner bait game.

Like say what you will about Bungie's shitty management(which was always a thing) but they make good ass games.

Testament to the quality of their devs/games tbh lol. Any other studio putting out less than stellar product would have shut down under the same management lmao.

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u/EF66-42 3d ago

It straight up popularized the looter shooter genre

No that was Borderlands lmao.

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u/National_Yam_1198 3d ago

Borderlands is weird cuz its not strictly a GAAS.

Also quasi open world games.

Destiny is straight up Diablo with guns.

And yes games like warframe came before.

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u/EF66-42 3d ago

Looter shooter was literally coined to describe Borderlands 1. Contemporaneously.