Absolutely (Destiny)

by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Thursday, June 01, 2017, 19:07 (2822 days ago) @ Xenos

It does. Watch any of the interviews about Destiny 2. They constantly talk about Destiny as a game they play every night and how that strongly affects the development process. They care about this stuff just as much as we do.

There are either two possibilities:

1. You are right, and the people making the large scale decisions at Bungie simply have poor taste. It's possible they like toxic investment systems.

2. You are wrong, and they are including these portions of the game precisely because they hook you, yet make the game worse.

I will be much more receptive to this idea when Bungie makes a game that has no grind, manipulation, or investment elements.

3. They have different tastes than you, and Cody isn't always right :-p

I think most of the people on the forum would agree that most of the decisions since launch have improved the game not made it worse. And as usual Cody, you need to learn that there isn't a universal truth of what makes games good.

Perhaps this might add a new light to this, or maybe not, but...

A recurring desire of mine is to code up an RPG or Dungeon Crawler from scratch (or to rewrite one Slycrel & I wrote decades ago). I don't know why this appeals to me so much, I don't really play many RPGs and I detest many of the basic design elements of RPGs, but building one is just so very appealing to me.

Back when Slycrel and I were writing our game (called Slycrel) we played it TONS. We really loved playing it. It was FUN playing something you created yourself, it also provided extra motivation to fix, improve, and embellish the game. I totally get it when Bungie employees state their feelings when it comes to playing and working on their games.