Jason Jones' vision realized? (Destiny)

by Robot Chickens, Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 13:25 (2713 days ago) @ Ragashingo

I seem to remember him talking/pushing a lot for the goal of meeting people out in the wild and having brief adventures that flowed in and out of the spaces in the world. It was really rare for anything substantive to happen in D1 and often, it felt like the payoff wasn't worth the sacrifice that it required. Do you want an engaging space with enemies that move fluidly and are thoughtfully placed? Too bad, that costs too many resources, but you can shoot at these 5 guys who spawn exactly the same way with a rando. I had fun and definitely had some encounters with other guardians that justified the shared world, but I kept feeling like patrol spaces might have been better if they were locked to a fireteam rather than networked.

I think with D2, the payoff is finally there. Not only in patrol spaces, but the mission in the streets uses other guardians well too. There is emergent gameplay as people pull different activities together and chaos ensues. I think this is what Jones wanted and dreamed of, but the tech just wasn't there at the time. I have no regrets about my time spent with D1, but D2 just feels like a more realized vision.