Is there a world of worlds? (Destiny)

by Robot Chickens, Thursday, November 02, 2017, 14:06 (2657 days ago) @ Durandal

I think it's more a limitation of AI for the mobs in game. Advancing while slowly firing their weapons just isn't impressive. Even then, the fact that most of them can be defeated by bullets, and humans are very good at shooting lots of bullets, still leaves them at a disadvantage.

Well of course that's the real-world explanation. I'm talking about the gamey-explanation where its fun to run around and feel like a super hero. In-game, I'm pretty sure they would OHK non-guardians, so they wouldn't actually be that ineffective and being slow isn't really an issue. Against the light, though, they are outmatched in low numbers. In the real world, it's a very different game to play against snipers that zero in on you from across the map with deadly accuracy (Halo 2 Jackals?). I wouldn't say it's AI limitation though. I'm pretty sure they could make the AI 95% accurate and fire much faster and then we'd be hosed. I forget who said it, but I remember a Bungie member commenting that it's more fun to have lots of energy pulses flying in your face with less damage than having one really deadly attack hit you occasionally. I'm pretty sure Bungie took this to heart in Destiny.

I've often wondered about a sci fi universe that has most other life forms never develop long range weapons, given that those species don't have the hand eye coordination or hunting techniques that humans evolved. Instead every other race tries to close in and claw each other to death with various exotic melee weapons. Then humans come in shooting everything and it throws this massive monkey wrench into the galactic civilization. Too bad I never have time to write it up.

This sounds like a fun piece of fiction.