:( (Destiny)

by Phoenix_9286 , Monday, September 08, 2014, 00:21 (3824 days ago) @ General Vagueness

Destiny is (no duh) a different, new, game. There's no precedent for any of the customization options. We're starting new, and the new standard is preset, precolored emblems and preset, predesignated shader colors. It's disappointing to be sure, but it's silly to be angry about it because it was never any different.

That's also a good point, but I'm pretty sure a lot of other games let you pick your armor colors and tons of games let you pick an emblem or some picture to represent yourself without having to jump through hoops, so it would make sense to expect it in that context. Also I said I'm not angry, I just don't know why I'm not.

Chalk it up to them trying something new then. Or take Cody's side and call it one of Tyson Green's horrible Investment System decisions.

It took Halo what, four games and ten years to get all the features and customization we loved? I'm anticipating a similar trajectory with Destiny. In ten years we'll probably have all manner of new features this game doesn't, and Guardian customization will probably have exploded. Afterall, we've got armor, Sparrows, and ships. How cool would it be ten years from now to load your ship in the hangar, and GTA style start swapping out parts and painting it? Shaders are disappointing now, but I've got a good feeling they're just the gateway to something better.

I have a feeling you're right, but I slightly expected, and very, very much hoped, that since they had worked all that out with Halo, they wouldn't start from scratch all over again, because they know what people want, they have that experience, I would hope they have working code or at least fairly fleshed out pseudocode but that might get into copyright issues... most of all, they had time. They had all the time they wanted, unless they cut an unwise deal with Activision. (Also, I really don't want to wait ten years for this stuff, I would hope it would be in the very next game.)

Time? I think Duke Nukem Forever showed us what "all the time they wanted" gets you. Deadlines are good. Deadlines mean things get done. Deadlines mean you have to make decisions. Yeah, they know people want Forge, and Custom Games, and Films, but this isn't Halo 2.0, or even Halo 10.0. Destiny is an entirely different animal, built, I have to assume, largely from scratch and definitely from the ground up, to be a thing Halo never was. That means a literal ton of new systems had to be built and tested. Systems that take priority over old luxuries because they're Mission Critical. You start with your Must Haves, then you build your Wish List. Maybe all those old luxuries were on the Wish List. Maybe they had to be axed because the resources being devoted to them needed to be reallocated. Maybe with the time remaining to work on Wish List items it was infeasible to develop solutions to integrate our old favorites.