:( (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Monday, September 08, 2014, 16:43 (3823 days ago) @ Phoenix_9286

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.

or I could just call it a bad decision, without acting like it's any more or less bad than I actually think it is

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.

Please, the problem with Duke Nukem Forever was bad management.

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's a really bad approach to almost every kind of big project though. You shouldn't start from scratch unless you have to. That makes me think they either didn't and there were other problems (like multiple game-crashing or feature-breaking bugs), or they had to (it could be because Microsoft owns the code and maybe even the code-independent algorithms they came up with during their run with Halo, or because they're working on three systems that are new to them and they want feature parity, or a host of other things).