A Thought About Destiny's Reception (Destiny)

by car15, Monday, September 15, 2014, 13:07 (3733 days ago) @ bluerunner
edited by car15, Monday, September 15, 2014, 13:11

Point taken. I'll try to post less.

Although frankly... and I know this is going to start some shit, but I'll go crazy if I don't say it... I think the fact that this is a fan site means that a lot of you are willing to give Bungie a pass, or the benefit of the doubt, on some shit that you'd never tolerate from other developers. Case in point, the story. We're told to be patient because the story will expand with time, but if a game from any other developer shipped with a story this poorly presented, would you give them that same benefit of the doubt.

I don't know. I'm probably being unfair, and I apologize for that. I've said this before, but I have realized that I'm not exactly a Bungie supporter so much as I am just a big fan of their games. Frankly, the company itself kind of pisses me off. This is going to be an angry mini-rant, so skip past it if you don't want to read that sort of thing. Recent behind-the-scenes drama notwithstanding, what kind of hubris does it take to declare that your game will be "bigger than Halo" when you haven't backed that up at all with a competent demonstration of the game? They're so hyperbolic in the way they talk about themselevs and their work that it actually harms the reception of their games upon release. People expected so much from Destiny because they wouldn't shut up about how big and revolutionary it was, but they also wouldn't provide any solid information on the game. Maybe they should have fucking toned it down a notch and talked about things like the importance of loot/grinding or the basic flow of the game? You know, to actually give people an idea of what the game is actually like? And then the hubris it takes to go on about how amazing your game is when every mission in a given mode follows the exact same pattern...

Destiny isn't for me. I know that and I've said that many, many, many times. (Sorry for that. Like I said, I'll try to tone it down.) But I think Bungie isn't for me either.

Either that or they're just really, phenomenally bad at marketing. Destiny is a hard game to describe, but nobody had any idea what the hell it was before the beta, and that could have been remedied with more demonstrations of the orbit UI and the general flow of the game.

(Typed on my phone so it's an organizational and grammatical mess.)