Behind the scenes development meeting ;) (Destiny)

by Schedonnardus, Texas, Friday, September 26, 2014, 08:30 (3948 days ago)

TYSON: Why don't they have grinding in FPS's?

JONES: What do you need grinding for?

TYSON: Grinding is now the number one driver of replayability.

JONES: You know why? Because people like to say "grind." "Excuse me, do you grind?" "We need more grinding." "Where is the grind? No grind?"

TYSON: See, this should be a game. This is the game.

JONES: What?

TYSON: This. Just grinding.

JONES: (dismissing) Yeah, right.

TYSON: I'm really serious. I think that's a good idea.

JONES: Just grinding? Well what's the game about?

TYSON: It's about grinding.

JONES: No story?

TYSON: No forget the story.

JONES: You've got to have a story.

TYSON: Who says you gotta have a story? Remember when we were just walking through the park looking at scenery? That could be a mission.

JONES: And who is in game? Who are the characters?

TYSON: I could be a character.

JONES: You?

TYSON: Yeah. You could base a character on me.

JONES: So, in the game, there's a character named Tyson Green?

TYSON: Yeah. There's something wrong with that? I'm a character. People are always saying to me, "You know you're a quite a character."

JONES: And who else is in the game?

TYSON: Lorriane could be a character. Carney..

JONES: Now he's a character. (Pause) So everybody I know is a character in the game.

TYSON: Right.

JONES: And it's about grinding?

TYSON: Absolutely grinding.

JONES: So you're saying, I go in to Activision, and tell them I got this idea for a game about grinding.

TYSON: We go into Activision.

JONES: "We"? Since when are you a writer?

TYSON: (Scoffs) Writer. We're talking about a video game.

JONES: You want to go with me to Activision?

TYSON: Yeah. I think we really got something here.

JONES: What do we got?

TYSON: An idea.

JONES: What idea?

TYSON: An idea for the game.

JONES: I still don't know what the idea is.

TYSON: It's about grinding.

JONES: Right.

TYSON: Everybody's doing story, we'll do grinding.

JONES: So, we go into Activision, we tell them we've got an idea for a game about grinding.

TYSON: Exactly.

JONES: They say, "What's your show about?" I say, "Grinding."

TYSON: There you go.

(A moment passes)

JONES: (Nodding) I think you may have something there.

I love playing Destiny, just wanted to make a friendly jab vis a vis the story and grinding.