Also (Destiny)

by Earendil, Sunday, March 22, 2015, 02:09 (3782 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Sure! I remember being in awe at all the features Halo 3 was going to come with. I remember thinking that even if some other "Halo killer" manages to ship a decent single player they'd also have to contend with Halo's multiplayer. And if they somehow also managed to do that they'd need to rework their engines to provide Theater Mode functionality. And if they did all three of those they'd still need to support something like Forge. It was an amazingly complete package. Destiny... isn't.

What I'm about to say shouldn't be taken as "Shutup and be happy", just perspective.
Halo 3 used the Halo 2 engine. The artwork was updated, but design was iterative, not brand new. bungie had time and creative will to take new steps and add not just the basics of a game, but all the additions that tack in well to a solid game.

Destiny feels incomplete, yes. But Bungie could spend the next two years not updating the engine or game mechanics, and just give me missions, story, and a few new bad guys here and there, and if be completely happy. If be happy because the game core is not broken, only the amount of things surrounding it.

The first Halo didn't have forge. It didn't even have Internet play! Bungie's previous two games had match made Internet. It worked in 56k modems! But Bungie nailed the core game, and I feel like they nailed Destiny's as well.

It's still up to Bungie to make Destiny a game really work remembering. I would not think as fondly of "Halo" if they stopped after the first game.