Behind the scenes development meeting ;) (Destiny)
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.