One of the oddest moments in the Destiny 2 beta was the cutscene leading into the intro mission, where your Ghost chatters away at you as you fly a ship and your Guardians then turns and says….nothing in response.
Your Guardian continues not to speak throughout the other parts of the beta, even as everything goes to hell all around them and everyone they know and love is in mortal danger. The entire story mission ends without them uttering a single line.
PlayStation has scaled back expectations for Bungie after reassessing Destiny 2 development costs, highlighting the risks tied to live-service games.
Honestly Thank Goodness!! Yet another good sign of a possibility of returning to what made them great and undoing Jim Tyans trend chasing love service gamble. Still gotta wait and see just what direction they're going but this is a good sign in my book that they're not betting it all on live service anymore
Not sure what you lot are talking about anymore. They need to cover all range of games. Im primarily a single player gamer, but even I cannot be daft enough to ignore the fact that we need all manner of games including live service games. Everyone here seems to be a market expert.
Yes "all manner" not just exclusively live service like Jim was doing, but you also shouldn't be forcing devs to make games they not only have no experience making, but also flatout dont want to do.
Assuming that anything like that is actually the case and not just a perception of n4g commenters of course.
@isarai_lee
Yes "all manner" not just exclusively live service like Jim was doing.
I don't understand why you people have to keep making up lies. You can say you don't like some or most of their focus being on live service games, but to say they were exclusively focusing on live service games is pure copium. At most half of their games were live service and the rest were single player games. Seriously why lie about something so obvious?
@Redemption-64
You say that as if we don't have word directly from Jim Ryan and PlayStation stating they wanted at least 12 live service games released within a year. Followed by tons of official word of those Live Service games being cancelled after he was pushed out. All studios combined at the time PS had 15 studios, 12 is a hell of a lot more than half of 15, and it was definitely their primary focus evident by the fact that a huge portion of their studios have taken uncharacteristically long to release or announce anything since, hell some studios have yet to release anything this gen almost 6 YEARS LATER! The only one making stuff up is you.
It may take a while but maybe they are finally learning. Good! Now stop with the live service crap.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a live service here or there, but to have many of your studios start focusing on it when there has been little to no experience among them was wild.
They say this and then immediately release news of the Horizons co-op game that will definitely be a Live Service game.
I feel like they knew that given the fact that the very furst thing they say in the trailer is to reassure they still make so games 😆
I feel like they knew that given the fact that the very first furst thing they say in the trailer is to reassure they still make so games 😆
They will not. Destiny has been popular for over 10 years, something most games can never hope to achieve. Most people, including myself those Bungie was going to make a D3 after the final shape DLC. Marathon looks to be a hit and a D3 announcement could break records.
Patch notes for Update 9.5.0.5, the one about Equilibrium fixes and more, are now available.
A new survey shows Destiny 2 is considering adding Sparrow Racing League, unvaulted campaigns, NPC sidekicks, new PvP and Gambit modes, and much more.
No i like that, I really like a strong supporting cast of characters and mute protagonist.
Just recently one of the most highest rated game in years, Legend of Zelda Breath of wild , had a MUTE protagonist as well. Nintendo gets it, bethesda use to get it, and bungie gets it as well. Half life 2 was also another famous game that did it.
Mute protagonist really immerses myself with that character and makes it when the character does say something once or twice it is very important.Master Chief in halo 1-3 was the perfect example of what a "mute" character should be, he did talk but it was very rare and it was important.
"But another problem with Destiny 2 is that this decision doesn’t really make you a mute protagonist because instead, it makes your Ghost, Nolanbot, your voice instead. Characters speak to you, but it’s Ghost who responds instead. Ghost has sort of been your voice for a while now in Destiny, as your character did only have a handful of lines in the original game, but now it’s official. We’re mute, he’s our floating response box. And I’m not wild about that idea."
I really hate that idea. At least with many other mute protagonists it's heavily implied that they do speak but the player doesn't hear them.
I agree with this article when it says "which feels like a cost-saving measure more than anything, with Bungie being able to avoid recording identical lines for the different races and genders."
Well... since it is an online-heavy game, aren't *you* technically the voice of the protagonist?
Mute protagonists don't have to be an issue, but the game does need to have a great cast of supporting characters and a pretty solid story. Dead Space may be one of the best examples of a great mute character. As is GTA III.
They don't want to waste money...they are being cheap. I mean that's why it looks like a simple expansion to the first game.