Cultured Vultures: Ya boy Brian has some things he wants to get off his chest about a game that he loves.
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.
1. Story: It's not the greatest narrative agreed, but it's head and shoulders above the first and entertaining enough for a game where our goal is to blitz past the story and get to end game anyway.
2. Jumping: Jumping is fine. The negatives of jumping outlined in the article are the same for any game. Fall off a cliff?? Jumping won't help. Miss timed your jump?? of course it's not gonna jump properly.
3. PVP: Not bad. Harder for non clan players in this one but it's still a fun part of the game. You're playing control wrong. Why would split the team up?? At most you should be doing 2 and 2 to capture 2 points but in general go around as a whole team. Also killing is still very important in control. The reason for capturing the control points is so your kills get more points. Got one or less captures?? That's 1 point per kill while your opponents are getting 2-3 points per kill.
4. Shaders: Agreed. They shouldn't have gotten rid of permanent shaders, especially seeing as people spend money on bright engrams for them. I also don't like that I need multiple of the same shader to fully shade(?) my guardian because each one can only apply to one piece of gear.
I feel the worst thing about Destiny 2 is the end game drop off. You work towards a lot leading up to the higher level Light but around 270 it gets pretty difficult and grindy to get any higher.
Ugh, this article is bad.
Personally the only thing I don't agree with is the jumping argument. The story is a massive improvement over the first. Sure, it is cliched but it's simple and tells it through to the end. PvP is just ok if you're really into the competitive side of things.