There's Never Going to Be a "Destiny-Killer"

Ed writes: For years, the gaming community has proclaimed that Destiny-Killers are coming, but heading into year six of Destiny, nothing has knocked it off.

[SeanScythe]

Destiny 2, I traded that in after a few months of collecting dust.

[gangsta_red]

That's a shame because I feel like that formula could be easily replicated and improved upon.

[-Foxtrot]

Isn't it killing its self.

[The_Sage]

@ Title. I don't know... Check this out.
https://youtu.be/4eeQh5_UH3...

[Godmars290]

"Do you want to know more?"

[Abnor_Mal]

Just watched the movie last week, a modern science fiction classic.

Become a citizen.

[SpineSaw]

Pssst! This seems to be a secret that not many know................ BUNGIE is REPEATEDLY KILLING DESTINY!

[Godmars290]

How does one kill something that killed itself?

[Jsm89k]

Wouldn’t it have to be a killer game to begin with? I mean I’m not a fan of borderlands but maybe that’s the game to try n kill.

[drunkenspy007]

Sure, but it plays to a fan base that still shrinking because there are so many better things to move on to. Only a few desperate stragglers continue to hang on to games like these. It's not new behavior. They'd rather keep plucking that boring chicken than admitting that they've wasted hours and hours of their lives on nothing. Literally, virtually, nothing

[EDKICK]

Well, almost every GAAS service game released since Destiny has looked to replicate Destiny's grind, monetization, and dlc rollout to eventually complete the game. Instead of taking any interesting elements of Destiny that Bungie took from games like Borderlands and Halo.

[execution17]

I'd like to see where they take the series now since they won't have Activision hovering over them

[WickedLester]

Destiny has been killing me for 6 years

[OneEyedSteve]

Warframe has always been better, Destiny isn't anywhere near as good, Warframe is so much more advanced. What's funny is Destiny 2 has cost people £100+? Warframe which has 50x more content costs £0. Madness. Love Destiny 1 though, but 2 is just bad, riddled with issues and badly unbalanced, they took everything fun from D1 and threw it away,

[Dragonopolis]

Actual I'm still waiting for a true no lobby necessary just join in with your
faction/group/whatever naming scheme that plays smoothly like destiny. Destiny was advertised to be single player or you can just join with someone already on the battlefield.

Turned out just limited to small specific area and wasn't a significant feature in the game. Mostly just normal lobbies and raiding and matchmaking was either non existant or not implemented as cleaning as other games.

There was a game I tried I believe it was Defiance overall not a well developed game but had some great moments.... I could see an event as did others in the game who are not connected to you. We hop in our 4 wheelers and head to an event no lobbies or matchmaking no event activation period the event already started we all had to get there in time... The event is completed another event pops up you could choose to go with the others or go off no lobbies or groups to leave you just drove off going your own way..... It was so cool watching a large group off 4 wheelers heading off to an event to bad the developers broke their own game it basically became unplayable.....

In destiny you have events and you can follow people you have to activate the event and wait... anyway that part is similar but if you try to follow to follow them to a non event area and they disappear sorry your on the same side but only one assigned team can enter no help from your other teams who are also heading in the same direction.

Basically there is a lot that can be Done to improve on the Destiny model when it comes to multiple players interacting in the game. Destiny 2 did improve a bit with multiplayer interactions compared to Destiny but it still feels confined. Also in Destiny it appears we are on the same side but the reality is there's really no unity and we are really competing with ourselves and don't care about Earth, Humans, and working together to rid ourselves of the invaders or solving any real problems.

Destiny model can be improved...

It's still a fun game and the new content is some of their best improvements yet......

[Xaevi]

Isn't that BORDERLANDS 3? basically the father of looter shooters. Destiny killed itself, and paved the way for more shitty online focused looter shooters that have been equally as shite. But BORDERLANDS showed em all how it's done, and yet not a single one comes close to what this game managed to do 10 years ago

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Bungie: Hold my beer

[NeoGamer232]

Destiny definitely has a cult following.

But, the only reason there will be no Destiny killer is because Destiny is no killer game for many people.

My reaction when I first played Destiny was.... "Bungie left MS to create this? They could've did about 90% of this game within the confines of the Halo IP. And in fact, a good 70% of Destiny is essentially a Halo engine."

[Dark-soul]

Yup its like wow, nothing can beat it, it can only kill itself

[WorldGamer]

Destiny committed hara-kiri a while back. The Destiny universe has always had great potential for story and gameplay, just seems like the internal nonsense really hampered Bungie. Hopefully this sad episode can be remedied in future releases.

[Chocoburger]

1) "Never" is a long time.
2) Destiny 1 and 2 weren't any good since the beginning. Why would anyone want to focus their energy trying to out-do (i.e. "kill" which is a stupid way to put it, but whatever) a lame game series to begin with? Developers should be focusing on making GOOD GAMES, not Destiny-killing games.

[AK91]

I like The Divison better than Destiny tbh