Despite the insurmountable amount of hype from across the gaming populous, including here at TZR, Destiny is an unequivocal disappointment. Its Metacritic rating on PS4 sits at a 77 (yes, I’m referencing Metacritic despite how unreliable a metric system it is) which aptly represents the divisiveness of how critics have received the game.
Bungie - "Join our development team to see the new updates arriving with Destiny 2: The Final Shape. Releasing on June 4, 2024."
Amid ongoing anxiety within Bungie following layoffs last year, the studio is now preparing for another shakeup, this time on Marathon.
Talk about mismanaged Bungie is a studio of tremendous potential and have made some of the greatest shooters to date. Sony pushed them to just make another Destiny style game and consult on other studios live service games and are now getting thrown under a bus as the pivot away from predominantly gaas games is unfolding.
I'd love to see a world where Bungie can focus on telling great sci fi stories again away from a live service dungeon but we all know that's a pipe dream
Are you serious? Do you just talk out of your arse naturally, or did it take years of being a POS?
You normally get so offended by internet comments or did it take years of being soft
Yes I see your point mate, someone clearly didn’t read the article.
Specifically the bit:
“Notably, multiple sources at the time and since have shared that Sony has largely left the studio to sort out its own troubles and was not responsible for the layoffs, with CEO Pete Parsons taking responsibility.“
He’s just spouting nonsense
lol what so fucking hilarious is that you called him out so bad he projected him being offended onto you.
Its been well documented that Bungie's management has been more responsible for their shortfalls, even mentioned in said article that we are commenting on.
Its ok, just admit you didn't read the article.
I like how for some, it is never Bungie's fault. Microsoft, Activision, and now Sony - it is everyone else who is pushing Bungie to make all these bad decisions.
Thrown under the bus?
Are you joking? This is all Bungie, we all thought it was 100% Activision but it's clear the higher ups at Bungie don't have a clue how to run the studio and are more bothered about saving their own skin and the money that they rake in.
Sony gave them an extra $1.2 Billion to make sure that employees didn't leave and they didn't have to cut anyones jobs. Where did that money go because Bungie still cut peoples jobs and I bet you the higher management still kept a hold of their big fact paychecks and bonuses.
Sony invested poorly in this and the best thing they can do now is throw the old Bungie management out and take hold of the studio fully.
Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Somebody at Bungie is the golden goose making great shooting mechanics, and the rest need to justify their paychecks.
This studio has had three owners and its never worked well with any of them....Management has issues
Worked very well for Microsoft. Microsoft’s mistake was letting Bungie go.
it worked so well with MS that they so wanted to be away from them they bought the company back. Only to do it again with activision-blizzard, and then sold to Sony...Sony shouldn't have bought them...Bungie hasnt been the same for a long time..
Destiny 2’s game director Joe Blackburn is stepping down ahead of The Final Shape, leaving Tyson Green to take the reins of the PS5 and Xbox FPS.
As someone who bought every story DLC for DESTINY 2 but not every season. the first thing I would do as game director is , if anybody pre-orders The ?Final Shape , they will be able to play all older DLC and seasons with purchase of FINAL SHAPE. . I think that would bring back a lot of DESTINY 2 plsyers who have not experienced the seasons a chance to play season activities before Final Shape comes out.
I agree but I was just able to get all dlcs for 50 on steam. (Have it on PlayStation but don't always have access to the TV)
"The Queen’s Wrath vendor not only asks for your commitment, but they’re also only offering rare weapons instead of legendaries. So you mean to tell me that you want me to put my Crucible reputation grind on hold just so that I can waste my time for some measly RARE weapons? Get the fuck outta here."
This person is very misinformed. But here's the truth.
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"Completing these bounties also earns you a special currency, one specific to the Queen’s Wrath event, that you can spend with the Queen’s emissary, a new Tower vendor. As with Vanguard/Crucible, completing bounties eventually ranks you up. At rank one, you’ve only got access to cosmetic items — emblems and shaders, specifically — as well as a 10-percent boost to Queen reputation gains. The second rank unlocks unique class armor and powerful weapons for purchase, and the third rank opens up even more powerful weapons." - http://www.digitaltrends.co...
Can't break queens mission legendarys down for shards anymore, every legendary you get is class specific so putting in you're inventory for future different class builds is a no go. Also there's the fact that you can only get a helmet and chest piece ( no guantletes or leggings ) and a sniper rifle ( which is rediculously hard to get atleast for me, completed 10 queens missions and still no sniper rifle :( such a waste of time considering all you get for doing the mission is useless duplicates of legendary gear. Mise well do strikes and get vanguard rank/ rep instead to push getting to rank 3. Or do bounties and unlock exotic bountys. By making queens mission legendarys not break down into any ascended shards they've made it absolutely pointless to do the missions. Seems like Bungie keeps messing up when they're trying to fix stuff. They're so afraid of people maxing at level 30 and realizing without grinding destiny has zero content/story and substance. Funny how because ascended shards are impossible to get im going to be stuck at 27 forever and never get to even expierence the weekly night strike or raids.
Also at above why get to queen rank 3 when you can get to vanguard rank 3 which has every legendary weapon. So even with rank 3 queens items it's still pointless.
"Destiny is an unequivocal disappointment."
And yet, here they are writing articles about Destiny and playing Destiny.
Remind me of a friend that broke up with his girl friend and said: I don't want to know anything about her; and yet he was talking all day about her.
Just because you've logged 80 hrs doesn't mean it was enjoyable, some people like me are just super stubborn and figured I should atleast get to level 28/29 before I throw in the towel like all my friends. Cause I know if Bungie actually fixes the game and adds dlc im going to want to jump back in at some point and I dont want to be at a crap level when I do ; however getting to level 28/29/30 without having a giant horseshoe up you're ass or grinding for monthes until you're brain turns to liquid and you want to murder Peter dinklage for sounding like the biggest tool ever.
My theory of why there's so many level 28/29s out there is because they were smart enough to do every queens bounty/queens mission for legendaries that break down into three ascended shards at once. If you do the math and say you get 15 queen legendaries break them that's like 45 shards decide that by 6 and that's atleast two pieces of armor you can fully max out. Pisses me off that I foolishly thought Bungie intended for us to get shards for the queens mission legendarys since it's impossible to get many ascended shards. Bungie doesn't realize that the only cool thing about destiny is the idea of leveling up and getting cool gear maxed out without that game has nothing zero sunstance. Robot is lame and only has a few lines. Game is just so brain numbingly repetitive. Can't grind much longer for a game with zero substance.
Bungie was suppouse to sell me on why I should give a crap about the world of destiny is why should I fear and hate the darkness why should I respect the traveller or speaker. Why should I be a guardian for people in city I have not see. Or met any of the occupants. Why don't the fallen, cobal, vex, hive, have any identity ( don't talk don't know where their from or anything except they like to fight with anyone or anything ) even in halo the elites talked in some form. So much potential lost in Bungie crappy attempt at mystery that just ends up painting the futuristic humans as pathetic morons that know nothing about their enemy or savior. For all I care humans could get destroyed considering they're useless without the travellera mysterious power gifts and know absolutely nothing about the many things that threaten their existence. Also why can't I question PVE's for answers.