Destiny 2 - Place your bets on how many $40 DLC packs we'll get this time.

[Barleys]

 

[P-38 autist]

Remember when they had Peter Dinklage totally phoning it in as a selling point?

I remember the good old days of Dinklebot

 

[StacticShock]

If you were playing Destiny 2 after they started sunsetting content people paid for, you're genuinely retarded.

pretty much, i might login on the game to spit on their graves but it means deleting a few games that i actually have fun playing because they are singleplayer, once i get bored with them i guess, for now i spit on bungie on the farms.

Aww. Well I wish him luck.

i mean there is nothing stopping him from doing some work here and there even as a politician.

 

[Pod 042]

I remember the good old days of Dinklebot

After replaying all of the D1 campaign I kinda miss dinklebot. The flat, panned and somewhat cold delivery of the lines worked better for the setting. Better than nu-ghost who marvel quips every 5 minutes.

 

[Berrakh]

Peter Dinklage probably thinks voice work is beneath him or some shit. He was Scourge in Rise of the Beasts and he phoned it in in that movie as well.

It’s funny to consider that Ben Kingsley was considered a pretentious actor. An academy award winner who will be in all sorts of shlock and still do his job.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

I adore Kingsley, I always light up when I see he's in the cast of the low budged garbage I watch.

Should've been the live action Jafar.

 

[StacticShock]

After replaying all of the D1 campaign I kinda miss dinklebot. The flat, panned and somewhat cold delivery of the lines worked better for the setting. Better than nu-ghost who marvel quips every 5 minutes.

dinklebot being phoned in is alright if you consider him a jaded character who has seen the guardians he revives permadying and shieet but fuck that little shit, i'm sure many small stature actors hate that fucking midget after he pulled the ladder.

It’s funny to consider that Ben Kingsley was considered a pretentious actor. An academy award winner who will be in all sorts of shlock and still do his job.

so jason statham minus the action focus?

 

[Leakage Current]

Funnily enough, in the original grimiore from 2015, Aurash becoming a pooner was framed as something horrible and disgusting even for the hive that was only achieved by the corrupting power of the darkness(tm). surprised bango didn't try and reframe it as not disgusting

If actual pooners looked like Oryx I'd be more inclined to give them a pass.

 

[Jace on ice]

Fallout 76 outlived Destiny 2.

Todd wins again.

 

[Steven Chapman]

Fallout 76 outlived Destiny 2.

Todd wins again.

Unironically.

Bethesda is better at live service slop than Bungie is.

 

[Leakage Current]

All that said, Destiny still had potential, once the greats were gone. The guts I mentioned earlier were given life by the Grimoire/backstory writers, most notably for the Books of Sorrow. (Amusingly enough, there's even a grimoire card that points out Muslims are going to take over everything). All of it is amazing, and none of them were ever hired for the main games. Bungie instead hired fat women (not even joking) to make generic villains shout "NOOOOOO" or trans Yaoi robots ride surfboards.

It's insane how they pissed away all their good writers. Seth Dickinson wrote Books of Sorrow and I distinctly remember posts on his Twitter about Bungie not re-hiring him/paying like shit/etc.

 

[Swine Schwein]

It's insane how they pissed away all their good writers

The difference in quality between certain grimoire/lore bits and actual in-game storytelling+dialogue is astounding. One is intriquing and skillful while the other is bloated, pompous faggot bullshit about feelings written by self-congratulating Reddit Karens. It's fucking awful.

 

[Leakage Current]

The difference in quality between certain grimoire/lore bits and actual in-game storytelling+dialogue is astounding. One is intriquing and skillful while the other is bloated, pompous faggot bullshit about feelings written by Reddit Karens. It's fucking awful.

Destiny always had the "main story" dumbed down and all the juicy stuff in the lore. An understandable decision, even if I hate it--you have to keep the story pacing suitable for an action campaign.

It has only gotten worse as the game progressed. The levels of contempt I feel for Lightfall's story really cannot be put into words. It is unironically worse than 99% of fanfic that I've read.

 

[Swine Schwein]

The levels of contempt I feel for Lightfall's story really cannot be put into words

Yeah it was awful. But I hated The Final Shape equally. Lightfall was like a diarrhea fart from a clown, easy to make fun of, but TFS cemented the fact how awfully pretentious and empty Bungie's writing is.

 

[Leakage Current]

Yeah it was awful. But I hated The Final Shape equally. Lightfall was like a diarrhea fart from a clown, easy to make fun of, but TFS cemented the fact how awfully pretentious and empty Bungie is.

By the time TFS came out my expectations were already rock bottom, so I don't feel as much hatred for it as I do for LF. LF was expecting an ice cream sandwich and biting into frozen diarrhea instead.

 

[Sneed Force One]

> White lead writers
> Produce Halo 2
> Story has actual themes of loyalty, fighting against ideological dogma, desperate pyrrhic victories which question if the ends justifies the means.
> Make Cortana, sex symbol of the mid-2000s

> Hire nigger troon writers
> Make Destiny 2 Season of the Lost
> Story is about stopping the le hekkin shifty alien bitch from killing your poz-loaded egyptian eldergay so the russian berserker robohomo doesn't get upset.
> Not a single cleavage to be found
> Studio is kill

Really makes you think.

 

[Random Internet Person]

 

[The Doom Slayer]

 

[Leakage Current]

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That kind of reminds me how much cooler and/or hotter the aliens were before the sloppification got to them. Once content moves from lore to the main game it's over.

 

[King Dead]

Here ya are, nigga. Dark side is a bit cringe but he’s a certified D2 hater so it’s chill. https://youtube.com/watch?v=6sHvRgBRl00

After watching the whole thing, not only did he say everything I posted upthread without even seeing it before (making my effortpost seem a little silly in retrospect), but he also inadvertently predicted what was going to happen to Destiny, even when I don't think he could have possibly foreseen that they would make this absolutely retarded decision. But going into the history of Bungie and especially Jason Jones, it becomes pretty obvious: he hates sequels, he hates working on the same thing for too long, he'll literally go out of his way to work on anything but what he's supposed to be doing, even if contractually obligated. Jason himself probably made the final call to kill Destiny and focus solely on Marathon, and he was going to do that whether Marathon was a success or not. And since it's not, it looks like an even more insane decision.

Good video though, thanks for the link.

It went free to play years ago, but you still have to buy the expansions and dungeon keys.

I did forget to mention that in my reaction bit to the overall blogpost, that years and years after they should have, they're finally bundling all of the paid content together into one singular purchase. Every expansion, every dungeon key, all the additional content packs, all wrapped up in a neat little bow.

I forget where I saw this, but I seem to recall that someone asked a higher-up at Bungie why they didn't roll the older expansions into the base game or reduce their price over time. The response? "People still buy them at full price, so why would we bother?" It's like, the idea that making the game cheaper and easier to get into would result in a larger playerbase and probably more money over time simply didn't occur to them. All they saw was how to get as much money as possible out of each individual, regardless of how few were actually getting into the game. Retards all the way down.

Yah, people often forget that in the age of "it's always the publishers fault". Without writing another big summary, just as a reminder, Bungie's problem was always ambition>reality. They would(do) frequently overrun deadlines by adding tons of unnecessary content. Cut said content and then try to sell it again later even if it doesn't make sense(sunk cost fallacy). And worst of all they would out spend their revenue streams which is the cardinal sin of all business and was a constant complaint by everyone they worked with. Bungie wasn't passed around like a two bit prostitute between publishers, they were a gilded financial time bomb that no one wanted to be holding when it inevitably exploded.

The talent cutting was a attempt to stem the bleeding by cutting out the highest paid employees, most of whom had been around since Halo 2. Besides Marty, I can remember that of all the old heads cut, the lowest salary being $700,000. Not saying they should have been cut or deserved less. But it still shows Bungie's retarded when it comes to money and management.

The fact that a lot of the firings happened to occur conveniently before stock options vested really says a lot about Bungie's priorities. Sony really should just clean house, and I honestly don't even care if they get replaced with worse people at this point. I just want to see the retards responsible for killing Destiny tossed out on the curb.

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If true, then jeez, talk about a rugpull. Bungie mismanagement strikes again, with half the studio looking down the barrel of a shitcanning while the other half tries to salvage their latest flop.

This was brought up numerous times in Darkside Royalty's video, but Bungie really could have and should have done more to actually maintain their talent and make them feel more secure in their position, and thus making them want to do better work (bringing up Iwata taking a huge pay cut in the wake of the Wii U's disastrous launch). But management thought they were gods and everyone else was their slaves who should feel lucky to even bask in the presence of their glory. Jason Jones is a genius that you just have to support in everything he does! Don't mind us buying another dozen cars while you can't afford groceries, get back to work!

Bungie truly has only succeeded in spite of its management, not because of it. If they or Sony have any levers to pull to get Jason out of there, they need to be pulling them now.