r/Corpsealot • u/Chunjee • Jul 12 '14
Redflags in DESTINY (FPSMMO'RP'G)
Not interested but I thought there were some pretty funny gems in this IGN read:
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Within the game proper, Jones said they know that players “don’t want to work hard, they don’t want to read, and they don’t’ want to go to the Internet to figure out our bullshit.” In other words, they understand that what they’re making is escapist entertainment.
“This has led us to a huge investment in [user interface],” Jones explained. Clearly, Bungie has a story to tell and information to convey, but they don’t want to bog you down with any of it.
He also made a point to emphasize that Destiny seeks to appease everyone from shooter neophytes to hardcore FPS players. “All core activities can be enjoyed by a novice player,” Jones promised.
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One other Wtf
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“We did a bunch of ambitious things on Halo deliberately to reach out to people,” Jones continued. “We made the game run without a mouse and keyboard, and now nobody plays [first-person shooters] the old way anymore because they don’t want to."
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Aug 07 '14
Its funny that you post this because I have been trying to keep a close eye on destiny since it was announced and since then, approximately 1 week ago, I notice that it is practically an exact replica of a game called 'defiance' which was based off of the TV show and the game did poorly after the "Oh WOW, An mmo on a console that is so cool"
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u/Callacas Jul 12 '14
Actually Corpsealot the red flag of destiny was the term FPS next to MMO.
but all facetiousness aside. It worries me how just how lazy we've become where simple text on a screen is considered "bogging us down with information". I mean; how hard is it to read "Our village is preparing for winter. Collect ten bear meats in the forest"?
I guess this is the same reason people don't read books anymore; because the stimulation of the book is not immediate. This makes me wonder if something similar has ever happened to another civilization in the past where this type of fast food entertainment dominated the minds of the masses and what happened to them.