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This past week, there was a lot of controversy surrounding Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space collecting unique resources such as Spinmetal, Helium Filaments, and Red Bull.
But before the firestorm started, most Destiny fans were pretty damn stoked about how the game has been evolving. House of Wolves, the latest expansion, is excellent, and there are a lot of indications that Bungie has learned quite a bit over the past few months about what players actually want. They still need to work on their communication skills—big time!—but additions like Trials of Osiris have gotten hardcore players psyched in a way we never have been before.
So let’s forget about the controversy for a little while. At E3 last week, before any of the drama began, Kirk Hamilton and I had the opportunity to sit down with Destiny: The Taken King director Luke Smith for a long chat about the State Of Destiny and what’s coming this fall.
Smith, who is snarky and boisterous, is clearly a big fan of the game he works on. (He says he’s got three level-34 characters and has played some 800 hours, not unlike the rest of us.) He was honest and candid about some things, yet he wouldn’t answer questions about many others. At the end of the conversation, we all agreed that we’d like to chat again soon—maybe this fall, after The Taken King is out and we’ve got a long list of new problems to complain about.
(It’s probably also worth noting that Smith briefly worked at Kotaku many years ago, before either Kirk or I started.)
The interview is long and sprawling. Please click on the link below if you want to read the full interview.
Source: Kotaku.com
Played Destiny up to its first tiny piece of DLC and then got a full refund on my Digital Guardian Edition.
Destiny is the foundation of a great game, but too bad this version of Bungie has no idea what they’re doing.
The gunplay is good, but there’s no substance to the game at all.
I never had a problem with the Crucible (besides it boring me to death), and I was actually good at it (with a consistently positive K/D and W/L).
All the constant exclusivities (yes, it’s a 1 year timed exclusive agreement, but already shows a terrible attitude) to one console, making people pay for the little extras that are in the new Collector’s Edition when the diehards should just be given that small bit of extra content, and then this whole Red Bull thing? Yeah, I’m glad I got a full refund.
(Also going to add in that I had all the exotics at the time)
Lol. Thats because 4 people have access to the newsbot, 2 of which is me and Zodiac, the other 2 are Chris and Zach. Zodiac and I are taking turns posting news right now. I forgot I wasnt on my account and accidently thanked the post.
Ha, I believe that’s the reaction everyone has when they have yet to get their hands on the Gjallarhorn, but someone else was rewarded it while they’re present!
I Swear my brother got the G-Horn on 28 PoE he kept screaming into his mic and im just sitting there on my chair and i was really mad even though i have a 365 one but me and my friend were downright pissed at him he barely has 60 hours in his total playtime and has never hit max level, I Guess RNG sometimes blesses you and sometimes curses you and the curse stays longer than the blessing, haven’t got an exotic out of the nightfall for the past 3 weeks.
Anyone else seen that… “Console News” just