{"id":15831,"date":"2024-09-09T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T13:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/09\/destiny-at-10-the-forever-game-that-is-also-a-forever-conversation\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T13:39:06","slug":"destiny-at-10-the-forever-game-that-is-also-a-forever-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/09\/destiny-at-10-the-forever-game-that-is-also-a-forever-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Destiny at 10: the forever game that is also a forever conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Bungie\u2019s storied online shooter completes its first decade, we look back on an odd game that has always been worth talking about \u2013 and ask why it\u2019s like Marks & Spencer<\/p>\n

Destiny is 10 years old, which is an aeon in video game terms. It\u2019s also one of the most fascinating games of the last decade, sometimes for unlikely reasons. On the surface, this is a lavish online prog-rock space shooter made by Bungie, the creators of the Xbox classic Halo. You bundle together with friends, deploy somewhere amid the glittering vistas of a futuristic version of our solar system, and then shoot people\/aliens\/robots to get better loot.<\/p>\n

None of this is exactly unprecedented, and that\u2019s maybe the point. You could argue that Destiny\u2019s touchstones are games like Halo, for its gunplay, World of Warcraft, for its persistent online spaces, and \u2013 this is where it gets a bit odd, granted \u2013 the deathless British retailer Marks & Spencer. This last point is because, above all else, Destiny is a game of fluctuating fortunes, and those fortunes seem to fascinate everyone close to video games, regardless of whether they actually play Destiny or not. Just as a lot of people in the UK seem to have a secret sense for whether M&S is currently on an upward or downward trajectory \u2013 there is no middle ground \u2013 everyone in games knows whether Destiny is in boom or bust mode. Is it now better than it\u2019s been in ages? Or is it a shadow of the game it was two, five, seven years back? Destiny is our ever-reliable topic of fretful conversation.<\/p>\n

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\nAs Bungie\u2019s storied online shooter completes its first decade, we look back on an odd game that has always been worth talking about \u2013 and ask why it\u2019s like Marks & Spencer
\nDestiny is 10 years old, which is an aeon in video game terms. It\u2019s also one of the most fascinating games of the last decade, sometimes for unlikely reasons. On the surface, this is a lavish online prog-rock space shooter made by Bungie, the creators of the Xbox classic Halo. You bundle together with friends, deploy somewhere amid the glittering vistas of a futuristic version of our solar system, and then shoot people\/aliens\/robots to get better loot.
\nNone of this is exactly unprecedented, and that\u2019s maybe the point. You could argue that Destiny\u2019s touchstones are games like Halo, for its gunplay, World of Warcraft, for its persistent online spaces, and \u2013 this is where it gets a bit odd, granted \u2013 the deathless British retailer Marks & Spencer. This last point is because, above all else, Destiny is a game of fluctuating fortunes, and those fortunes seem to fascinate everyone close to video games, regardless of whether they actually play Destiny or not. Just as a lot of people in the UK seem to have a secret sense for whether M&S is currently on an upward or downward trajectory \u2013 there is no middle ground \u2013 everyone in games knows whether Destiny is in boom or bust mode. Is it now better than it\u2019s been in ages? Or is it a shadow of the game it was two, five, seven years back? Destiny is our ever-reliable topic of fretful conversation. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Bungie\u2019s storied online shooter completes its first decade, we look back on an odd game that has always been worth talking about \u2013 and ask why it\u2019s like Marks & Spencer Destiny is 10 years old, which is an aeon in video game terms. It\u2019s also one of the most fascinating games of the …<\/p>\n

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