{"id":21460,"date":"2020-06-08T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2586213"},"modified":"2020-06-08T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:15:00","slug":"destiny-2s-first-fortnite-style-live-event-was-slow-and-underwhelming-but-its-a-solid-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/08\/destiny-2s-first-fortnite-style-live-event-was-slow-and-underwhelming-but-its-a-solid-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Destiny 2\u2019s first Fortnite-style live event was slow and underwhelming, but it\u2019s a solid start"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Destiny 2<\/em>’s first ever Fortnite<\/em>-style live event just wrapped earlier today, and it was unfortunately not quite what some players were expecting. Instead of something monumental and game-changing for a key part of the game world, it was more of a slow burn alternative to a standard video game cutscene. And instead of delivering a strong narrative pay off on a season’s worth of otherwise dull and repetitive activity, the Almighty event ended without any meaningful change in direction or surprising new development.<\/p>\n

For the last three months, developer Bungie has been building up a clash between the Destiny <\/em>world’s artificial intelligence supercomputer Rasputin and a large planet-destroying ship called the Almighty. All of this past season’s activities have revolved around communicating with the AI character, a largely mysterious fixture in Destiny <\/em>lore before this season, and doing a series of rehashed game modes and resource collecting in service of an eventual showdown between Rasputin and the Almighty. Over the last month, players were asked to participate in a mind-numbing number of public event activities to unlock an old Destiny 1<\/em>weapon and a brief story mission, with the promise of more to come at season’s end.<\/p>\n

Some players expected the Almighty to actually crash into the game’s Tower social hub. Others expected a cutscene or perhaps some form of real-time space battle that would destroy or in some substantial way change the Tower. What we actually got was a severely understated form of the latter in which the image of the Almighty changed in excruciatingly slow fashion with new animations and, eventually, a brief scene of its destruction and crash landing. Yet the whole execution felt a bit slapdash and underwhelming.<\/p>\n

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