As Bungie’s storied online shooter completes its first decade, we look back on an odd game that has always been worth talking about – and ask why it’s like Marks & Spencer
As Bungie’s storied online shooter completes its first decade, we look back on an odd game that has always been worth talking about – and ask why it’s like Marks & Spencer
None of this is exactly unprecedented, and that’s maybe the point. You could argue that Destiny’s touchstones are games like Halo, for its gunplay, World of Warcraft, for its persistent online spaces, and – this is where it gets a bit odd, granted – the deathless British retailer Marks & Spencer.
All of which means that, for the last 10 years, playing Destiny has also meant arguing about it, getting cross about it and uninstalling it, then reinstalling it and being delighted by it again as it eats your evenings once more. You can tell the game is meaningful to people because it has conspiracy theories.
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