The man who ruined Destiny 10 years ago is now coming to Netflix and making a new, big AAA game there

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JosephStart was the writer and design director responsible for Destiny 1’s horrific launch failure 10 years ago, and then went on to work on Halo Infinite at Microsoft. Now the 51-year-old is to develop a new hammer game for Netflix, which will apparently be released for PC, PlayStation and Xbox.

What does Joseph Staten have to do with Destiny?

  • Joseph Staten is a writer who joined Bungie in 1998, where he was a major contributor to the in-game videos for Halo, Halo 2, and Halo 3.
  • When Bungie committed to the mammoth project Destiny, Staten worked there as a writer and design director. As was later heard, however, his work on the Destiny story was so strange and quirky that the story was scrapped shortly before release and, under the leadership of Luke Smith, a new story was pieced together from the set pieces of the old story within a few months.
  • Staten left Bungie in September 2013 before the reboot came and went to Microsoft, where he worked on games like Halo Infinite from 2014 to 2023.

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    New AAA game for Netflix with mystery and adventure

    This is his job at Netflix now: Staten has now announced that he’s joining Netflix as “Creative Director” working on a brand new AAA game for multiple platforms — typically in the West, “multiplatform” means something like “PC, PS5, Xbox Series X.” . The game is intended to establish a “new IP”, i.e. a new game universe.

    He also says:

    In my working life, there’s nothing I love more than collaborating with others to build a world filled with iconic characters, deep puzzles, and endless adventures.

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    Netflix is ​​apparently making a major first person shooter in the Unreal Engine

    What does Netflix have to do with gaming? There are around 50 games on Netflix, most of which are indie games. But job postings were spotted in November 2022 that suggested Netflix was looking for a design director to develop a PC game using the Unreal Engine, apparently a first-person shooter (via kotaku).

    It’s quite possible that Staten is now working on this title for Netflix. At least that would fit his previous work.

    Alongside series and films, gaming could become an important mainstay for Netflix, which recently had to give up feathers in the fight for the top streaming service.

    What was Staten’s problem with Destiny back then? To this day, that is not entirely clear. Destiny’s original story revolved around abstract concepts such as light, darkness, and hope.

    Apparently, sometime in 2013, Destiny got to the point where the Destiny executives decided that such a story didn’t lend itself to a multi-million dollar shooter project and then turned it into a relatively muddled SF story that didn’t have time to explain, why you don’t have time to explain something. For years, as a result of this reboot, Destiny grappled with a story that not even those responsible really understood:

    Destiny: Insiders Explain Why the Story Was So Terrible Upon Release

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