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The Looter-Shooter Was Born From Failure: How Destiny Learned From Borderlands' Mistakes
Before Destiny defined the genre, before Borderlands laid its groundwork, there were false starts, forgotten predecessors, and an industry struggling to reconcile twitchy FPS gameplay with RPG gratification. A look back at the messy history of a genre that almost never existed, the lessons studios took years to learn, and what that tells us about how video games advance: usually through trial and error, rarely through genius.
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Lumnix Editorial··9 min read