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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 misfires, forgotten pioneers, and an industry struggling to reconcile the twitch-FPS with RPG-style gratification. A look back at the troubled history of a genre that almost never happened, the lessons studios took years to absorb, and what it reveals about how the games industry moves forward — usually through trial and error, rarely through pure genius.
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Lumnix Editorial··10 min read