The Destiny 2 Portal was one of Bungie’s biggest recent gambles, and so far it’s largely been a pretty disappointing one. Introduced as an overhaul to the iconic ‘Director,’ it aimed to wrestle the FPS game’s increasingly cluttered and unwieldy map of destinations into a more streamlined progression system. The pitch was to offer “quick and clean access to a wider offering of activities with updated rewards,” and while it does do that to some extent, it feels like it’s lost a lot of its soul. Now, players are pointing back to an old Bungie GDC presentation that suggests the team had already considered something similar back during the early days of development, only to write it off.

Read the full story on PCGamesN: The Destiny 2 Portal is a disaster, and a 2016 GDC talk shows that Bungie already wrote off a similar idea a decade ago

 With the Destiny 2 Portal pulling players out of the action, an old GDC talk shows that Bungie previously rejected a similar design.  PCGamesN