Bungie's Destiny

I literally just dropped my drink on myself

That "From the publisher of Call of Duty" shit killed the mood, though :(

Destiny?

More like, Take-My-Money-Bungie!

amirite?

^YES

I still don't get the hype. Of the modern bungie (post H1 bungie) there is only one game I liked, and that's H3. I rather play ET for atari then suffer through H2's campaign, and Reach was great for about a month before it showed it was just a disjointed bundle of somewhat cool ideas. I hope it's good, but Bungie has let me down far more than they have met expectations.

Bungie has been under Microsofts thumb for the majority of the Halo franchise, Halo 2 was the result of a tortured development cycle.
This is Bungies first game that has been 100% Bungie since Halo CE.

You could make that point, but the bungie of 11 years ago is a completely different studio than that of todays. Also Halo 2 is Bungie's own fuckup, they had 3 years to do the game, they jut didn't manage their time correctly and didn't know how to operate as a large studio. Hell, it came out not even 12 months away from the xbox 360 launch, had bungie taken any longer they'd have to retool it all for the 360 anyway. IMO, the only game we've seen where bungie cared and had their shit together was H3. So we will see how this turns out, but I'm still hesitant to buy into the hype.

Bungie may not be the same Bungie it was back then but the majority of the management are the original Bungie founders who have risen up to the point of management.
Also Destiny is led by Jason jones as opposed to harold saxon Ryan.
Jasons been working on Destiny since during Halo 3's development, it was why he disappeared from the Vidocs.

I see what they did there with the title.

It looks fantastic.