Bungie's Destiny

[Tnnaas]

None whatsoever. I'm still a patient holdout, but my doubts have been rising for a while.

[Bobblehob]

Any news on if this is coming to PC yet?

Well considering the original release didn't mention PS4 and that they haven't announced that it will be for the Xbox 720 yet, even though its pretty obvious, I feel like its possible they may announce it later. Please dear lord I hope so... I don't want to have to buy a new console just for this -__-

[Zeph]

Well considering the original release didn't mention PS4 and that they haven't announced that it will be for the Xbox 720 yet, even though its pretty obvious, I feel like its possible they may announce it later. Please dear lord I hope so... I don't want to have to buy a new console just for this -__-

Yeah, they can't announce it on a console that doesn't exist yet. But I'm pretty sure that somewhere they said if the first game they're releasing in the series comes to PC it will be after the console releases.

[ejburke]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/01/what-bungies-destiny-does-better-than-halo

Staten: "So if you're playing in a co-op way, we're not going to do that crappy thing that happened in the old Halo games where, if you're playing co-op, you don't show up ... you're not the primary role."

In most Halo games, the co-op partner was a twin of the main character. When you saw a cut scene (which were usually skipped in co-op, let's face it), it only showed one of the two twins, but that twin could be you and the other player is the one who doesn't show up in cut-scenes. And the other player can think the opposite is true. Was that really so "crappy"? Even if it is, is anyone going to be really wowed by this revelation? And are we really going to be watching cut-scenes while playing co-op?

Next quote:

Staten: "What kind of character do I want to be in the world? Do I want to be a man or do I want to be a woman? That's a choice we never gave someone in the Halo series."

Poor Halo Reach. It was as if you never existed.

[Tnnaas]

Only in the first cinematic of the first game were there two players. Although, would Halo 3 count with the Arby appearing only during certain cinematics when played cooperatively (i.e., beginning of the Covenant)? There's some minor change there.

EDIT: Be glad they did player cinematics with Reach. They didn't even touch that stuff with Spartan Ops in Halo 4. Would have been a lot cooler if they did, even with just your player alone, IMO.

[t3h m00kz]

The characters almost seem to have sort of a religious aesthetic to them. It's pretty sick.

[Kornman00]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/01/what-bungies-destiny-does-better-than-halo

Staten: "So if you're playing in a co-op way, we're not going to do that crappy thing that happened in the old Halo games where, if you're playing co-op, you don't show up ... you're not the primary role."

In most Halo games, the co-op partner was a twin of the main character. When you saw a cut scene (which were usually skipped in co-op, let's face it), it only showed one of the two twins, but that twin could be you and the other player is the one who doesn't show up in cut-scenes. And the other player can think the opposite is true. Was that really so "crappy"? Even if it is, is anyone going to be really wowed by this revelation? And are we really going to be watching cut-scenes while playing co-op?

Next quote:

Staten: "What kind of character do I want to be in the world? Do I want to be a man or do I want to be a woman? That's a choice we never gave someone in the Halo series."

Poor Halo Reach. It was as if you never existed.

1) In Halo, it was about being the MC. In Destiny, it's about being one of Earth's many guardians. The latter has more focus on cooperative usage over the former, so it would be crappy to try and give any one focus to any one player. The player isn't the center of attention this time around.

2) I hardly call changing your Spartan's voice and general appear as choosing to be a woman character. Noble 6 was entirely cookie cutter. You were still the same spartan in the end. With Destiny, there is more character modeling (not talking 3d modeling) going on. You're not some cookie cutter character like Noble 6 or he-she's Rookie predecessor. You're playing who you want to be, not playing someone who you have picture yourself as.

[=sw=warlord]

The characters almost seem to have sort of a religious aesthetic to them. It's pretty sick.

Wait...Bungie making a game with a Religious overture?




Hmm......

[Tnnaas]

Wow, they haven't done that since Durandal wanted to become God.

[=sw=warlord]

Wow, they have done that since Durandal wanted to become God.

fixed.