Destiny Reveal Thread

I guess I'll do some quick impressions.

First off, everything surrounding the story concept, the universe, and the setting has me completely hooked. The question of whatever force battled with humanity and nearly drove it to extinction sounds like it'll fill a similar role to the concept of the Forerunners in the Halo series. It's that one mystery context that'll, hopefully, help make players want to explore the worlds they're playing in and drive to figure out all there is to know about the Destiny universe. I already want to explore this Last City, Mars, the Moon, and...everywhere! Everything about these environments have me super excited.

Graphics, at this point, I don't really care about. What'll keep me coming back is how well the game plays and how much fun I get out of it. I'm playing Halo 3 five years after its release not because I think it looks good, but because I have so much fun with it.

Great to hear that there are single-player components, and am intrigued by the competitive multiplayer. Halo has been the only multiplayer game that has ever gotten me genuinely hooked, so if anyone can get me hooked on another multiplayer mode, it's Bungie.

Very nice to see Jason Jones.

I went in today with low expectations about what was going to be released, and I was more than satisfied with what I got. I'm worried about some things, like if there's ADS, but those are a mere pittance to how excited I am. Bring on Destiny; it's been too long, Bungie.
 
Disappointing reveal. But I just read Polygons article on it, and holy shit it sounds awesome. I dont understand why they couldn't show video of Staten and Jason Jones adventure because it sounded really fucking cool. If Bungie is able to walk the walk as good as they are talking the talk with this game, then my God we are in for a decade long treat. Cant wait to see how it runs and plays on the Durango and Orbis.
 
Vire said:
Sounds like the press isn't happy:

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It sounds like this should have been held back for a bit. I'm glad to have seen what we've seen; it makes me extremely excited.

But the gaming press and the legion of gamers collectively have massive blue balls and anything less than the realization of their next-gen fantasies will not suffice.
 
op_ivy said:
catching up - is there any reason to expect to see this at the ps4 event other then speculation? looks waaaay too early - but maybe the next gen stuff is more far along?



the very definition of a placeholder date, lol
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I think it will definitely show up at the PS4 announcement, at the very least with Bungie announcing it is day and date release on the PS4 and there is no exclusivity for the 720.

But it's still just speculation. The timing is too suspect. I expect we will see more footage at the PS4 event (perhaps even a trailer). It sounds like they held back a lot of stuff today for a reason, and this was one big tease for the bigger reveal.
 
Miles Quaritch said:
The entire press event and reveal seems to have handled very poorly. I do have to wonder what's going on at Bungie and why Activision allowed them to do this.
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I wonder if Activision was not aware at how much work was still needed and if they found out more recently that the game was not in a state they were happy to show.

Would fit the possibility of no release this year too.
Acti didn't know.
 
soldat7 said:
Some guesses:

1. It's an ambitious project
2. They're taking their time to get it right
3. They're sitting on a mountain of gold, so they can do 1 and 2
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1. They've had 4 years to work on it (Bungie is 300 strong)
2. Every studio would prefer to do this, but delaying a year isn't an option given their Activision contract
3. See number two
 
Can't say I'm impressed so far. I don't even know what the game is. Nice ideas with some stunning artwork, lol at "corporate kickstarter".

When you have everyone's attention and you want them to get into this universe for 10 years... you should have knocked it out of the fucking park.

Hopefully we'll see something at the Sony thing...
 
Dax01 said:
I went in today with low expectations about what was going to be released, and I was more than satisfied with what I got. I'm worried about some things, like if there's ADS, but that's a mere pittance to how excited I am. Bring on Destiny; it's been too long, Bungie.
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Very interesting, that seems to be the exact opposite position of what the majority of journalists feel today.
 
So they were tired of leaks, and scrapped together a presentation to try and control the message, went to far with it considering how little they had to show, pissing off the press and making us all question why a game scheduled to go gold in a little over half a year has nearly no footage to show.

Huh.
 
"Humanity expanding to the far reaches of the galaxy only to be crushed back to Earth by some aliens" sounds like Bungie is just picking up thematically where Halo 3 left off.
 
shinobi602 said:
Lol, poor Pachter always gets shit wrong. I remember him saying he expected Activision/Bungie to charge a subscription fee for the multiplayer side of Destiny.
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Pachter *always* expect companies to charge people to hell and back for whatever reason, and he's typically disappointed when that doesn't happen (which isn't even that often, sadly).

Anyway, I'm definitely unimpressed with what they shown and told so far.
 
James Sawyer Ford said:
I think it will definitely show up at the PS4 announcement, at the very least with Bungie announcing it is day and date release on the PS4 and there is no exclusivity for the 720.

But it's still just speculation. The timing is too suspect. I expect we will see more footage at the PS4 event (perhaps even a trailer). It sounds like they held back a lot of stuff today for a reason, and this was one big tease for the bigger reveal.
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if thats the case though, i'd have expected the press who flew to seattle to see the game, would have seen far more - even if it was just running on current gen - even if that stuff was embargoed for a later date.
 
Not a great reveal, should have waited maybe till E3 when they could show off next gen footage and actually more footage.

Really hope the Sony meeting on the 20th is not this bare bones.
 
I think it seems obvious why this was randomly revealed today, 3 days before the Sony conference. It's very likely that this has something to do with Wednesday.
 
op_ivy said:
if thats the case though, i'd have expected the press who flew to seattle to see the game, would have seen far more - even if it was just running on current gen - even if that stuff was embargoed for a later date.
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Yeah it's a little strange why they held back showing the game off in its current-gen state.

Perhaps they wanted most people's first impression to be of the next-gen version, primarily?
 
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Durango/next box was meant to be announced alongside with it, and something happened that forced them to go alone and just announce what it had on current gen.


Farrow said:
The big orbiting ball is very "Final Fantasy".

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Also this was literally the first thing I thought when I saw the first destiny pics
 
Agent Ironside said:
I think it seems obvious why this was randomly revealed today, 3 days before the Sony conference. It's very likely that this has something to do with Wednesday.
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Or they somehow thought with it being a current gen game nobody would be interested in current gen anymore after what Sony shows in three days. Or it could just be coincidence and was planned like this all along.
 
Nokterian said:
Kotick does what he wants.

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That's a great image. I didn't notice it was actually Kotick at first.

[quote="grimshawish, post: 47842913"]I wonder if Activision was not aware at how much work was still needed and if they found out more recently that the game was not in a state they were happy to show.

Would fit the possibility of no release this year too.
Acti didn't know.[/QUOTE]

I'd be surprised if that's the case. Activision don't strike me as being lax like Sega with Aliens: Colonial Marines. They must surely be getting regular updates on how the game is progressing.

Something is amiss here. Either you're right and Activision are being uncharacteristically off hands or they knew the game wouldn't be out this year and still let them push ahead with a reveal. It just strikes me as odd that Activision would allow something like this to happen, especially after seeing how they handle the Call of Duty reveals, etc.

Unless, they intend to reveal a next generation version very soon. Possibly on Wednesday?
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Gorillaz said:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Durango/next box was meant to be announced alongside with it, and something happened that forced them to go alone and just announce what it had on current gen.
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I read this a few times now, is there any evidence? Also shouldn't the Vidoc mention it?
 
Tagg9 said:
1. They've had 4 years to work on it (Bungie is 300 strong)
2. Every studio would prefer to do this, but delaying a year isn't an option given their Activision contract
3. See number two
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Despite what we all think, we do not know any current specifics behind said contract with Activision. Contracts are fluid and reworked all the time, especially when elements become publicly known, as in this case.

And no, Bungie has not spent the last 4 years working on Destiny exclusively, as they seem to be doing now. When designing a gigantic game spanning multiple consoles, including generations of consoles, time is required. We're not going to be playing Destiny this year, I reckon.
 
Just seems silly for me to be hyped about this on current consoles. I'll get interested when they officially announce next gen versions. GTA is my last ps3 purchase, and I intend to keep it that way
 
Sounds lame for the press guys, but I could not care less. It's their job they are paid to do.
I just had to sit in front my computer for about 10 minutes and wait. Reveal was plenty for me :)
 
Gorillaz said:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Durango/next box was meant to be announced alongside with it, and something happened that forced them to go alone and just announce what it had on current gen.
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I highly, highly doubt Microsoft wanted to casually reveal Durango during a single game reveal. Especially after they dedicated a whole, independent event specifically to reveal the 360.
 
Dragonzord said:
Just seems silly for me to be hyped about this on current consoles. I'll get interested when they officially announce next gen versions. GTA is my last ps3 purchase, and I intend to keep it that way
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Seriously. Not even Halo 4 impressed me on current gen consoles. This doesn't seem at even that level.
 
Chittagong said:
The timing is very confusing.

It can't be PS4 because Sony wouldn't take away hype from Feb 20th by showing what PS4 is capable of, announcing the platform branding, especially not with Bungie since their graphics track record isn't spectacular.

It could theoretically be Durango, which would be incredibly surprising because they would have to announce the platform brand and show its performance before or on the 17th, because again, they would not let Bungie to be the ones to reveal Durango. Pulling a massive surprise announcement would be unprecedented.

It's might be 360, but this would be pretty bad in terms of unveiling their huge franchise on old hardware with a team known for not amazing graphics on the platform.

So, if we can categorically rule out PS4, plot Durango in as an incredibly unlikely surprise and 360 as simply too stupid to happen, what are we left with for the 17th?

CGI, concept art, vidoc, story, setting, philosophy. In other words, we won't be seeing ingame gameplay footage on the 17th.
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Chittadamus Phropecies.
 
Why would they even waste the resources to make 360/ps3 versions especially if this is coming in 2014? If this is going to be a "ten year saga" then it would make sense to start fresh on a new set of consoles not on a console thats at the end of its life.

If I was Activision I would order them to do PC, PS4, and the next Xbox because I believe this product should be of the highest quality and visual fidelity but clearly Bungie does not.
 
A 3 Legged Goat said:
I've always fantasized about a game that is driven by the players' participation. One where the story goes X way or Y way because you and your friends were there to make it happen. Unlike a linear narrative defined by the developer, what happens next only happens because you and your clan fought that battle. In other words, a real-time dynamic RPG.

So you can guess that I'm ecstatic seeing it finally come to life, and from Bungie no less. I don't have any doubts that I'm going to enjoy it, but I do hope their next reveals are more content rich and less teasing. At this point, my only criticism from what I've seen is that it appears Bungie is still grounded in their Halo past. There are very obvious similarities (especially with weapons), so I hope to see a more distinct separation from the two as we go along.

Are we really going to get to fly through the Solar System to other planets?
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I think this game has potential, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Your dream is a worthy one, but Bungie didn't show any of that today - it was all talk. Even for the press that went out of their way to see it.
 
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