I can't help but feel genuinely disappointed. The ViDoc was hokey. The narration was cheesy, reading the poems from the ARG and the blurb from the preorder material made it sound genuinely epic, and then you have this feeble, shakey old man's voice spouting it back.. thats not heroic. Awful.
I'm not disappointed in the graphics, unlike many here I believe the footage they showed looks significantly better than what the 360 is capable of. People, seriously.. you can't judge a game's graphics from 15seconds of compressed youtube footage. Some journalists who saw the game in person share the same opinion.
I'm frustrated because they didn't explain what the actual experience of playing the game will be like. Sure, WE know that its going to be some crazy MMO-type experience with instances and a hub world and lots of social interaction.. but if I showed this video to my friend he would imagine a 6hour campaign with a multiplayer suite. Which is a huge misstep. They definitely touched on what the true experience will be like, but not enough. Listening to Jeff Gerstmann's video blog he tried to explain it, too. But it was heavily couched with "this is just me speculating, they didn't show us anything." It seems nobody really knows how its gonna be. Which kills me.
Again, I have a good idea of what the actual experience will be like but honestly those were all things we had known from the leaks beforehand. There was no explicit "this is how the average play session will go down." Which is a huge and total bummer. Ugh, I always get way too excited for Bungie shit. I'm not disappointed in the game.. it looks like the coolest thing I've ever seen, I'm just fucking pissed they didn't show more. They had SO MUCH ATTENTION and in my eyes they squandered it. I don't want to go through a years worth of "tune in for the details on the fourth mission type" and "exclusive look at Venus's exotic loot." I just want an explicit explanation and a date to put on my calendar so I can forget about this until its out.
