DESTINY: From the makers of Oni and the wallet of Bobby Kotick...

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grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

To me, the most entertaining article was on the PA report.

This is what he wrote about a video of testers playing the game, not the game itself because the press was only shown about 10 seconds of gameplay.

Ben Kuchera posted:

We were shown video of two players enjoying Destiny during a recent press event at Bungie�s new offices. Destiny is Bungie�s follow-up to the Halo series, and we watched the players as their faces broke into smiles. One player leaned back to try to find the other in the room.

The game had thrown them together, and they began to work as a team without any prompting, and without any menus or party system getting between the interactions. This was the sort of emergent co-op game play that Bungie is looking for, and you could tell how proud they were of this snippet of video.

This is the heart of Destiny: An always-on, persistent, social first-person shooter. There will be no monthly fee. There could be microtransactions. The first game will be available on PS3 and Xbox 360. You need to be online to play it. Welcome to the future.

Right next to that was the "About PA Report" mission statement, bolded for emphasis:

quote:

"Games Journalism" is broken. Many sites suffer from forced output cycles, "news" about cakes, and playing along with the industry PR machine. We can do better.

Yes, indeed. You do a better job of playing along with the industry PR machine, Ben.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2013 10:31

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 22:54

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

Have they said anything about a PC version at E3? They were coy when asked about it a few months ago at the initial reveal.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 07:46

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

quote:

Destiny is officially available for pre-order on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360. The Beta will also support all four platforms. Your Destiny Beta Code will grant you access to one of these platforms.

No PC, bleh. That is not a surprise given how they always dodged questions about a PC version but still disappointing.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2013 20:36

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

I am surprised they announced an exact release date so far in advance. It is also interesting that the beta is hitting Playstation first now.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2013 17:56

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

Also remember that it is basically a FPS MMO, although Bungie people go out of their way to keep from calling it that in interviews.

I wonder if they are going to release more information in the ramp up to E3. The recent attempts to get the hype machine rolling are undermined by using the same Devil's Lair clips in every article and video.

# ¿ May 6, 2014 20:06

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

PvP on the moon map with kills using the Pike vehicle.

I really like what I have seen so far. It is pretty much a FPS MMO, as expected.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2014 03:40

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

MrBuddyLee posted:

The pop-in and pop-out of other players into your "instance" is seamless and pretty cool, but you lose your new friends if you don't stick fairly close together or join a party together. Hopefully they tweak it such that you're a little more magnetized to a new "pal".

That's interesting. So it really is like Journey? I thought that concept had been dropped after watching some of the alpha streams. They make it look like the sharded zones some MMO use.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2014 18:40

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

Azubah posted:

He may go rampant as the campaign goes on, giving his character a little more life.

Or there might be a M. Night Shyamalan twist where it is revealed that it is a person communicating through the bot while pretending to be an AI.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2014 18:27

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

Lyer posted:

There are raids in this game? I didn't know that. How difficult are they?

They show and talk about the Vault of Glass at 5:45 in this gameplay trailer. It has jumping puzzle elements. It is going to be GW2 all over again. I'll be the guy missing the first jump like in the video.

I was planning to wait a few more weeks to get a PS4, but I am going to try to get in on that Gamestop $100 credit for trading in a 360 today, if I can find a Gamestop with PS4s in stock.

Edit: fixed bbcode so video starts at the raid part.

grrarg fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Jun 14, 2014

# ¿ Jun 14, 2014 11:49

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

SUPER NEAT TOY posted:

Is there an end-date for the Alpha?

Sunday 6/15 11:59pm Pacific according to a FAQ.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2014 19:44

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

Lumpy posted:

Something I noticed during my time with the Warlock is that you can "cancel" the super-jump / float thing by hitting X a 3rd time. Not sure if that works for the Titan as well, but it came in handy.

You can do that with the Titan too.

The alpha is still up, by the way. Hope they don't turn it off as soon as they get to the office this morning.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2014 15:19

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

Signed up for the new Bungie group with the same name as here. I was in the alpha group too but never got to team up with goons.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2014 17:48

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

quote:

Q. How long will the Beta run for, and what do we get to play?

Truth be told, we�re still locking down the final details as we speak, dotting the t�s and cross-mapping the i�s. Most of the big rocks are in place, but if you have an eye for detail (and I am told that our community does) then you�ve likely already picked up on some of the clues �carefully hidden� away at http://www.destinythegame.com/beta.

Any idea what that means? Some of the screenshots look like they are from Venus or Mars. I guess we'll find out on July 7 anyway.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2014 01:27

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

MrLonghair posted:

The top vehicles have three sets of abilities just for travel (Vanguard rank 2 or 3, or Crucible equal), top spaceships (lv15) seem to have nothing to them but unlocking The Reef so there has to be extras with the flair people want to grind for. Would they dare to make a personal vehicle with guns (available only to endgame characters)?

A guy asked the Bungie community manager about personal vehicles with guns in this E3 video. He said they will not because people would never get off their sparrows in exploration maps if they were armed.

He also talks about groups (guilds) having multiple subclans when asked about member limits.

I can't be assed to watch the video again for timestamps.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2014 00:10

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

From the xbone mocking thread, the first video I've seen of the Xbox One version of Destiny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLP7j411in8
Even allowing for the fact that the video was compressed at least twice, it looks obviously worse than the PS4 version.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2014 18:15

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

Also add the codes for the Destiny Collector's Cards. They are infinite use codes that will presumably give special Grimoire cards at launch. To use, log in to your bungie.net account then paste the codes at http://www.bungie.net/en/User/coderedemption.

YKA-RJG-MH9
3DA-P4X-F6A
MVD-4N3-NKH
TCN-HCD-TGY
HDX-ALM-V4K
473-MXR-3X9
JMR-LFN-4A3
HC3-H44-DKC
69P-KRM-JJA
69P-VCH-337
69R-CKD-X7L
69R-DDD-FCP
69R-F99-AXG
69R-VL7-J6A
69X-DJN-74V
6A7-7NP-3X7
6A9-DTG-YGN

# ¿ Jul 13, 2014 09:17

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

Thank the goon that linked them earlier in the thread after wading through Bungie's horrible forums.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2014 10:25

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 22:54

grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

Yes please make a new thread before the beta. The OP is outdated as hell with almost zero concrete information about the game. The thread is going to explode with questions no matter what because people ignore OPs, but it would be nice to be able to refer them to information more current than the first public reveal of Destiny. Maybe a PGS thread for code begging too, although that might not be that big of an issue since they are giving three codes per person.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 00:37

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