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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#176: Jun 11th 2013 at 10:13:54 PM

So, I just saw the demo and I'm... cautiously interested. The demo showed off stuff like customization, and the different kind of ways you can shoot stuff and blow it up, but it - a little disappointingly - didn't really tell us anything about the world except that it exists, it's big, and occasionally you will be attacked by things.

Is there any information as to what kind of world it is? Is it your average fps world where you're going through the motions of a plot - an open plot, granted, where you can accept missions from various characters - with assigned missions and scripted events and little to it but shooting things in as hardcore a way as possible? Do you just walk through setpieces, deal with surprise enemy attacks, get new weapons and just trudge on to the next ambush, rinse repeat? Your basic squad game, basically, just online?

How much effort do they put into making this wide open and multiplayer game world alive? How deeply can the player interact with it?

Basically, I was both excited at the exploration aspect of the game, and worried that I might be wanting more from it than the game will provide. I was talking to a friend of mine and compared what I saw to something along the lines of a mix between the progressions of Halo and Gears with a splash of Mass Effect thrown in - a large universe in which you're directed towards stuff you can shoot and occasionally make important decisions (except there weren't any decisions shown in the demo so whatever) but a lot of it is dedicated to getting to new arenas where you can shoot things and optimize pvp.

However, my friend corrected me and said it was apparently supposed to be more akin to a multiplayer Fallout (which I haven;t played and am thus likening to Skyrim for the sake of the comparison), with a wide open world with lots of opportunities for situations, quests and plotlines - possibly enhanced by the multiplayer aspect such that a group of players can forge through the plot/world in their own way or together, reacting to situations differently and perhaps even ending up on opposite sides while going through ongoing progression.

If that were the case, I'd buy this immediately. If not... I dunno, I might still. I need a game to replace everything I love about Gears Of War, now that I'm jumping ship to PS 4 (eventually).

So... yeah. How much do we know about how the world itself works?

edited 11th Jun '13 10:16:05 PM by KnownUnknown

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#177: Jun 11th 2013 at 10:15:46 PM

I'd say it's sort of like Skyrim. You go out and find your own adventure. Hell, I'd be curious enough about what future Earth and future solar system look like to just go out and look.

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#178: Jun 11th 2013 at 10:29:55 PM

I second that notion. Also, it is more akin to Skyrim than the other idea Unknown brought up, but it is not stated by how much. However, going off what has been said in recent interviews, exploration is certainly very possible. (Also, I plan to provide links to all the interviews and presentations I can find after E3 is done; I'm watching on a fansite so I should at least get most of them. There is quite a bit already.)

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#179: Jun 11th 2013 at 10:32:34 PM

Yeah, in every open world game I've played, my experiences have been me traveling around, seeing something, and going inside it because I am interested. Destiny's probably the same way.

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#181: Jun 12th 2013 at 3:10:21 PM

There's so much about the gameplay that reminds me of the Borderlands games. Multiplayer FPS with abilities, life bars and loot drops.

It certainly looks next-gen but the gameplay is solidly current gen.

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#182: Jun 13th 2013 at 8:26:07 PM

Cleaned up some things on the Destiny pages, like the YMMV page saying a PC version was announced, the Character pages saying Awoken and Exo are aliens (That is up in the air), the Characters page saying only Titans can melee, the Character page saying Exos are bad at long-range, for some reason, and the Characters page saying things about gameplay that haven't been revealed, such as Titans lacking defense or Warlocks being jacks-of-all-stats. If anyone has something that invalidates one of my changes, go ahead and change it back; I don't think I missed anything, though.

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#183: Jun 13th 2013 at 8:29:01 PM

Geez, that's a lot of random inaccurate stuff.

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#184: Jun 13th 2013 at 8:48:13 PM

Yeah, I just decided that I should check out the Destiny pages, seeing as how they'd probably changed since I last looked at them, and saw a mention of a confirmed PC version. I then went and combed through the pages, and I think I got everything. I'm watching them now, so hopefully I'll stay on top of them.

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#185: Jun 13th 2013 at 8:53:16 PM

I think we should add to it, after all of the stuff that we saw of it at E3. Like that "Archon Slayer" Fallen could be under Names to Run Away from Really Fast.

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#186: Jun 13th 2013 at 8:57:18 PM

Good point. When I get around to posting links to all those videos I'll rewatch and try to tropify them, though I'm not particularly good at that.

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#187: Jun 13th 2013 at 9:07:54 PM

[up][up] Note that the remaining presenter managed to solo him to the end after the first guy went down. Either that's scripted or the 'Archon Slayer' may be an Anticlimax Boss.

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#188: Jun 13th 2013 at 9:14:26 PM

It was scripted; Player One was immortal and its been mentioned a few times that he actually would have died in a couple of the playthroughs.

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#189: Jun 13th 2013 at 9:15:01 PM

All E3 demos are scripted.

It's ridiculous how they still trot someone onstage to pretend to play the vertical slice.

edited 13th Jun '13 9:15:37 PM by ShirowShirow

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#190: Jun 13th 2013 at 9:25:37 PM

Well, at least there is gameplay being shown off. In Destiny's case, even though the events were planned out, the AI were fully autonomous. They just planned out the players' actions and cheated.

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#191: Jun 13th 2013 at 10:24:28 PM

Yeah, Destiny is just prerecorded. Other stuff shown is just a cutscene made to look like gameplay. Aliens Colonial Marines is especially infamous for this.

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#192: Jun 13th 2013 at 10:27:20 PM

So many of the art assets are just-this-close to Halo that I have to wonder if 343 is missing some hard drives after Bungie's exodus.

If this is simply Halo-meets-Borderlands it will almost certainly be a smash hit and will probably occupy my gaming group for some time...assuming any of us goes next gen within a year of release.

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#193: Jun 13th 2013 at 10:34:41 PM

It is more Halo-influenced-Marathon-meets-Borderlands IMHO.

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#194: Jun 13th 2013 at 10:37:58 PM

[up][up] It's Halo-meets-BL as a open world MMO. That last part has implications if you prefer certain other types of multiplayer because world persistence may cause you to miss things like events and progression windows if you don't log in according to the service provider's schedule.

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#195: Jun 13th 2013 at 10:43:01 PM

"assuming any of us goes next gen within a year of release."

It comes out for this gen, too!

Also: "Yeah, Destiny is just prerecorded"

They are playing it each time, just doing the same thing. Also, apparently people's feelings about the repetition got to them somewhat.

edited 13th Jun '13 10:50:48 PM by RaichuKFM

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#197: Nov 6th 2013 at 5:54:20 AM

So I have been without not-school internet for long enough that I haven't kept up much with what has been revealed about Destiny lately. That said, I got a Beta code. Well, I guess its more a-code-to-get-the-Beta-code-sometime-early-next-year.

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#198: Mar 31st 2014 at 8:12:48 AM

Oh, this has been dead for a while. It just occurs to me that somebody should probably state for the record that it is to be released on September 9th, 2014 and that the Beta is coming out sometime this summer.

So, just curious, who else has preordered this? If anyone is still following the thread, that is.

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#199: Mar 31st 2014 at 8:16:01 AM

Haven't preordered it, but still excited.

disruptorfe404 Since: Sep, 2011
#200: Mar 31st 2014 at 2:50:00 PM

No PC version, so I shall pass, unfortunately.


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