I don’t care about the game at all. The vid-doc sounded pretentious as fuck, they’re full of hubris. It’s a FPS with the MP mechanics of Journey but bereaved of Journey’s flexible approach. Whereas in Journey you can play solo offline or end your (online) game session at anytime and restart from the same chapter with a new companion, Bungie’s game forces you to be online just to play the game at all. Expect it to be riddled with micro-transactions as Activision will be hell-bent to recoup the costs and then some.
There will be a new release every two years with expansions in-between. Fuck off Acti and Bungie.

They make it sound like a revolution wheres in reality it’s a Halo-style FPS (no criticism here, Halo is a great sci-fi FPS) with always online DRM. This might bite Acti in the ass, like really painfully. Can’t see Destiny even recouping Activision’s acquisition costs of Bungie if it’s a traditional 60$ game without a monthly subscription plan.

I couldn’t care less but it will be interesting to follow nevertheless.
Well, at east the concept art looks nice.

exactly…albeit more boring,Even the concept is almost the same: All those who survived remained on the traveler.Pretty much the same as the war of transgression and the movement to cocoon.They even built a city right below it just like in XIII-2 lol

Per last years leaked documents, they meant the Destiny franchise would be a 10 year experience. Between now and 2023 we’re to see 3-4 Destiny games released with “expansions” in between. So it’s a safe bet that Destiny 2 sees release on PS4/Xbox.

Well, they said 10 years as a franchise. So this is just game 1. The documents from last year said they’ve got plans for up to 4 Destiny games with expansions in between.

We’ll probably seen it grow more to normal MMO scale when it reaches next gen, but they did say that the app will allow you to organize yourself with other players. They also mention unscripted instances so, yea, it’s definitely in MMO territory. If not a full-blown MMO just yet.

I’m definitely interested to hear how this works in more detail.

So 360 owners will need Xbox Live Gold to play or will Microsoft relax their requirements like they did for FFXI and let everybody access a third-party server without a fee?

The more I read, the more it sounds similar to Guild Wars which had a central hub where everybody gathered before taking on assignments etc. etc.

It showed that some on the team aren’t over their Halo buzz

Yeah.

They even have character classes similar to WoW character classes. The Titan is the tank, the Hunter is a DPS class, and the Warlock is, well, frankly a Warlock as the concept art shows it has a pet. :p

It really depends on how they approach the “Shared World Shooter” aspect of the game. If the game is constantly evolving, does that mean tons and tons of added content?

If that is the case, will they provide this content like an MMO would? Via free patches and updates? Or will they charge small Micro transaction fees for the new content?

I think all of these questions are key to the success of such a project. You have to keep gamers interested and excited about the game over a long period of time.

This is where I think the MMORPG likeness comes into play. One of the keys to success when it comes to MMORPGS, is keeping the player base happy and entertained.

Some of that comes from the community though, which I think will play a big role with this game. If you have a poor community, you will turn many players away from an always online type of game.

I think Bungie can do this, but they most certainly have there work cut out for them.

I’m not sure what they’re thinking, majority of gamers won’t have current gen systems in five years. Should’ve been an Orbis / Durango launch title and released it on PC

If they were using Call of Duty as a console benchmark for units sold they forgot one key element, Activision releases multiple titles in a year

An MMO shooter needs longevity, maybe they got cold feet from being out of the scene for so long

Not sure how they can keep a game going like that for 10 years (as they say in their video) without it being more of an MMO. They showed off all these social media aspects of it like the phone app and stuff. That has to be so people can arrange raids and stuff like that. Otherwise, you’d be teaming up with randoms and everybody who plays WoW know how difficult raids can be when you play with randoms.
Or so they tell me since I haven’t played WoW in a while. :p

I agree, it seems to be a small scale MMO environment, to tie friends together, maybe put multiple groups of friends on a same server, but small scale compared to PS2/other MMOs.