- No text -

...I cannot wait to have the Destiny OST.

Also, the color variety is very stimulating and the gameplay looked like a lot of fun, especially towards the end of the trailer when the music kicked up a notch and the enemies intensified. I was getting into it, in ways I haven't felt for a video game since 2010. :)

Charge power followed up by fists, and the area of effect fists.... like they melted down Thor's hammer into a pair of brass knuckles.

The voiceover at the beginning sounds like Lance Reddick. I like this.

At 3:39 in the video, does anybody else see his mad jumps? and then his slamming fists in the fists of havoc? Everybody get up, it's time to slam now.

The more gameplay I watch the more firm my commitment to playing a Hunter becomes. Throwing knives, snipers, hand cannons, and what look like flame grenades? AND I get to look like an futuristic outlaw. *drools*

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/04/28/i-played-destiny-and

not terribly flattering, basically spent half the article saying they wish they could have seen more.

Lots of good information in there. Sounds like Bungie has learned to play their instruments, got some experience under their belt, and are looking to write their hit album, their Joshua Tree. Glad to see the focus on execution, not reinventing the wheel.

- No text -

Well, we got part of what we want.

Seems like, from the "where they go with that" quote, that whether we get the rest of it is not up to Bungie, which isn't really a surprise.

- No text -

I would definitely also pick up a copy on 360 to play with my dad if I can switch easily back and forth.

- No text -

I think it's obvious that Bungie really WANTS to make a cross platform game by the way he avoids answering the question about transferring characters between platforms. I just hope Microsoft and Sony can allow it.

The Titan continues to woo me. Risk death by charging into foes? Me? Never...

Someone at Kotaku wasn't completely impressed. Go see why here!

Some of my favorite things are labelled boring by most people. Guess that means I should be more excited for Destiny!

That breastplate is sexy.

I wish I was playing the ever-exciting Titanfall instead

LOL! What a hard life these journos have!

- No text -

It's Xenos' forum. We just post on it. ;)

It's our mantra.

Honestly I'm changing the topic right now.

Also I'm more irritated by Kotaku's biotic/bionic mistake than anything the review says . . .

I'll double it!

Check out this orange monster

I'm really diggin' this Warlock. That uniform looks fantastic.

Also, the hunter with the wolf breastplate is rad. I'm interested to see anything else from the Gjallarhorn set.

I'll be sticking with Warlock for my first choice (Order of the Void, anybody?), but holy sexy space armor, Batman! Those titans look badass! And dat hunter's breastplate! I find that I am more excited about the RPG elements of the game at the moment than I am about the shooty bits.

Short but interesting. It's from about 2:00 to 2:03.

If you don’t have a particular agenda, Patrol is a good place to start. The Patrol structure is deliberately relaxed and freewheeling, with locations covering a large swath of exterior and interior spaces. You can hunt for beacons to trigger side missions, or just blast enemies, collect loot, and explore at your own pace. Patrol missions seem to vary considerably, tasking you with everything from collecting uranium to interrupting mining operations and assassinating enemy leaders.

Cool. I bet these kinds of missions are even changeable as time goes on.

Speaking of needing to change... The Playstation site was acting all strange... loading in chunks at a time... occasionally having text and images disappear... and maxing out my CPU for no reason. That's one place I won't be going back to...

"The social intent of the game cannot be overstated. Indeed, levelling up each character to max takes only a few hours – Bungie doesn't want you to start the game then realise you have weeks of grind to put in before you can play against friends on a higher level. "You level cap quickly, but once you're there the game is more about equipping the gear that lets you go deeper into the game," says Green. "There are more strikes, there are raids, there are higher levels of PvP if you equip better weapons and armour."

Interesting approach, but I'm not sure if I like it.

Interesting from the article:

Another reason why a PC version of Destiny is tricky is that all versions of the game >connect to a singular persistent world, and this would require a significant amount of >legwork to get right, Parsons said.

“It is not nearly as simple as you think,” he said. “It is one central world no matter >what the platform, and so that requires lots of intensive thought. Frankly, it’s not a >thought we can spend time thinking about right now. Just building up the game and >putting it across generations of platforms, and working on platforms we’ve never >worked on before with the PlayStation 3, these are very big challenges. I’m thankful >we have the engineering team we do.”

Does that mean on a technical side it's one big server (albeit obviously made up of smaller physical servers)?

- No text -

Yet they don't expect to gain universal praise whatever they deliver; they're aware they're going to alienate some of their audience. This isn't their Halo 4.

I'm trying to figure out if this is intended to be played straight, or if there's a "zing!" subtext at the end.

Found an 3 page article that hasn't been posted yet. Most of the information we are aware of now, but feels well reported.

Nah. They wrongly called the gun "Some Good Advice." I kid. That was really good. I loved Urk's comments at the end.

The needle hasn't moved much for me over the last 36 hours or so. That said, I am firmly convinced that they are driven to deliver something special. I'm also coming to believe that what makes it special might not be apparent after only a few hours of game play. I expect I'm going to be spending a lot of time in campaign and patrol modes.

Tyson Green discusses micro-transactions briefly in the article:

The Tower is the Guardians' central base and the social hub for the game. Glimmer buys > weapons, and it sounds like the developer is ranging as far as it can from the notion > of micro-transactions.

"We're focusing on the core sixty dollar experience," Green replies when asked directly. "Trying to keep the game away from needing a subscription or anything like that. It's not something we're really focusing on at all."