A question can we discuss what was in the magazine on this site or not?

Discussion of the articles is most certainly encouraged! What's not allowed is posting scans of the article or quoting the article's text verbatim. If a magazine has content that we're interested in, it's good to support their business by buying an issue or subscription — it lets them know what we think is important so that we can have more articles to discuss in the future!

I would suggest that a good assumption to make when posting about a magazine article is to assume that everyone in the conversation has already read the article and therefore won't want a re-hash of what they just read, but instead will be interested in having an informed discussion about the value and importance of the article's content.

benefit of living in the UK I guess, timely edges

Oh and Edge has some of the best print designers there are, I find some of the more minimal elements of their design absolutely flawless. I stared at the inside of the cover for a good long while appreciating it.

Did you not find the giant B inside a circle, followed by a paragraph below it starting ‘ungie’ a bit jarring, though? I thought it was a typo for ages until I saw the B.

Oh and Edge has some of the best print designers there are, I find some of the more minimal elements of their design absolutely flawless. I stared at the inside of the cover for a good long while appreciating it.

Yeah, that arrowhead ship flying motif is vaguely familiar…

...to see a game that looks so good as still being pre-alpha. I guess it's a good thing, but it's hard to see the whole picture right now.

There does appear to be a meeting discussed that indicates how big the changes could possibly be.

Bungie has the luxury to really take us on a journey where they introduce us to their next big thing in very carefully planned stages.

Right now we're in the "bungie shooter/intro to shared worlds" stage and I appreciate picture they're slowly painting for us.

it makes me feel like you've started courting publicity way too early.

I've wondered about this very thing... and how much of this early PR is being driven by Activision. Truth be told though, I can't recall how early we started receiving information during the Halo era. If we're likely still a year away from release, how does that compare with past PR schedules?

1. You're awful, awful teases attempting to blue-ball us into submission.

Everyone was saying it was kind of like borderlands and now we finally know it has a mechanic or maybe the main coop setting is like Borderlands except you meet other guys making their own fire teams.

Every time I read another interveiw, I get more excited for this game. I am so anxious to see all of these things we keep hearing about come together. I certainly hope I'm not being too optimistic here, but I just can't help myself.

Yeah I feel much the same way. I love seeing people so excited about the game they are working on, it just makes me that much more excited.

Just to put the 2km by 2km in context I looked up what size the GTA IV map was which was around 3km by 3km.

So that is a fairly big map for a FPS, mixed with the fact there will be multiple maps, that is a lot of content to be produced and a lot of space to loose myself in.

* Engine maximum for map size right now is 2 kilometers.

WTF? Crash Bandicoot 3, a game for the PLAYSTATION1 had actual geometry draw distance of 3 km. This seems really disappointing…

* At least in their development build they can play while the servers are offline.

So why must we always be connected then?

That of course doesn't include the tidbits about their game design philosophy,

Fill me in on that! That's the juice.

A few more that I thought could be important

* Alien Factions don't get along, and you can turn them on each other/ use them in your battle plans
*AI seems to be a big focus "Destiny's Designers will fight a single infinately spawning enemy inside a test environment until behaviors are perfected"
* Mix of linear and open spaces. Designed around circulation, so it sounds like areas in the world will be re-used to some degree as you traverse through for different reasons. Less of a "Hub and spoke Design" of something like Oblivion, where you have a big hub, and descend into linear spokes and come back out.
* Fireteam limit currently at 3 in order to avoid "Clown town" where the fastest players just skip ahead of everyone, and the pace of the game goes crazy and you miss everything.
*There's a fun anecdote about how important the connected nature of the world is, where one designer describes how his son one night realized there was no one left and decided it was time for bed.
* Seemed to Poo poo the idea of level scaling, there are things that will be too strong for you, that you have to come back for. (SOUND THE CODY ALARM)

It reall seems like the design of destiny is about getting people to play together in productive ways. Whether it's getting a small fireteam together, or getting you into these public events to play alongside your fellow guardians, destiny is a game that needs to be played with others.