I probably shouldn't worry, but I'd also like to know that Destiny has some Forge-like feature. It's great to explore, and boy do I want to explore, but I also want to create.

Yeah I've been trying to figure out how they can do something like Forge in Destiny, but with what they've revealed so far it seems unlikely unfortunately, but here's hoping Bungie proves me wrong!

I probably shouldn't worry, but I'd also like to know that Destiny has some Forge-like feature. It's great to explore, and boy do I want to explore, but I also want to create.

Maybe both? What I'd like to see is a public forge zone parceled up by large chasms. It would be cool if you could win the privilege of sculpting an area somehow. It would be mega cool if you could travel from one space to another without a loading screen and just stream in the forge blocks when you get close.

This is baseless, but if I were Bungie and I were trying to do something ambitious that played to the strengths of my studio, my game engine, and my thriving community, that's something I would attempt.

I agree with this. Based on the week long buildup we had that required a coordinated effort of the fanbase, I was hoping to get a bit more than we did today. I am still excited and have full faith in Bungie, but I guess we will have to wait a bit longer to get more details. I suppose it is mostly impatience on my part, but I can't wait to find out more about this new world!

Well this really did not show much except a brief few seconds of actual in game FPS view for us. Other than that, us hardcore fans have already seen the leaks and legal documentation leaked by Activision about this series as evidence during the trial they had with Infinity Ward. We already knew quite about of detail about the basic design of the game and their 10 year plan going into today so this really was just a confirmation of their new IP and just a few morsels for us to eat until later. You know the Bungie way...give us a few things to salivate over and give us bread crumbs over time, gradually more and more. I am excited....my big hope...as stupid as it sounds, though....is that they got rid of the horrible reticule bloom mechanics that they put into Halo Reach. Sage Merril, the sandbox designer of Reach, made a crap game in Shadow Run because of that, then messed up Halo with his horrible implementation of weapon bloom (so much that Halo 4 made great strides to fix that and let the community know they did). So my hopes are the sandbox feels great again :)

So much about today felt a little "that's it?"

When I was listening to the IGN thing, the whole time it felt like they were supposed to have more to talk about for a 1-hour talk.

Yeah I caught that bit as well. There might have been some technical hangup that prevented a demo from happening or something.

Could have been network difficulties or a bug prevented some demo build from running properly. Or it could have been that the missing thing wasn't a game demo - maybe there was a video put together for the press (not the vidoc we saw, but maybe something meant to be played at the media event) and somebody lost the file. Maybe there was supposed to be a circus performance and the elephant got sick.

If it is true that there was something planned that didn't happen, I wouldn't be surprised if that thing does get shown some time soon, once the kinks are worked out.

lol - I'm pretty sure they're not pulling ANYONE from the community in to sign NDAs and play the game, EVER, much less 'all the time'... Gerstmann's embellishing quite a bit in what he heard. (That's not to say they didn't say they were playtesting - they definitely DID say that. I'm just saying his frustration is misplaced; they're not showing it to ANYONE outside of testers, as far as I know.)

Most awkward moment of Wednesday was when Harold Ryan asked "so, have you played it yet?" and urk had to say "no, he's not cleared for that."

:)

Interstingly, he sounds like Bungie the studio was ready to show the game, but Activision/Bungie the marketing entity wanted to hold off. I think holding it back told many people to expect a fall 2014 release, but I think the game is farther along than many in the press are thinking.

Too little info to not be underwhelmed. Hopefully E3 will fix that.