Ars Technica not sold on Destiny... yet.

by Arithmomaniac , Monday, February 18, 2013, 14:36 (4296 days ago)

Just to keep up the Internet roundups:

Activision and Bungie’s Destiny reveal: Big on hype, low on details

I answered frankly: The little I'd seen seemed promising, but it's hard to get excited about a game that's still pure hype and concept [...]

Oxford nodded and empathized with my reluctance, before reiterating the silly company stance; that this event was meant to “drive excitement” about Destiny—whose now-official promises of first-person shooting and always-online play matched months of rumors. [...]

The game's admittedly thin reveal made the alliance's motives perfectly clear: to crack the review score matrix wide open. And they're not scared to set those expectations shamelessly high.

This dynamic reminds me of Halo 4 (though it's not as bad.) Now that we have actual data, I guess Bungie just isn't as good of a contrast against 343i's failings as it used to be... ;-)