Except... (Destiny)

by Leviathan , Hotel Zanzibar, Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 08:25 (4012 days ago) @ Schooly D

You can already see this with Bungie being reluctant to call it an MMO, to compare it games like the aforementioned Borderlands. Because while it shares certain elements, takes inspiration from them, it's also changed in the established Bungie style into something that doesn't easily fit into established boxes and stereotypes.

How do you know that? What have you seen? Because what we have seen can be described as "Bungie Borderlands" as one IGN article put it.

Not to me. From everything I've read and seen, plus realizing the vast amount I have NO idea about, Destiny seems strange and new to me. Obviously if you want to make comparisons with the incomplete data we have, you can. But I find it exciting that Bungie has been reluctant to describe it using established labels, and I'm happy to do the same. It's too easy to categorize experiences and put them in a box under your bed, but that takes away from the wonder and mystique- the adventure. I'm looking forward to trying Destiny with a somewhat-blank slate.

It's absolutely dangerous for Bungie to do, to wait and let everyone play it before defining it too much, but the payoff could be much greater because of it, when we finally pick up the controller, excited and confused, not really knowing the worlds we're about to explore.

Like stepping out of a Bumblebee lifepod, perhaps?