I can't wait to see the 'Bungie Spin' on commonplace gametypes. There's a reason no one calls the gametype deathmatch in Halo.

Definately invasion. I think there was a lot of potential there that wasn't fully realized in the maps that came with Reach.

With everyone having personal speeders, I hope there's some kind of race gametype that goes across the maps. Maybe have a pubic area you stop in to enter the race gametype, then you race through checkpoints in the main worlds.

I don't *want* traditional competitive multiplayer modes. I don't *want* to go off into some walled garden where I rehash the battles I fought in Halo, but with more varied systemic complexity and weapons. I want destiny to be about the challenge of organizing and playing with people in a context with more meaning.

While I don't necessarily want a single battle in destiny to cost over 200,000 dollars I do want something more than it just a bit of currency in some metagame.

I want the entire context of PVP in Destiny to be unmoored from the expectations of Halo. I want battles to be over things in the world that are more than a rank number. I want PVP to have more meaning in Destiny's social systems.

Unfortunately, the hints Bungie has dropped lead me to believe the PVP is going to follow the traditional path. I'd love to be proved wrong, but the information we have so far points the other way.

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon's "Capital Conquest" was something I think the general gaming public really missed.

It's essentially conquest (capture the middle area, be able to attack the enemy base), but the sight of two teams of eight planes (with various mixes of bombers, fighers, and multi-roles) screaming at each other right from the get go then mixing it up to epic musics was something real special.

I, for one, loved skimming the ground at max speed bombing things, while the fighters raged above me.

Not sure how this would translate into Destiny - I guess just, huge spaces, fast gameplay, and a sense of shared purpose with your teammates, where everyone has a role to play. Just the act of getting where you need to go should be fun - none of this lumbering, Spartan, plodding I felt so often in Halo.

I'm not a big PvP guy, so I'm looking for a reason to play at all. To me that would be some way that the multiplayer relates to the fictional world. It being fun is a necessity, too, of course, but is there something for me whose skills are average at best? Can I be useful when playing with friends who are much better than me?

I'm already imagining a lot about my guardian and his personality. The word Booyah! will never leave his lips. He needs a reason to be in the arena.

Nice thread, Xenos. It would be a shame if somebody... STOLE IT.

Let's expand the subject:

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Destiny supposedly has "an activity for every mood." What kind of activities do you think that includes?

What kind of Halo gametypes would you expect?
Campaign and Competitive multiplayer variants, obviously, but does that include Race? Infection? Forge? Theater? Something like Grifball?

How could these game modes be presented as in-universe activities in Destiny?
Should they be portrayed that way at all?

This is a subject I'll discuss with my dboTV guests on Tuesday, but I'd love to pull some quotes from the forum as well. The responses to last week's Friendly Fire thread were very helpful in that regard and gave us some great points to consider.