Thoughts, predictions and palate-cleansing (Destiny)

by Schooly D, TSD Gaming Condo, TX, Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 11:24 (3862 days ago)

1. I think people need to show Reconcilliation a little more goddamned respect. The man's a legend. He's practically a member of TSD. Posts like this are embarrassing.

2. I've got some predictions of my own

E3
Bungie booth
"A-and h-here we'll show you the m-magnum"
Person playing the game shoots a Level 1 enemy
The enemy is incinerated, the smoke spells "Presented by Activision"
Crowd murmurs, the player's mom is the only one clapping
"How is this any different than Borderlands?" asks one crowd member
A Dorito chip flies across the room at high velocity and lodges itself in the man's jugular
He dies
A bell rings
All Bungie employees in the booth drink from the bottles of Mountain Dew hung around their neck
One employee panics -- he left his in the bathroom
"N-no, please, Activision, I have a fam-"
Dorito chip to the jugular
IGN gives his death 9.5/10 - it was okay
A loud crash is heard across the room in the 343i booth
Frankie just made his own entrance into the building driving a Warthog
He's already wearing sunglasses but puts on another pair
A crowd gathers
Frankie surveys the room
"I hope you're all ready to not finish the fight"
One person who gets it screams
Low-level pyrotechnics explode behind Frankie and spell out "H2AV"
Crowd goes wild
Frankie, obviously drunk, starts tearing up the adjacent cutout of Sarah Palmer in between extremely suggestive gestures involving his hands and mouth
Crowd goes even wilder
"And now I'd like to welcome our newest employee at 343 to help with this... urp... game"
Crowd hype is now reaching critical levels -- the California national guard is mobilized
"MORTY O'CONNELL"
Rock Anthem for Saving the World plays, Marty saunters on stage
The crowd is now so excited their vibrations are beginning to heat up the room
Another Dorito chip is launched at Marty's neck
Marty catches it between his fingers
"Nice try, Kotick. But they told me when I took this job I'd have to... B sharp."
Audience is now a glowing white mass of plasma
The convention center is vaporized

3. This probably got linked in Xenos's megathread, but I wanted to highlight it here. It got passed around IRC last night and the reception was very positive.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/12/13/designing-the-rpg-elements-of-destiny.aspx

ferrex has always given some of the best talks/interviews, and this one is no exception. Him talking for four minutes in this video has done more to hype me for Destiny than any amount of gameplay footage, screenshots, concept art, and glowing non-specific praise from employees about how awesome Destiny will be.

Hearing him compare and contrast Destiny with other games and hearing his praises/critiques of them is insanely refreshing. He oozes knowledge and insight. One of the best ways to distinguish yourself from Borderlands is to talk about what you feel Borderlands did poorly.

"!!! Oh my God, you're actually going to play a AAA game and fail a lot!" - this quote makes me feel warm and fuzzy