Saturn (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Sunday, August 31, 2014, 10:30 (3736 days ago) @ Cody Miller

From Destinynews.net:

Jonty Barnes: Some of the spaces we thought we were going to go for the launch of the game, we made better choices. They eclipsed some of the initial plans. So we were agile around that. When we see what people are playing and what they most enjoy, we’ll be using that as part of the prioritisation.

I know you have talked about going to Chicago, and some thought we’d get to visit there when the game launches.

Jesse van Dijk: When we started thinking about the IP years ago, we created a singular vision of what the flavour of the world would have to feel like. What is this typical nature of Destiny? What is the type of game we’re trying to make? The way we did that was building this huge fiction that came in the form of all of these various places.

Jonty Barnes: We want to tell the story of the world through the destinations as much as possible, rather than blunt dialogue. Old Chicago was a piece of concept art we did actually show. There’s still a lot of enthusiasm for that. But whether or not that ever makes it into the Destiny universe is to be determined.

Jesse van Dijk: With so many things like that, the fact it even exists, it’s going to inform things that are readily available at launch. The fact the world extends beyond accessible areas informs certain things that are happening within the world. And that’s great. A game needs to have that underlying realm of events that happened that inform certain things in the world to provide the player with that layering.

Certain people will not necessarily be all that interested. But for the people who are, they can dig through and go through all of these discoveries, which is actually one of our most important mechanisms for making people curious, by hiding all of these nuggets within the world, that refer to things that happened in the past or in other places.

Also, promises by omission? Really? So now Bungie has to explicitly deny everything not making it in or they're shooting themselves in the foot? Uh huh...