"the frontier awaits"...

by Xenos , Shores of Time, Thursday, February 28, 2013, 20:01 (4284 days ago) @ kapowaz

I can only hope that means its a space sim on top of the shooter. The same way Halo is a driving/flying game on top of a shooter.

I've been suspecting this for some time; they did a lot of work delivering an action flight-sim sequence in Reach (still one of my favourite space dog fighters, even when compared to the likes of Freelancer) and yet it was only used in one relatively short chunk of the game. I'm fairly certain that everything they did post-Halo 3 was in some way a proof of concept for ideas they wanted to explore in Destiny. The modular hub-level for ODST also springs to mind...

I have thought very similar things. It would explain why Halo 1-3 kept things relatively similar and then there were massive departures in gameplay in ODST and Reach. It actually made me excited when I realized that's probably what they were doing since I LOVE the armor abilities in Reach, and the Sabre scene, and VISR from ODST, and loadouts (though 4 takes it to far) and I could probably go on but I will not.