Got a question about Destiny?

by Reconcilliation , Imagination Station, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 05:02 (3969 days ago) @ Claude Errera

What games (and other media) have primarily influenced Destiny?

Listening to this:
http://alphalupi.bungie.net/images/results/eighth.mp3

I get flashbacks to Fable. The loot shown at E3 brings to mind Borderlands, and the Warlock's glowing talking ball was pretty much 343 Guilty Spark from Halo. Have there been other significant influences?

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Is information provided to inquisitive players in the environment regarding things that happened within the setting? Can I, in effect, be a bit of an archaeologist? For example: In the E3 demo there are these large... tower looking things, with three spheres atop them and what appear to be space shuttles along the sides. If I wanted to learn more about them, could I find detailed information? Logs? Video/audio of things happening? Notes?

Or to put it another way - if you've played Morrowind or Mass Effect - could a player spend hours in this game /reading/?