I'm getting the sense that one of the biggest issues that Bungie is experiencing sharing Destiny with the press is that a lot of it doesn't fit neatly in a soundbyte.

Clearly, Bungie should adopt a more CoD-esque design philosophy in the future:

"We have a dog."

"We have some fish."

Brilliant.

Bungie games already have fish. In Halo's 3 and Reach, you can even go fishing with guns. Dogs aren't really there, but dogs are basically just less-cool moa. Speaking of which, Destiny should make moa usable like a vehicle.

"We have some fish."

->

"You can kill fish."

->

"You can kill fish with machine guns."

->

"You can kill fish with machine guns while riding a moa."

Now that is more like it.

A: There is no evidence that I was one of the parties in that exchange.
B: Only one of those parties was actually playing - the other seemed to have been observing.
C: I have never played, nor even observed, a Destiny raid in action.

All three of these statements are true.

Depending on how we interpret "in action", this leaves open the possibility that you've been watching exclusive recordings of Destiny gameplay featuring observer commentary.

I'm getting the sense that one of the biggest issues that Bungie is experiencing sharing Destiny with the press is that a lot of it doesn't fit neatly in a soundbyte.

Clearly, Bungie should adopt a more CoD-esque design philosophy in the future:

"We have a dog."

"We have some fish."

Brilliant.

I didn't take it as an accusation. I was more curious if you saw an interview or something since there's a number of them that I haven't seen yet.

Also, our rez/death mechanic doesn't fit in a soundbyte and requires some play time before you see the breadth of it.

I'm getting the sense that one of the biggest issues that Bungie is experiencing sharing Destiny with the press is that a lot of it doesn't fit neatly in a soundbyte.

And that is really encouraging.

Bungie tends to do really mechanically rich games, and the press doesn't understand mechanics very well. I remember Halo going through similar pains 5 months before it released.

Though, restricting the press to a super slim chunk of the game doesn't help either.

I didn't take it as an accusation. I was more curious if you saw an interview or something since there's a number of them that I haven't seen yet.

Also, our rez/death mechanic doesn't fit in a soundbyte and requires some play time before you see the breadth of it.

I'm getting the sense that one of the biggest issues that Bungie is experiencing sharing Destiny with the press is that a lot of it doesn't fit neatly in a soundbyte.

And that is really encouraging.

Also, our rez/death mechanic doesn't fit in a soundbyte and requires some play time before you see the breadth of it.

I can't say much, but safe to say, Challenge is not something you will find lacking in Destiny.

Cool. Don't think this post was accusatory, it was genuinely a question as to how death will work, and what we'll be challenged to do.

I can't say much, but safe to say, Challenge is not something you will find lacking in Destiny.

the raid will make you cry

"In two days, you'll tell me. If you got your ass kicked, you owe me a beer."

::two days later::

"So - do you owe me a beer?"

"I..."

"Do you?"

"Yes. Yes, I owe you a beer."

You HAVE played it! :)

A: There is no evidence that I was one of the parties in that exchange.
B: Only one of those parties was actually playing - the other seemed to have been observing.
C: I have never played, nor even observed, a Destiny raid in action.

All three of these statements are true.

:( I lodge a protest then. Someone get Claude a PS4! Stat!

I can't say much, but safe to say, Challenge is not something you will find lacking in Destiny.

the raid will make you cry

"In two days, you'll tell me. If you got your ass kicked, you owe me a beer."

::two days later::

"So - do you owe me a beer?"

"I..."

"Do you?"

"Yes. Yes, I owe you a beer."

You HAVE played it! :)

A: There is no evidence that I was one of the parties in that exchange.
B: Only one of those parties was actually playing - the other seemed to have been observing.
C: I have never played, nor even observed, a Destiny raid in action.

All three of these statements are true.

I can't say much, but safe to say, Challenge is not something you will find lacking in Destiny.

the raid will make you cry

"In two days, you'll tell me. If you got your ass kicked, you owe me a beer."

::two days later::

"So - do you owe me a beer?"

"I..."

"Do you?"

"Yes. Yes, I owe you a beer."

You HAVE played it! :)

Yeah I want to start wrestling with AI on objectives beyond "kill or be killed". I'd love to fight to secure an objective knowing that the AI may move on another objective at that time.

Sounds like Invasion with bots. I'll take it.

I can't say much, but safe to say, Challenge is not something you will find lacking in Destiny.

the raid will make you cry

I wonder if party death is the only fail state on tougher missions? Will we also have things to protect, or speed benchmarks to clear? Maybe there are missions where you have to race the enemies to some goal.

I dunno, we haven't heard anything like that, but I doubt all raids will just be "Go here, and kill everything till the end"

Yeah I want to start wrestling with AI on objectives beyond "kill or be killed". I'd love to fight to secure an objective knowing that the AI may move on another objective at that time.

Though I'm even more curious about the puzzles that require coordination on part of the whole party. I think this is where we're really exploring how Bungie will bring new ideas to mainstream shooters.

I dunno, we haven't heard anything like that, but I doubt all raids will just be "Go here, and kill everything till the end"