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Vex: Time Traveling Robots. (reply)

General Vagueness — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:42:49 +0000

Good work. I checked the GDC 2013 presentation, where we first got substantial information on Destiny (and how! I had forgotten how much they said), because I was almost certain that was where the "time-traveling robots" quote first came from, I even thought I could hear Joe Staten saying it, but I checked every section that seemed relevant and it wasn't there or I couldn't find it, and I gave up after that because the next step would've been searching the forum and I have a tendency to while away an afternoon or evening reading old posts when I do that.
So yeah, good on you for finding the sources. I still say it's questionable, and I've thought so since that analysis was first mentioned. Describing them as "time-traveling robots" and seemingly nothing more seemed to me like an encapsulation or summary of what they wanted to get across and have these beings feel like, and the Chris Barrett Game Informer quote seems to back that up, along with what Joe Staten did say at GDC 2013, about them feeling like ancient robots and I think mentioning they were mysterious.
Edit: The wording from the Edge article says this to me too, they give a description of a few words for each race.
Well, that and what I brought up before, it has potential to mess up the plot and the significance of things, and it seems spoilery to tell us and not let us find out. That would be a cool surprise, wouldn't it, to find out they time-traveled, with no hints beforehand? Now that can't happen.
Double edit: or not...

The Citadel is Destiny at its most visually abstract. Home to the Vex – time-travelling robots from the future – it's a mess of gravity-defying geometry reaching far above the clouds

that seems specific...

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kidtsunami — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 07:20:35 +0000

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Claude Errera — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:48:49 +0000

The actual rule is that we won't post anything that's still on newsstands.

HBO had a magazine article archive - scans that were put up after the issue was no longer on the shelves. We stopped collecting them because we had one problem (EGM sent us a C&D about a year after the last article of theirs went up), and decided it wasn't worth the headache.

One page of an article that came out a year ago is well within the guidelines. :)

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DaDerga — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:17:33 +0000

I'm going to assume they meant both types when they were referring to horns. Physical and light. They all fit the description.

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Blackt1g3r — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:07:55 +0000

I was thinking more like this:

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SigbiasSilva — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:32:17 +0000

I want something like this.

Yes, please.

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DaDerga — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:24:57 +0000

Forgot about that one altogether.

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bluerunner — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:17:51 +0000

I want something like this.

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DaDerga — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:04:40 +0000

Like these?

Large image: 2340 × 4160

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bluerunner — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:41:15 +0000

Heh. That's what we need. Guardians going around annoying the crap out of each other with Legendary vuvuzelas :)

I think he means these kinds of horns:

The crucible guy had a horn on his helmet. I hope we do have something like that.

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Speedracer513 — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:36:08 +0000

I just re-watched the whole thing... The refer to the Vex as "futuristic robots" but didn't say the words "time-traveling".

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Ragashingo — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:34:06 +0000

Heh. That's what we need. Guardians going around annoying the crap out of each other with Legendary vuvuzelas :)

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Blackt1g3r — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:29:47 +0000

One of the comments that suck out to me in the video was about some of the legendary armor glowing or having "horns". I always assumed that meant physical horns, but I think the glowing projections we saw on the legendary titan helmet were probably more in line with what they meant.

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Ragashingo — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:18:17 +0000

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Nevermind, it doesn't seem to be in that video (reply)

Blackt1g3r — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:05:57 +0000

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DaDerga — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:02:19 +0000

That's possible, or this may have been merged with the concept of The Reef.

You could be right about that. It seems to have definitely been a distinct location at one point.

Compare this concept piece

with this.

The Reef, as we've seen, is still very close to how it was concepted.

Brave New World: Bungie’s New IP (reply)

Blackt1g3r — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:41:40 +0000

I'm pretty sure that Bungie originally described them as time travelling robots in the 2013 GDC presentation by Joseph Staten and Christopher Barrett called "Brave New World: Bungie’s New IP". I'd have to watch it again to be sure though. It's probably worth watching again know that we know more about Destiny to see what kinds of things might be more relevant.

Brave New World: Bungie's New IP (Youtube)

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kapowaz — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:37:10 +0000

Perhaps you mixed up the Asteroid Belt with Saturn's rings in your head?

Nah, I was definitely thinking of the asteroid belt, given that we do go to Mars, so I thought of it as being connected (given that the asteroid belt is in orbit beyond Mars).

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JDQuackers — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:33:39 +0000

That's possible, or this may have been merged with the concept of The Reef. I'd been assuming that it was a location within the Asteroid Belt, but I can't find out where I picked that up from. Googling around, I found this page that suggests it's on Saturn, but again, doesn't cite where it gets that from.

Perhaps you mixed up the Asteroid Belt with Saturn's rings in your head?

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kapowaz — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:50:20 +0000

… a derelict in orbit of Saturn were originally destinations we were going to visit, but have subsequently been cut. Something to look forward to in Destiny 2, perhaps?

Is that not the Reef? This is exactly what I had been assuming all this time

That's possible, or this may have been merged with the concept of The Reef. I'd been assuming that it was a location within the Asteroid Belt, but I can't find out where I picked that up from. Googling around, I found this page that suggests it's on Saturn, but again, doesn't cite where it gets that from.

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