Well, Souls throws you into non-consensual PvP where you have to beat the other guy in his customized gear - and the beauty of it is that skill still determines the outcome (within certain limits, obviously between two players of similar skill, if one has trash gear and the other has great gear...).
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Destiny pre-order materials leak [Up3: Box Art/Info, 360/PS3, Retailer Says Oct 6]
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Well, Souls throws you into non-consensual PvP where you have to beat the other guy in his customized gear - and the beauty of it is that skill still determines the outcome (within certain limits, obviously between two players of similar skill, if one has trash gear and the other has great gear...).
ncsuDuncan
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SlickShoesRUCrazy
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ah, you're right. only looked at the covered up one.
MDSLKTR
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But I want it to be. Especially since Halo isn't Halo anymore.It's not Halo.
Customizable weapons do not lend themselves to balanced multiplayer modes.
I'm crossing my fingers, man.
lol, yes!
AND vehicles. How could you leave that out
Which alien are you talking about? The ones on the poster? Or the figure? I think the figure guy looks like something out of John Carter tbh...
The one on the poster. It's the first time I saw the Elites all over again.
For all we know competitive multiplayer is implemented via in-world arenas with a variety of team and map sizes.
BigEvilTurtle
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Sounds fucking sublime.
I hope it is. The small and intimate MP of Halo 2 is some of my favorite in all of gaming.
Oh, you'll find I'm the very last person to hate on Activision. I'm saying they very likely have as much interest in emulating a title that niche as they do in publishing one: None.
It's Bungie's game, but Acti is still the publisher which means there's a level of compromise going on. Dark Souls and the things that people appreciate about it most are not palatable to a mainstream audience and those are the only games Acti deals in.
Chubby thighs
AnonymousTipster
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If they go the in-game arena route for the competitive multiplayer, they could have some arenas that allow customizable gear and others that don't.
For a supposedly niche title, Dark Souls sold remarkably well. Activision may want to emulate its model more than you might think.
When I talk about Dark Souls being a model for Destiny, I'm talking about the inter-connected world and the online play (co-op and competitive) being fully integrated into the campaign, not necessarily the soul-crushing difficulty or super-enigmatic storytelling.
But knowing Bungie, I'm sure there will be plenty of options for those of us who prefer masochistic levels of difficulty.
Gordon0Freeman
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What Im hoping for.
Demoncarnotaur
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Doubt it.
The sequels are supposed to be Next Gen only.. I doubt Bungie wants to down port those to the Wii U.
Do you ever grow tired of being so pessimistic?
BigEvilTurtle
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Umm, the Wii U is next-gen?
'Gen 4'.
Uiki
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*wakemewhenyouneedme*
shinobi602
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He means high end consoles.
Vire
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BigEvilTurtle
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Then perhaps he should have used a more accurate term, since the Wii U, Orbis, and Durango will all be under the same (eighth) generation.
If this does wind up being an MMO a touchscreen would be great tho.
Vire
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That might not be an enemy.
I like the way you think.
"From the creators of Halo
and the publishers of Call of Duty"
LMAO.
I was thinking the same thing.
Never have i heard a publisher get credit for one of their other titles while promoting a new game.
The Librarian
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What in the world are you are you and a few people going on about? You don't know anything about the game, and when you've seen only snippets you immediately call it Halo? Then say or imply that Bungie is uncreative and criticize then for it?
Oww, I think it's the Macworld award for Marathon that Bungie received in 1994 !
#funfactLMFAO. This thread is better than I thought
electricpirate
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The initial contract suggested that this will be a 360 exclusive at first for technical reasons. No exclusivity contract or hard dates were mentioned, but that a PS3 version would happen based on technical feasibility studies, and would not be required of bungie in 2013.
Maybe it won't appear on PS4 at launch but it will almost definitely come out for PS3. Maybe MS has a timed exclusive? I kind of doubt it.
Roddslayer
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Goro approves.
Money is a sign of quality you just can't argue against.
People wouldn't buy Call of Duty if they were bad games.
electricpirate
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Isn't that basically what happens everytime a movie says "From the producer of xyz!"
Vire
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Doug Heffernan
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Does that leaked contract still hold up or could they have changed anything?
If the leaked contract holds up then I don't understand why people are questioning what platforms this is for...
If the leaked contract holds up then I don't understand why people are questioning what platforms this is for...
ncsuDuncan
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That might not be an enemy.
Maybe not, but I think they're enemies. I recall a story about Bungie doing focus testing by showing participants various concept art and asking them "Does this look like a good guy or a bad guy to you? What about this one?"
We don't know if the contract is still correct, and we won't until they announce platforms.
Contracts change all the time. And keep in mind that this was a contract with Activision, not Microsoft. If MS paid for an exclusive, that fact is nowhere in the contract.
BigEvilTurtle
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Okay, thanks for the correction!
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