I'm just surprised they are bothering with 360/PS3 versions for a 2014 release.
Seems like a waste of resources unless the incremental cost is very small. Maybe it makes sense if it's a really early 2014 release and they're betting next gen consoles will be in short supply.
I'm just surprised they are bothering with 360/PS3 versions for a 2014 release.
Seems like a waste of resources unless the incremental cost is very small. Maybe it makes sense if it's a really early 2014 release and they're betting next gen consoles will be in short supply.
In one sentence, why exactly did they choose yesterday to 'reveal' the game when they had nothing to show, and so far from release
What they showed was early and rough. So this is expected.
Frankly, i have no idea why they announced it with so little to show.
You have much to learn about Bungie friend.
they're most likely spending the next 4 months playing LAN matches with Destiny.
Development in terms of actually making a product started only after they signed the contract. Preliminary conceptual stuff was beforehand.Jeff Gerstmann (or was it Keighley?) said around six years lol.
Haha, yeah, people thinking Destiny is vapourware just don't really know them very well. They get off on teasing their fans. This time around though, they teased the journalists too. Industry is full of intrigue, that's for sure. Reminds me of a time before Halo CE.
Yea, after reading more I realized, there's a large portion of this game that's already working. Bungie revealed a judicious amount of info that tells us more than meets the eye.
When halo was revealed we knew far less about it, even though we got a full gameplay trailer.
No, but it could go as far back as last Bungie day when they showed the whole studio what they've been working on. I doubt it's recent footage, because the ViDoc itself uses old interview footage.Did Bungie ever state how old that build was in the vidoc?
I doubt it's recent footage, because the ViDoc itself uses old interview footage.
The only footage they showed was 3 short cuts of pre-alpha build footage. The rest was just animated concept art. Hopefully by E3 we'll see a pretty polished build of the game.Well I don't believe that it's that oudated either. We're talking about the first showing of a major franchise here and not showing representative footage just won't cut it.
Ok...well then, page me when it's 2014 and I'll start giving Destiny a look. I'm kinda over these one year + long marketing fiascos.
To be fair, if you actually read the previews they did talk a LOT about actual details to reporters. Like naming specific classes, customization options, and detailed gameplay scenarios. Go read Polygon's article for example.It's crazy they wasted everyone's time. It's one thing to throw out a silly CG trailer out to the web for some point of presence. It's another to invite all of the media out to your HQ to reveal nothing, waste their own and the people travelings time, and then to not even have a clear and consistent announcement description of what the game is. We think its sort of like a MMO or PSO game or whatever. But bungie wasn't even wanting to reveal simple mechanics.
If it's coming next year, at the very best what's the PS4/XB3 install base? Fifteen million between them? It'd need a 50% attach-rate to do really great numbers.
Not launching on PS360 would be crazy next year.
It's probably not an MMO in the way you think. At least I wouldn't necessarily expect to be able to continue your character in to Destiny 2 though maybe they can do that with a Bungie specific account. Also, you'd be crazy to think that 3rd parties aren't going to support 360/PS3 for the next couple of years. The install base is just too big.But its a "mmo" need to keep selling dlc for 1-2 years
Exactly. The term MMO used to simply mean there were a lot of players all connected at the same time, but now it has morphed into a label for a very specific genre of gaming.people keep referring to it as an MMO, all the previews stated that Bungie went out of their way to NOT say MMO during the press briefing, at least not in the traditional sense. think more like Journey but with a few more players.
The reveal was something that both Activision and Bungie could control. With Bungie giving a talk at GDC in March, this was a baby step toward revealing the game, a small peek if you will.
Exactly. The term MMO used to simply mean there were a lot of players all connected at the same time, but now it has morphed into a label for a very specific genre of gaming.
Do we actually know this? From the reveal I noticed the game was split up into chapters, so it seems the world isn't really persistent but rather you pick a segment of the story and play through it with many other people.the server-side world persistence of a game like EVE
Do we actually know this? From the reveal I noticed the game was split up into chapters, so it seems the world isn't really persistent but rather you pick a segment of the story and play through it with many other people.
Destiny beta coming with CoD.
Will be pissed if it's a current gen game in 2014.