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Bungie's Project Destiny, why so blue?
So here I am, sitting and wondering why I'm not excited about Bungie Studio's new Destiny project. The art is beautiful, the story is grand and epic, although I admit that the first person shooter focus is kind of getting old and tiresome, I can deal with that. So why am I not wowed by this?
It slowly comes to me, I've seen this all before. Humanity is on the brink of extinction, there's an outside party with a supposed vested interest in keeping us alive, because we're 'special'. It's in the future, and there's alien technology that's been more or less given to us... Is anyone else getting shades of Mass Effect, mixed with equal parts of Halo? I am.
I suppose the lack of original plot is forgivable if the game is fun, and the scope of the multiplayer is pretty grand, I mean a ten year lifecycle? That's going to be a LOT of content. But I guess part of the issue I also have is that it IS multiplayer, and yet, Bungie claims that you (as in the player) are 'special' and are a 'hero'. But in a multiplayer environment that just doesn't work. How do you make someone feel like a hero, when there are potentially tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands and more, who are also 'the hero'? And they are on the same server as you are, in fact, they're right beside you. Not to mention that the word Hero can mean so many differing things for everyone playing.
And then there's the presentation itself, they've had about 4 years to work on this but all we have are art assets? Maybe a video of players running around all urgent like? But we know nothing of the 'threats', nothing of what we'll be doing, other than exploring the Solar System, by hints of talking about 'Mars'.
In the end, I'm left feeling like they talked a lot, but said very little. Am I the only one who feels this?
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Comment by Docwoor on February 19, 2013 at 2:04am -
It's a shooter, in space, with aliens... we have never had that before. Certainly not from bungie. (looks at Halo)
I don't think its just Destiny you are feeling blue about, when was the last time you got really excited about a game?
I feel like apart from a few games, everything is being recycled/copied to death.
As for the hero part, SWTOR did a good job of making you the hero in an mmo. So i guess it can be done.
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Comment by Christopher Brady on February 19, 2013 at 2:17am -
Last few games I've been excited about... Dishonored (disappointed in), XCOM (love it, but I suck at it. :)), DMC (want to get so bad! The demo was awesome!), SWTOR (I still sub it), the MMO Wildstar (I hope they keep the sense of humour!) and many many more than I can remember at the moment. It's a great time for gamers and me.
And I loved Halo (the first one), but this? This is... They aren't really going outside their box, and aren't even as inventive inside their box either...
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Comment by BloodStainHurricane on February 19, 2013 at 2:49am -
The game is not even coming out this year. I refuse to get excited this early. Wait and see on this one...gonna be a long wait... :(
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Comment by Abberjam on February 19, 2013 at 6:47am -
And here I was, hoping for a modern military shooter....psych!
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Comment by Equinoxe on February 19, 2013 at 11:33am -
I never played Halo, but I am optimistic that the gameplay will be solid and I love the concept art and the vibe of a more fantasy like future (think Star Wars). Furthermore, after several hundreds(!) of hours in the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer and its 15-30 minute hord mode games I am really fond of the idea of a persistent world. Even though I am not hyped, at least it COULD be great.
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