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Destiny (2014): It Looks Pretty Neat

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  • gtrmpgtrmp Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    call of duty 4 was an excellent game

    its shitty knockoffs like spec ops the line though...

    You do know that Spec Ops is nothing like CoD, nor is it trying to be anything remotely like it right?

    it most certainly is

    spec ops the line would not exist in its current form if call of duty had not exploded

    it follows the video Pony posted to a Rated T for Teen

    Besides the modern setting in Sandistan and shooting generic brown guys, you really don't know anything about Spec Ops at all, do you? It's not trying to be anything like CoD at all.

    it is trying very hard to be like cod so it can do "hey isn't cod kind of screwed up you guys"

    and it's not like cod wasn't basically doing the same thing as far back as "no russian"

    requiring the player to participate in horrible things in order to progress the game, and then chiding them for having done so, is not exactly clever or insightful

  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    There is definitely a lot wrong with the modern military shooter genre these days, but Black Ops 2 actually does some pretty interesting story stuff. It just isn't terribly accurate to say the CoD series isn't trying to innovate. Modern Warfare 3, sure. But Treyarch is doing pretty solid work with the Black Ops series. I'm pretty much over modern military shooters at this point, but that's more of a general burnout, and it's still easy to appreciate the obvious work that developer has put into breathing new life into the genre as much as activision lets them.

  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    What's Destiny

    mass over volume

    Close.

    It's mass over vomule

  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    Ass over fume

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  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    Druhim wrote: »
    I do find it funny that so many people with wireless 360 controllers go with the rechargeable battery made specifically for the controller instead of just buying the battery cover that holds 2 double As. With the battery cover, I can use rechargeable double As and when the batteries run low, I just throw in some charged batteries while the drained ones recharge. With the rechargeable battery, you have to plug the whole controller in which is just stupid.

    I've never jumped on rechargeable batteries before

    How long do they remain viable?

    I get about 8hrs straight playtime with mine

    ant they do start waning you when they are about 25 percent, the guide button does a little light show

  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Druhim wrote: »
    I do find it funny that so many people with wireless 360 controllers go with the rechargeable battery made specifically for the controller instead of just buying the battery cover that holds 2 double As. With the battery cover, I can use rechargeable double As and when the batteries run low, I just throw in some charged batteries while the drained ones recharge. With the rechargeable battery, you have to plug the whole controller in which is just stupid.

    I've never jumped on rechargeable batteries before

    How long do they remain viable?

    Been using the same set of AAs for about 3 years at least.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Joolander wrote: »
    ant they do start waning you when they are about 25 percent, the guide button does a little light show

    I know

    I wish there were a way to turn that "feature" off

    It is the fucking bane of my existence

  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Eh. When the button flashes like that I just swap out the batteries and put them in the charger.

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    gtrmp wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    call of duty 4 was an excellent game

    its shitty knockoffs like spec ops the line though...

    You do know that Spec Ops is nothing like CoD, nor is it trying to be anything remotely like it right?

    it most certainly is

    spec ops the line would not exist in its current form if call of duty had not exploded

    it follows the video Pony posted to a Rated T for Teen

    Besides the modern setting in Sandistan and shooting generic brown guys, you really don't know anything about Spec Ops at all, do you? It's not trying to be anything like CoD at all.

    it is trying very hard to be like cod so it can do "hey isn't cod kind of screwed up you guys"

    and it's not like cod wasn't basically doing the same thing as far back as "no russian"

    requiring the player to participate in horrible things in order to progress the game, and then chiding them for having done so, is not exactly clever or insightful

    uh

    Except CoD didn't require you to play that sequence at all. It was explicitly and blatantly used as not only a marketing thing (controversy = money) but as a terrible play at trying to make you go "Oh man that guy is a dick and totally evil I hate him and now totally invested in this shit story."

    It failed at one of those things.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    You guys

    I love Spec Ops

  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    You guys

    I love Spec Ops

    Gentlemen, welcome to Dubai.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Veretas wrote: »
    You guys

    I love Spec Ops

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Goddamn look at that sweet-ass Destiny poster

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    That's gonna look nice on my wall

  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    It was a weird artistic choice to put a dualshock in the bottom corner, I guess they need to hammer home that they're multi-platform.

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I did that for crude scale purposes!

  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    I know, I wasn't having a go at you.

  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    Destiny looks fuckin awesome

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  • LuvTheMonkeyLuvTheMonkey High Sierra Serenade Registered User regular
    Yeah I uh

    I need some time alone now

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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    so, open world Borderlands meets Guild Wars 2 style public events

    I'm down with that

  • XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    the Warlock class hits all my prerequisites and I want this game

  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    Each of the classes look really damn cool and I'm having a hard time choosing

  • QuirkyLittleTyrantQuirkyLittleTyrant A Mug Featuring Pichu On A Cloud Registered User regular
    Man, at first I just thought this thing was smoke and mirrors and interesting concept art, but that gameplay trailer has certainly changed my mind. I'm pretty excited! Drop in drop out pseudo-FPS/MMO hybrid was an itch I didn't know I had.

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    I've gotta hand it to Bungie, they know exactly the words to say and attitude to have when it comes to their world building and such

    Seriously their GDC panel is great to just listen to and see how this whole thing evolved from something I would've been skeptical of and wary about to what it is now.

  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Gatsby wrote: »
    Each of the classes look really damn cool and I'm having a hard time choosing

    Yeah. I know whatever class I pick I will be super happy with, but at the same time I will be staring at the other two with envy. There is just no winning.

  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    Sniper rifles in this look slick. Hunter it is.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Gatsby wrote: »
    Each of the classes look really damn cool and I'm having a hard time choosing

    Yeah. I know whatever class I pick I will be super happy with, but at the same time I will be staring at the other two with envy. There is just no winning.

    You can have more than one character, this was confirmed by a really early video they did - the login screen had a character selection.

  • Burning OrganBurning Organ Registered User regular
    Is this coming to pc?

    On the one hand, I really hate Activision and don't care much about Bungie but on the other hand it looks kinda neat, but then again I don't have any friends who will want to play this in a reasonable time zone....

    Fuck. Kinda want to not buy it because Activision...

  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    They have not announced a PC version in any case pretty sure.

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  • Burning OrganBurning Organ Registered User regular
    Balefuego wrote: »
    They have not announced a PC version in any case pretty sure.

    Well if I get a job I'm probably gonna get a PS4 near launch anyway.

    Then my only problem really is Activision.

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Destiny is still like a year out, so I've got time to wait and see how people feel about the new consoles once they're out before deciding my platform of choice.

  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Game looks cool, as in visually, but I dunno

    After seeing the bombast of leaping around with jetpacks and shit in Titanfall, this demo (though gorgeous to the extreme holy shit) was just sort of slow.

    They'll doubtless be totally different in pacing though. You can't really compared CoD style multiplayer to something like say Borderlands co-op. And also, there is really no way of telling how quickly the game moves until you play it. Watching someone play Borderlands is super boring, but playing it is way different.

  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    so I do love bungie

    just don't let me down

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    wow i was enormously underwhelmed by that trailer

    like

    i went from enthusiastic to not caring at all in 2 minutes 49 seconds

    pretty sure that's the opposite of what trailers are supposed to make you do

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    wow i was enormously underwhelmed by that trailer

    like

    i went from enthusiastic to not caring at all in 2 minutes 49 seconds

    pretty sure that's the opposite of what trailers are supposed to make you do

    Yeah, the content they have offered so far is pretty meager.

    Thinking about it, it looks like Halo with 2 or 3 guns from Borderlands.

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  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    Game looks cool, as in visually, but I dunno

    After seeing the bombast of leaping around with jetpacks and shit in Titanfall, this demo (though gorgeous to the extreme holy shit) was just sort of slow.

    They'll doubtless be totally different in pacing though. You can't really compared CoD style multiplayer to something like say Borderlands co-op. And also, there is really no way of telling how quickly the game moves until you play it. Watching someone play Borderlands is super boring, but playing it is way different.

    I sort of agree, and wasn't supremely wowed by the trailer footage

    but it was enough to still keep me optimistic and interested

    Especially in comparison to strict multi from something like CoD or Titanfall, it's gonna look slow. But Halo games (barring 343's entry) have always been slower games than Respawn/IW stuff while still being a lot of fun. I guess I'm expecting a pace along the lines of playing Halo Reach co-op campaign.

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    The most intriguing thing they've shown was the seamless multiplayer to connect several separate parties at once, but that's going to be so tough to implement in a real world scenario. Lag and bandwidth instability are difficult things to work with. But that said, the idea that I can team up with my brother and a friend and tool around doing our own thing while there's a constant actual background matchmaking lobby while we're playing offering up optional large-party conflicts is kinda neat.

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    yeah the reason I like Halo over CoD and what have you is because it played what I felt like a tiny bit slower unreal tournament, where the focus was on the maps and the weapons and the gun fights where lengthy but still not that long, not the instant death of call of duty which feels like instant gib unreal x4 speed to me

    so I'm curious what type of gun play they are going for in destiny seems slowish which is not a bad thing

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  • XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    edited June 2013
    I want to get back into a multiplayer shooter that isn't CoD and it's CS:GO or this right now

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited June 2013
    I'm honestly surprised by the Halo comparisons

    Yeah, Bungie, and they still love their mythic sci-to and all the elements are there visually. Gameplay wise though, it really just looks like a further evolution in what they were pushing once they hit Halo: Reach and broke away from what the previous games were: Iron sights, load outs, combat slides, emotes, specialised powers, talent points, skill trees, and full character customisation.

    I think Adam Sessler put it best, this feels like Bungie finally has the resources, time, and support they've always wanted and needed for the ambitious stuff they've wanted to put into a large co-op game like this. I feel like Destiny has more longer lasting potential with everything they've got planned and the amount of time they have until launch.

    Also having your AI Ghost buddy played by Peter Dinklage is a pretty nice cherry on top.

    Gatsby on
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