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  If you have any other Qs about Destiny, feel free to post them here. I'll try to answer them! : AndrewYoon
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    Are you my density? Also, will I be able to chase waterfalls? : Dave-A
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      Please, just stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to. :( : burning eye
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        How does Chris Butcher still look 19 years old?! : Dave-A
        • Exposure to the sun is what ages your skin. He's gonna look 19 until he retires. : qsylvr
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    Why are they shlepping Destiny on the current hardware when the game appears to be a decent ways off and ... : pyide
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      I think it's all about install base. This is an expensive game. Release the first one on current gen, and... : AndrewYoon
      • Install base is sort of what I was figuring ( http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=29703523#item_29703523 )... : pyide
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      ^^ I was thinking the same thing. Why is this going to be on the current Gen. Looks like this will be a... : Ballisticon
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        "Activision's Eric Hirshberg saying that the game is only announced for PS3 and Xbox 360 right now" I ... : catman1027
        • Cool. I get to save money by not purchasing it. : erebus
    • So they're betting on the next gen console having BC...or do they just figure that everyone is going to k... : Vorlonesque
    • On Giant Bomb Jeff seemed pretty convinced that it was coming out on the next-gen platforms. He said it w... : Wikidd
• Sounds ambitious. Shame they didn't confirm PC. : Memphis-Ahn
• The setting and look seem to be a mix of Halo with some Mass Effect, but the idea sounds super fun. Can't... : Dave-A
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  What exactly does bungie have against the PC platform? Ain't nobody got time for FPS on consoles with... : wurt
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    I don't know, but unless the contract has changed, the first one is going to be Microsoft console platfor : the archvile
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      Hmm, Hirshberg saying "360 and PS3" seems to suggest that cross-developing for PS3 would be far easier th... : the archvile
      • They kept on referring to the leaked contract as an old one. So clearly, some details have changed since ... : AndrewYoon
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        Jeff Gerstman said they repeatedly avoided questions about the PC platform, and said several times that t... : disembodied potato
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          I see myself as a guy who plays mostly PC shooters and didn't really care a lot for the Halo games...so I... : Vorlonesque
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            I see myself as a guy with hair who doesn't have to pay child support and owns a new corvette. I'll buy ... : MPLStagger
            • I'm a guy with Boyd Crowder hair who ran over his children with a corvette...and Halo 5 is going to be my... : Vorlonesque
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  why not just play something like Planetside 2 right now? I'm missing the 'reinventing the FPS' stuff here... : thebigbeefsandwich
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    PlanetSide 2 doesn't really have a story, is PvP, isn't on consoles (yet). This game is not PlanetSide 2. : Bamtan
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      You don't need to have your handheld in a sandbox shooter. There is a story for PS2 but its all set up an... : TheEmissary
      • I think that's why Bungie are going down the chaptered + instanced route. Some linearity is needed to hel... : Bamtan
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      so you're looking more towards more Halo... which a lot of people are over though. So my point is still w... : thebigbeefsandwich
      • I didn't say I was looking towards anything. I was disputing that this game is comparable to PlanetSide. ... : Bamtan
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  Ugh, the phrase "reinventing the FPS" is such a disgusting thing. Andrew (and the rest of the gaming ind : the archvile
  • Heh, the game appears to be going for more Omikron than Borderlands from what they're showing. Borderland... : ryuuseki
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  why the hell are they lifting the embargo on gaming news like this on a Sunday morning? Not confident in... : acheron
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    Probably to avoid competing with Sony next week. : Bamtan
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      And yet no one is forcing them to do this now at all, if avoiding Sony's announcement was the goal. : acheron
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        Maybe there'll be nextgen footage of it on the PS4. Who knows, I've never really cared when an embargo wa... : Bamtan
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          Generally you bury bad news on a weekend, not try to get lots of eyes on stuff. And if you were going to... : acheron
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            If something does get revealed alongside the PS4, maybe they preempted it to avoid annoying Microsoft and... : Bamtan
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              There might have been some kind of contractual agreement around "announce" satisfied by going out with th... : acheron
              • Nintendo typically releases first-party games on Sundays, which makes sense. More people at home and inte... : David Craddock
  • It's a reaction to Sony's upcoming announcement. MS wasn't expecting that from Sony so they threw this t... : Lucy Labia
• "We've got just enough crazy to pull this off." Felt like I was watching a commercial for some crappy T.... : DragonSire
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  FPS Sci-Fi D&D that talks to your mobile phone : magic eye master
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    I'd be a lot more interested if it was coming out for PC and not just 360 first :( : magic eye master
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      A Bungie shooter with aliens out for the PC? What a novel idea. : capt tripps
      • Or for Mac, lol. : DragonSire
      • It's not really the platform I guess, it's just the hardware it'd be running on. : magic eye master
      • Hey its no longer circle.... ITS A SPHERE ! : imperator
• this art is hot stuff : crunkfunk
• 360/ps3 when we are possibly getting the next xbox and ps4 this year is kinda interesting : mwasher
• Isn't this what Firefall is basically trying to do? : Gorkgork
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  Yikes. Sounds like the culmination of everything I don't want in gaming. I want my single-player games t... : PenicillinX57
  • This. : marmite
  • I completely agree with this : ClawHammR
  • Games as a service...I preferred them as a product, GabeN. :( : Marrbe
  • I want the saaaaaame : geedeck
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    Some of the best multiplayer games of all time (both pvp and coop) have been greatly enhanced by unlocks.... : Poor Yurik
    • Chivalry is another example of my head of a game that I really liked the unlocks in. : Poor Yurik
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      Though Tribes Ascend just added a "pay once have everything treat it like any other game" option. : Vorlonesque
      • That having been said...for all its flaws I never felt like I was being screwed out of money in T:A (don'... : Vorlonesque
  • here here. : disembodied potato
  • Truth right here. : master_disaster_17
  • dunno sounds like they're doing a demon's/dark souls type thing with the multiplayer, it actually sounds ... : DeBurgo
  • lol GaaS :( : brewsterdog
  • Agreed; let's just say there's a reason why I've been playing Quake 3 regularly, and haven't touched onli... : the archvile
  • Truth is being stated here! FUCK item / skill grinding in FPS games. : Creepin_Jeezus
  • Half life 3 will save us all : wurt
  • ^IAWTP x 10000 : Kojak2000
  • No idea why this is getting so many INF's when there have been weeks of daily threads of people talking a... : Poor Yurik
  • thank you : pgharavi
  • I agree with most of this. I can enjoy co-operative games and unlocks though. Just so long as they are ou... : Chipwarrior
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  So yet another MMO? Weak. :( : thetangent
  • eh it sounds more like borderlands with MMO like hubs. : Turd Ferguson
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8zTEJwp6sg Sessler says the MMO bit sounds more minimal multiplayer t... : TylerJSmith
    • If it ends up being a Journey-like FPS, I'm fine with that. As long as it avoids a grind. : Bamtan
• Pretentious talk is pretentious. : Xulu
• So, basically it's Halo? Just kidding. It does look pretty neat. Probably not coming for PC though, so no... : vai90
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  " reinventing the FPS." lol : AllYourBase
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    "Don't even try" was AllYourBase's stern admonition when confronted by the aspirations of others, as he t... : Dave-A
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      Man, you've been getting meaner and meaner. : brickmatt
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        Comment police, arrest Dave-A He made a joke It made a few people smile But he's made a mistaaaaake ... : Poor Yurik
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          You spend a lot of time reading my posts and complaining. That can't be healthy. : brickmatt
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            Nice try, but nope: http://www.shacknews.com/search?chatty=1&type=4&chatty_term=&chatty_user=Poor+Yurik&c... : Poor Yurik
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              I meant more the effort you put into the complaining, rather than the quantity. You made a song! But w... : brickmatt
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                dismissing his opinion is pretty hurtful : 60days
                • He sounds like he's super tough and will get over it. : brickmatt
              • From the outside looking in, you've been getting more and more easily riled up over time and most other p... : Dong Patrol
    • Haha, I love this. : Ambient80
  • I know :| : Godhatesfatpeople
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  Looks awesome. These guys don't put out half assed shit. HEAR THAT, GEARBOX? : Wolfanoz
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    I agree. Bungee is one of the best at innovating. They are basically the first to do online multiplayer f... : bozer
    • Well looks like this time they are taking a page from Gearbox Borderlands as far as the design goes. : Lucy Labia
    • I'm starting to hate the word "innovate" because its losing all meaning. : Vorlonesque
• Looks like FPS Monster Hunter. Intrigued, but not buying yet. : Adm.Snackbar
• Sounds like it has ton of potential. Cool. : brickmatt
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  I can't be the only one that sees this: http://chattypics.com/files/DestinyWhat_zsopapq5va.png : Poor Yurik
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    Here's another one without the name: http://chattypics.com/files/DestinyWhat_npxa33o3iw.png Seriously, I ... : Poor Yurik
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      its not exactly http://wastedopportunities.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/chief.jpg : Turd Ferguson
      • http://tinyurl.com/3rlvsco : Poor Yurik
  • Ah! The return of the codpiece. Whoa. Deja vu. : AxeMan808
• Immediate thought after reading and watching is 'meh'. I'll wait until there is more material available t... : Madwacker
• I get a very "The Book of the New Sun" feel to it. And that's a good thing.. : Visceral Monkey
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  http://www.giantbomb.com/ Jeff' posted a pretty good video on the subject too. : disembodied potato
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    its pretty lame how little they showed the press. : Turd Ferguson
    • Yeah its really a bit of a let down. It does sound exciting, but the fact that its currently only announc... : disembodied potato
  • Also he's drinking out a jar. : disembodied potato
  • Haha, they gave them pictures of the office? : soggybagel
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  So a Bungie teaser that has maybe 10 seconds of actual gameplay and the rest concept art and renders... ... : phobium
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    I get the feeling it's a tease prior to the PS4 conference on Wednesday. And then they'll bust out more a... : Dave-A
    • Yea, I'm thinking so too... I guess this was more like a Teaser than a full detail. If they're targeting... : phobium
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  http://www.destructoid.com/bungie-says-nobody-plays-shooters-with-a-mouse-keyboard-245428.phtml haaaaa... : SpaecKow
  • I'll have to borrow about 8 seconds from the Angry Joe A:CM review to express my reaction to that quote: ... : the archvile
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    http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjIxMDk1OTk3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTAzMjgyMQ@@._V1_SY317_CR5,0,214,31... : Turd Ferguson
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      You've lost me : SpaecKow
      • I play and want to play shooters with a mouse and keyboard, therefore I must be nobody. : Turd Ferguson
    • I thought I was the only nobody left. : usmcmueller
  • It's like they're giving me the finger...flipping me off while asking for my money. : Vorlonesque
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    I know its probably some horribly out of context quote, but what kind of delusional plane of existence do... : EricZBA
    • he's totally right... from a certain perspective. There's millions of people out there who have never pla : SpaecKow
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    I've seen this plastered a couple places, and i'm still pretty sure he's referring to regenerating health... : pixelat3d
    • He's including all the things he mentioned there. He's not implicitly qualifying anything. : SpaecKow
    • Yeah it's a bit clumsy, still implies this won't be on PC, which is a fucking tragedy given some of the v... : node
  • That first comment is rather funny :) : ysbreker
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    We all lose for reading Destructoid. Up until 2008/2009, Halo dominated the genre. So basically 2001 ... : ughhhhhhh
    • Changed for the worse. : SlamDunk
    • Counter-Strike was pretty big back then, probably had more active players the first Halo. The first Halo ... : pyide
    • No not 2008/9 - MW1 came out in Nov 2007 and that was it then and there. : SpaecKow
  • Fuck off Bungie. Now even more than ever. : SlamDunk
• After stealing the core concept from Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, "... Bungie crafted a world memorab... : AxeMan808
• Was excited until the Activision logo popped up..forgot that they were in bed with them. That's a shame : deathofrats
• So they're creating this for 360 and PS3 knowing that they are about to be replaced with next gen console... : drac01
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  sounds like phantasy star online lol. Can't wait to run the same levels multiple times! : Chipwarrior
  • I thought the same thing! : node
• looks good but no PC :[ : bolneze
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  Something pretty cool is the claim that there are no menus and from the very brief gameplay clips, there ... : singlespace
  • I can get behind that. I hate that games as a genre are stuck with title screens and intro videos and sh... : node
• If it's going to be a Journey-style seamless SP/MP fusion I will definitely be interested, that sounds wa... : peanut-
• PC version? THERE IS HOPE. http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/02/18/destiny/ : node
• I am so freaking excited for this! Disclaimer: major Halo geek :) : Johanhoue88
• Looks interesting, but seeing Activision's name attached to it has a lot more negative connotations than ... : Frraksurred
• Ya, this is all cute but the issue here is paying $1265.31 to play an MMO on my console. $65.31 (IF that... : rtricoche