Destiny: Will you be joining Bungie on their new adventure?

I honestly want to know what people here think. I've been a Halo fanboy for many years, I don't think I could count the hours I spent on Halo 3 and Reach online. I just recently pre-ordered Destiny at my local Gamestop, got the limited edition poster, and I even got the guy to let me take one of those cool Destiny display boxes. :3 I've also got my number down to have them call me when the collector's edition is (inevitably) announced so I can put down more money.

How about you folks? Thoughts?

 

I'm content with Planetside 2, and haven't see anything from Destiny that makes it seem like it'll be any better.

 

Ill wait till the reviews are in. They really barely showed anything so far. I do like look of the world and characters.

 

I love Halo, but with the amount of hype they've done for this game, they're venturing into "Bungie will make you their bitch" amounts of potential backfire. Hopefully I'm wrong and this game turns out great.

 

I'm a huge fan of the very first Halo before they've gone Call of Halo with the series. So I'm gonna watch Destiny closely.
Planetside 2 is a little too big scale for my liking, Call of Duty and the later Halo's too small. I love vehicle combat but just not 300 vs 300.

 

I'm interested. Can't wait to see how it turns out. That being said, I don't ever buy games when they come out (at full price) so it will be a while until I get to experience it.

(Side note: Borman mentioned Planetside 2... totally forgot about that one... Might have to see what its about - I loved the first one in the day).

 

"Bungie unveiled their new game today. A sci-fi first person shooter where the main character is a cyborg it's current working title is LOHA."

 

NEVER SEEN BEFORE! OMG LIKE WHERE CAN I BUY!?

 

Think i'll probably pass on Destiny as it's not really done anything to blow me away so far ... still completely in the dark as to why people actually pre-order games though? [are they really that hard to find on release day?]

 

I'm pretty sure Halo 4 turned Halo into Metroid Prime

 

What? How are those two games similar at all?

 

I'm not so sure.

They added more CoD elements, I think: fast and more customizable multiplayer, a lot of first-person cinema in the campaign, idk. It wasn't all that bad, it was just..different.

 

as soon as they mentioned "magical powers" i switched off interest.

i've played a bit of planetside 2, wasn't majorly impressed with it as its a little unstable.

i prefer single player campaigns to mmo

 

After Halo Reach and the HUGE amount of disrespect for their own continuity with Halo that Bungie had. Absolutely not. The only thing I will miss is Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori's Music.

 

People actually care about the Halo storyline?

 

halo had a storyline?

 

Where's Marathon 4?

 

weapons are the biggest continuity errors... to an extent. They at least always changed the weapons technical names with the exception of the SPANKR rocket launcher.

Halo Reach (from here on referred to as Halo 0 for simplicity) has a decent pistol, a DMR, no Battle rifle (let's say it hasn't been invented yet, no?) an assault rifle, and a Spankr rocket launcher, and a sniper rifle. Spartan-IIs have the ability to use cool armor abilities. One of them is...running. Shotgun has alright range.

Halo 1 - better pistol than 0, no DMR (where is it?), No Battle Rifle (still not invented!), a very similar assault rifle, and a very similar SPANKR, sniper is similar but has Night Vision. Absolutely no mention of armor abilities what so ever. Master Chief hasn't learned how to hold two guns at the same time (but the spartan IIs in 0 did). Pretty sure the shotgun is shooting sniper rifle rounds considering how far you can effectivly use it. active camo has improved (this makes sense)

Halo 2 - Master Chief is given a new armor, Mark VI over the Mark V from Halo 1. this explains the lack of fall damage, and lack of health bars. yay upgrade! The DMR still hasn't been found, but we have a battle rifle, no more assault rifles, but we have SMGs and we figured out how to hold things with two hands. The SPANKR while still being the same model...has the ability to lock onto vehicles now. The pistols from Halo 0 and 1 are no where to be found but we do have some pea shooters that take literally a full magazine + half of your next one to kill. Assault rifles are no where to be seen. The sniper rifles don't have night vision anymore. The shotguns we have are fucking worthless. Swords have infinite ammo. For some reason the active camo got REALLY FUCKING SHITTY.

Halo 3 - well Halo 2 ends with master chief falling, and Halo 3 starts with him landing. And upon waking up from his comatose nappy nap he has a new HUD... wat. Same armor, new hud (oh yeah, his gauntlets on his Mark VI armor also changed some how.) The SPANKR no longer has the cool lock on ability, we don't have ANY of the pistols from 0,1, or 2. The SMG is a different model but pretty much the same (it's fucking useless). The assault rifle is back, and pretty standard fare. Sniper hasn't changed. Swords now lose their charge. We still haven't found those DMRs yet. Active camo some how improved. Shotgun has improved back to what it was in 0. Couldn't find those good battle rifles, but we got ones with shittier spread and range.

Halo 4 - Masterchief still has Mark VI armor but some how because cortana (a computer program/hologram) rewrote it's firmware it is now physically different. wat the fuck. Now masterchief can use those armor abilities they had back in Halo 0. Speaking of going back the camo is back to where it was in 1! We found those DMRs. But we could only find shittier battle rifles. Shotgun is pretty much the same...the SPANKR now can lock on - in an entirely different manner. None of the pistols from 0,1,2,3 are here. Assault rifles pretty much the same, but we still have no SMGs.

MOst of this is explained behind the scenes with the fact that their technical weapon names are different (example - BR85HB SR is Halo 4, BR55HB SR is Halo 3, BR55 is Halo 2). But the SPANKR never changes but is different every game. I have a head canon that the weapon balances are due to an intergalactic geneva convention. Much like the real ones, the good guys will follow these arbitrary rules but...the bad guys don't have to.

The biggest WTF is the HUD and armor changes.