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Subject: Destiny: What do you want?

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With all the Crimson news and stuff, I've been getting even more hyped for Bungies next project, rumored to be called "Destiny" (not confirmed at all btw).

I guess, finally, I'll post an in depth look at what I personally would like to see in the new Bungie IP. For the ease of reading, I'll attempt to separate the "sections" of my discussion with dividers (empty quotes).



First of all, I'd like it to be an MMOFPS. That said, I don't think you should always have to have a gun physically in your hand, lowered or otherwise. People don't do that in the real world even if they are in the military.



In addition, I would love to see these rumored 5 factions, (New Monarchy, Dead Orbit, Osiris, Seven Seraphs, and FWC [Future War Cult, allegedly]) incorporated into the game. It's like a Horde/Alliance situation like in WoW but more diverse. You aren't blindly picking between two sides because one looks cooler, or ones the "bad" side, or one has a Night Elf and the other has an Orc. But, rather, you would pick between the factions based on their politics.

Each faction would come with both an in depth version and a quick synopsis (TL;DR version) of the factions history, position in the current conflict happening between the five, reasons for being in the conflict, etc... etc... This would give more meaning to the selection of your faction and a bigger distinction between the people who had chosen each faction.

Of course there would be those who choose, say, New Monarchy cause the name sounds cool or Seven Seraphs cause they like the logo. But, there would be the option present to make an informed decision on start up.



Another thing that I've been wanting to see in an MMO for a long time, is constantly updating events in the conflict. Say the story of the game involves a war of some kind. Then provide constant events that are happening like "The Seven Seraphs have taken over a mining colony on [insert whatever made-up planet/continent name here you want]".

It doesn't have to be something like that, in fact it doesn't have to be related to a war at all, but if the factions are implemented I'd like to see constant updating events (one of which COULD BE a war).

Even if it's little insignificant things like a trade agreement or a weapons depot exploding, little things to give the game the feel of having a legitimate timeline in their experience.

This is a big mistake I think Blizzard made with WoW. Everything seems to be happening simultaneously and there's no real concept of time apart from the fact that your guild has a raid scheduled on Saturday night. The timeline was only ever advanced when one of the 3 expansions were released.

In between was a year or 2 of stagnant time where nothing really happened to affect the world. Its as if everything revolves around your player doing things and the world doesn't exists if he/she's not there.



This real time event system could also be implemented for bigger events. Say a big political disagreement or the aforementioned war is started, this could cause players to change factions or go fight in said war etc... etc... Or what if a city gets nuked or attacked or "raided" by players from another faction? That city should show effects of it and be updated in real time.

I know this is asking quite a bit but, if we can have games like Bad Company 2 with destructible environments, why can't those environments stay destructed until money is raised to get the city back into working order?

I know I'm getting very specific and its now turning into Destiny fan fiction of a sort but, my basic point in that rant is that I want the game (if an MMO) to have a sense of a legitimate and active timeline rather than be frozen in time until an update comes.



Another thing that's more of an idea than a hope for the game is patches implemented via updates to the game. I know MMO's on a grand scale get patched quite a bit (I think WoW is like every 2 weeks or something like that?) but if we could have a constantly updating console game that is also an MMO, that would be one little thing Bungie could do that could easily revolutionize the console gaming industry. And for big updates that are just below like an expansion pack, a title update (and the PS3 equivalent, idk if they're called something else).



I've spoken about this before, maybe even in this thread, but I'm going to talk about it again. Because I believe this could really put Bungie on the map as a really big developer to be reckoned with. Well, more so than they already are.

Okay, so let's continue to assume that this is going to be an MMOFPS as some people are assuming (and I'm hoping) it is. That would mean that, if it gets anywhere near as popular as I'm hoping it does, dedicated servers from Bungie. Well, to increase the connection of their fanbase since it is almost confirmed (I believe, I can't find the link where I read about it right now) that this new project "Destiny" will be on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 (the latter 2 for sure).

What if they found a way to easily implement cross platform gaming. I mean, you could go do a "quest" (or whatever the equivalent would be) with 2 xbox players, a ps3 player, and 3 PC players all in your party. Cross platform gaming on dedicated servers and, dare I say it, cross platform voice chat? (I honestly don't even know if that request is technically sound or possible.)



But that would for sure give Bungie a bigger fanbase. PS3 and PC gamers not familiar with Bungie could be easily welcomed into the community by the veteran Xbox gamers and it would give the whole community a more "united" (for lack of a better word) feel. I feel most games that are released cross platform (say for example 360 and PS3) will have a 360 community and a PS3 community, even if both are multiplayer largely due to the fact that they cannot play together (and they have different means of controlling the game via their controllers but thats a much lesser issue).

Anyway, that's my "wishlist" for this new IP. Please discuss and, obviously, continue to promote the thread with your own ideas. :)

Of course this is all circumstantial to them making an MMOFPS... but.... whatever.

TL;DR: I wanna mmofps with stuff nd junk... whatta u want??!?

[Edited on 08.24.2011 8:38 PM PDT]

  • 08.24.2011 8:37 PM PDT

Great DAY

I really don't care, Bungie makes incredible stuff, and I guarantee it's going to be a great game.

[Edited on 08.24.2011 8:39 PM PDT]

  • 08.24.2011 8:38 PM PDT

Battlefield 3 MASTER RACE
Mass Effect 3 MASTER RACE
Skyrim MASTER RACE
Coup MASTER RACE
Chrome MASTER RACE
I program games, that's all you need to know.

Please, not an MMOFPS.

A free roam RPG, similiar to Skyrim, just without swords.

  • 08.24.2011 8:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: hitmandw
Please, not an MMOFPS.

A free roam RPG, similiar to Skyrim, just without swords.


Reading my post (in full) I think I actually described an MMOFPSRPG but thats too long to write.

  • 08.24.2011 8:39 PM PDT

meh...


Posted by: CrazzySnipe55

Posted by: hitmandw
Please, not an MMOFPS.

A free roam RPG, similiar to Skyrim, just without swords.


Reading my post (in full) I think I actually described an MMOFPSRPG but thats too long to write.


yeah, it definitely cannot be a WoW-style mmo.

i don't think that destruction would work too well for such a game. you'll get the jerks who decide to demolish the whole world

  • 08.24.2011 8:58 PM PDT

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Posted by: cdjohnson10

Posted by: CrazzySnipe55

Posted by: hitmandw
Please, not an MMOFPS.

A free roam RPG, similiar to Skyrim, just without swords.


Reading my post (in full) I think I actually described an MMOFPSRPG but thats too long to write.


yeah, it definitely cannot be a WoW-style mmo.

i don't think that destruction would work too well for such a game. you'll get the jerks who decide to demolish the whole world


Well I guess it depends how destructible things are and how many places there are (in my situation, how many planets there are in the universe and how much of those planets are able to be explored) to destroy. But I get what your saying. One very determined group of 12 year olds could devastate the game.

  • 08.24.2011 9:07 PM PDT

meh...


Posted by: CrazzySnipe55

Posted by: cdjohnson10

Posted by: CrazzySnipe55

Posted by: hitmandw
Please, not an MMOFPS.

A free roam RPG, similiar to Skyrim, just without swords.


Reading my post (in full) I think I actually described an MMOFPSRPG but thats too long to write.


yeah, it definitely cannot be a WoW-style mmo.

i don't think that destruction would work too well for such a game. you'll get the jerks who decide to demolish the whole world


Well I guess it depends how destructible things are and how many places there are (in my situation, how many planets there are in the universe and how much of those planets are able to be explored) to destroy. But I get what your saying. One very determined group of 12 year olds could devastate the game.


oh, the amount of cleanup we'd have to do. those little bastards

  • 08.24.2011 9:14 PM PDT

Posted by: CrazzySnipe55

Posted by: cdjohnson10

yeah, it definitely cannot be a WoW-style mmo.

i don't think that destruction would work too well for such a game. you'll get the jerks who decide to demolish the whole world


Well I guess it depends how destructible things are and how many places there are (in my situation, how many planets there are in the universe and how much of those planets are able to be explored) to destroy. But I get what your saying. One very determined group of 12 year olds could devastate the game.


I think an MMO with FPS and RPG elements would be pretty sweet, but there would definitely have to be failsafes and/or moderators to prevent something like a group of 12 year olds from completely destroying the game.

  • 08.24.2011 9:17 PM PDT

hia

Persistent War FTW

Halo (futuristic world), ChromeHounds (Persistent awsomeness) and HYBRID (XBLA Game, Persistent war) just had a baby..i hope

Its name is Tiger XD

Right now, im NEW MONARCHY FTW ALL THE WAY!
Unless their evil... -blam- that.

I always am a sucked for the heros XD

A New Genre has been born!

PRWMMOFPSRPG

aka: PWNAGE

  • 08.24.2011 9:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: Bigwave1996
PRWMMOFPSRPG

aka: PWNAGE



Persistent Realtime Warlike Massively Multiplayr Online First Person Shooter Role Playing Game.

Can you dig it?

  • 08.24.2011 9:34 PM PDT
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No bloom and a skill based ranking system.

I would be surprised if it isn't an MMOFPS.

  • 08.25.2011 1:37 AM PDT

Left here a long time ago.

Something that allows us to do environment design within user-created content.

Preferably as part of a system whose graphics engine isn't constantly on the brink of spectacular failure.

  • 08.25.2011 1:40 AM PDT

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All teh cookies.

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I can't help but feel that this idea is very similar to 'Dust 514' which is set to be a MMOFPS, with cross platform/game effects based on each games results.

  • 08.25.2011 3:28 AM PDT

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Posted by: hitmandw
Please, not an MMOFPS.

A free roam RPG, similiar to Skyrim, just without swords.


lol

I suggested this in another thread as well. Good to know that I'm not the only one. =)

If I can't have this ^ then I'd like to have customization options like Reach's Armory, but with many more options. I think it worked really well in Reach, and it just showed that there really isn't any ceiling as to how much people love to get into personalizing their characters/avatars.

  • 08.25.2011 4:02 AM PDT

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Posted by: Uriel S167
then I'd like to have customization options like Reach's Armory, but with many more options. I think it worked really well in Reach, and it just showed that there really isn't any ceiling as to how much people love to get into personalizing their characters/avatars.


Of course. People always want to be able to customize their characters to the level of ridiculousness. That's part of the reason why WoW is so successful. There's like 500 bajillion pieces of armor!!!

But seriously, that would sound cool. Not customization down to the last screw and bolt of the armor but more than Reach definitely.

  • 08.25.2011 9:59 AM PDT

This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends;
Not with a bang but a whimper.

I wouldn't mind an MMORPG mostly because they haven't really done anything of that sort before and they have always excelled at trying new things.

  • 08.25.2011 10:03 AM PDT
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The only thing I could think of after reading your title is "What you want? Baby I got it. What you need? You know I got it."
happens every time I hear those words.

OT: I hope for an RTS or MMORPG because I'm not huge into those games but would like to be.

  • 08.25.2011 10:06 AM PDT

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Posted by: erac2detsaw2
OT: I hope for an RTS or MMORPG because I'm not huge into those games but would like to be.


Same. I've always been an MMO fan but everytime I play an RTS (Dawn of War, Halo Wars, Warcraft) I only ever play it for about a month and get bored. I honestly don't hope they make an RTS, but if they do I'm sure Bungie would be able to make me like them.

  • 08.25.2011 10:17 AM PDT

It's not camping, it's holding the designated location.

Maybe the factions could also have changed stats if it has RPG elements. (ie Osiris: after dying come back with 5% health, FWC: 5% added to attack, etc.)

  • 08.25.2011 3:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: BenignPick7
Maybe the factions could also have changed stats if it has RPG elements. (ie Osiris: after dying come back with 5% health, FWC: 5% added to attack, etc.)


I like it. Or maybe some faction has different technology than another. Say they have better explosives but worse armor.

  • 08.25.2011 3:38 PM PDT

It's not camping, it's holding the designated location.


Posted by: CrazzySnipe55

Posted by: BenignPick7
Maybe the factions could also have changed stats if it has RPG elements. (ie Osiris: after dying come back with 5% health, FWC: 5% added to attack, etc.)


I like it. Or maybe some faction has different technology than another. Say they have better explosives but worse armor.
That would be nice, too or if they have levels like some RPGs one levels up faster that others in certain areas, like KoToR (the original xbox game, not the group).

  • 08.25.2011 3:44 PM PDT

An FPS with Pirate Hookers.

  • 08.25.2011 4:23 PM PDT
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I wouldnt mind a Mass Effect'esque RPG, MMOFPS or MMOTPS.

  • 08.25.2011 4:24 PM PDT

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I don't know what expect from Bungie for their new IP. All I really want from Destiny is innovation.

  • 08.25.2011 5:05 PM PDT

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Posted by: GPK Ethan
I don't know what expect from Bungie for their new IP. All I really want from Destiny is innovation.


I think we can all expect that. It's practically a necessity with all the hype that's gonna surround it.

  • 08.25.2011 7:49 PM PDT

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