Posted by: renagadeface
You peeps might like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhyyUiYQolA&feature=relate d
It explains how a stupidly massive yet detailed gameworld can be created and generated with minimal data.I actually linked to that in the second post as well as on the first page.
It's definitely insightful and worth looking at.
I'm glad everyone's enjoying this thread. I've been compiling it over the past few months, and had started thinking about it when I made my Destiny map thread, but I felt this deserved a thread of its own. I wasn't going to post it until I was sure I was confident in my research and conclusion (and I attended both of Bungie's PAX panels about ODST and Reach, so they were still fresh in my mind).
Posted by: Duardo
Love this thread. I like how you found evidence from what has been released thus far.
From what has been gathered, "Destiny" appears to be a huge game. I believe it will be an FPS, as Bungie has been highly successful with those, though they've been successful with other genres as well.
I don't believe it will be like a Halo game. It will be somewhat similar, but It will definitely be different from what we've experienced before...
..I hope.I believe it will be a story delivered through a first-person medium, but it may not necessarily be purely a shooter. I see plenty room for magic (or something comparable), bow/arrow, hand-combat, freerunning (think Mirror's Edge and Brink), space-flight...really, it could be anything.
Halo is driven by the run/gun approach, and I think Bungie may be bored of that. There's so much more that you could do in Halo that just isn't possible due to the constraints from design.
Amusingly, these are all things that the community tend to just do anyway; jump-tricks, getting out of the map to explore, trick kills...etc.
I mean, look at assassinations. That's something that was entirely new to Halo for Reach. I'd forgotten to add that, but it seems like something big hint-wise.
Bungie's always been great at sandbox development too, which is what I think we're looking at here.
The only thing is that we don't have an idea of what the ultimate gameplay goal, or storylline is for Destiny yet. We have an idea of general setting, general sandbox gameplay...but not much beyond that.
Unless we get more hints, or actually wait until the announcement :P