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Subject: Do you think Destiny will have a codex?

Posted by: x Foman123 x

Posted by: TH3_AV3NG3R
What house has a rocket pod, has legs, and has a long narrow barrel that probably shoots something powerful?

Sounds like you're describing the lower half of my body, actually.

Like in Mass Effect, where it explains all the enemies, weapons, how everything work, ships, etc. I mean they are going to make a expansive universe, adding something like this for them would help the fanbase be more immersed in the fiction.

  • 12.30.2012 8:11 PM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

Most likely. If not, we'll have to make our own.

  • 12.30.2012 8:11 PM PDT

"Moooooooo"
-Ghost cow

Nah, it'll be more fun for the community to consolidate information ourselves, like on Destinypedia or something.

  • 12.30.2012 8:15 PM PDT

Posted by: x Foman123 x

Posted by: TH3_AV3NG3R
What house has a rocket pod, has legs, and has a long narrow barrel that probably shoots something powerful?

Sounds like you're describing the lower half of my body, actually.

Posted by: Jump Into Hell
Nah, it'll be more fun for the community to consolidate information ourselves, like on Destinypedia or something.

I don't know. I just like it when a awesome voice is reading along with me. It also helps with people who can't access the internet.

[Edited on 12.30.2012 8:40 PM PST]

  • 12.30.2012 8:39 PM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

Posted by: TH3_AV3NG3R
I just like it when a awesome voice is reading along with me.
I know that feel. The Mass Effect codex voice actor was perfect for feeding me with information on all the locations, technology and races.

If Bungie did something similar I'd enjoy learning about their new universe even more.

  • 12.30.2012 8:56 PM PDT

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I'm guessing so.

  • 12.30.2012 11:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: Jump Into Hell
Nah, it'll be more fun for the community to consolidate information ourselves, like on Destinypedia or something.
There's already a Destinypedia IIRC.

But anyway, if the game world is expansive, might as well include a Codex.

  • 12.31.2012 3:05 AM PDT

Lurking these forums, rest assured that I'm silently judging you.

At least until Destiny.

Bungie might prefer to expand the universe through books or other media.
But I think the Mass Effect codex entries expanded the universe without too much effort, i.e. just write about something, rather than have to imply it through dialogue, location, environment, etc.

Bungie might think that's too easy though, maybe they prefer a subtle touch.
For example, you could probably play through the entire Halo series and not have much regard for the universe as a whole. But Bungie slip in little bits that imply past events, like in ODST, when Buck shouts out "It's like Reach all over again !".
So the player (who has read none of the books/ other fiction) will know that something significant has happened outside of the scope of the game they're playing.


TL;DR: A codex might not be subtle enough for Bungie to expand their universe, they might prefer a lighter touch.

  • 12.31.2012 5:23 AM PDT

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Posted by: Jump Into Hell
Nah, it'll be more fun for the community to consolidate information ourselves, like on Destinypedia or something.


Yeah. Letting us do stuff like that makes it all the more... Delicious.

  • 12.31.2012 5:43 AM PDT

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Posted by: ThirstyAvenge

Posted by: Jump Into Hell
Nah, it'll be more fun for the community to consolidate information ourselves, like on Destinypedia or something.
There's already a Destinypedia IIRC.


That's why I mentioned it...

  • 12.31.2012 5:49 AM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Maybe Destiny will come with a game manual to explain all of the stuff, but Bungie is making a new universe, so most of it probably wouldn't fit on a manual, and would need its own website or wiki.

  • 12.31.2012 8:41 AM PDT