A Grown Man In His Underwear Tells You About Destiny

With the pictures of their huge, beautiful office and the sheer ambition of this game, along with getting Paul McCartney (a FORMER FUCKING BEATLE, THE BIGGEST BAND OF ALL TIME) to help with the soundtrack, I can't help but feel Bungie might have developed a pretty significant hubris at this point. Getting kind of an Ion Storm vibe from these guys. Hopefully they don't end-up going down the same path Ion Storm did.

oh the audio is a bug? thought Jeff was censoring himself :P

Why isn't this on the front page?

If the shooting is anything like Halo - I am out. Otherwise it could tickle my interests

Sounds kind of cool, and a little like an open sci-fi Monster Hunter.

The concept art looks incredible.

So... is it weird that I'm watching a grown man in his underwear tell me about video games in his bed room, or even weirder that I'm noticing his sweet bed skirts and performance sheets?

The online structure sounds kind of cool. I'm interested to hear more about that.

These are so weird. I love it.

The current rumor is that Titan will be a mmofps set around the Starcraft universe. Since Wow is still going strong they don't want to put out another mmo too similar to Warcraft.

you may have a point there. i totally forgot about titan (thanks for remaining punctual, bliz bliz). although i doubt titan will be a shooter. but you never know- maybe they DO believe they'll compete with each other. depends how heavily they expect people to invest, i suppose. most sane people only play one mmo at a time.

@jeff This audio issue reminds me of that squelch setting used to cut out room noise when no one is speaking. Perhaps you have such a setting in your software or on the mic itself, and it's set too high?

I think Bungie's ego is going to be the downfall of this. They think they are way more revolutionary than they are.

Nope, its not just you. It is probably just a problem with how the video uploaded.

is jeff drinking Moonshine from a mason jar on sunday morning

A mmofps from Bungie sounds like it could be pretty awesome. Put it on PC, and I'm sold!

WiiU version? Hahahahahaha... :(

Sounds ambitious. Curious to see how it all comes together!

Activision-Bungie might not be releasing it for PC since Activision-Blizzard is rumored to be working on a real mmofps with Titan. Activision might not want to compete with itself when Blizz drops it's next mmo after World of Warcraft.

@rethla: Jeff made it clear that they can't acknowledge the existence of next gen consoles so they have to be coy and say it will release for 360 and PS3.

I haven't played a Bungie game since Halo 2 (on the PC which wasn't such a hot port) but the concept art looks great. I loved Planetside (PS2 less so) and if Destiny taps into that same vein then I am interested.

Jeff, please consider running a comb through your hair or close the curtains. Hair that is disheveled and back-lit is, to my surprise, distracting. :)

@winternet: It's not just you. It's kinda clippy at parts.

Are these guys still stuck on consoles or could the game come out on PC?

Support this 10years and release it on the current generation hardware wich is at its end wtf?

Will they release an upressed version for the next generation with cross play to the old or whats up Bungie?

@acerock: I'm into it.

People are going to hear "The schedule seemed really padded, like there was something they cut out" and "'Wait, you aren't going to see the game today?'" and suspect that Sony got them to delay gameplay footage for the Playstation event. I would caution people into assuming

The Best Case: There are PS4/720 versions, and we will see the PS4 version on Wednesday

when it's far more likely we will get

The Worst Case: On Wednesday, we hear "And as part of our long term commitment to PS3, let me present the worldwide gameplay premiere of... Destiny!" and PS4/720 versions aren't out until the next major title version in 2015 - not even the expansion release in '14, the new title in '15.

And no, you almost never get unified online systems. As long as the patch processes are different for the various systems, they can never guarantee all systems will update at the same time, so everyone is running on separate servers. Not much anyone can do about it.

Sounds interesting I guess, seems kinda weird to have an event and not really show the game at all.

@duffyside: Bottom-right of the video. The thumb tack symbol, definitely not removed.

Also, the audio on this video is definitely jacked. I get weird static and Jeff's voice cuts out completely at times.

So.. Warframe, but BIGGER. (although Guild Wars comparison was already made so w/e)

Alot of the stuff seemed to really make it look like that Destiny is a FPS x MMO. That hub city where you meet dudes to shoot faces with seems ripped out of World of Warcraft. I just hope the shooting and gameplay are good. I also don't see how this would work on current hardware if they really want to expand the game the way they're talking about.

Thanks, duder. Hit me up with those websites later.

@jeff: Is it just me or is some of your monologue edited out? How come? Is it Bungie?

Bungie hasn't let us down yet (Aerospace doesn't count). Every FPS they have put out has pushed the genera in a new direction enough to keep it interesting. The class based thing reminds me of Resistance 2. Not well executed, but great in theory. Also, I think the art looks very Reach'ish, my personal favorite. Either way, my interested is peaked.

Click the pin that says "sticky video."

By the way, if you're looking for some sticky videos, I could show you a couple websites.

so basically they want to do Planetside...with fireballs.

@shadow961 said:

My money was on editing out profanity based on some sort of agreement from the press event, but yeah, it's the home setup, probably just ordinary recording issues.

So the game is pretty interesting. Seems very much like a competent developer rebuilding the PSO model.

The fact that it's probably multiplatform and segregated is actually sort of troubling, in a way that normally doesn't matter for console games. If this thing is going to compete as an MMO in any sense - and it has classes, named loot, and enough other details to suggest that - the size of the community it can pull in and get talking to each other tends to overwhelmingly determine how good that kind of game is long term. People need to be able to join their buddies, and the few MMOs that were a big success so far have tended to be cross-platform communicating, or single-platform.

Hopefully Bungie realizes they do have the weight to throw around to build a good ecosystem for their game.

I liked A LOT how You presented this information. Very informative with a dedication to work through the marketing talk.

How do I make the video "stick" in place while scrolling down to read the comments? Best feature of the new site removed?

@winternet: Yea noticed that too, good to know it wasn't just me. Guess it's Jeff's recording equipment?

This just sounds like Diablo/Borderlands/Hellgate: London.

I was interested in this but hearing that it probably won't be released for the PC kind of turns me away.

On a side note what's up with the audio cutting out randomly?

Nothing about this sounds terrible. But I cannot see how disseminating this vague set of details so removed from any actual footage and a release makes any goddamn sense.

YOU CAN'T STOP A GROWN MAN IN HIS UNDERWEAR FROM TELLING YOU ABOUT THINGS

Is it just me or the audio is all kinda of messed up?

I am really excited for this game, I just don't know how it's going to work with new consoles coming.

Everything Jeff mentions about this game just reminds me of Defiance, and that game is a full on MMO for all three platforms. All that talk about going on adventures and then some dude coming in to join the fight just feels like defiance in FPS.

Emotes? Like... /dance. I'm in.

Is it just me or the way Jeff is describing the game it sounds like borderlands?

Same here. I haven't touched my console in years. Hehe, touched my console. Sorry.

Seriously, I'd like to play this just not with a controller. I can't play shooters with a controller anymore.

free after the 60$ initial purchase. Probably lots of microtransactions too