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Original Halo developer Bungie may have stepped away from the Xbox shooter franchise, but there’s still plenty to get excited about whenever its designers put digital pen to digital paper. This is Destiny, Bungie’s new title and an attempt at making a game universe as big and diverse as that of Star Wars.
We first heard about Destiny back in May, when its existence was revealed as part of a court battle involving Bungie’s new publisher friend Activision. According to new leaked documentation sent to IGN, Destiny is set 700 years from now, and follows the events after the “Golden Age” of man in which aliens decide to pay us a visit.
While Bungie’s marketing document describes the games as being “social at its core,” we don’t yet know enough about it to decide if that means it’s some form of MMORPG, or just a whopping great shooter. [Bungie via IGN]
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Bungie were once a great studio but never really bothered to advance the genre they helped define. Im guessing this will be Halo in snow.
I know they didn’t make Halo 4 but it pretty much sums up their previous games. Increasingly confusing story, shorter game play, the same look and feel between each game with no / little new environments and a complete lack of modern game mechanics.
I’ve always thought they never really advanced from their amazing first/second games.
Yeah, I mean, Pathways to Darkness and the Marathon series were pretty amazing to begin with, let alone Halo.
Spoilers: my first PC gaming was done on a PowerPC Macintosh at my Dad’s old workplace.
In any case, the Halo series serves to keep the company going and gather funds to put into this new project.
Maybe I just meant the later Halo games didn’t advance much. I definitely think it’s a COD-style cash cow nowadays.
I just finished Halo 4. Probably in about 7 hours, the end was a total disappointment with the boss being no more than having to flip 4 switches and fight a few drones. If anything the whole game felt very limited and didn’t have any memorable moments. The environments felt smaller than older games while the graphics, while ok, didn’t bring anything new or interesting.
I’m a PS3 man myself, so it’s irrelevant for me. I just thank my lucky stars than GT5 is just that good.
Then hang your head in shame
Why forget about halo 4, bungie didn’t make halo 4 – it was 343 industries…
As in, Bungie ditched Halo to work on this.
I thought Bungie had said they weren’t going to make any past Halo 3 and someone else thought differently and wanted to keep the cash cow going.
I really thought that Respawn Entertainment was developing sci-fi Star Wars FPS game but not turns out to be Bungie. I wonder if Respawn is working on Crysis 3.
Hopefully its a MMORPFPS.
(I think i got the initials right.)
just stay away from console MMOs please, they are the most noobiest thing ever
I cannot get excited for Bungie games… their level design is just horrible, it is so copy and paste with no detail and everything is too clean and fake.
It’ll be another FPS, almost guaranteed. To be honest though, I’m grateful that 343 took over Halo 4 as they’ve done an exceptional job approaching it from a fresh perspective. Definitely my favourite game at the minute.
PS. Excellent that you remember Pathways to Darkness @Southern – what a great game!
Absolutely! It’s not retro gaming when you played it when it came out the first time