Father B

That's some DaVinci Code stuff right there, bro. Love it. Some of it feels a bit off to me, but I could just be knit-picking. Overall I think you really have something there. Exciting stuff, adam.

I think/hope Destiny will do for FPS's what Guild Wars 2 has done for MMO's: reshape the ideals that gamers have for the genre.

Well stated. And I hate that I have to disagree. However, I never felt 343 gave up all the goods prior to H4's release. Felt they consciously avoided answering the big questions (balance of AA's in MM, frequency/cost of Spartan Ops seasons, to name two), luring us all in to their black van with candy-coated BS and taking advantage of our vulnerability and naivete. Bungie - Twam love 'em - is doing very much the same. We've actually been given a lot of info, and I'm having difficulty curbing my enthusiasm (believe it or not), but Bungie refuses to answer a very big question (Is PvP in Destiny going to be pay-to-win?), and they will renew my faith unwavering should they give us an honest answer before I pick up the game. I have a knack for making myself look like an idiot, but I'm used to it, and I enjoy playing devil's advocate. Now that that's out of the way: Hey! Glad to see you're still around, Ash.

I would SO be down for a Halo rpg videogame! I've actually thought about it a lot (many pages of an incomplete Halo MB/P&PRPG ruleset can attest to that), and I think what Bungie is doing with Destiny may (may) have been what they wanted to do with Halo if Microsoft never owned it. Wouldn't that be something.

Silent Hill Blood, corpses, entrails and monsters weren't real enough for me. Also, the hilariously large residential streets. My sides still hurt because of that two-minute jaunt to cross the road. (slight exaggeration).

I noticed you didn't say that you were jumping off the Halo bandwagon. That's good to hear. I'm eagerly anticipating Bungie's Destiny, myself, but I'm also aware that we haven't been given any real important gameplay information about it, yet. I hate to be a downer, and I hope I'm just being silly, but how Bungie is handling their Destiny community reminds me of how 343Industries handled its Halo community prior to releasing Halo 4. And you clearly know what came of that. I guess my point, if I have to make one, is, All good things must come to an end. But, hey, maybe it's not through with us yet. Or maybe... C:/end darkpitofdispair.exe

He said he felt that a lot of those details were empty because he never saw any important images or gameplay footage. Personally, I don't care if there isn't enough data for a clear idea of Destiny. I've been waiting on a game like this for about 20 years, dagnabbit! Maybe my faith is misplaced, but I believe in Bungie to deliver. A friend of mine says he feels it's too early for any hype to be accurate. That sparked an hour-long debate, ending in me pointing out his terrible sense of games and my hitherto infallible sense of Awesome when I see it (example: he went against my advice and picked up Too Human when it came out -- he refuses to speak of it to this day). We have politely agreed to disagree on this matter. I will admit that many of the currently known Destiny details are foggy, at best. However, I don't believe Bungie is to blame, but rather it's the fault of whomever leaked intel before Bungie was really ready to go public. Call me biased, but I don't believe that Bungie would risk their reputation on a humdrum project. So I am psyched right up for this game -- I've already lost sleep from the excitement. It just makes me want to happydance. For the next year. Thank you for posting this, Wolf. You're awesome.