Thursday, May 23, 2013

New Destiny trailer and thoughts

Here we are children, the trailer most of us have wanted to see since Bungie's announcement of the game and the release of the rather inciting concept art. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS1BM9XRgvw

Now first things first...Gustavo. Motherfucking. Fring. If hope to the one true Santa Christ that he will have a deeper involvement in the game beyond this trailer and maybe some bullshit Los Pollos Hermanos easter egg within the game. If there is any chance, any chance at all I can work for this guy as an intergalactic Han Solo-esque smuggler shipping blue crank throughout the distant stars it will bring everything I was looking for in a game right to me on a silver fucking platter.

Moving on from this I will give my thoughts. Now I understand that the point of every cinematic reveal trailer is to get everyone nice and wet for the proverbial fucking that is the game play reveal, and we all have experience with this with various games and it comes in different forms. You have your games like I am Alive where the cinematic reveal had us all bent over ad ready but when the game play video finally comes around what happens? Slam, bam, thank you mam now pay us and leave. "What you wanted a survival game with good mechanics and a functional control scheme?! Get out." This is one example but you get the poorly painted picture.

This is why I always try to be cautiously optimistic before seeing any actual game play, and I am in firm standing that the cinematic reveal should at least REVEAL something about the game itself. So what did I gather from this you say? Intergalactic gang wars. It is showing some kind of structure between players and how you will need to play with people you can trust in combat and to do their jobs. Also the revealing of different classes and heavily vehicle use (by the way rocket bikes are always awesome and I will not listen to anything otherwise) shows that Bungie is actually stepping away from the Halo format and making a Sci-Fi game that they can be proud of, and like everyone else, I await much more to come.

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