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Edited by Stryker Shaka:
9/6/2015 11:56:14 PM
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Destiny - What Almost Was (2013)
Preface edit: I want to edit this and start by saying I LOVE THIS GAME! I spend 2+ hours in the world, every day almost, helping my friends and family reach their Destiny goals. I also frequently check the Help forums to guide players on their journey to become legend.
I followed the development of this game very closely. I'd check IGN, Game Informer, Gamespot, Kotaku, etc..every day, multiple times a day looking for any little detail I could find. I was obsessed, and drooling at the mouth to learn more.
Videos such as these had an undeniable magic to them. As many people have pointed out, not much changed....but the magic is undeniably absent in the final product. Before you point out that this demo is very similar to the final product, keep in mind that I know this. There's this unexplainable magic in these Vidocs. There are also a lot of things that developers said during these videos that just aren't true.
Original post follows....
About once every 4 months I watch this video. During its development, Destiny was shaping up to be a lot better than it was and still is. I love this game.
I just don't want people, or Bungie, to forget how epic this game was turning out. Maybe someday it'll more closely resemble what they were shooting for. The public event madness, the ginormous "playable space", exotics dropping from mini-bosses, ships blasting by to drop off their Guardians....there is so much in this video that makes me wish Bungie would have spent more time developing the game. Oh well.
Here you go Guardians, enjoy what was almost and here's to hoping for the future of our game.
http://youtu.be/BTfhrONAp-c
Ceecko shared this video as well regarding "playable terrain":
https://youtu.be/V9YoJjdEBv8
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What it almost was? I think it's pretty damn close. Instead of bungie doing part of a mission since they are on a timed reveal during e3. They put a bunch of cool stuff from the game into a explorable area so you have an idea of what your getting into. Instead of being lost not understanding what was going on by showing the first 5 minutes of a strike. Notice that it's a crucible map on patrol. They were trying to show you that engrams drop. They dropped an exotic to show the exotics in the game. Granted some stuff didn't make it in but maybe it wasn't ready like the Titan grenade you speak of how much of this stuff are people like you on the forums complaining this is OP or this is broken. Maybe they didn't release it on launch cause they couldn't get it right and already knew how the bungie community is since it started with halo.
