Destiny - 9/9/14 (PS3/PS4/X360/XB1)

[Adajer]

Everyone is bad at FPS at first. If you put more time into it, your reaction times should increase along with feel for controls.

[Serra]

[Moss]

mine hasn't shipped yet but the charge just showed up on my card

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[Serra]

Feel free to reuse my gif. I dream of an entire page full of those gifs..

Spoiler: show

I may have bookmarked it in advance just for this shipping notice..

[Obsidian]

Dunno whether to go to midnight thing and be tired for class, or just go to the other section's lab at 8AM so I can be done at 10 and pick up my copy on the way home. Leaning towards just going to the early lab.

[vrumpt]

Here ya go:
http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGa.../all_25_codes/

Gonna do a quick shout out here, theres javascript on that reddit post that inputs all 25 codes for you 1 after another rapidly without having to type them in. Do that if you haven't redeemed them yet.

[Ratatapa]

I guess i could be patient and try to find a 'promotional' PS3 or PS4 digital code online

[ringthree]

White Destiny PS4 ordered. Should arrive tomorrow.

[Buffy]

Qal's the only other person I have on my list that'll be playing on XB1. Anyone else?

Buffy777

[Moss]

Serra how were you looking at the builds/weapons the bungie people are using right now?

[Serra]

Ok I had 0 interest in this game but some people trying to get me into it, but I have followed 0 news at all so please bear with my noobs questions

I am really bad at FPS usually but w/e

1) Is this game mostly aimed at Casual or Hardcore FPS players?
2) Is this game more PVP or PVE in the sense that I heard that the game is always online, IF i wanna do story or w/e does that mean someone can just come and kill me for no reason?
3) I have never been a 'gun' fan is there any melee or mage class or is it really just a FPS with RPG elements?
4) I usually buy my games digital since they are cheaper cuz of no tax on PSN, since I am not a FPS fan should i try it or I would waste 69$ (not because the game is bad but mostly because it is not my type)
5) Nope i have no friends to go try the game before buying or not

You say you aren't good at FPS games, so I think it is a fair jump to say you don't like FPS games (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). I've asked this of others who have sounded to be in the same boat as you -- why do you not like FPS games? I know a lot of people see FPS games as short games that serve primarily as a means to get to the PvP and if you don't like PvP, they don't really have much to offer. Destiny has the PvP dimension. If you want to play PvP, Destiny has, in my opinion, a really fun and really good PvP experience. However, it sounds like that is not what you're interested in. Unlike most FPS games, Destiny is set to offer a massive PvE experience -- if you never want to play with people and want to play solo the whole time, you can do that too. As much of the game is the PvP, I'd go so far as to say more of it is PvE.

All that said though, at it's core (or heart, or whatever other synonym you'd prefer), Destiny is an FPS game. You have your classes, you have RPG elements, you have loot, but strip all those away, and the core gameplay is a shooter. Here on BG, on Reddit, and on a lot of other places (including conversations with people I've convinced to play Destiny), people have looked at Destiny though the lens of an RPG or MMORPG. As a result, one of the big questions that has been repeatedly asked is which class is best for them. For people who have played MMOs, picking a class is a huge decision. As someone who leveled Dragoon to 75 preCoP, I know that fact well. In Destiny, your class matters (sorta -- you could actually argue it doesn't..), but not nearly as much as in an MMO. Everyone is going to experience the same FPS gameplay. If you play Warlock, you're not going to be standing around casting (or waiting for your cast time to be up), you're going to be shooting things; if you play Titan, you're not going to collecting hate and taking hits, you're going to shooting things; and if you play Hunter, you're not going to be hiding or SATAing things from behind, you're going to be shooting things (possibly from behind).

If you fundamentally dislike playing shooters, you will not like Destiny. However, I think that Destiny is poised to offer one of the first real FPS experiences that is not completely tied to PvP, so your prior experiences with FPS games should not necessarily color your view of Destiny.

Given all that, you can very easily wait. This isn't like an MMO where not playing the first week means you're going to miss out that much and be at a disadvantage. There is no trading or auction house, so anything a player gets is theirs and will not affect your experience (unless you play PvP..). Bungie hasn't gotten copies out to reviewers because they felt there weren't enough people to fill the world and provide accurate evaluations of the game -- when they had reviewers try out the game months ago, one of the big complaints was that the world felt empty, so they're clearly trying to avoid that (I think engadget, kotaku and that other site all had that same criticism). I imagine there will be reviews by the end of the week, and if BG reviews have any impact on your decisions, I'll have one done by the end of the month.

[Serra]

Serra how were you looking at the builds/weapons the bungie people are using right now?

http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/2/46...43009213943952
On the right side is a tab for recent game modes, so you can scroll down to their crucible matches and start pulling people from there.

[Cutriss]

Can't find anything definitive, what's the free space required for the disc version for the PS3? I'm assuming it's not as high as the PSN version. I've got 22 GB free and I'm expecting I may have to clear some space off. If so, bye-bye FFXIV.

[Cutriss]

Also feel free to put me in the first post though I'm casual as fuck (PS3^)

[Eleven19]

Hm, maybe I'll forget about the 5 bucks I put down at Gamespot and get the digital for ps3. That free upgrade to ps4 is a pretty good deal if I plan to get one soon... Plus I wanna play at midnight tomorrow.

[Serra]

Servers go up in like seven hours or so I think.. Where are you Dinklebot.. Note -- if you bought a digital version, you're restricted to whatever timezone you bought it in. So unless you live in New Zealand (and are dead to me..), you won't be able to play at that time.

I don't know if this answers your question, but I'm reading that the day one patch is only 24 mb on PS3 and 296 on PS4.

[Serra]

Also, apparently the list of dead ghosts and gold chests has been leaked:
http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGa...nd_dead_ghost/

Unlike engrams, there's no reason to wait to open gold chests (assuming it follows the same system as the beta did).

[Prothescar]

can someone on PS3 play with someone on PS4 or 360 with Xbone? or are all 4 consoles separate rather than being able to play with someone else using a sony/microsoft system

[Akiyama]

Servers go up in like seven hours or so I think.. Where are you Dinklebot.. Note -- if you bought a digital version, you're restricted to whatever timezone you bought it in. So unless you live in New Zealand (and are dead to me..), you won't be able to play at that time.

I don't know if this answers your question, but I'm reading that the day one patch is only 24 mb on PS3 and 296 on PS4.

so folks with the digital version can't play for another.. whole day?

[Dngnhack]

PS4- Dngnhack

picking up at midnight release took a couple days PTO to play.