Bungie discussing Destiny at GDC
By
Eddie Makuch, News Editor
Creative leads will open up on design process from concept to production for action game during Game Developers Conference in March.
Bungie will discuss its all-new and still-unannounced franchise--believed to be titled Destiny--in late March during a 2013 Game Developers Conference talk at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
Presumably, a more formal announcement for Destiny is planned for sometime prior to the talk. Neither Bungie nor Activision had returned requests for comment at press time.
Bungie writer and design director Joe Staten and art director Christopher Barrett will lead the discussion, titled "Brave New World: New Bungie IP." The talk will focus on Bungie's design process and world-building techniques, running from concept to production.
Those in attendance will get a glimpse inside Bungie's new world, though it's not clear what state the game will be in during the briefing. Additionally, the event description suggests the next ten years of games from Bungie will be based in the Destiny universe.
To date, Bungie has released just one piece of artwork (above right) for Destiny, but speculation has run rampant. A leaked marketing document in November described Destiny as a "fun and accessible" game with a "deep, tangible, and relatable" universe compared to Star Wars. The game is also described as "social at its core."
According to the document, Destiny's plot revolves around an alien ship bent on destroying Earth and the "knights" tasked with defending what's left of humanity. The document also shows images bearing the Destiny logo along with Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 icons.
Destiny is Bungie's first project as part of a 10-year publishing deal with Call of Duty company Activision. Legal documents from May suggested that the game will be released for the Xbox 360 in 2013, with a 2014 release slated for the PlayStation 3.
The game is reportedly "quite like Halo."
By
Eddie Makuch, News Editor
Eddie Makuch (Mack-ooh) is a News Editor at GameSpot. He works out of the company's Boston office in Somerville, Mass., and loves extra chunky peanut butter.
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Looks like Lost Planet meets Killzone meets Halo. I wish they could give the new IP a different, darker atmosphere to scare the 10 year olds away.
there is way too much hype and high expectation from Bungie and that a recipe for dissapointment, the bar have been set way to high
@steelmouth but imagine if they delivered...after all, it is bungie and they have been given lots and lots and LOTS of $ from activision...who knows..
2 Like Bungie will always have my support in anything that they do. Halo 3 is one of my favorite games of all time because of it's multiplayer. I'm sure this will be a great game.
@YYankee one of the innovators that stated "Sure, we could make an FPS work on a console." I just have to disagree with you on Halo 3. Hands down Halo 2 multiplayer was better.
The more and more I hear about this game the more and more I keep picturing the game becoming what Huxley was attempting to bring the the FPS genre before was cancelled.
1 Like Just a correction to the plot summary in the article, the alien ship isn't bent on destroying earth, it is actually protecting earth - and they presumably don't know why
1 Like Since Halo, I trust Bungie and will continue to be interested in what they make. I believe this to be a pretty good company the works well on their stories while trying to always improve. I can't wait to hear more about this game!
5 Like I remember the first time I crashed landed on Halo... surrounded by dead marines and the faint jet screams of approaching Banshees.
1 Like No game Bungie makes now will beat halo 1 or 2,
halo 3, and reach were amazing 9/10 games and even they are no where near as good as halo 1, 2, but i really do think this game could be better than halo 3 and reach but i could be wrong.
I will always thank Bungie for the great times i had with halo and i will follow them no matter what game they make, Bungie are legends to us Halo fans and i can't wait to see if they kill of Halo, but i really doubt they will but they do have the means to achieve this.
I doubt they'll reveal anything big like a gameplay video or trailer; game developers are usually pretty particular in regards to how they reveal their game, and I doubt a smaller venue like GDC would be deemed a fitting place to release any in-depth info or media.
@WTA2k5 It wouldn't be good for an official reveal. Which is why I say watch for news in the next month or two.
@theteacher7 apparently you did not read the article or you would not ask that question......
1 Like @theteacher7 Look at the top right corner of the page. You will see the title: Destiny, and under that will be PS3 and Xbox360 links.
So yes. It is multiplatform.
Bring it on. Bungie has proven their quality to me through their previous games. I'll gladly pony up a pre-order for any of their titles.
??? 343 studios was able to make a better halo than bungie ever was, and it was their very first game as a studio.... how is that quality?
Umm Geminon - only delusional people would seriously think Halo 4 was better than Bungie developed Halo games. 343 has killed Halo MP with the glitchy lag fest that is Halo 4.
I've already decided I'm not buying Halo 5 and 6 after seeing how horribly they have coded the MP component of Halo 4. The Halo 4 online auto connection search and bandwidth detection is the worst on XBL.
Compare hit detection off host in Halo Reach with that in Halo 4 and then try to tell me that Halo 4 is better than a Bungie made Halo game.
@damo320 @Geminon @PixelAddict
only fanboy idiots think halo 4 is bad.
been playing halo 4 2-3 times a week since release, and have never had a single laggy match. sounds like you need to pony up for more bandwidth.
@GeminonYou realize a good majority of the 343 folk are directly from Bungie, right? They were handed the keys of a pretty nice sports car and added some nitrus.
Halo 4 was a solid game, but Bungie did the heavy lifting of the franchise. 343 did a fine job in carrying on an established tradition.
@Geminon Yeah, that's my bad. I honestly thought it was more. A few important, non-grunt types, though, so the point remains valid.
if by a good majority you mean like 5 people out of several hundred.... sorry but you are wrong.
@akdiuuuryttt Actually I just looked it up... it's five, but it's mostly key personnel:
http://www.halopedia.org/343_Industries
343 wanted to keep the core feeling, message of the franchise moving forward. Carry the torch, as it were.
@Geminon @PixelAddict halo 4 is worst halo game ever haha. nmot sure what ur talking about
@akdiuuuryttt @Geminon @PixelAddict
uh... no. sorry. it isnt. halo 3 was easily the worst in the series for singleplayer, and halo reach was easily the worst in the series for multiplayer.
4 Like It seems like Bungie has written a CoD-like contract with Activision, only making games from one franchise, just like Treyarch and Infinity Ward only makes CoD games. If Destiny is good, then it's not a big deal, but I principally don't like a developer being tied to only one franchise. It doesn't seem to be coming to PC, which makes me indifferent to its quality, since I won't be playing it.
About time! Of course, Bungie.net is going to get the first look. But I'm glad we have a time frame.
I wonder if Activision is going to be pressuring Bungie to make each Destiny game exactly the same and spit a new one out each year...
1 Like I seriously doubt it as Bungie pretty much had their choice of publishers (yet still chose Activision for some reason) and still are independent (ie not owned by a publishing house). Given what went down with Halo and Microsoft, I am sure they kept a good deal of control over the important details in their contract. Plus this is Bungie we are talking about, they would not even let Microsoft employees into their area while they were working on Halo.
3 Like @weapon_d00d816 I'd like to think that Bungie wouldn't enter into a deal like that and would maintain a good quality for any games they develop
2 Like A leaked marketing document in November described Destiny as a "fun and accessible" game with a "deep, tangible, and relatable" universe compared to Star Wars.
Ooh, I hope it's more like Star Wars than Halo. I love Star Wars. :)
@AgentMothman95 @akdiuuuryttt @JLCrogue well sorry this game isnt going to be like starwars
@akdiuuuryttt @JLCrogue Well I like Star Wars and this guy's opinion, as do others. So, technically you are wrong.
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