Bungie Thinking About Lord of the Rings-Sized Narrative for Destiny, Activision Says

So it is already confirmed that there will be 4 sequels.

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We'll see how the game goes first before thinking about ten years from now. I never tend to buy DLC, not even for games like Borderlands so Destiny is going to have to be damn good to break my trend. Buying it cheaper in the PS4 bundle helps though.

Look, it's another Gamespot Hype piece.

That's hilarious...zero story in what they showed in the demo, and they have the balls to compare it their goal to LOTR? Try at least getting to fantasy knock off-book level first.

I have a real bad feeling about this game. Could be a great big fail.

Sounds like they want a WoW type game that can keep going and going, and if they play their cards right, it may be possible but I'm not holding my breath. A game like Destiny on a console, without individual clans and message boards at your fingertips while you play and so forth, I don't know. If it were on PC, I think they'd have a better chance with a 10 year life cycle.

I laugh at all those people that can't stand the fact that Destiny will last longer than their crap games. Haha

If what I got out of the beta wasn't just the barest scratch of the lore surface, then they've got some serious work ahead of them, even over a 10 year period.

Not that they'll make it 10 years if communication and raid matchmaking remains as is, but the story is so shallow so far that they went so far as to pay Bill Nighy to tell the player about all the things he isn't going to bother going telling the player about the game's lore.

Unless, by 'Lord of the Rings', they mean the 'whole lot of silent walking' thing then yeah, we're on the same page.

"Lord of the Rings sized narrative"?

That isn't much really. Now if you were talking about WH40K sized narrative...

Can we please stop with all the "news stories" about Destiny that are basically just marketing gibberish? This "story" is basically just a lame free ad. Seriously, this is not news.

Funny, i thought Bungie was pretty much like: meh, lets give them at least some kind of story ... OH it and can be for kids and we say "Become LEGEND!".

Bungie can't even make a decent looking UI, and now they say it story will be on par with LOTR??? Phew, some people do know how to make them-self look bad...

"LOTR levels of lore"... "Surpass the cultural impact of Halo"... "Alongside with Harry Potter, Star Wars"...

Holy smokes, Bungie! That's not a hype train, that's a big f*cking hype atomic space rocket! Please stop, it's getting ridiculous.

I liked the beta when I played it and I'm going to buy it on Tuesday when it's released. What I don't like is this blowing smoke up our a$$, marketing fluff bs they announce every 20 minutes.

Spare us the theatrics, the game is as bro shooter as it gets. Unless a physical copy of the game can bring Tolkien back from the dead, just make sure the game doesn't break on September 9th.

Okay GS, seriously, this is approaching Titanfall levels of fluffy BS "news" pieces. It's World of BorderHalo. I'm sure that interests many people, but don't act like this is going to be the second coming (or maybe third coming, since Titanfall was the second, right? Right?) of games.

First Sledgehammer games was talking about trying to emulate Game of Thrones, now Bungie is trying to compare themselves to Lord of the Rings. This is ridiculous. These video game developers do not even have 10% of the depth of those amazing stories.

As much as I like the feel and setting of Destiny, and that's probably my main reason for buying the game right now because I want to see where the story goes, I have to say...

HELL NO!!!

Ha ha ha ha-ha ha he he ha hah ha ha te he la la la...

"Achieving a similar level of depth and breadth is a goal that Bungie has in mind for its soon-to-be-released shooter"

That last word interferes with depth.

all aboard the hype train!!! first passing by the now derelict 'watch dog station', then onto 'destiny city'

Waaahh waahh wahhh narratives,story,marketing stunt blahblahblah yet the GAMEPLAY for our video GAME is as shallow as ever.

Hey GameSpot, why did my sarcastic comment on the number of Destiny-related posts today vanish? Are we not friends anymore?

Uh no way in hell can you compete with that type of lore Bungie. Wow lots of big words from you guys. I just don't see it happening.

It took twenty years for Tolkien to write LotR.

Interesting. Tell us more about this Destiny game...

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"Thou shall not pass... DLC requierd."

They're so vein, they probably think I am talking about them....

Wait isnt the game made already and coming next week? they cant just make it into something else at this point...especially if the first game isnt THAT.