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Destiny

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originally posted in:Team Turtle
3/18/2014 10:51:46 PM
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Off the Beaten Path

I just realised how much I want to be able to explore in this game. When I think of the jungles of Earth and Venus, I want to be able to walk through them. I want to take cover in the foliage as the rain drips down through the green canopy above me. I want to hear the sounds of the trees and birds and insects around me. Then there's Mars. I want to walk the desert lands of Mars, trying to find the entrance of vaults and the gates of forgotten cities. I want to be able to see next to nothing in a blinding sandstorm as a march across with little more than a beacon on my HUD to guide me. On Europa I want the blizzards and ice shelves to crash around me. I want the sky to grow dark and be filled with its gas giant as it moves out of sight from the Sun. I want to trek through snow that comes up to my chest as the stars in the sky blend in with snowflakes. Am I asking for a lot? Yes. Am I asking for too much? Maybe, but this is my favourite part. This is what we did after the Darkness ended. We didn't care about consoles and fireteams and clans, only about what the game could be. Would you like something like this? What do you want from this game's worlds. Not gameplay, customisation, or anything like that. What do you want from the solar system. Deep caves with hidden waterfalls? High peaks with snowcaps? Wildlife? A barren wasteland or two? Ad astra.

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  • Weeeell... We may have to wait a few sequels before rain water literally drips off of Venus's forest canopy -- but, all the same, I understand what you mean. There is a thrill in not rushing dungeons. A delight in mapping out the new wild frontier. Non-linear sandbox play. It's a beautiful universe they're crafting after all. I'm trying to put a group together for this -- the '[b]Explorers Guild[/b]' is the tentative title -- but, I'll be honest, It seems difficult at best to locate and pool interested persons of this kind of paced, inquisitive, world adoring play style. Roll call! Mmm, yep, as I feared -- the Explorers Guild only seems to have three guardians in its ranks right now, and that even includes myself! A Destiny specific 'clan' with only enough members to fill a single Fireteam! What a joke, hahha. What do I want? I want to have to map out certain installations just to figure out where I am! I want to explore, and be rewarded for doing so -- not necessarily with loot (though I'll take that sniper rifle, thank you -- [i][b]yoink[/b][/i]), but also with hidden sound files, strange rare creatures, beautiful vistas you have to -- for example -- climb over a specific ridges to see. All the while, sharing the experience with my fellow explorers. I also think it would be awesome if they included a feature where you could get your ghost to snap pictures -- like the phone in GTA5, or the 'Pictograph Box' item in The Legend of Zelda franchise, to help encapsulate some of these memories -- like we'd do IRL while on dates, or at weddings. You can do the same sort of thing with the PS4's sharing stuffs, but it's not exactly the same. Having the ghost take the picture, and storing 'albums' in game, would make it feel realer to me, I think.

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