Destiny – Bungie’s new game venture

So if you haven’t seen it yet. Bungie has Officially announced their new game called Destiny. If you haven’t seen it yet, please watch the video.

It is a bold move to say the game will go for 10 years. The biggest problem I see is that the success of the game will need to be its user base. SWOTR started out strong then slid right off the radar fast. It is possible for the same thing to happen here. The trick might be in the connectivity of players with a open-world that is part friend list and part ‘Little Big Planet – allow other players to join your game’ to make it an MMO. I can see this being big but the standard platform of MMOs is flawed when it comes to consoles. Take games like FFXI & FFXIV, they are available for console but it’s user base is more PC players. WoW is still the king when it comes to user base still actively playing the game but this is a PC only game. These games all share a standard MMO construction where people log on to a particular server. These are also all RPGs while Destiny is looking to be a FPS (FPSRPG?) Looking at FPS games, their success is fast paced action by getting into a lobby, wait for players, vote on map, and play the match. This method is probably out since the player would just need to log in to the world and start going.

I’m going off of my own thoughts with barely any information as to how this game will function. However, seeing enough MMO games on consoles fail it is hard to see how this will do well. Who knows though, Bungie might have a new formula on how to make it work. The way I see it though, Bungie should stray away from the standard, ‘Join a server and play on that server’ platform. Stay with the ‘instant action’ success they already have but some how still have that MMO feel and that’ll be a win.
Another thing would be communication. MMORPGs are keyboard chat heavy but with consoles like the XBox and in some cases PS3 it is VoIP. It would totally suck to sign on to a server where everyone has a microphone and is trying to communicate. Great in a party/raid, not for general chat. That would totally suck.

Man trying to word how I think of this game is harsh. So many thoughts but finding the right words is not easy when you don’t know what to think. Right now, all I see is a concept that looks awesome but will it work. No idea.