Glad people still say spider tank instead of devil walker. I doubt I will change.

If I recall correctly, a Devil Walker is just a type of Spider Tank.

(Specifically, it's a Spider Tank that belongs to the "House of Devils" faction of Fallen.)

I would say the Halo series had about the right amount of taking itself seriously for me, with the one exception being Reach, but Reach's more serious tone seemed warranted. Here's hoping the writing will be closer to the first couple games, and less of some of the terrible one-liners in Halo 3. But by comparison, Halo 4 seems to have upped the taking-itself-too-seriously factor by a good bit.

On the flip side, goofiness is definitely not what I'm looking for in Destiny. But some decent humor, and some nods to the various clichés at work wouldn't go amiss. One of the reasons Johnson worked so well in the first couple Halo games is that you could tell he knew he was just Apone from Aliens.

It doesn't mean Destiny needs a shotgun that shoots swords that explode into more swords that then explode because reasons, but just... please don't have its head shoved too far up its own ass.

I just want to say that the shotgun described here is easily one of the most epic weapons I've ever played with. Who says you can't bring swords to a gunfight?

Also, BL has always been a points system of health, I hope Destiny take into consideration physics and other sorts of visual damage other than a plain health bar. Something like they have been doing with vaporizing enemies in trailers.

It doesn't mean Destiny needs a shotgun that shoots swords that explode into more swords that then explode because reasons, but just... please don't have its head shoved too far up its own ass.

I guess I'm saying more ODST and less Reach in this regard.