> [*]The Traveler is claimed to have arrived before Humanity's Golden Age, and thus actually precipitated it rather than arriving in the nick of time to protect them from the alien threat. I'm not sure I've heard this anywhere else and so I'm unclear if this is a mistake on the part of Edge in their interpretation of the plot. It is also claimed that it was ‘centuries’ ago.

This sounds very similar to Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood's End.

+10 Bungie.

This may be my favorite of his. Much more realistic version of how guns are designed. A lot of guns you can use as an assault rife or as an impromptu sniper rifle if need be if you have the right attachments.

[Y]ou could create your own personal ‘Vera’ by combining rare bits onto the base chassis of a given weapon type.

A trade? Hell, it's theft. This is the best gun made by man, it has extreme sentimental value.

the impression I get is less of random weapons so much as infinite weapon combinations. Sort of like Lego for guns. And that is a very appealing concept indeed.

Not to mention it is how actual guns work. If I want a different barrel IRL, I can get one. If it's done well a fully buildable weapon system could be awesome.

I never bought into the billions of guns for borderlands. It just seemed overwhelming, I'm hoping Destiny keeps it manageable.

*shrug* It's really not that bad in Borderlands, there's a lot of possibility for small variations but there's really only a small number of base weapon types - once you figure out what you like to use you just ignore everything that isn't in your particular preferred categories. Plus it's all irrelevant once you find the couple of legendary weapons you'll actually use for the rest of the game. :P

I'm sure Bungie will make it awesome.

The frozen base that looks like it's been hit by an ice storm is named as Europa.

Jupiter!!??? I sure hope so!

Certainly seems that way. And from what I read on Wiki just now, Europa is quite icy so this would make sense. I am looking forward to an awesome skybox here.

Any idea of being able to play solo is pretty much brushed off; Pete Parsons talks of introducing a ‘slope’ to encourage single players to co-operate with others they encounter, and the article mentions that you'll encounter other players whether you want to or not

Kinda how I've been reading into it. I guess I don't mind, I always have more fun playing with friends. But I can see how it might be off-putting for some. Still, they wouldn't do it unless it was awesome right?

This is how I'm looking at it as well. I'm not going to get in a tizzy because "OMG NO SOLO PLAY!?!?!?! There are plenty of games I can play by myself. If Bungie has a particular vision for what will make Destiny fun, and that vision can only be facilitated by me being online when playing it, then so be it. I look forward to finding out why. And it's not like my XBox is ever offline anyway.

And yes, I get that some people's consoles aren't always online, or maybe are never online. But Bungie doesn't owe you an offline game - if this is what they're making, and it doesn't work for you, you can play something else. I don't mean that to sound like "GTFO if you don't like the way things are." Rather, I'm just stating that no one is forcing you to buy Destiny if your situation is such that you cannot play it.

I have a subscription on my iPad, and it looks like the digital version gets released on Thursday. The wait!

Same here… it drives me mad that I get the physical copy first. It always ends up unread and collecting dust! Well, until this issue anyway…

You can link to blocked posts?
Mind = blown

I know, right? Best part is it utterly defeats the point of a spam filter ;)

Not entirely. The forum lets us know if something is flagged as spam, so one of the mods will unflag it (or delete real spam) when we see it. Might take a few minutes, though. Someone must have already gotten to your post since it's not marked as spam anymore.

you could create your own personal ‘Vera’ by combining rare bits onto the base chassis of a given weapon type.

And I want a hand knit Jayne Cobb hat to go with it!

The two examples are ‘an Invective shotgun’,

Heh, totally read that as 'an Ineffective shotgun'.

I was like, "well what's the point then?"

You can link to blocked posts?
Mind = blown

I know, right? Best part is it utterly defeats the point of a spam filter ;)

You can link to blocked posts?
Mind = blown

tee-hee