Do you happen to have a higher resolution version of this image?

I was disappointed to see the most interesting image of the lot was such low quality, when every other image was high quality :(

Oh good. Thanks.... Wait a second! :p

Good luck, everyone! I endorse all the prizes.

Well, we obviously had very different expectations, and so accordingly very different receptions as well. But I was speaking merely on visual terms. What I said here,

"I might understand or relate to the sentiment if the book was called The Story of Destiny or The Campaign Design of Destiny"

...actually corresponds with what you just expanded on.

I actually got a little deja vu from this! In our past debates I remember there were many times I felt like you'd give a rebuttal to one part of my post while missing other parts that explained my point more - parts that were actually showing that I was agreeing with you. :)

When I reply to you, it's not always because I disagree :-p I read exactly what you said, and was just expanding upon my own reasoning.

*MOD EDIT* You mispelled "add". Fixed it for you. I changed nothing else.

The real problem is this moderator power - it's consuming me! I tried to reply to something like three different posts today by hitting "edit" instead of "reply". Luckily I realized my mistake before any damage was done... Except for, of course, the one long ass post with formatting and a bunch of linked images. :)

I've definitely never done this before on accident on someone else's post that I fixed using copy and paste from my browser history. I would never be that inattentive.

...but the mad tyranny of the Admins has transmuted them into bitter rivals.

We are all the playthings of the crazed whims of eldritch behemoths.

The real problem is this moderator power - it's consuming me! I tried to reply to something like three different posts today by hitting "edit" instead of "reply". Luckily I realized my mistake before any damage was done... Except for, of course, the one long ass post with formatting and a bunch of linked images. :)

I've definitely never done this before on accident on someone else's post that I fixed using copy and paste from my browser history. I would never be that inattentive.

Holy crap, I'm sorry!

(We have backups, you know - they're only daily, and you only spent 15 minutes, but in this case they would have helped; I could have pulled yesterday's post verbatim for you. Just for... you know, next time. :) )

Haha, I would have come crying to you. That was the next step! But it wasn't too bad to fix - mostly just scary when I first realized it.

The real problem is this moderator power - it's consuming me! I tried to reply to something like three different posts today by hitting "edit" instead of "reply". Luckily I realized my mistake before any damage was done... Except for, of course, the one long ass post with formatting and a bunch of linked images. :)

(And yes, I did just accidentally overwrite the first page of my review with this post, went "OH MY GOD", then spent fifteen minutes rebuilding it from a copy and paste from my browser's history.)

Holy crap, I'm sorry!

(We have backups, you know - they're only daily, and you only spent 15 minutes, but in this case they would have helped; I could have pulled yesterday's post verbatim for you. Just for... you know, next time. :) )

You can enter the contest to get them here. Not much is required. You don't have to purchase DBO Go or DBO Plus or anything to enter. :)

http://destiny.bungie.org/contests/art_of_destiny_giveaway.html

(And yes, I did just accidentally overwrite the first page of my review with this post, went "OH MY GOD", then spent fifteen minutes rebuilding it from a copy and paste from my browser's history.)

"I might understand or relate to the sentiment if the book was called The Story of Destiny or The Campaign Design of Destiny"

...actually corresponds with what you just expanded on.

I actually got a little deja vu from this! In our past debates I remember there were many times I felt like you'd give a rebuttal to one part of my post while missing other parts that explained my point more - parts that were actually showing that I was agreeing with you. :)

In terms of visuals, Destiny fully lived up to its promise in my opinion. I transition from the environments and UI of the game to the art and presentation of this book seamlessly.

I fully understand the nature of concept art, and do not think at all that if it was merely conceptualized it would be in the game. But right on the first few pages, you have stuff Bungie actually talked about being in the game, like the city and Charlemagne's Vault. The entirety of page 13 portrays things Bungie hyped up, but were absent. The Citadel is featured prominently, but we never go there even though it exists in game. You have the fallen and the fallen walker patrolling a snowy area. You have a hive ship around Saturn (Saturn again!). I get that stuff gets cut on every project, but…

It's all about that damn concept art leak back in 2012. Maybe it's my fault, but when you have all these images of bases on Jupiter, Saturn, the Reef, and tons of other locations on Earth, and Bungie keeps selling the idea that Destiny is this huge romp through the solar system, I was naturally let down when I found out that it wasn't. I distinctly remember the dread I felt about the game when Deej confirmed one playable area per planet. I was not alone. Why would people be shocked at that? Because that news flew in the face of everything Bungie seemed to be presenting at the time. I was told the Alpha was <5% of the game. It was actually 20%. Then you look at all the filler missions, and wonder why those weren't somewhere else, on another planet forwarding a grand story.

If that concept art leak never happened, and if all of the art leaked were in the book (much of it is not by the way), then I wouldn't have a problem with it at all. I don't know, I just think that Bungie spun this grand vision of the game that was fueled by the leaks, and didn't offer a realistic portrayal of the game. Then the game ships and you see the narrative is shit. This is especially true when you hear rumors of a rebuild of the content in fall of 2013, and internal strife over whether the game should have been an RPG or an MMO. Something happened, whether big or small, just going by the info in the 2013 ViDocs that is no longer relevant.

All of that may be completely false, but I am human, and I have an imagination. I LOVE the world Bungie created for Destiny, and unfortunately my mind carried me further inside the world than I could actually go. That's just a product of how much I wanted to be there I guess. Part of me thinks these rumors are rumors precisely because someone needed to rationalize why what we thought we'd get wasn't what we got.

The proto-director is also intriguing. Look at all the things they had initially planned to include. Some, or all of that may return in some form I hope.

The most significant note I added was to this piece:

There's a rover-like vehicle in the lower left that I hadn't noticed before.

I love it because it is amazing.

I hate it because it reminds me of what Destiny could have, and should have been.

Heh, I knew you were going to write this reply before I posted this. :) I might understand or relate to the sentiment if the book was called The Story of Destiny or The Campaign Design of Destiny, but the vast majority of the stuff in this book is IN the game and it looks beautiful. In terms of visuals, Destiny fully lived up to its promise in my opinion. I transition from the environments and UI of the game to the art and presentation of this book seamlessly.