It's not CG. It's rendered in engine. Take Uncharted for example. Cutscene and gameplay graphics are nearly identical. Now. We still have to see if the game will stay looking like this. Doubtful though.

Who knows. A lot of this could end up in the books. I'm sure all the major plot points are written down. The show creators have been given them by GRRM. And with it only being 13 episodes left I doubt there's much room for padding. If anything it should follow the last 2 books closely with the material it actually has in the show. But the books will have much more once they're actually out obviously.

Any word on if the PC version is being developed by Bungie or contracted to another studio?

Vicarious Visions is developing it. It will only be on the Blizzard App(Battle.net) and they're not committed to releasing it alongside PS4/X1 yet.

The religion of peace at work.

The Cabal are bad. Their sole mission is to expand and conquer. They've been fleeing "something" though. The Eliksni(Fallen) are just scavengers now. They had the Traveler a long time ago but then the Darkness destroyed their world. And of course the Hive are bad. They're slaves to the Darkness and have been wiping out entire species for billions of years.

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This still does not explain to what warrents this as a sequel and not yet another expansion to Destiny like the one's we have been getting.

I honestly wanted to see alot of revamps. I like current Destiny but it needs SO much refinement. This just feels like every other DLC we have gotten

PvP is still Mario Party with guns and a Frostbite Engine tier netcode fueled by Peer to Peer.
The Mobile game tactics they use to artificialy inflate playtime instead of giving real reasons to replay in a way a game like Dark Souls does.

PvP seems to be more Halo-ish now. Word is only one player can have heavy ammo at a time. And it's also 4v4 now across all modes. There's some other stuff I forgot too. And I'm hoping with this game, the new things we're doing which is one of their pillars they said. "Always something to do" That we won't be needlessly grinding or just playing through padded out material.

It legit sounds like an improvement, though. The gunplay, animations, and interface were never the issue. Even the repeated enemy types were varied and fun. It was the completely bullshit story structure of 1. fight through waves 2. press button, and the lack of endgame content beyond grinding for pointless gear. Hopefully this is treated as a soft reboot, though the apparent lack of any significant additions is kind of weird. No announcement of new classes or weapon types is disappointing. I'm glad it's finally on PC.

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The new planets are Earth, Titan, Io, and Nessus

Um..

There are new additions. Read my post above. And yeah, Earth isn't new, it's just a new area on Earth. I was also hoping for a new class. Just new subclasses though. I'm sure there will be new weapons too, hopefully.

http://kotaku.com/everything-we-know-about-destiny-2-updating-1795340040

All that stuff sounds good to me. You can't be serious.

How much changed from Halo 1 to Halo 2? Less than this game. Dark Souls? Nearly every game franchise really....

He can declassify stuff, but like you said there's a process. He can't just go spouting off shit. I hope this is true and gets him gone.

Yeah, lots of places need to get working on upgrading the OS. All the computers at my job still use XP, as do all the ones at my school. And they did the entire time I was at school for fourteen years. Except those first 2 years they may have been using Windows 95 or something.

They could make a clone of AC4 with a different story and I'd buy it. They're not saying less story. Just not as tied to progression as it was. No idea about how the combat will be. I didn't like the changes Unity brought to combat. Story also wasn't good. And it lagged and was so buggy. Syndicate wasn't too bad, but still didn't care for the combat. Punching and stuff instead of swords. If this one has a decent story with some good gameplay, it could be good. They've had quite awhile to be working on it now.

Gameplay and this snippet of info.




Similar to the way Zelda expanded on its own core concepts in Breath of the Wild, if a puzzle exists in Darksiders 3, it should make sense in an environment rather than being a trap some unseen character inexplicably laid out for the player for no logical reason. Don’t expect any gated combat, and enemies (some of which existed in previous games, some of which are brand new) should feel a lot more like they belong in the world natively, rather than just popping up inconveniently to fight you. Yes, there’ll still be collectibles creatively scattered throughout the world, but no out-of-place chests, and, ultimately, every inch of the world should feel more contextualized if all goes according to Gunfire’s plan. That same ideology seems to echo throughout each level, in a world that is supposed to be fully connected and realized, without any hard loads. If you take an elevator down to a different environment, the one you came from really is the height of that elevator away from you. It’s supposed to be a physically, logically connected open-world, and in part because of that, it’ll also have a whole lot of ‘swiss cheese game design’ - basically, the idea that you should be able to see glimpses of environments you’ve already been to, or ones you’ve yet to go to as you traverse, like through the holes in swiss cheese. Based on the tiny chunk that I played, it made me want to explore everything so much more than I would have otherwise, because you can always see the next thing, just out of reach.

Dungeons are supposed to be much more inter-connected, too, with the whole game world almost acting as one giant dungeon. It is still linear in terms of story progression, though less so in terms of the actual timeline. Darksiders 3 will take place around the same time as Darksiders 2, with Death very far away, War still locked up by the Charred Council, and Fury sent to Earth to take down the physical embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins who broke out of their prisons during the apocalypse. We only saw one of the Seven, Sloth, who appeared as a giant, grotesque bug with a posse of smaller ones carrying him around on a chair, fitting with the sin’s inherent laziness. Each of the environments is set to be shaped by each unique boss, too, like their own versions of terraforming. As I delved further into Sloth’s section of the map, things got murkier, and bugs started showing up more and more often. In that, each environment is intended to be reflective of the Sin that inhabits it, or the character that does. One particular area, called Haven, is entirely shaped by the gorgeous, enormous tree that sits perched and glowing in the middle. It’s a relatively safe area, and the roots that tendril their way through the city slowly get thicker towards the center, which presents it’s own creative navigation tool.

It’s also just pretty overall, though it still maintains that unique, classic Darksiders art style, and with an immediately noticeable increase in verticality versus previous games. Darksiders 3 is the first in the series to run on Unreal rather than an internally built engine, and subtleties like water, lava and lighting particularly had noticeably improved. I didn’t get to explore the world anywhere near as much as I’d have liked, but did get to see what looked like a series of skyscrapers floating on clouds in the sky, a damp-looking, swampy area, and a fiery hollow - each of which seemed to exist exactly where it should in terms of verticality, with the hollow being far below the rest.

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I saw that there were a lot of books. Like the last one came out in 2012. Through the Keyhole or something. Is it over, or has he not written another yet?

I'm not sure, last one I read came out before 2009. I wasn't aware he was still writing them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower:_The_Wind_Through_the_Keyhole

Including that one there's 9 books. It says this one takes place between books 4 and 5. So I guess for now, it is done. But he had a little more story to tell. I'll have to read them one day.

Gunfire Game's logo is Strife. I guess that'll be Darksiders 4.