Players will have to work with friends in order to overcome challenges

Aug 29, 2014 23:15 GMT  ·  By

Destiny is one of the biggest launches of the coming fall season, and the developers at Bungie working on the experience are saying that players who play it should get a clear sense of hopefulness despite the fact that the situation of their characters can be grim at the start and the odds are against them.

Jason Sussman, a senior environment artist at Bungie, says that his fellow game creators were inspired by classic science fiction and by the way the history of humanity has been shaped by extraordinary events.

He tells Gamasutra that “We're also bringing some of that mythic science fiction in there with the vibrance and color, and the hopefulness of all these spaces. Because, humanity being lost, you could have gone in a different direction. But we definitely wanted to go in this hopeful, inspiring direction for this title.”

Destiny is using bright colors and wide open spaces in order to give gamers a clear reason to explore the world created by Bungie, but the company says that it also wanted to move away from the dark and grey palette that has traditionally dominated first-person shooters.

Sussman explains, “We're taking something that something that's been depredated and falling apart, and showing how life still flourishes, in a nutshell. We're showing how life can still live, and still be vibrant, even though humanity has been lost.”

The story of the game deals with the efforts of player-controlled Guardians to protect the final city on Earth and to discover the faith of some of the offshoots of humanity that have spread on other planets.

Much of the lore of the title will deal with loss and with the feeling of impending doom, but Bungie says that the mechanics, including those that allow gamers to cooperate to achieve objectives, are designed to instill hope and the feeling that what is lost can be regained.

Launch date is set for September 9 all over the world on the PlayStation 4 and the PS3, which are set to get access to special exclusive content for one year, and on the Xbox One and the older 360.

Bungie is also currently working on The Dark Below, the first downloadable content pack for the title that will arrive in December of this year, and they are saying that the entire game is planned to get updates for a ten-year period as long the community remains engaged.

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