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Sarcasm?

The box looks like the top view of Thor's hammer.

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Yes and yes.

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That I don't really argue with, and makes sense that it was taken down. I just think a lot of what you said earlier was hyperbole :shrug:

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:lol: :up:

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Of course. I don't get to post nearly as often (no browsing at work) so I can see some of my posts being more over-the-top than usual. All in good fun and discussion though, everyone should know that by now. :)

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I am ready for this.

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My copy of Destiny is all downloaded and ready to go on my PS4, can't wait till it unlocks Tuesday.

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Psyched for my LE version. Ghost replica might have been cool, but I can live without that.

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Anybody see this?

http://www.destinythegame.com/digital-upgrade

If you buy the digital version of Destiny for the PS3, you get the PS4 version for free. Buy the 360 digital version, get the XBone version free. This includes the expansion pass and DLC from the limited edition. But it doesn't include disc versions, just the digitals.

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Ok I had no interest in this because I thought it was Halo under a different name. Never cared for Halo so I thought it was an easy pass.

I was at the Apple store tonight talking with the manager who was also a gamer and he said Destiny is like Mass Effect plus Borderlands with Diablo loot.

Is that right?

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It shares quite a bit with Borderlands in terms of its emphasis on co-op and the loot. It doesn't have the wit or humor that Borderlands has.

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Basically, if you buy the last gen version, it's cross-buy. Easy choice for me with my kid having a PS3 in his room. I'll be canceling my preorder at GameStop and preordering the digital PS3 version.

I can't find any fine print of real consequence.

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I thought this was really cool especially for anyone who played the first Halo under Bungie...

Here's how Halo looked back in 1999

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In July 1999 at the Macworld conference in New York, Steve Jobs, then the interim CEO of Apple Computer, announced Halo: Combat Evolved. The game, Jobs said, would be released simultaneously on Mac and Windows PC early in the following year.

Jobs then introduced Jason Jones, co-founder of developer Bungie, who told the crowd, "Everything you're about to see is being rendered in real time on a Macintosh, using OpenGL." IGN reported at the time that Halo was a "third-person action/adventure title."

Here's the three-minute montage of Halo that Jones showed, as posted on YouTube today by Marty O'Donnell, the composer of the game's famous orchestral score.


Of course, Halo took a major departure from that point. Microsoft announced in June 2000 that it had bought Bungie, which had spent much of the 1990s focused on developing games on Mac. Bungie then turned Halo into a first-person shooter, and it was released exclusively on Xbox in November 2001 as the console's marquee launch title. Gearbox Software's PC port of the Xbox version did not arrive until September 2003, and Westlake Interactive brought the game to Mac in December 2003. Bungie split off from Microsoft in late 2007, becoming an independent studio once again.


It's come a long, long way....Bungie should be proud.

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Yep, and the deal gets better if you combine it with Target's deal tomorrow.

Target will be selling all their gaming cards buy 1, get 1 25% off. So you buy 2 $50 PSN cards, and get $12.50 off the second. Then if you use your red card, you get 5% off that.

You get $100 in PSN credit for $83.25, buy the PS3 Digital Guardian Edition for $90 and you still have $10 in your account. It's a no-brainer assuming you can find the cards at Target.

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can you not buy a digital copy for 360? and when does review embargo lift?

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Maybe, but only if you take out all the story & characters from ME, take out 99% of the loot from Borderlands, drop Diablo completely and throw in a bunch of Halo co-op, then yeah, it's just like that.

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You can't pre-order on the 360. The digital version will be up on Tuesday.

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I read on Polygon or Kotaku that they weren't sending review copies out until very late, possibly even Monday. I don't know if we're going to see many reviews prior to release.

Link:

http://www.polygon.com/forums/destin...destiny-review

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I already saw the reviews...it was called Alpha and Beta and that was enough for me...

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yep

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do you happen to have link to where exactly it will be up for purchase? thanks.

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Late to the party, but gotta laugh at posting the ad for the COD version on Vita. Yeah. That's the same. Stretching doesn't begin to describe it.

More on point, what is the difference between the two digital versions on PS4? Does one just include the unreleased expansion packs which are $34.99? So you are saving 5 bucks?

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I don't have a 360, I'm just going by the info I've read. I would assume you can buy the game on XBOX Marketplace come tuesday, but again, I'm not an XBOX guy.

The more expensive one is the digital equivalent of the Limited Edition box. You get a few exclusive pieces of DLC along with the expansion pass. It's nothing major, but since it's also a discount on the expansion packs it's not bad.

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That's the way I see it as well. Although I didn't play either the alpha or the beta, positive word of mouth from people who did is enough for me.