The Technical Director of Bungie, Chris Butcher was in a recent interview with Edge where he discussed the common online gaming behaviors of trolls and how they are able to discourage the devious behaviors.

Butcher says, “If you look back at online multiplayer gaming for the last ten years I think the dominant thread has been adolescent males shooting each other in the face and squatting on each other’s corpses.

“And that emerges from design decisions which… some of which were intentional, some of which were not, but the community gets attracted towards that, and that is popular to a lot of other people and so it kind of tends to exclude others.”

Bungie doesn’t want to take all the fun out of the game, they want to keep the competitive nature of the game. By using a “sloping floor” design, they are able to take out the activities that will spoil the game for other players.

He goes on to say, “I don’t think you can ever design toxic behavior out, you can’t ever stop players from being toxic but what you can do is prevent them being able to ruin other players’ experiences.

By the looks of it, they are going to reward those that play right and punish those that are trolling.

“You give people these tools that encourage them to interact positively with each other and then if someone is interacting negatively with you, well, they can’t ruin your experience.”

Bungie is going to “make sure the social experience is one where if the players aren’t co-operating or communicating effectively it doesn’t ruin anyone’s experience.”

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The Design Director of Destiny Joe Staten was in a recent interview with Edge, where he discussed how the game will be similar but better than other open-world titles like Far Cry and Borderlands, because of features of advanced systems.

Staten states, “We are absolutely doing things that would be familiar if you’ve played any kind of open-world game. I mean… Far Cry, even. We would be idiots if we didn’t look at an awesome game like Borderlands and ask, ‘What are they doing well and how can we try to hit that same ball?’ I have never played a game where I have such a great attachment to my gun as I do in Borderlands.”

“When we look at a game like that, we look at the things they’re doing well and also at opportunities they might have missed that we can capitalize on. You can party up with a group of people and then go around with that group, but never in Borderlands are you going to collide with a group of other people doing it too. We don’t do that just once or twice in the game, we do that all the time, everywhere.”

“You see other people on the horizon, hear gunfire over a hill, and see space magic flying behind some trees, and you know… there are other people out here, that [changes everything]. Borderlands right now is: ‘I’m going to walk into that space and we’re going to clear them out and keep going.’ And frankly that’s not just Borderlands, that’s any co-op shooter.”

Destiny will launch in 2014 for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.

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The developer walkthrough is pretty high on the humor content but is interesting nonetheless.

Destiny is slated to release in 2014 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. heck out the video below.

It seems that the game is definitely going to be different in a way, and the upcoming consoles are the reason why all these new games coming out will be revolutionary. Even though the experience of this game will be the same for all the platforms, will the graphics make it feel different?

He states, “We’re not committing right now to any specific platform features. The great thing for us with timing is that we were making a new engine, and then two new consoles were coming out, which led us to invest more into making the new engine for it.

“There are a whole bunch of great opportunities for us to go after, like full player experiences, etc. We’re investigating all of those and building the core experience of Destiny, which will be similar across all the platforms.

“The graphics are different, obviously, platform to platform, but in a connected world, the game of Destiny is going to be awesome on all of them.”

New engines, greater opportunities, and the experience overall will be something we look forward to when we get our hands on this title.

The setting was on a deserted earth in the far future in the presence of a walled city. Players grabbed loot with variable characteristics while fighting with Fallen enemies. Borderlands meets Halo, anyone?

Sony has secured a long term exclusive deal for the Destiny franchise. Check out the official E3 trailer and the gameplay trailer below.

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Today at GDC, the game’s Art Director Christopher Barrett and Design Director Joe Staten talked a little about Destiny.
What Is Destiny?

Destiny is a hybrid of fantasy and sci-fi. There are castles, beasts, heroes, and other fantasy elements.

The Influence Of Destiny  
Destiny is a completely new project for Bungie, and the game’s visual style is inspired by a lot of artists such as: Peter Gric, Sam Glliam, John Harris, etc. The game’s armor and vehicle style was influenced by anime, according to the two developers. The developers also mentioned the Post FX engine technology, which they use to unify art.

Mystery And Adventure
Many fancy arts were shown at the speech. The developers said they hoped the many places in the game were both familiar and strange to players. Bungie unifies the visual theme and creates the destination postcards, which will be then turned to actual graphics by the world building tool.

Become A Legend
From one hero (Halo) to millions (Destiny), Bungie believes choice is the key to make everyone a legend in the world and choice starts from character creation. Presented at GDC, there are three races:

• Human, the relatable, tough and uncomplicated species
• Awoken, the exotic, beautiful and mysterious race
• Exo, a sinister, powerful and tireless group (imagine Master Chief and Terminator)

Of course, there are choices on class. Bungie unveiled Titan, Hunter and Warlock.

Thus far the game that made the first appearance during the PlayStation 4 unveiled meeting are

• Driveclub
• Infamous: Second Son
• Watch Dogs
• Killzone: Shadow Fall 
• Knack
• Deep Down
• Possible New Final Fantasy (PS4)
• The Witness
• Destiny

Will we be able to see more upcoming  titles from sony? Very likely. Leave a comment down below let us know which one of those game you’re looking forward to get your hands on