Bungie considered "straight-up fantasy" and modern day settings for Destiny

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Bungie considered "straight-up fantasy" and modern day settings for Destiny

Added: 18.03.2013 13:31 | 0 views | 0 comments

But sci-fantasy "gave us this freedom".
Bungie's always-online next gen shooter Destiny has been bubbling away in pre-production for yonks, with ideas beginning to circulate well before the studio split from Microsoft - there are references to the new shooter's background fiction in Halo 3: ODST, released way back in 2009. The choice of a science fiction setting seems an obvious one, given the studio's pedigree, but according to writer and design director Joseph Staten, it took Bungie years to nail down.