What is Destiny?
Destiny is a sci-fi first-person shooter that borrows elements from a variety of other genres, such as adventure games and massively multiplayer online RPGs. You can create a custom character, explore planets, unravel a story, team up with friends and compete against the world. Set in a “Mythic Science Fiction”. World. It is an Online – Only Video Game. Multiplayer “Shared World Environment”. First Person Shooter “Role Playing Game”. Developed by Bungie and Published by Activision.
How to play?
Create an avatar (One simple ability). Unlock abilities by completing quests. Level Up through progression. Loot based system (acquire different loot by completing same quests). Join other players, form alliances that will help you get better loot (3 player fire-teams – OR – player fire-teams). Unlock hidden items by completing secret quests (discover secret quests by researching online – OR – in Game forums)
Types of Game?
There are two “main” game types. Player Vs Player, and Player Vs Environment. There are also Public Events and Social Areas which is another game type (part of PVE).
Destiny’s player vs. player allows players to play games solo or in fire-teams. For example, there is a multiplayer Game Mode a.k.a. Cruciable which is a competitive multiplayer. You must obtain at least one kill to be eligible to receive a reward. Level advantages are disabled. Armor and weapons and weapons advantages. Earn Reputation by completing activity.
What is a Virtual World?
A virtual world is computerized based environment which are populated by users who create personal avatars(RPGs) and simultaneously – OR – independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities and communicate with others. These worlds will adopt rules from reality. Examples of these rules are: Gravity, topography, locomotion, real-time actions (affecting other players), and communication (between players). For every action there is a reaction that affects other players. Some examples of these rules in action are:
Players pushing other players off of a ledge who consequently fall to their deaths. =)
Letting your Teammate lead the way so you can make detonate the explosives on purpose. =)
Tricking your teammates into blindly attacking a boss with no chance of survival. =)
What does the game offer players?
It provides a distraction or “Escapism”. (You become someone else for a while): The visuals, the music, the game play, and the storytelling provide a form of entertainment that cannot be compared to any other form of entertainment.
Seeing hours of game play come to fruition and give you instant gratification (in the form of loot, new gear, new Shaders, or achieving a high level which you can brag to your friends about)
Become part of the social hub world connecting you to numerous types of people from different countries and different personalities, different backgrounds.
Leave everything behind and share common interests with one simple goal (“Beat the game”).