Okay so I'm seeing a lot of no manual space flight and yet players are suppossed to develop an affection for our crafts. They act as storage and signal our joining friends while exploring Destiny's worlds but not much else has really come to the surface video wise.
Now I don't expect to fly from Earth to Mars in real time like other space sim games. When ships were announced for Destiny back in March I got the image of Reach's Long Night Of Solance level where the Sabre was featured. I could see the ship and I could see myself flying it and that really opened a lot of imagination on where Bungie could take us all.
But that voyage now sounds like a quick time event and really that is both depressing and sucks the adventure out of the room for hopeful star pilots. Like all things Destiny until the game ships I really don't know what the final product is but the loss of the manual control of space ships our horses and extensions of our characters is a heavy loss to the imaginative players pining for this feature in some scope.
For me when I saw the footage from the Roghnut I felt great hope for our space ships. I could easily see them flying through the star map like our Falcons did in Forge World. So Bungie Im still holding out on manual flight for the Star Ships. The designs I've seen from your art department scream for them to live and fly rather than act as some ornament.
Hopefully it's not too late and those designs take to the stars driven by players rather than over scripted QuickTime.
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[quote]sucks the adventure out of the room for hopeful star pilots.[/quote]You're not a star pilot though, you're a Guardian. If they allowed in-atmosphere flight, it would negatively impact exploration in Destiny. Say there is some weapon hidden on the top of some mountain, and you have to trek up some overgrown trail to reach the summit. That could all be skipped if you can just fly up to the top. So the only place left to allow flight is in orbit around planets or other objects. But think about how sterile an environment that is. Sure the background will change, depending on where you are, but space is otherwise empty. There are no paths to follow, doors to unlock, treasures to find. The only activity of any real entertainment value would be dog fights. Now sure, a dog fight would be fun once or twice, but I don't think it's something people would end up going back to much. Not when there's a planet below you with loot to find.