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9/26/2013 9:21:22 PM
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Tom Doyle- "Illegal Arms Dealer from the 31st Century"
Could this snippet from the returning episode of the Bungie Podcast be a brief hint at the age in which we'll be playing Destiny?
At the beginning of the latest Podcast (try 4:45) the first guest, Tom Doyle, is asked to explain his title of Art Lead.
He described himself as,[quote]"The artist in charge of combat sandbox; weapons, vehicles, sometimes abilities... [An] [url=http://downloads.bungie.com/podcasts/Bungie_Podcast_092413.mp3]illegal arms dealer from the 31st century[/url]."[/quote]
He later refers to weapons bazaars and weapon-smiths. This quote (12:30-14:15) reinforced my opinion that his reference to the 31st century is in fact an indication of the current setting of the game:[quote]"There is really beautiful aspirational artwork for what the city would look like under the traveler, like really kind of street level stuff. Most of the imagery that the public's seen had been up in the towers, up in Mount Olympus. Some of these images were very much down at the pedestrian level, in the streets... We thought of the gun bazaars in other parts of the world and places where there are military conflicts. And we were thinking, man, there's some master craftsman who's putting together [i]your[/i] Duke... We want you to feel like there are these dudes under the City who are craftsmen, no different than a guy who forges a katana."[/quote]
I had earlier surmised that the setting of the first Destiny title would be roughly around 3090.
--Scroll to the end of the spoiler from the related/inspiring, parent thread for a quick and dirty explanation that may lend some more evidence to [i]why[/i] the game would be set in the 31st century.
The bit regarding the Duke (supposed to be an entry level weapon for Guardians) makes me think this [i]is[/i] in reference to the current setting. Though, this could just as easily be in reference to the gunsmiths of the Golden Age.
Let me know what you think (I'm having a bit of trouble with the poll options at the moment) and feel free to start up a discussion even if it isn't exactly on topic.
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20 Replies in this Sub-ThreadThe game has been specifically stated to take place 700 years from the current day.
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ign.com/articles/2012/11/28/destiny-story-details-concept-art-leaked [quote]Our story begins seven hundred years from now in the Last City on Earth, in a Solar System littered with the ruins of man’s Golden Age.[/quote] They were quite explicit in saying that Destiny takes place 700 years in the future.
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That's leaked, I mean, yeah it could be true but it's far from official. Besides, why wouldn't we remember the event that destroyed our civilization and have futuristic facilities completely overtaken by nature if it had just happened? Official releases talk about a [url=http://www.bungie.net/ga/Destiny#page=story&panel=story-the-city]dark age[/url] descending and giving birth to the Guardians, Titans having a [url=http://www.bungie.net/en/destiny#page=guardians&panel=guardians-titan]lineage[/url] who defended the early City, and [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwOUi4JDC4o&feature=player_detailpage#t=17]stories of a Golden Age long ago[/url].[quote]"Legends say the Traveler sacrificed itself to save us. The mysterious sphere still hangs where it made its last stand, low above the Earth, keeping silent watch. The years that followed the collapse of the Golden Age were hard. But slowly we joined together to build a city beneath the traveler and now we've begun to venture back into the wild." [/quote] All of that together makes me think of the Golden Age as long gone.
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