As I managed to squeeze into the Alpha last night (ends on Sunday I believe) and having played until 2am I can say this is going to be in my top games I want this year!

I already had it pre-ordered (so have the beta to come in July) but to play it has confirmed everything I hoped it would be. It feels like Bungie have matured and everything they learnt from Halo has been applied in Destiny. There are some things which have reminded me of Halo but in a good, nostalgic way. It is MMO lite but with no sub and you can play it all on your own if you want and group up for a Strike (a dungeon) if you wish.

3 classes, Hunter, Titan and Warlock and I have only tried Hunter and Warlock so far but Warlock was my favourite with a sorcerer feel to him whilst wielding all manner of weaponry (which all classes do). Killing enemies gives 'drops' of either armour or weapons and makes the leveling feel relevant.

I need to go back and play the Titan now, I may be some time

Thanks for the update Mace. I have a couple of friends who also had the chance to try the alpha and they too loved it. I'm glad to hear positive news already.

Really looking forward to playing Destiny for myself!!

would this be worth picking up on a 360 or ps3 or is it really just a next gen title that they dropped features to get it onto the old gen?

No one knows yet, nothing has been seen other than PS4 code.

It's a fantastic looking game.

How are you posting PS4 pics Mace?

I have to upload to a Twitter account then download to my PC.

Just a shame the screenshots off the PS4 is such terrible quality. Can't believe they don't let us do raw grabs.

I received an alpha code as well.Played for about an hour last night. This is my most anticipated game for 2014.I've grown a little weary of the annual COD and Battlefields. This looks like a game than will have long lasting appeal.

Yeah I can see this becoming quite an addiction

Damn, I'm going to miss playing this when the alpha ends even though I've hit highest level on my Warlock (level 8 highest in alpha) I'm still just zooming around on my speeder taking out the enemy. 32 days until beta...

If anyone wants to give it a try, I got a code sent to me for some reason. No PS4 here. I'm assuming anyone could use this?
Post if you get it to work so no one keeps trying it.


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Is it multiplayer only?

BTW, I'm pretty sure in that last screen shot Mace is saying "The moon is a beautiful planet".

You can team up and play it co-op like Borderlands or go it alone. There is the Crucible where there are the usual MP modes like domination and TDM etc. but you don't have to touch that part at all.

I'm not sure whether you will need to have PSN/Xbox Live for the main game as when I went into the Crucible it said 'PSN needed for play' whereas that was not stated anywhere for the normal game which is always online.

So the always online game has a story mode?

There is an underlying 'why you're there' but I'm not sure how much story will be told yet. The alpha has lots of missions scattered around to do and one dungeon called a Strike in Destiny. I guess as we get closer to release more details will be released.

Got a chance to try it and liked what I saw, the controls feel pretty good for a console shooter, and it runs and looks beautiful.

Some of you guys who are farther along, can you confirm if you are able to take on some of the more poweful enemies by yourself?

I haven't leveled up much but I ran into a few groups of enemies that I couldn't seem to do much with by myself and I wasn't sure if it was just me being a low level char or if I was only supposed to be able to handle those events when grouped up with others, in which case I should be able to follow some of the other players I saw running around which I ignored.

Just seen a tweet from Bungie that alpha may be extended!

Not may, will be extended. However it's at 'your own risk'. Basically they will be using it as a test environment, which most likely means crazy public events and other fun stuff.

Cool, I'm in