As Bungie launches Destiny 2 growth The Final Shape, followers suppose one developer has teased Destiny 3 with a collection of cryptic tweets.
The Final Shape concludes Destiny’s overarching story by inserting the participant contained in the Traveler in a face-off in opposition to the mysterious The Witness. It’s the fruits of 10 years of typically bewildering Destiny storytelling, and can hopefully present solutions for the sport’s participant base.
However in earlier movies, Bungie builders have teased that The Final Shape will not be the top of Destiny 2 and even the collection, with the developer – now owned by Sony – additionally engaged on multiplayer recreation Marathon. In a collection of tweets marking the discharge of The Final Shape, Bungie government artistic director, Luke Smith, mentioned the highway to The Final Shape’s launch and the trouble its builders put in to make it occur. But it surely’s the point out of the phrase Hope thrice, every capitalized, that has set the cat among the many pigeons inside the Destiny group.
Right here’s the tweet in query:
Our Hope is all the time the identical with Destiny video games, expansions, seasons, DLCs, unique missions, secret missions, in-game occasions, merchandise, et cetera – we genuinely Hope you benefit from the time you spend with it. Something we have made or will make, that is the Hope.
That tweet was sufficient to set off plenty of Destiny content material creators on the way forward for the collection, and there is rampant hypothesis throughout social media and boards.
Why you capitalizing “Hope” 3 totally different occasions? 👀
— KackisHD (@RickKackis) June 3, 2024
.. can not help however discover you are capitalizing that phrase greater than as soon as 🧐
— it me: FALLOUT (@falloutplays) June 4, 2024
Destiny: 3 Hopes
Releasing Fall 2027
— Destiny Bulletin (@DestinyBulletn) (*3*)
Or, this may very well be nothing, and Smith could in actual fact be referencing Paul McCartney’s notorious Destiny tune Hope for the Future, which, in case you’re so inclined, could be watched under:
For anyone who doesn’t know in 2014 to coincide with the discharge of Destiny 1 Paul McCartney launched “Hope For The Future” McCartney offered a number of bases for the enduring Destiny themes.
Hyperlink for full tune: https://t.co/14bEdZaTYP pic.twitter.com/0hW87QpQ1S
— Pengu (@Pengu0290482811) June 1, 2024
For now, the main target is on The Final Shape and its three deliberate episodes. Echoes kicks off subsequent week on June 11, Revenant is about for October 2024, and Heresy rounds The Final Shape off in February 2025, though after all the plan could change.
Past that? Bungie is but to say. Destiny 3 may very well be a possibility for Bungie to reset the collection with a doubtlessly next-gen entry-point that might herald a wave of latest gamers. However, after 10 years of Destiny, the studio could resolve to go away Destiny behind for brand new franchises, as it did when it left Halo behind all these years in the past.
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