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Each spaceship holds a friend, and you're orbiting round a planet together in a gang, showing off your rides. Custom paint jobs. Some dude in a giant red lorry of a ship. Last minute gear checks, discussion of loadout and then your team all turns perfectly together and sideslips down to the planet's surface. A moment of black and you're in control of your avatar and everything kicks off. Or it's PvP and you teleport down to the planet's surface and are shown posed like you're in a Saturday morning TV show for a beat before the flag rolls out. A second to breathe and then you're being hunted. Destiny is full of these tiny moments that show you're with your tribe.In the games you love you'll see those snippets between pressing play and actually starting to play hundreds of times. Eventually you'll get a Pavlovian reaction - hear that sequence of sounds and your fingers unconsciously curl into the right position and your brain wave pattern switches into a state of flow. It becomes ritual.
But the first time you play the game is different. It's all new and you're probably alone. You don't need your mates to see you like this. You're scanning everything you see, trying to understand what's important and what's just background dressing. The tutorial is being woken from the dead and learning to run and shoot and punch aliens in the face with your satisfyingly overpowered right arm. It's the first step towards being a hugely competent badass that is the particular joy of Bungie games.
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