See it's funny cause Halo 4 did the same. How did they not even learn from seeing their successors fail in that?
That's even worse, damn. I'm all for having a great website with all the lore, but in game prompts to visit a website are ridiculous.
See it's funny cause Halo 4 did the same. How did they not even learn from seeing their successors fail in that?
I think that what bungie tried to do was build a frame-work, or a foundation for a lot of other stories under an umbrella goal of "saving the traveler."
Missions like the temple of oryx where the ghost says "they were communicating with something that is still out there!" Basically confirms to me that bungie never wanted to write an epic story in the first place and they just wanted a vehicle to deliver other smaller stories.
the problem being that it's all just little bits and pieces of other larger stories. The lore of the seperate races is a good example of this. Everyone has goals, backstory, potential future conflicts. And each one fits discretely into their own niche. So if you look at the expansions already announced, it pretty much confirms that destiny is just a huge wide net of establishing exposition. Hopefully the expansions allow them to focus on closer on the interesting aspects of each alien race.
You get woken up after being dead. You don't ask any questions and even when meeting the speaker he tells you he can tell you of things but he doesn't. So what do you do? You ask how you can help not knowing what you are or what the hell is going on.
I don't understand what happened there. It feels unfinished. Seriously unfinished, as if they just stopped working on it one day and stopped giving a fuck. When it comes to story, narrative and charaters this game is unmitigated garbage.
The point of Destiny one story wise was to awaken the Traveller and get it healed.
The expansions and future titles will be about the war that has been raging for so long. You have the Awoken and their Queen who already has you under her thumb it looks like. You have the Cabal on Mars. The Vex are not destroyed, just the Heart that was keeping the Traveller asleep somehow.
The Fallen are still out there. There is mentioning of the ancient Hive guy Crota who is slumbering. I'm sure that fight is coming.
Will a interesting to see how this all irons out. This was just the start of it all. Part 1 of 10 if they plan on a new title every year with expansions in between or whatever. A bunch of the more may seem disjointed now but perhaps will get ironed out as the main story develops
It's actually a new title every 3 years. And I doubt they could have had a more incoherent start to a story if they tried.
I posted this before but it feels relevant here. A scanning mechanic would enhance both gameplay and lore. ...... Do it in-game like this:
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Kotaku just posted a summary article detailing some of the interesting story rumors floating around...
http://kotaku.com/a-wild-theory-about-destinys-story-1635090330
Kotaku just posted a summary article detailing some of the interesting story rumors floating around...
http://kotaku.com/a-wild-theory-about-destinys-story-1635090330
Kotaku just posted a summary article detailing some of the interesting story rumors floating around...
http://kotaku.com/a-wild-theory-about-destinys-story-1635090330
Even if Kotaku/theories are right, withholding information because of some "twist" is still bad storytelling.
And if they really *really* needed that twist, then they probably still could have done the setup much better. Leaving some stuff unexplained, e.g. the exact nature of the Traveler's "light", is okay but Destiny doesn't even cover the basics of anything that happened between the Collapse and now.
And if they really *really* needed that twist, then they probably still could have done the setup much better. Leaving some stuff unexplained, e.g. the exact nature of the Traveler's "light", is okay but Destiny doesn't even cover the basics of anything that happened between the Collapse and now.
Really though, what was the god that you killed at the end of the game?
All I fought were some giant reanimated Vex statues...
So it was the voxel thing? That was the god? We killed it by killing the statues? I thought that thing was a shard of the Traveler... or something.Yeah, but that made the Resogun Pudding REALLY mad.
So....
So it was the voxel thing? That was the god? We killed it by killing the statues? I thought that thing was a shard of the Traveler... or something.
I'M SO CONFUSED
Main things that could have helped the story:
1. Dialogue trees with all NPCs in the tower (those walking around, vendors, etc.)
2. Grimoire in game
3. Better set pieces - there just wasn't any "hop on the scarab" type moments in the game.
Main things that could have helped the story:
1. Dialogue trees with all NPCs in the tower (those walking around, vendors, etc.)
2. Grimoire in game
3. Better set pieces - there just wasn't any "hop on the scarab" type moments in the game.
Yeah, especially with all the voice talent behind most of the vendors!The City NPCs should be the story equivalent to the team members on the Normandy.
I have never played a Halo game, but i keep seeing the Scarab reference.
Can someone give me the rundown on that?
I thought the sword mission was pretty awesome.
I have never played a Halo game, but i keep seeing the Scarab reference.
Can someone give me the rundown on that?
I thought the sword mission was pretty awesome.
I was pretty disappointed with the lack of any vehicle battles during the story... For Bungie, it seems like a huge waste of potential. Shit, Reach had some really awesome variety... even a spaceship section. I mean, why not turn the loading screen into a Starfox-esque minigame or something? Kind of crappy.
http://kotaku.com/a-wild-theory-about-destinys-story-1635090330I was patrolling around the moon yesterday and was silently stalking Fallen Dregs trying to listen to alien banter. I moved too close and startled one of them, who turned around and gurgled in broken english (kind of how the Grunts in Halo did) "It's the Darkness!" before firing away at me... Wait.
Are. We. The. Darkness?
The more I think about it, the more it makes sense... WHY ELSE would aliens be relentlessly fighting us without much justification? Although I can't explain why the alien factions would be fighting each other. Maybe the Traveler is a weapon and we simply don't know it because we're under its spell? And the alien factions don't trust each other with the Traveler's power?
Damn... This is why I love the open ended narrative Bungie creates, it eventually gets sifted down and sharpened over years of questions and added content to the worlds.
Does anyone want to talk about the speaker and traveler being evil?
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The idea's been kicked around, yeah. The problem is, that sort of twist only really works if you set up a reasonable expectation that we're not evil. Right now, the only thing we have to go on is the direct assurance that we're the good guys. If they set up a thing where we're saving civilians from the big, bad aliens, sure, but right now? Eh. Too much telling, too little showing for it to have any impact.
A person who tested an early build (reddit verified) of Destiny said there was a cut scene where the queens brother kidnaps you and explains why the ghost can't be with you and why the Traveler is bad.
A person who tested an early build (reddit verified) of Destiny said there was a cut scene where the queens brother kidnaps you and explains why the ghost can't be with you and why the Traveler is bad.
So, on a slightly more positive note, I stumbled across a really cool tidbit earlier looking at the description of one of my Titan Marks (class item).
It describes how there's a legend of 4 Titan Orders holding 6 fronts in one of the first major battles around the Last City. The Titan symbol is a hexagon split into four parts.
Thought it was kind of cool.
The story is pure comedy. I mean the foundation is there but the execution was just terrible. I honeslty expected more from the people that gave us Halo..