Because… (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Wednesday, February 17, 2016, 00:11 (2999 days ago) @ Kahzgul

There's no characterization, no descriptions, and even the things that are mysterious within the game world are literally never talked about. "Blah blah blah the Traveler blah." What the hell? There's a giant sphere FLOATING over a city and no one bats an eye. You just CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD and it's business as usual.

It's part of the setting, including the lack of information about it.

Other events are out of sequence "The black garden? we've heard of it" (no, we haven't)

I'm pretty sure the Ghost was speaking for himself. Admittedly It's bad writing to not make it more clear that the player character hasn't had some off-screen lecture on Vex chrono-fuckery or something.

followed almost immediately by "the database talks about something called the black garden..." (delivered like we'd never heard of it before even though the Exo just asked us about it one or two missions prior).

You just reminded me you said that when the game came out and I never got to correct you because I read it too late, so thanks for that. It was the Vault of Glass in that database, not the Black Garden.

Furthermore, they also seem to have an intimate understanding of the universe of the game.

If you're really seeing that much of a difference in quality (and know the objective difference in quantity) and you think this group is the one truly in touch with the universe, wouldn't it more be the universe of the Grimoire, which the game happens to take place in?

That puts them ahead of any outside help as far as I'm concerned. I hope that, at the very least, they are involved in the process of writing Destiny 2. And I hope that the writers of Destiny 1 are not involved in any way.

That's a bit much, don't you think? For good or ill the writers of the first game know a lot about the universe because they created much of it. Not only that: having created it, they may be more able (or more easily able) to recreate and extend the feel of it than someone who merely knows all the facts of who's who and what's where and when this and that happened, because they know the reasoning and thought processes and feelings behind the facts.