Linear time and Paracausal Forces (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Sunday, November 19, 2017, 10:59 (2357 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Growth and learning in characters is about what they DO, not what they say. And everybody acts the same as before. There are no consequences. No learning. No real change.

Unless I’m mistaken, most or all of the content in Destiny 2, so far, occurs during the Red War, and little to none of it besides us landing at the new Tower occurs after Gary’s defeat. You can’t rightly claim there has been no learning or growth when approximately zero time has passed. Nobody has yet had a real chance to demonstrate any change in attitude or behavior. Curse of Osiris will be the first actual opportunity for us to see any changes in the strategy or actions of the Vanguard or The City.

Again, the change should take place during the story. The changes are what can bring about the end. For instance, Ikora sacrificing herself or something. It’s not a change if it hasn’t happened yet.

Because of how long it takes to produce new content for games, we are, in a way, frozen in time until Curse of Osiris comes out, so how can we see any changes that results from the Red War until then? I totally agree that with you that a dramatic event like an Ikora sacrifice would have been good, but you can’t just discount it when we hear from the characters that they plan to do things differently. That’s them learning.