TL;DR (Destiny)

by Avateur , Sunday, September 14, 2014, 16:14 (3519 days ago) @ Monochron

Why is this kind of thing acceptable in video games today?

It's not. It was absolutely brain dead when 343 Industries did it with Halo 4's Terminals only being accessible outside of the game, and it's even more brain dead when Bungie releases a game with hardly any real narrative or substantive story but expects the player to go entirely outside of the game console to read what amounts to a huge dump of info to get the back story or any real details on anything going on in the universe. It's absolutely pathetic.

Mass Effect is a prime example of how you can have plenty of reading material while making it accessible in-game, and it only helps to further enhance what's already happening. Granted, Mass Effect actually had an actual real coherent story taking place within the gameplay itself, which Destiny does not have.