There's no antagonist (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 11:13 (3467 days ago)

Dang, I know why Destiny wasn't that satisfying story wise: we had no antagonist.

The original Halo had almost as few actual characters as Destiny, yet we had an antagonist in 343GS. Someone to struggle against, with clear motivations of his own. We don't want him to succeed, so we strive to beat him.

Destiny doesn't really have an antagonist. We don't know the motives of the Darkness or the Vex, but more troublesome is we don't know what is at stake. If 343GS fires the ring, we all die. We don't want that to happen, so we try to win. But what is the Black Heart doing? What will happen if we don't stop it? We don't even see any effect from it at all, so it's hard to know why to care.

The very least that could have been done is perhaps have the Traveler's protective shield start to shrink as the black heart drains its energy or whatever. The outskirts of the city could become vulnerable, and perhaps be overrun. At least we'd have some kind of tangible reason to fight the darkness.

When is Destiny 2 coming out again?

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There's no antagonist - Cody Miller, 2014-10-21, 11:13
- There's no antagonist - DEEP_NNN, 2014-10-21, 11:22
  - There's no antagonist - Revenant1988, 2014-10-21, 12:02
    - There's no antagonist - Ragashingo, 2014-10-21, 12:43
      - There's no antagonist - Cody Miller, 2014-10-21, 12:49
        
        There's no antagonist - HavokBlue, 2014-10-21, 12:55
        
        I wonder... - Webshift1, 2014-10-21, 13:02
        
        There's no antagonist - Cody Miller, 2014-10-21, 13:07
        
        There's no antagonist - car15, 2014-10-21, 13:17
        
        There's no antagonist - Ragashingo, 2014-10-21, 13:14
      - There's no antagonist - Schedonnardus, 2014-10-21, 13:08
        
        There's no antagonist - Ragashingo, 2014-10-21, 13:26
        
        I didn't even consider that. Nice. - someotherguy, 2014-10-21, 13:42
        
        Kill his Ghost... - Korny, 2014-10-22, 20:35
        
        There's no antagonist - someotherguy, 2014-10-21, 13:39
        
        There's no antagonist - Avateur, 2014-10-22, 20:50
- There's no antagonist - Revenant1988, 2014-10-21, 12:14
  - This quote is so good - Pyromancy, 2014-10-22, 17:34
  - Yep - totally agree with this. - Blue_Blazer_NZ, 2014-10-22, 19:04
    - Heh, BOrg is the home of the *NM* - RC, 2014-10-23, 07:16
- There's no antagonist - Ragashingo, 2014-10-21, 12:24
- There's no antagonist - Jabberwok, 2014-10-21, 13:22
- TImelines and Environments - ckamp, 2014-10-21, 15:57
  - Timelines and Environments - Ragashingo, 2014-10-21, 16:46
    - Timelines and Environments - ckamp, 2014-10-22, 08:07
    - Timelines and Environments - RC, 2014-10-23, 07:32
      - Timelines and Environments - Cody Miller, 2014-10-23, 11:20
        
        Timelines and Environments - uberfoop, 2014-10-23, 11:48
        
        In addition - ZackDark, 2014-10-23, 11:55
        
        Timelines and Environments - RC, 2014-10-23, 12:32

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