Story Direction and Progressing (Destiny)

by Old Fire Thief , Silverton, OR, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, 12:04 (3177 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I like the idea that Destiny in its entirity would be 5 chapters in a huge space opera, but It feels now that that direction was intentionally abandoned in favor of an episodic story experience. I.e. It feels like the directors at Bungie felt like we would have more fun if we were Captain Kirk, having numerous essentially unrelated small stories, than as Captain Janeway who has to deal with one large story arc.

I would have preferred a Serial approach to story telling. Back to the Y1 OP drama. I think it would have been nice if each of the raids, and all of the strikes would have been part of the approach to Atheon, who would have been the Y1 climax point. Imagine if the vex story we were presented with was enlarged to incompass 12 months. The first raid is the the Nexus. The second raid would have been the Gatelords Eye. The last would be Atheon. That would have made the gravitas of killing atheon more equal to the work we had to do to get there.

Similar approach could have been taken with Oryx Year two. First raid is Omnigul, Second Raid is Crota, Final Raid is Oryx. Then it would feel like we really had to work to kill a god.

As it is I dont expect any "core story" addidtions until D2 which is a shame.