It can, but it won't (Destiny)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Sunday, September 18, 2016, 19:22 (3080 days ago) @ Avateur
edited by Kermit, Sunday, September 18, 2016, 19:30

The Devs play this game, and are looking at the ARG too. I would imagine the good writing there influences things, even if indirectly.

This is not an ARG. Bungie already did an actual ARG for Destiny pre-launch known as Alpha Lupi. It was good fun, very involved, and was pretty well done. And guess what? That writing translated nowhere into the game itself because Destiny the game itself had no story.

Remember it took an outside company completely rewriting all the canon to kill Halo's story in 4 and 5, and even then we still had some very good scenes with Cortana in 4.

Agreed on the first part (though Bungie absolutely dropped the ball on a lot of the writing with Reach, so it's not like they were totally perfect in comparison to 343), and I'll have to agree to disagree on the second part about Cortana in 4.

Destiny is the opposite, the game is a void and the backup material is nearly all good. The only way for the game to go is up.

When the bar is literally sitting on the ground and then gets raised up a foot or two by Taken King, yeah, I'd agree the only way left to go is up. I don't see the bar going back down with Rise of Iron, but I definitely don't see it going beyond another 6-12" with it. Destiny 2 is where the story's gotta be done properly and with effort going forward. This expansion should hopefully just provide a bit more exposition and context to the world we're playing in so that it can all finally maybe coalesce in Destiny 2 and create something as grand and epic as the Grimoire has shown is potentially capable.

The story in the game will never live up the Grimoire. It will never be as evocative because it's an in-game story and not words on a page. The in-game story and the grimoire can together become something truly fantastic but the Grimoire by its nature will have certain advantages. In-game storytelling has other advantages when done well, but that is harder to pull off. Again, I don't understand why waiting for Destiny 2 is necessary to get the latter.