Meaningful endings (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, September 25, 2017, 18:55 (2640 days ago)

I think one thing really helped Des2ny's story feel better and like it was a journey…

…the fact that the ending changed something.

Every single 'ending' in Destiny, be it Vanilla, any of the expansions, etc, had no noticeable impact on the game world. We are asked to still play the game and be in the world, but it it quite literally the same as before we finished the story.

Des2ny DOES change something. The tower is rebuilt, and you now base your operations from there instead of from the Farm. The rest of the world is identical, but this one aspect changed which was visible.

So in some small way, the story of Des2ny had a lasting, visible consequence on the world. The fact that the game is a loot game meant to be played continuously means that such impacts can necessarily be small and limited, but it is a step in the right direction.