No Bonus (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, December 11, 2017, 19:01 (2617 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY
edited by Cody Miller, Monday, December 11, 2017, 19:05

Nowhere in Destiny 1 or 2 is there a moment that comes close to producing a sense of loss or urgency the way Fohammer's death or the crash landing of your escape pod or failure to save Keys does in Halo. Never does Destiny's story make me ready to run screaming into enemy forces the way the intro to the Silent Cartographer or the landing of the Forward Unto Dawn on the Arc does. In fact, when Destiny sets up moments that have the potential to carry such weight, the writing actively works against it. Cayde gets his arm blown off for comic effect. Views of the grand vistas on Nessus are undercut by one-liners about "Vex Milk".

Didn't somebody here once post a video talking about how the Marvel movies have started undercutting their most important character scenes by undercutting them with untimely attempts at humor? Yeah. Destiny 2 does that a lot.

That sounds like something I'd say.

Humor is actually tough to do right, but I think that the key is to not tell "jokes", but craft the scenario such that a character's natural reactions to a situation or other characters are themselves humorous. As a bonus, this type of humor doesn't get as old as a joke.

I've seen Back to the Future at least 200 times in my life (literally), but the way the characters react to each other is still funny and charming. Seriously look at that film and try to find a "joke". Everything is motivated. I would say very little in Destiny 2 has that kind of motivation, and much of it is simply jokes.

You know what I felt did this pretty well more often than not? ODST. But oops… Joe is gone.

Marvel is really bad at this, and uses 'jokes' in order to make us think the characters are fun and funny and therefore like them. It's not a model I'd really recommend emulating. Comedy isn't the band aid. It's the cookie when you're done baking.