Something’s Missing: Characters That Do Things (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Thursday, April 26, 2018, 20:29 (2480 days ago) @ Ragashingo

I almost don't even want to weight in--it's too depressing, and I'll struggle to find anything good to say.

Cayde is the perfect example. He supposedly hates being cooped up in the Tower all day, but the first chance he has to legitimately get out and about and do something, he pawns it off on us to do instead.

Excluding the lore and grimoire stuff, Destiny is filled with the most basic, surface-level only writing. It's all very basic stuff that seems like it's just duct-taped together to give players the barest bit of context for what we're doing, and no one sat down and asked "Is this compelling? Does it even make sense? Why are these characters acting this way?" The answer to that last question mostly just always seems to be, "Well, someone has to tell the player what to do, and Cayde did it last time, so now it's Ikora's turn for a bit."

There's an amazing universe to explore in Destiny, and the lore cards and old grimoire did so. The Guardians of yore were worthy of stories--the characters we actually get to see in the game could be replaced by kiosks and it wouldn't be any less interesting.