It's a live game with strong MMO-leanings. (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Sunday, September 16, 2018, 10:45 (2048 days ago) @ Harmanimus

. . . when we actually know there are millions of us out there doing the same exact thing. I wish they would do more stuff like this, and start shaping the story around the fact that we’re a huge community of Guardians . . .

This is probably the big point we disagree on. How can millions of Guardians all be the one Guardian who defeated Atheon? Who killed Crota and slayed The Taken King? Rekindled the Iron Lords? Killed The Dominous? Found Osiris? Killed a Worm God? You are a paracausal entity and the reason everyone gets to be The Guardian is because we all are that Guardian. That wasn’t a weakness of Destiny, that was a strength. Apparently not anymore.

You’re making my point for me. How can we all be that Guardian? Because we are. The stories they tell don’t actually match up with the physical game and the fact that millions of people are playing it. It’s always been a weakness in my mind. The VoG is the one place where it actually works—it’s just Vex time shit. Any time anyone enters the VoG, it’s just there due to said Vex time shit.

As a small example, look at the way Forsaken goes down. Ikora tells the player that they’re the only Guardian that can go do this thing, then we go to the Tangled Shore and it’s filled with other Guardians. The story they tell is immediately contradicted by what’s actually happening in the game they made. They could have very easily written it so that lots of Guardians are sent on the hunt and it makes more sense.