For sale: child’s coffin, outgrown. (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Saturday, December 14, 2019, 11:04 (1585 days ago) @ Korny

I like the brevity of Destiny's lore entries. The flavor might get get lost in a proper novel.

You’d think with how much good stuff they can pack into such a small block, they could put that somewhere in the actual game’s storytelling. Wouldn’t need a novel to expand the world if they brought back Ghost’s scannables, or if they added more Ghost memories like the nine (ten?) that Eris gives us.

There was a moment in Reach that really jumped out at me when I replayed it last week. After extracting Halsey from her lab, Carter orders Jun to go with her. Halsey protests “I don’t need an escort.” Carter looks at Jun and says “We can’t let anything fall into Covenant hands.” and Jun replies “I’ll do what is necessary, sir.”

It’s moments like this, where Halsey goes from acting high and mighty and tough enough to take care of herself to realizing that her own Spartans are talking about killing her so she can’t be captured if the situation calls for it, that are completely absent from Destiny’s in-game narrative content. A couple we’ll-written lines of dialogue can tell us as much about the characters as pages and pages of written exposition.