So I guess I won't be joining DBO *Beta thoughts* (Destiny)

by davidfuchs , USA, Friday, July 25, 2014, 08:34 (3569 days ago) @ Xenos

This is a good observation and one I hadn't been able to put my finger on. I'm fine with my companion ghost. If he's a robot, the dry wit is nice.

There are no other supporting characters yet.

I felt the same way in the Beta, but I definitely think though that supporting characters are heavily hinted it, both in the trailers and in the beta. When you find your ship in the first mission there is a Hunter watching you take off, I suspect this is the same character you see in the Reef(?) in one of the trailers that tells you to trust no one. Then of course there is the Crow which has shown up in two different trailers in vastly different places. I think by the end of the game we're going to have a broad array of supporting characters, I just think the beta does a bad job getting that point across (which makes a certain amount of sense with it being the first 5 missions).

Thats fair. I guess my complaint then becomes the beta is doing a bad job about hinting to me what else it has up its sleeve--I obviously know I'll be traveling to other planets et al, but I really didn't get any indication my encounters with other characters would be any more meaningful than the "I would like to show you a menu" of the Tower. I just assumed the person you see as you lift off was just a cinematic version of the other internet people who run around in your world.