Right.

The author is essentially guessing that Bungie is going to step back from and forget all the good storytelling they've done. To me, Destiny's universe already feels more diverse than Halo's. The Fallen aren't just a warrior race like the Elites were before they became space samurai or whatever. The Fallen are scavengers and space pirates who humiliate their own in a rank based society and who worship strange spherical machines that have a strange interaction with their souls. The Hive are agents of some greater power who have built a huge fortress on our moon, who worship their own heroes like Crota, and who attack other worlds by bombing then with huge mace-like assault craft... and that's just the beta. By this point in Halo's life cycle we knew nothing about any of our enemies. Not how they acted outside of combat or where they were based or anything else, and only knew about the Spartan program and the UNSC if we'd read The Fall of Reach... which I hadn't.

It seems lots of people looked at the Alpha and Beta and assumed that was exactly what the final game would be. It is pretty clear to me that Bungie deliberately left out as much story and cutscenes as they could to preserve much of the story for the actual play through. For a company that polished the Halo maps to make them very intuitive to progress through, I would find it odd that they would just drop the ball like the author seems to imply.

Bungie has played Destiny very close to the chest, and given out very little information to date. It stands to reason the beta would be stripped of as many spoilers as possible.

When completed, the slingshot will be capable of trajectorizing objects at 88 miles per hour.

We're entering the Salvatori-age, let's see how it pans out. I'm eager for whatever both of them do in the future.

Just visited this page, clicked on Listen, and started hearing some pretty amazing music on a loop. Start with The Watcher!

http://www.michaelsalvatori.com/

Even the Hail to the Chimp stuff was cool. :)