How Bungie Should Spend Its (Ostensibly) $500M Budget (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Monday, August 18, 2014, 15:03 (3748 days ago) @ Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)

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.