Regarding final words of Marathon: Infinity (Destiny)

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 07:59 (3930 days ago) @ Durandal
edited by iconicbanana, Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 08:08

I think part of the problem is that the story itself seems so incomplete and smacks of hasty revision. The presentation of the story in Destiny seems so out of keeping with other Bungie games, that I'm not entirely sure what threads could be twined in to the web of Bungie's previous IPs. I have the suspicion that Destiny was supposed to 'feel' much different than it actually does. There's a skeleton of unbelievable game mechanics, but it doesn't really feel alive: more like a reanimated corpse, where the synapses were never really revived.

It's helped me to think of Destiny as Bungie's Frankenstein monster. They very well may have named it 'Destiny' specifically in relation to M:I, but it doesn't matter what their intentions were because they weren't expressed in a cohesive (intelligible?) manner. I suspect their initial vision when they named the IP 'Destiny' was a much different world than the one we have here.

So this whole Marathon: Infinity connection is probably only tangentially relevant to the game we're playing, and the relation between uses of 'Destiny' in the two IPs feels pretty moot.