Maybe this is why Bungie hates story-telling now? (Destiny)

by Blackt1g3r , Login is from an untrusted domain in MN, Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 14:09 (3572 days ago) @ Cody Miller

There is no sense in that unless you have INTERESTING CHARACTERS to put in the cutscenes. Destiny's huge problem is that the world feels dead because there are no characters. The entire game needed characters interacting with you like the Queen and her brother do.

I think the problem isn't that there aren't interesting characters, it's that you don't really interact with them. They are only off in the background where you overhear them or they give out a general missions etc. They are all trapped in the tower and relegated to just acting as vendors. Some of them have really interesting backstories in the grimoire but it's barely connected to what we find in the tower.