Destiny puzzles... cryptography, mystery, etc. (Destiny)

by CyberKN , Oh no, Destiny 2 is bad, Wednesday, May 13, 2015, 17:54 (3726 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

Maybe we're all just too torqed off at Master Rahool to do any of that investigation.

I think there might actually be something to this.

I was a HUGE Halo fan... but this many months after launch, I wasn't dedicated to running the missions in Halo on a regular basis. I found other ways to spend my time; Multiplayer of course, but I also got into messing around with Forge, making racetracks, taking screenshots... then the wonderful world of making machinima totally took over my life.

But with Destiny, I'm still full absorbed with playing "the game". Even at 620+ hours, I'm still running strikes, doing daily and weekly missions, running raids, etc. Clearly, there are people out there who have dedicated large amounts of time to hunting secrets. I just wonder if maybe the player base overall hasn't gotten distracted from the main game as quickly as we tented to with Halo.

I think for me it's the notion that there isn't anything to find. I feel like there's too much evidence that Destiny's story was lobotomized and cobbled together hastily afterwards to suggest that there's a bunch of purposefully hidden and carefully planned secrets to uncover- all those resources went towards furiously polishing what little story we have.

Imagine if instead of forcing you to go read everything from an external site, grimiore content was accessible throughout the game in the form of hidden terminals, interacting with Tower NPCs, or audio logs for the ghost fragments.