You're as inconsistent as ever. (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Friday, July 10, 2015, 21:32 (3661 days ago) @ Ragashingo

1. You are wrongly diminishing and dismissing what story is in game. There's not much, not enough, but there are the bones of a good story. Even in the base game a set of plot points does progress logically forward where finding the Hive in the Cosmodrome leads to attacking them on the moon which leads you to be noticed by the Exo Stranger which leads to the Awoken which leads to Mars which leads to the Black Garden and The Darkness harming The Traveler. Is it well fleshed out? Are there a ton of great cutscenes or great mission dialogue? No. But I absolutely see the story as being there and as being more than kill things because we were told to.

Yes, it works logically. But stories are meant to engage you EMOTIONALLY. A logical, airtight plot is stupid if you don't care about it or the characters. Destiny doesn't give you any way to emotionally engage, since motivations are unknown, and characters are thin and downright absent.

2. You are treating Destiny's story as something that can only happen within the game. You're going so far as to talk about erasing the Grimoire from everyone's minds.

Grimoire is backstory. We are talking about the main story here. The grimoire is not a story, nor is it a narrative.

We all agree that Destiny's storytelling was not up to par. But to say there is no story is never going to sit right with me because I can throw out the Grimoire and still make almost all the links and connections I argue for. And throwing out the Grimoire doesn't sit right with me because to me it is part of Destiny's story.

It is Destiny's BACKSTORY. What don't you get about that?