Is becoming legend even a good goal? (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Friday, July 24, 2015, 16:40 (3647 days ago) @ Cody Miller

We do read about old Legendary Guardians, so maybe the things we do in game are supposed to be equivalent to their accomplishments; i.e. our Guardians will have legends surrounding them in the future of Destiny.

We basically took back the moon, opened up Mars, defeated whatever it was in the Black Garden, etc.

Who is telling the Legend of your guardian though? Lame NPCs? And did your actual experience match up with what they are saying? That is the point.

Well, I mean, that's different than what you asked. What you're really asking is does the game live up to the Become Legend motto. I would say for the most part, no. It's like they talked about with cool stories regarding weapons you have. You NEVER have to do anything cool to get them. It's always "I bought it from Xur" or "It finally dropped after my 40th VoG." Even the exotic bounties, while they can be fun, don't live up to anything special, as they're all just do this same thing 500 hundred times, then do this other thing 50 times, etc. There's no epic story surrounding any weapon, or not one that you get to participate in (many of them have great stories in the grimoire).

And as we've all discussed too many times, the story definitely doesn't live up to Become Legend. While yes, taking back the Moon or Mars, or destroying the darkness in the Black Garden, is undoubtedly a huge accomplishment, you'd be hard pressed to actually know this from playing the game. We don't ever see how it matters or affects anything.