You will be legendary for other stuff... (Destiny)

by Durandal, Friday, July 24, 2015, 17:07 (3647 days ago) @ Cody Miller

In game, you don't accomplish anything other people haven't already done. In fact, if there were things in game that only .001% of people would accomplish they would be amazing, but no one would play.

The people that have become legendary in Destiny are the ones that solo raids, pull off insane PVP combos or discover cool tricks and techniques. Like any MMO, everyone wants to experience the end game content and that makes it less unique.

Just imagine for a moment if you and a buddy's Skyrim characters were walking through town. Everyone would be calling them dragonborn and thane and such. it would lose some of it's punch. And what if both of you are the heads of the various guilds and schools?

It would be nice, if in game they acknowledged that you had defeated the Vault prior to Skolas's re-purposing of the oracles, or the Speaker and Vangard mentioned a thanks for stopping all those blades of crota from popping up. Ultimately though I think this marketing gimmick hearkens back to when each mission was tracked in your character's "story" as a chapter. So that if you looked at your completed quest log it read like a adventure story about your character.

Sadly, I can see how difficult it would be to input your character's personality and personal headcannon into that story and Bungie decided to drop it. It's still a cool concept though, PVE progress dynamically generating a story.