I wonder if we finally defeat the darkness using vex time travel. And by so doing, change time so that we are obsolete and never existed.

Yeah, probably not. =)

Endings are tricky in any medium, particularly an interactive one like video games.

mass effect 3 spoilers in the next paragraph

Obligatory reference to the Mass Effect 3 ending, with which I did not have a problem, but the rest of the internet reacted with.. unfathomable rage at. My personal take was that people didn't like seeing their character die/being sacrificed and didn't like the idea of the story being "over". There was so much foreshadowing that Shepard was going to die. So much. But people still couldn't handle it.

When you read what people complained about, it was "color change endings" and "stupid star child" but I think that was all just a cover-up, trying to react with logic to a very emotional thing: the pain and loss of a character that players cared about dying [and the perception that the death was "meaningless."]

My take was that the entirety of the Mass Effect 3 storyline was "the end", not just the last 15 minutes. If you loaded in a save game, you met with/saved/talked to almost every major and minor character met throughout the first two games. Talk about tying up loose ends!

spoilers over

So in Destiny, we're creating and investing in these characters. What would the ultimate goal of a ten year game like Destiny be? What would an "end" to this genre of game even mean? When ten years goes by, will Bungie want to keep making Destiny? Will they still love it? Or will the be sick of it and be glad to walk away?

Consider Destiny 1, and Cody's favorite line: "The game starts at 20!" It's like the "game" doesn't even really start until you finish the storyline the first time. So what would that mean for a "final release"? Especially if there was still DLC to come?

I drank too much tea and it's Friday afternoon and I'm rambling.

Do any of you wonder what the final chapter of Destiny will be like, as if you were to peek at the end of a book?

I wonder if, at the end of the 10 years, there'll be some massive battle where Bungie lets us go Full Exotic Gear and we kill ALL THE THINGS.

That would be sick. :P

That would be awesome. I've often wished you could full Exotic and rather than having to choose your character perks, use all of them. Ward of Dawn gives all the Blessing! Nova bomb is super fast, splits into three projectiles and lingers!

Do any of you wonder what the final chapter of Destiny will be like, as if you were to peek at the end of a book?

I wonder if, at the end of the 10 years, there'll be some massive battle where Bungie lets us go Full Exotic Gear and we kill ALL THE THINGS.

That would be sick. :P

I feel like the Traveler, while not necessarily bad, is some yin and yang type of thing that is wonderful and great and kind, but also allows the Darkness to thrive. As long as one or the other exists, both will exist. So like a dog chasing its tail, the Darkness is trying to stamp out the light, but in the process is only hurting itself (weak Dark Heart/weak Traveler).

So in the end, we blow up the Traveler or something to defeat the Darkness, and then it's up to us to truly reclaim our own Destiny as a species and such without the Traveler's assistance (which probably got us into this mess to begin with anyway).

Or there's the second scenario. Bungie shuts off all the servers. Game requires always being online to play. Game over man, game over. :P