What was planned? (Destiny)

by SteelGaribaldi , Sol system, Sunday, August 09, 2015, 14:22 (3631 days ago) @ scarab

The best "explanation" I've heard is that Many Very Large Things were changed in the last year or so of development, including the story. How large? Change Halo 2 from just The Chief to Chief + Arbiter. Not as big as RTS to FPS. Too bad I don't remember where I heard that idea.

(Explanation is in quotes because it's all rampant speculation.)

Separately, there's the problem that any author has when editing and reviewing his own work. I know that when I write something, I know what I meant, what I want the words to mean, and the background for the words on the page; but my audience doesn't. The Bungie story people may have known about all this cool story that wasn't in the game we saw, and so the story they did put in the game seemed much better to them because of all the context and history. We don't see any of that, so it's ... empty.

I'm not excusing the end result. But I do like to understand, so I tried to figure out how the studio (if not the people) who made ODST and Reach could have so much detail and history in the world (as seen in Grimoire), but not tell a story that is compelling.