Halo 2 was different (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 12:15 (3417 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I agree, though I find it hard to imagine that the story that Staten had written up could possibly have been worse than what vanilla Destiny got. It's mind boggling to think how bad it must have been if that were the case, and I sincerely doubt that it was going to be worse.

It sounded like it was more of a problem of the story not being written in such a way to accommodate non linear missions. Which baffles me because you'd think the first thing would be to clarify that in your pitch.

Yup. If the rejection came from JJ, where was that rejection when Staten was working on the story?

It's possible that we're just not getting quite as much detail as we need on what was rejected and why, and which bits have been kept and recycled, and what thrown out (if anything).

The state of the tools sounds horrific, though.