What game doesn't? I'm confused... (Destiny)

by Revenant1988 , How do I forum?, Sunday, November 01, 2015, 20:38 (3405 days ago) @ cheapLEY

When it comes right down to it, yes, the player (as Locke or Chief) doesn't really do anything other than react to the situation (a criticism that has been leveled against almost every Halo game), and that is unfortunate. It's definitely something 343i should work on.

Um.... everything I do as a player (in any game*) is based on reacting to a situation (gameplay and story).

(Halo, Arkham series, Bioshock, Doom, Bloodborne)

So...I... am I just being nit picky here? I'm genuinely confused by this line.

In Destiny's light-weight campaign, everything my Guardian does is a reaction to a given situation, usually what Ghost tells me to do. By the end of the game, I'm not really sure what I've accomplished by blowing up the black garden.

I got a gun out of it, I guess.

The rest of the DLC doesn't offer much closure to a greater story arc either. I guess now that Oryx is dead it's hinted that the Cabal are the next threat... but I still don't know what all this 'darkness' hulla-buloo' is.

So while TTK improved upon story telling and character development compared to year 1 Desitny, Destiny's campaign is still incredibly unsatisfactory to me, and leaves me wanting more in a bad way.

There is being mysterious to build tension in the plot and then there is being mysterious because there is no plot. For better or worse, Halo 5 has a plot. We learned that Destiny's plot was scuttled in the 11th and reshaped to what we have before us.

I guess maybe it's a wash both ways because it only matters if the viewer\reader\player likes it anyway.

[*The only exception to this in my mind is Patrol mode, where I do what I want when I want, but now that I think about THAT I'm not even sure my time spent in patrol counts towards my Destiny head canon.]