I'd say you're on to something (Destiny)

by Avateur , Thursday, November 05, 2015, 03:53 (3545 days ago) @ Ragashingo

It's interesting, because as far as we know right now Oryx was Destiny's original and ultimate big bad... and we just destroyed him! There are other threats, of course. Oryx's remaining sisters, the Cabal, the Vex, The Nine, Rasputin, perhaps even a long lost Fallen house. Oh, and The Darkness (THE DARKNESS!). We could just face each of these in turn as we add more planets and locations to the Director, and can't imagine that The Traveler won't wake up or get shot down at some point in the next nine years.

Bungie's talked a lot about planting seeds, and I think now is a great time to begin planting seeds for the Light, the Traveler, and the Speaker. A build up and investment in the player's caring for these things would add volumes to whatever impact might be felt whenever the Traveler does finally become more involved in this story. If handled properly, it could even add more emotion to enemy and boss encounters depending upon what unspeakable and horrible things we've seen happen that need to be avenged, protected, allied with, etc.

But then part of me wonder if Destiny couldn't evolve over time. What if its scope could expand first to encompass all of our solar system and then many solar systems? What if it became a little less Halo and a little more Mass Effect? Traveling from planet to planet, system to system, to under take missions and dynamically push back or be pushed back by enemy forces. My visions is almost certainly larger than what Bungie wants to do, but if the planets in our solar system were allowed to progress forward in the story and new locations were added outside our solar system one destination at a time (just one important Cabal planet with one major expansion. Then later a single Vex destination deep within a cluster of Vex systems a year later, etc) it could create the illusion of size without needed to go bonkers making too many new destination planets.

Or maybe they'll just add a massive amount of multiplayer space combat and we'll all be happy. :p

Bigger is definitely better in this instance. We know from the Grimoire just how expansive the Destiny in-game universe is. We know the Traveler and Darkness have come from somewhere "beyond" potentially this solar system. We know that the Hive or Taken or even the Cabal potentially exist elsewhere in the galaxy. Opening it up in some way could be huge. What if the key to solving a lot of our problems requires us to go elsewhere? Like you said about Mass Effect, in ME2 when we ended up warping into the center of the galaxy to take the fight to the Collectors, it was just insane. And there was a baby human Reaper being built? It was mind blowing. Imagine the surprises and twists and actual plot progression, characterization, and universe building that could take place both within and beyond our solar system in this universe.

If we start to understand the motivations of the Light and the Traveler, it can open up more distinct motivations for our enemies in the game. This opens up the possibility of going well beyond whatever we've seen so far in-system and potentially outside of it. I think you're spot on about how this would really open up a world of possibilities if Bungie were to do it.