Not the Speaker, but the city... (Destiny)

by Durandal, Thursday, November 05, 2015, 10:44 (3545 days ago) @ Avateur

I think putting focus on the Speaker and the Traveler is a mistake. It would be better to open the city with a large amount of NPCs. The NPCs can humanize the world, make us care by allowing us to care about the survivors struggling to live beneath the light of the Traveler.

These are the people who struggled through the wilderness, avoiding intermittent Fallen raids, hive attacks and worse, all to escape the destruction of their entire world to one spot with a nearly dead savior. In theory, we as guardians died either assisting them, or in last stands protecting them from the fires of the cataclysm that made this world.

This also allows us to preserve the mystery of the Speaker and the Traveler. The NPCs don't know the whole truth, but they may have pieces of it. They could give us leads, hints, and other reasons to go out and explore aside from the usual promise of loot. They could be the tool to prove Osiris wrong, that guardians aren't just tools designed to do whatever someone with a floating icon above their head wants.

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Destiny needs a story shift toward the Light - Avateur, 2015-11-04, 23:22
- Agreed! - Oholiab, 2015-11-05, 00:15
- Destiny needs a story shift toward the Light - narcogen, 2015-11-05, 01:48
  - Destiny needs a story shift toward the Light - Avateur, 2015-11-05, 03:44
  - Great use of bifurcate. - Funkmon, 2015-11-05, 04:09
- Destiny needs a story shift toward the Light - Ragashingo, 2015-11-05, 02:11
  - I'd say you're on to something - Avateur, 2015-11-05, 03:53
    - I'd say you're on to something - Kermit, 2015-11-05, 11:52
  - Personally, I'd like to see more of our own solar system - CruelLEGACEY, 2015-11-05, 14:24
    - Personally, I'd like to see more of our own solar system - Kermit, 2015-11-05, 14:29
    - Personally, I'd like to see more of our own solar system - Ragashingo, 2015-11-05, 15:32
    - Personally, I'd like to see more of our own solar system - Cody Miller, 2015-11-05, 16:09
      - Because Titan is so easy to ignore - Earendil, 2015-11-05, 16:16
        
        Counter argument: Sunbreaker. I rest my case. :) - Ragashingo, 2015-11-05, 16:27
        
        Counter Counter Argument: Doin' it wrong - Earendil, 2015-11-05, 17:11
    - Personally, I'd like to see more of our own solar system - Avateur, 2015-11-06, 03:33
- Not the Speaker, but the city... - Durandal, 2015-11-05, 10:44
  - Not the Speaker, but the city... - Cody Miller, 2015-11-05, 16:11
    - I kind of wish the tower was... a tower. - slycrel, 2015-11-05, 16:19
      - Half Life 2 Confirmed - Cody Miller, 2015-11-05, 16:52
        
        Next time you are in Rasputin's bunker, look at the walls. - slycrel, 2015-11-05, 16:56

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