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Edited by Diver2441: 9/29/2014 9:28:47 PM
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A theory about destiny's story.... UPDATE: Theory validated by internal source

So recently a Reddit thread came to light detailing what Destiny's narrative looked like in 2013, and it's very different from the ailing excuse for a story we're presented with today: the Traveler bringing the darkness, Crow, different progression through planets and even considerable cut areas. So it becomes apparent that between mid to late 2013 and launch, Bungie gutted the story. Now this is where it gets good, something else happened back in late 2013 before the story was gutted; Joe Staten, Bungie's former lead writer left. Some may think it coincidence, but I think not. If we look at an [url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/17/bungies-destiny-a-land-of-hope-and-dreams]article[/url] from 2013 and the reveal ViDoc included above, it becomes very obvious that the game we have today is vastly different from what it was as little as around [i]a year ago[/i]. For starters there are references to areas such as Old Chicago, the ghost fleet in the rings of Saturn, Charlemagne's Vault, and others that very clearly never made it into the full game, despite being fully made and playable [i]around a year ago[/i]. Additionally, at 3:24 in the video above, we see an in game location in The Reef, and from 3:43 - 3:51 we see a pine forested area in game that never saw the light of day as well. Even in our own back yard of Old Russia in the retail games, we have locked off areas such as King's Watch, the Jovian Complex, and the Seraphim Vault, none of which are even mentioned in the retail game today. Now the Reddit thread (which has [i]mysteriously[/i] disappeared) outlined a story sprawling across a considerably larger solar system, and including a number of characters and factions who never so much as appear in the full game. The prime example of this is Crow, the character/faction who was set out to expose the Traveler and Speaker for in fact bringing the darkness along with the Traveler, and not the Golden Age. A specific reference to Crow can be found in the above video at 1:01, where a mission would have you assist Crow in looting the Archive on venus for details on the Vex Gatelord (which is in fact a mission we end up doing in the main game, but Crow is clearly not a part of it). The Gatelord was said to contain a way to access a pre-Collapse AI construct who had the ability to expose the Traveler, and we can see this in the form of the inaccessible Bunker RAS2. Even in the PvP, we see a reference to "faction wars" at 1:20 in the video, so it appears that justification and explanation for the different factions in the tower was cut as well. Destiny's current half assed story starts to make a little more sense when we apply the context that the entire narrative was gutted less than a year before launch, and remade without Bungie's lead writer. Why Joe left, and why Bungie felt the need to completely gut the story of the game and cut huge areas is beyond me, but it's abundantly obvious that there's a lot more going on than meets the eye. EDIT: DabSquad710 found an image of the post i was talking about, [url=http://s24.postimg.org/eqzaiykes/Screenshot_2014_09_27_13_02_07.jpg]here it is[/url], it details the story as it was EDIT 2: Silent Freocity found [url=https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2hrpzx/ama_request_someone_from_bungie_or_activision_who/ckvowy2]this[/url] thread from an anonymous internal source effectively validating what i, and much of the community had thought. This is pathetic bungie

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  • I would like to say I enjoy well thought out and construtive posts, and I can see you took your time with this one. With that said, I'll try to be as respectable as possible with my response. I would say everyone "disappointed" with this game has let their imagination soar with all the hype around the game. I for one, wasn't even planning on buying Destiny even with all the hype around it and what not. However, upon playing the beta, I was pleasantly surprised and decided I was going to get it. The game delivered quite well in terms of what I was expecting from the beta. Most of you, though, seem to have created an amazing game unlike anything ever made with endless replay value and something that would just blow the world away... well sorry to tell you but games will never live up to this type of hype. Also, everyone complaining that there isn't enough content (including yourself, seeing as you have over 100 hours logged already) has invensted quite a bit of time into this game. I woudl love to know of ANY GAME that you have logged 130 hours in 3 weeks simply playing nothing but the PvE aspect. I can not think of a single one, in my 20 something years of gaming. And I bet you can't either. At best, the only campaign based game that I logged quite a few hours on was Gears of War. I feel campaign driven games are the way of the past to be honest, but destiny took a new spin on "campaign" driven content and such and I think they did an amazing job. My biggest gripe is the storytelling though, yes, it is severly lacking in this regard. They failed to draw me into this "universe" and I feel no connection to any of the characters what so ever. However, the actual in game mechanics are fun and enjoyable. Is this game perfect? Hell no. Is it one of the best games I've played this year though? Hell yes. One thing I've been blown away by is how quickly and how much passion Bungie has for this game. We've had more patches and hotfixes and more communication in the first month with Destiny, than we have in over a year in other games like Battlefield. I have faith that they will ocntinue to improve this game. Most of the "missing content" you are complaining about will probably be free content in the near future. As bungie is being very secretive about this area, I feel they have something in store that will please all of us. Not to mention they already comfirmed there will be 6 classes in total. So more content is coming. I just feel people expect too much these days. Is this going to be a game I play for years? Probably not, but I'm happy with the product for what I've payed for it. And, with already 130 hours logged, you sure as hell got your moneys worth too.

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