[spoiler]Sword of Crota...[b]sucked[/b]. The sword-work was ridiculous, (even by video game standards), the plot didn't make any sense, and the voice acting was uninspired. Just my opinion. No hate for those of you who liked it; I can see how finally getting some variety would totally appeal to many people.[/spoiler] I really liked the feel of "The Last Array", but I kept expecting Rasputin to [i]DO [/i]something. Why didn't he activate a stack of combat frames to help us? I understand what we did, physically, but what did we actually achieve? Why isn't the array STILL OPEN when I go back there? How did opening it lead the plot forward, considering we can just get in a ship and fly to the moon without ever even completing that mission? Why do we never see another array on another planet? Why did any of that matter at all, if there are already "Guardians fighting on Earth and beyond"? What I want to see from future stories...[b]I want the narrative to have some sort of logical relation to the lore and mechanics of the rest of the product.[/b] My problem is not that the story is short, it's that you can deconstruct nearly every line of dialog, and the stated reasons/impact of every event, and show with minimal effort that they either directly contradict some other part of the game, or that they are completely disconnected from everything that follows. The story is not a story. It feels like someone who had no idea what the plot arc was originally supposed to be had to add cut-scenes and voice-overs into existing missions in a hasty attempt to stitch them together in some sort of halfway believable sequence. The result is an uncompelling and incoherent mess. It's fixable, because somewhere along the line somebody decided to let the Vex manipulate time and space; You could rewrite the all the dialog to make it fit the world and the action in the existing missions, re-record the voice actors (or get new ones), and change the ending. The stranger gives you a rifle that shouldn't exist yet, the Vex attack the tower, and the Speaker (or the Vex, or the Speaker who is actually Vex) uses spacemagic to warp you back to being dead in the trunk of a car in Kazakhstan, and you play through the missions again, but this time they've been written by a team of professionals. Right now the missions seem more believable if you turn the volume down to avoid hearing Peter Dinklage fumble his way through a nonsensical script, and just make some shit up in your head to explain what you're seeing on the screen. Unfortunately it's also always going to be fundamentally illogical and broken, because somewhere along the line, [b]somebody decided to let the Vex manipulate time and space[/b], which means nothing we do to stop them will ever matter, because they can cheat.

The intro mission when you start a new character. It made me think I was in for something amazing. The mission where you first meet the stranger. She is cool and intriguing and that had me looking forward to what was next. The Mars mission to infiltrate the Dust Palace. I love the interior combat far more than open spaces, and the Cabal remind me of space marines.

Feels like there were only three. Lolz

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Lol [quote]story missions[/quote]

The one's i don't have to repeat 30,000 times. Oh wait that's all of them.

1. Sword of Crota 2. The last moon mission. 3.The Black Garden

Phogoth.

Okay lots of repeats and I'll repeat a lot of them too but it says something doesn't it? The array mission with hive attack Sword of Croata although to short. An unexpected call or whatever. The one where you first meet the vex. I was nervous as shit the first time I saw 'em. And one of the most genuinely funny lines in the story from dinklebot "can't we just stay with the murderous robots". Sadly one of the worst as well. " I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain" are you -blam!-ing serious. Anyway got side tracked. Lastly the black garden was great. Except what the hell was that cut scene at the end with the speaker and all the guardians. Very anticlimactic.

Starting mission stands out. Its one of the few without defend Dinklebot bull.hit Crota is fun simply because of the sword . When something as simple as changing the primary from gun to sword consistently stands out as everyone's top 2 favorites for the whole game, you've failed horribly.

1. The Last Array, I just love the end with the Hive assault and the amazing music in the background. 2. Sword of Crota, I just like this mission. 3. The Black Garden, I really enjoyed the sci-fi element of it and the end score when fighting the bosses was fantastic.

First mission was my favorite hands down. The Last Array was also really cool and the music was amazing. It actually felt like you were doing something there, releasing Rasputin, and if the story was actually present and we had a better idea of what he was and the things he's done between story missions and strikes, we probably still would. The exclusion zone was also quite neat, with the exception of the end of it being a little anticlimactic. I was expecting a large battle with the cabal at the gate, but discovering the gate to the black garden and seeing wisps of darkness rising off of it even while it was inactive made an impression. Not to mention the mission was a good introduction to the Cabal.

Probably the opening--it was just awesome and intense; The Scourge of Winter--which, while sorta out of place, felt properly done; and the Sword of Crota, because big -blam!-ing swords of death.

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"The one where I hold 'x' and then 3 waves of enemies come at me is probably my favorite." Said no one, ever.