Lore is not story. I get that they have this magical ten year plan that means they can't have all the story up front, but that doesn't change the fact that the story they have is pathetic, even with the Taken King, and makes the Grimiore feel like a lazy attempt at adding intrigue where there is none. I've read the Grimiore multiple times and pieced it together, but came out disappointed. I assumed the Lore could actually make me care about what I was doing. That would have made it slightly forgivable, if the in-game story was bare-bones, but the Lore was interesting enough to keep me compelled. But, unfortunately, the Lore was just Bungie trying to be mysterious and deep and just coming off as pretentious and lazy. They fail to grasp that you can't fuel a story on intrigue alone, there has to be some substance to it, and more importantly, a reason for the player to give a shit what happens. Neither of these are present. Instead, we get a bunch of half-completed plot threads that hype up unthreatening bosses and the promise that maybe one of these DLCs will tie it all together and actually be interesting. It's pathetic, lazy, and serves as nothing more than a way to hook curious people into buying the DLCs. Tl;Dr The Lore is a bunch of half-completed plot points mashed together to make you want to buy the DLC. 2/10 wouldn't bang.