I understand completely. You want bungie to nerf fusion rifles.

I like how in d2 your character actually have voice actors, i guess they were paid per grunt and moan every time your character dies

The mute gestures are cringeworthy. Our character looks like a spineless wimp that goes along with whatever the ghost and other characters say. I don't think they could have done worse even if they tried.

Well the thing is is that this actually isn't supposed to be about "their story". They are set pieces, the marketing campaign was always about "become legend"... This is supposed to be the story of a person who's eyes open, laying in the ashes of the old world, the first thing they see being a tiny glimmer of light floating above them, and being immediately after birth thrown into a violent life or death struggle just to survive... The problem is that at no point did they ever follow through in making the story about you. You destroy the heart of darkness in the garden. You destroy Crota, son of Oryx. You capture Skolas, and defeat him for the queen's amusement over and over again. You kill Oryx, king of the hive, in his own throne room. Seal away Siva..You. SINGLE HANDEDLY. Turn the tide against Ghaul. And through all of this you are only ever treated like some random foot soldier... No other guardian has accomplished in decades of fighting, what you have achieved in a few short years... And you are irrelevant. This shouldn't have been a game about legends, it was a game about earning your place among legends, about building your own legend, and it never freaking happened.... Bungie needs to abandon the "silent protagonist" deal and they need to do it with terrifying haste if they are going to save their narrative at all. They lack the talent to write a silent protagonist..... If anything I would like the rat king quest to be a sign of where things are going, to have some plot elements that are truly fixed, not repeatable to death, and if say you chose to let the Fallen go at the end, your character's story will progress along one story line, vs killing him takes you down another... It is time that this became a story that is as much about you as it is any of the characters like Osiris or Rasputin or Cayde. They need to start telling your story and give you venues by which to do that. I am not interested in the stories of other people because if I do not get to earn a place in this world I have no reason to be interested in it. The developers of Bioshock said these words. "To make a game great, you must create a world the player wants to save." In other words you have to feel like your choices matter, like you are part of that universe. Which is why players feel rewarded for choosing the "morally right" path even if they don't receive a physical reward. We are not a part of this universe. It is time they fired the people making the executive story decisions and hired people who want to make art, not a mindless grind for 10 to 16 year olds. And hey you the teenager who just got offended. Don't be offended at me. I tell teens to forget about age appropriate books and urge them to read books that I've found great and engaging because the idiots who deem a book to be "age appropriate" actually mean "the book is stupid, I think you're stupid, so you'll like this stupid book." By Bungie saying this game is intended for your age group, they are deliberately insulting you. Be offended and demand they do freaking better by you. You deserve better than mindless dribble that's just an excuse to get you to the next place where you shoot things. Twelve or thirteen year old who is still offended. Have you seen the never ending story? Is it dumb kids stuff? It's based on a book by Michael Ende. Who SUED the production company for destroying his book. The Never Ending Story is a surreal, often twisted, sometimes openly fetishistic tale of dark fantasy that quotes Gnostic and Lucifarian texts, directly quotes Aleister Crowley, one of the fathers of modern Satanism and blurs the lines of good and evil, sanity and madness, until you no longer know who's on the right side. First and foremost. The child like empress, who is a metaphor for "God" in the universe of Neverending Story, IS EVIL AS SIN AND IS PERFECTLY OKAY WITH IT! She is not the hero of this story, she's a blasted monster!... But that.. Is another story, and shall be told another time.... I absolutely encourage anyone who is old enough to get a library card to go read that book. That. Is a masterpiece of story telling. This. Is diluted insulting trash.

Yeah. Can you imagine the hilarious dialogue we could of had with Rasputin?? “ I AM RASPUTIN, I HAVE NO EQUAL “ “Wanna bet?”

Our character is certainly ruining all of our cutscenes, simply because their mute, near-emotionless presence (totally emotionless if they're an Exo) absorbs the energy from every scene. It's also not fair to Nolan North. He might be one of the most capable voice actors in the business (his Nathan Drake is considered by some to be the greatest video game performance ever), but being forced to emote for two characters is a tall order. Especially when your character doesn't have a face, and the humanoid next to you has the emotional depth of a bowl of potato salad. It doesn't help that the cutscenes don't even allow for our character's lack of a voice actor. A more capable cinematic screenwriter could compensate, tighten the focus on Ghost and the speaking character, have our character speak to Ghost [i]sotto voce[/i], or have a scene shot at a distance where our character is talking to Ghost (but cannot be heard). But the incompetent schmuck they have scripting their cutscenes seems to just think an emotionless and silent LUMP in the middle of every cimematic doesn't diminish it at all. As Godfather III reminded us, one inadequate performance can profoundly affect a movie*. Same principle here. [i]*Ironic, perhaps, that the author of one of cinema's most panned performances could move on to become one of cinema's finest directors.[/i]

D2 : the stories of Ghost and his imortal bodyguard

“Will it fly?” “Little light” *head shake* What other major lines of dialogue did our guardians say and D1 anyway? I’m just wondering what exactly it is that everyone is missing about our characters talking. They never said anything of real substance even when they did. I’m pretty sure if u edit together all lines of dialogue our guardians had in D1 into a video it would only be like 20seconds of footage lmao just saying. [spoiler]no salt btw just pointing out the facts[/spoiler]

Just keep your helmet on Do a emote of your choice And imagine that your blank poker faced soulless guardian is making some sort of expression That’s what I do [spoiler]the muted guardian has bothered me for a long time it still does [/spoiler]

I’m not sure what they were thinking. D1 did fine with giving the character a couple of lines... with different voices depending on race. It had potential if this time around there were different lines for each class during the cutscenes so there was little more unique value to the main story. Edit: just once I’d like my Titan to cry out for the puppies.