Let me start off by saying I love this game, but I think we can all agree that the story was... well it was shit. What I feel like makes the story amazing in games like this, is someone to hate. I want a main bad guy that I want to kill so badly that I literally shout at him through my tv from the beginning of the game till the brutal end. I'll give you some examples.
Dying Light:
Rais was a massive asshole, and his goons are the first people you meet. As the story goes on, he just keeps doing things to make you hate him more and more, like killing your friends, putting you in an arena with zombies, etc. After all this, you hate him with such a burning passion that killing him is the most satisfying thing you can do.
Wolfenstein: The New Order
This was fantastic. Deathshead straight up dissects your friend in the first mission if you didn't already hate him more than you thought possible at the point, you will for sure when he then takes your friend's brain, and puts it in a robot, and makes you fight that robot.
Now let's look at Destiny.
The final boss was the black heart, right? Maybe it was actually that weird Minotaur statue though? Ooh nonono it was Atheon! Wait, what about Crota then? Eh, whatever. All these people share a common similarity, though. [b]You don't even find out their name until the mission that you actually -blam!-ing kill them![/b] Why are we even killing these? I'll tell you, it's because ghost told us to. I want a boss that I want to kill for more reasons than drops or xp. I want to savor launching the final rocket, using the last supercharge. I feel like if Bungie had added just one final boss like that, the story would have been 10x better.
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I keep getting the feeling that the whole point of the game was to test the waters and set up the world. I keep hoping that Destiny 2 (or even Comet) will be like "ok, you played the tutorial, now let's play the real game".
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I get that moment of satisfaction from killing Crota, only because I despise that raid more than farming materials in the old days.
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I agree with you 100% but if there was one asshole I would hate it would be the queens brother or the cryptarch