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1/4/2015 10:44:40 PM
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Grimiore does NOT explain the story.
Nor is it an excuse for Destiny's lack of explanation for what is going on throughout the campaign. People shouldn't have to go to an outside source to know what's happening. When Halo 4 did it the flame was everywhere but when Destiny does it people deny or ignore it. As a matter of fact, Grimiore isn't usually relevant to the story at all.
All in all Destiny itself is at fault for its lack of story and Grimiore doesn't even cover what's going.
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5 Repliesfinally someone who understands.
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Destiny has a story? I thought it was a series of puzzle solving missions where the only answer is the "X" button.
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I'd like to see some short vids in game that show the solar system prior to the collapse. Much like Bio Shock. Where you get to see the cities in all their original glory. Venus would be spectacular.
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Hi, my name is I don't care... Mute
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the Grimoire isn't supposed to explain the story, it's supposed to build the lore of the Destiny universe
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27 RepliesIt is not supposed to explain the story, it is supposed to establish the lore. The narrative is what unfolds, and it will continue to unfold slowly over time. The purpose of the Grimiore is solely to provide you with background information to give you knowledge to speculate and draw your own conclusions. I still firmly believe that the story is supposed to unfold slowly, and that point was largely lost, apart from a few lines of dialogue, due to a series of poor choices in how the story is being told. That is the reason that I do not buy in to the bunk theory that the Grimiore was a "last minute addition to make up for the lack of story". That is just illogical, on multiple levels, in all honesty. It serves the same purpose as the countless books that you can find in Skyrim, which is to educate on the universe - allowing you to catch obscure references and provide backing evidence for establishing in-game theories. Fully expect to get flamed for that - but I do not care. Too much lynchpinning on speculation by an anonymous "source" has become part of the mainstream when talking about Destiny.
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Where have you been? That's all people were complaining about for the first 3 months or so.
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2 RepliesHalo 4's story fit nicely into the over all picture. If you havent read any of the novels (i have read 90% of them) it will make more sense when you have Halo 5 in your hands.
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They don't no, I agree Some of them are pretty cool to read though, and others just ramble on about Lord knows what.
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If you don't get the story from them, there are people who will read them to you on YouTube, their comprehension of the story is pretty good. Don't believe me, look it up. The story here is pretty epic once you understand it
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If you want a "Story" go read a book... All we want to do is shoot stuff and look cool while we do it. USA! USA! USA! USA!
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Destiny is the "Facebook game" of fps
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Finally. Someone who bothered to read the cards like me. And like me go, "WTF?! That's lore NOT story."
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1 ReplyThe cards don't even make sense to me. What do I do? Click on them in the app here? Waste of -blam!-ing time
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8 RepliesThis is chapter one of a ten year long story.
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23 RepliesI laugh in the face of Bungie for the utter absurdity of their attempts to force players to buy the DLC. I laugh even harder at the fanboys that run the sheep mentality of it is only $20 buy it. I, myself, refuse to pay more than the original $60 since I see this "game", and I use the term loosely, for what it is, nothing more than a money sponge to rob players. Bungie has shown no loyalty to players and has proven to be nothing but a liability to consumers. I know you kids know everything, even though you have never really been out into the real world, and the die hard fanboys will come by to troll, but here is something to think about. If they are going to keep the Destiny servers running when Destiny 2 comes out I will be greatly surprised. That means since this is an online only game you will have wasted around $100 dollars or more. After all the new EULA Bungie claims the right to limit, suspend, or remove services. I know this means nothing to kids that get their money from mommy and daddy, and that is why you are catered too. Bungie is avoiding strength, adult gamers with knowledge and experience as consumers, and attacking weakness, kids that don't know any better. The absurdly of this trash, and complete con, robbery, theft, fraud, shanghai, bamboozle, hoodwink, and bush whack is too funny, but it does for me what I intended it to do and provides my break from real FPS games. Now we will hear from the fanboys please give me your tears of ignorance.
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7 RepliesYou played this game looking for a story? What do you think this is? Name a game (not halo, that garbage should just die. the Xbox community is a clusterF U C K of 8 year olds) that has Great story AND great gameplay, replay value, and just that essence that all great games have. All I can think of is Zelda. Give me karma.
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Bungie doesn't have time too explain y they don't explain.
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1 ReplyThere has been 4 months of rage about the Destiny story. No there isn't a single linear story that is fleshed out. You're in a living world, it is flexible and changing. Some key players have been introduced, the grimoire is full of legends and information explaining the world, introducing it. We get more detail about the hive in this first xpac, their orders, hierarchies and religions. We'll learn more about the fallen in the next xpac. There isn't a "main story" because there isnt a main character. There are guardians, many of us. That makes it really tricky, hence the vagueness. The stuff about Toland and Omar and Eris etc in the grimoire leave these awesome jumping off points for the potential of a very vibrant world most people won't see because Cortana isn't there spoon feeding it to them in the simplest most fixed terms possible. There should be more cutscenes, more about the factions, the grimoire should be in game, but don't play that there isn't lore here.
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Grimiore is for lore, not story
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8 RepliesYes it does. Destiny has a great story, even without the grimoire. Some people just aren't satisfied. Bungie did all this work for tou, and you spit in their faces. The grimoire is just the icing on the cake. Why are you complaining about this??? [spoiler]is my b8 Gr8 m8? :P[/spoiler]
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Not to double post, but I think this is what its supposed to be, even tho I, and many others, don't like this kind of presentation. Destiny is a social game. You go raid each week with your friends and battle for the loot, play story missions with friends and discuss/speculate about the story and what is happening....then at some point down the road Bungie comes in and drops more details and story. The issue is there just aren't enough hints to the story in the game currently. There really isn't. If you defend this all you are doing is defending your purchase. You have to be willing to acknowledge it, even if you enjoy it, like I do. The other inherent issue is the co-op, friend based aspect. While in a whimsical world this is the greatest concept, it sometimes just doesn't work. You can't always be on with your friends, they are higher/underleveled, whatever the case is....you need story to keep you there while your friends aren't on. You need some story instead of just speculating with your friends. Some of the most fun times I've had in the game was theorizing different things with a group in the Vault of glass. Where bungie fails....is that you simply just never find anything. Ever.
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There is no story to explain. It's just lore.
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2 RepliesWell, you got a hell of a lot of gameplay out of this "Faulty" game...
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Edited by DjNormal: 1/5/2015 9:56:32 PMBungie has always (before Halo at least) had very vague stories that left people speculating for years. Heck, the Marathon's Story page is still being updated after 20 years. There's not a lot of new information, but people are still picking apart every little thing in that game series. I personally would have liked to see more plot/story/missions and I had higher hopes for the DLC, but I think we might get some of the blanks filled in by the end of this year... Which is kinda sad. The biggest problem I have is that I feel like my guardian is being kept in the dark. Our ghost keeps saying that things are making sense (to it) and other NPCs clearly know more about the world than we do. It reminds me of my first deployment actually. I didn't know much of anything about what was going on outside my unit unless it was pertinent to my mission. So maybe we are a bunch of privates in the tower army, who are being given only need to know information, in order to keep us in line.
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Honestly there is a story to Destiny. Its just not complete. Its fragmented and broken based on the view of the Guardians. We don't know everything because the characters don't know everything. All we know is that humanity was once a bunch of badasses. Some force called the darkness came by and said hi before beating us down. Some form of intelligence we found called the traveler saved our asses. And now we are trying to regain our former glory. I mean hell after you kill the Black Heart for the final mission in the base game I think its a card but it talks about how the heart may have been just a single part of some grand plan. Plus with the new expansion they add more story by explaining how we lost the moon. We lost it to the Hive and some god like entity called Crota. What was your grade in English class when they started you on story analysis? An F?
