Dark Below continued the Black Garden Storyline Taken King continued the Nexus Storyline Taken King also concluded the known cabal storyline April Update continued the Taken King storyline: The Empty Throne Taken King concluded Thorn v Last Word storyline Taken King concluded Dr. Shim storyline Taken King continues the Stranger's storyline Taken King expanded the vanguard Characters, Eris, Rasputin, Toland, and Preadyth Taken King continued the mysteries of the vault of glass Taken King introduced to us Rezil Azir Taken King expanded on Saint 14 Taken King Concluded the House of Wolves storyline Taken King introduced us to the Iron Lords and Jagi April Update showed us the Aftermath of Aksor Taken King showed us the Aftermath of the Sol Progeny (he's a miniboss in the Valus Tuarac Strike) Rise of Iron will expand on the Iron Lords, Fallen, Lord Saladin, and SIVA Rise of Iron will probably continue the Taken King story Destiny's story is divided into branches. The Vex -The Mysteries of the Vault of Glass -The Vex storyline with the Stranger The Fallen -House of Kings -The Kell of Kells -The Rise of Iron (New) The Hive -The Worms -The Hive on the Moon -Who will take Oryx's throne -Oryx's sisters -The books of sorrows The Cabal -Well, there's only on storyline with the cabal Misc -Rasputin -Toland -Osiris -The Speaker -Eris -The Reef, Petra, and Variks -The Vanguard -Saint 14 -Rezil Azir -Lord Saladin and the Iron Lords Etc I probably forgot some Anyway, Destiny is not this Linear storyline, it's a branching storyline. We started at a single line, which is that we our guardian's, we need to defend the traveler, prepare for the coming darkness, and we must become legend. From that point, we learn about the world around us, the past, the present, and fears of what the future will hold. As we continue to climb up the tree, the enemies, allies, and neutral people in this world expand and expand. We always though there was more than one tower. Taken King introduced a new tower and showed us the history of that tower, the forgotten faction of the concordant, and Lysander. Many of us will get caught up in the story of Destiny because it's plotline is not going in one direction, but is stretching out in multiple directions.

Having lore tucked away in a phone app or in a website, for me, doesn't count as "story". It doesn't seem to have a beginning middle or end, it's all over the place. At least until some people who read lore have made some order to it, so why not have that in the first place? The mission structure, order and the dialogue in Vanilla didn't create "mystery", all it did was make things vague. There was very little explanation as to why we were doing things or what the consequences were. The 3rd mission where you discover the Hive is one of the few missions that has any impact whatsoever. The Taken King has much better story telling because of its use of more cutscenes, dialogue and mission structure. It also brought Quest lines in; that had some flavour text attached to them. Almost like in game grimoire. Now that the story has been fleshed out a bit, it's actually good and there are some intriguing questions about where we go next. If you were to play the game from the beginning with all the DLC, you will notice that the Dark Below happens a lot earlier, you don't even open up the Black Garden mission and you've completed the Dark Below quest line. It's all changed now.

Not to mention that all of our quests to get the 3 new subclasses were about the vex

I mean great post but before the game came out Bungie said that the Fallen would be the main antagonists of Destiny. But they've said a lot of things.

The Vex are pulling all the strings here. Everything that has happened occurred because the Vex wanted it to.

I'm hoping we won't get hive for at least another year or so, I think everyone can be mutually agreed that they're bored to death with them

It's a 10y [u][i]contract[/i][/u] and they're almost in like year 6 already I

That's all good, but its also all background. The in game plot has dramatically improved with TTK... but Dark Souls, Undertale, Spec Ops: The Line, Mass Effect and (maybe most of all) the Witcher 3 showed us, in spectacular fashion, what good storytelling in games really looks like.

Destiny's story: Ghost revives dead Guardian who kills all sentient life he/she/it encounters, hears about the Black Garden from a strange robot, travels to the Black Garden because YOLO, destroys the heart of the Black Garden, and hangs back by his/her/its self while everyone celebrates for some reason. Dark Below's story: Guardian shoots Hive because 3 eyed lady said so. No one seems to care. House of Wolves story: Guardian shoots Fallen for treasure. No one seems to care. Taken King story: Oryx invades solar system and destroys fleet of the Reef. Guardian boards the Dreadnaught an kills Oryx. Three eyed lady takes a rock. Guardian continues shooting the Taken all over the solar system because war never ends or changes or whatever. Rise of Iron story: [spoiler]Guardian shoots mutated Fallen because Saladbar said so.[/spoiler]

Separate story lines with minor connections have made Quentin Tarantino and millionaire and keeps Bibles flying off the bookshelf.

It has a shit campaign/cinematic story telling with a good plot. No real explanations for why we are doing what we are doing. Yes however the lore is very good but lore =/= story