I see the point you are trying to make, but the difference between halo ce and Destiny is delivery and atmosphere. In halo, I wanted to find out more about the covenant, the forerunners, the flood. Where did they come from? Who created the halos? How were we going to beat the flood? What is master chief's past? In Destiny, the story does not pull me in. I don't care about some faceless "darkness", I don't care about the fallen or the cabal. The only species I am interested in are the vex.

Last time I played Halo CE I don't recall the story being told as "I don't have time to explain why I don't have time" and then when there is time at the end of the game she vanishes off to nothing. Also why don't I have that ability to walk off an edge and warp to wherever?

I shall humour your request as I am one of many who feel destiny's story was poorly written. First though I am going to leave the grimoire out of this. Now, before you insist that it is relevant and thst it should be taken into account, I would like you to know that Halo: the fall of reach preceded Halo: CE. I will also be leaving that out of the equation as it would make for an unfair comparison. I'll sumarise both halo and destiny to key points to shorten this. First, Halo: You wake up aboard the pillar of autumn and find the ship is under attack after fleeing a planet called reach. After meeting keyes and becoming accompanied by the ai known as cortana you launch in an escape pod and find that you land on a terraformed ring structure. You find survivors and a pilot to get you around (echo 419) and go in search of information. All the while you are locked in constant battle with the covenant. You discover the ring is a weapon and seek a way to use it in the hope to turn the tide of what seems like a war humanity is losing fast. While delving deeper into the ring's core you discover the recording of a fallen marine who was killed, along with his team, by an unknown enemy. This is the introduction of the flood. You fight your way back to the surface and catch wind of a ship that apparently hold keyes aboard. Along with a team of marines you get aboard and discover that keyes is in a bad way and already infected by the flood. You are also introduced to the ring's ai counterpart guilty spark. He tries to help you acquire the key needed to activate the ring. Meanwhile cortana has been poking around in the mainframe and as you are led to activate it, she stops you. Now comes my favourite part and key to the argument of halo telling a coherent and clever story compared to destiny telling half an incoherent one; Cortana then tells you exactly what the ring does, that guilty spark is rampant and that the ring is not the solution. When trying to explain logically the reason behind usingthe ring, guilty spark decides it would be easier just to kill you and so come more lasers. You and cortana decide to destroy the ring amd conclude the best way to do that is to use the pillar of autumn's reactors to blow a chunk off. You hijack a banshee and head back to the flood and covenant infested ship to do so and are forced to quickly escape. When you reach the extraction zone echo 419 is hit by banshees that were tailing her and crashes so you are forced to find another way off. You reach a ship with seconds to spare (1 in my first run's case) and fly away as the engines explode and take a continent sized chunk out pf the ring in the process. Thus negaring total annihilation of life in that part ofthe universe. I know my ordering is off and I've missed parts. I haven't played it since I moved and got rid of my old xbox. Been meaning to get tge anniversary copy for a long while now. On to destiny: You wake up and are immediately told that you've been dead a long time and there is a lot that you won't understand. You are introduced to a floating robot who calls himselg your ghost amd guides you in a rather clever openning mission where you are introduced to the fallen. You manage to find a ship and as you take off there is a mysterious hooded woman watching from a distance. You then go to find a warp drive from the cosmodrome where you started. When you kill an archon your ghost decides that you need to see someone called the speaker. You meet the speaker and he doesn't really explain anything but suggests there was a great war and that the traveller is dying due to the darkness. You then have the option to do a few side missions before you progress. These add a bit of depth regarding a warmind ai called rasputin that survived the collapse. You are also introduced to the hive. This is the optimal point to head to the moon. You set boots on the moon and take the fight to the hive. You search for a guardian that was in last known to be in the area. You find that he has died and his ghost is missing. Once again there is a mysterious hooded woman watching from a distance. Yoy enter the hive structure and rescue the ghost. Here there are also a few side missions that have you destroy a few hive artefacts that include a shrine that is apparently communicating with their god. To end your trip on the moon by travelling into the hellmouth and receive a recording from the stranger who tells you there are worse things out there. You head down and find a shard of the traveller that is having the light drained from it. On to venus where you find out about the vex. You travel to an old library, fight them for the first time. You are then greated by the stranger who still has no name. She tells you about the vex and that they need to be stopped. She tells you very little else and is in a hurry to leave. All we know is that she isn't a guardian and she isn't alone. There are then a couple of missions regarding the vex and another to tale down a kell of the fallen. You then go to meet the queen of the reef. An awoken who for some reason has fallen at her command. She and her angsty brother tell you that you need to go to the black garden but to get there you need a gate lord's head. You head back to venus and go to fight the gate lord, get its head and take it back to the reef. The queen's brother then removes the eye and you are given coordinates for mars. You get a brief description about the cabal and how they are heavily militarised and at war with the vex. You then go to invade a cabal warbase to get to a vex spire and charge the eye. There are a few side missions here, one of which has you discover that rasputin has gained control of the planetary defense system. This is the last you hear of the ai. You then go to the black garden and take out the heart by fighting three large vex. At which point you're called home by the speaker who gives a speach about your victory. The stranger tells you it is far from over and that there are many ebemies out in the darkness before leaving. There is are many occasions where you have to assume things and many where it would take less time to explain something than say they can't explain for some reason or another. There are too many questions left unanswered and there really wasn't anything memorable. The absence of characters with names and background, in my opinion, is half of the problem. I believe a good story requires strong characters to offer depth that a universe alone cannot.

ignorant. halo ce was made how many years ago? destiny will never begin to TOUCH the base of halo. halo will forever rule over destiny. I like destiny, but it doesn't compare to halo.

Ur so stupid Halo C.E. was one of the first fps games and at it was made over 10 Years ago and it's story was still more understanding than Destiny's

Halo CE-different missions..no one themed missions the whole time Destiny- Deploy bot scan/defend bot scan across EVERY SINGLE -blam!-ING MISSION ON 3 planets and a moon...no comparing, no excuses...we got ripped off.

While Destiny has more content and better coop pve Halo had a much better story and PvP.

You're obviously a playstation kid who never played halo. Stop defending this subpar game.

I agree with this post destiny has a good story it's just not as developed as halos also this post isn't jarring on halo it's just a comparison

the title says "Halo" that should include all the halos so "halo story> destiny story"

You sad Sony pony, you clearly haven't played Halo

You sitr jave never played halo

Wow your stupid.....stop hating halo destinys story in game is crap....the mythos is amazing in the grimore cards....see the difference? Destiny Game/story sucks Grimore cards/EPICNESS that no one wants too read Halo Game/a great story that is fun and MAKES SENSE throughout the whole game

Halo CE story: you are the last known Spartan alive. The covenant, a collection of religiously motivated alien races has been waging war on humanity for the last 20+ years. The game begins with your ship the Pillar of Autumn as it flees the destruction of reach. The ship blindly jumps and arrives at a mysterious ring. The covenant are already there. A battle ensues on the ring for the control room as humanity is led to believe the ring is a weapon. Turns out it is not the kind of weapon they expected. Halo is a galaxy wiping weapon to kill off the food of the flood. The covenant accidentally releases the flood on the ring. In fear of the activation of halo, the chief blows the ring up. Destiny story: there was a golden age brought about by the discovery of the traveler. We colonized the solar system and terraformed worlds when the darkness came and destroyed everything. you're awoken by a ghost and need to flee the fallen. You find parts for a ship. You fly to a tower and see a big ball in the sky named the traveler. No one tells you anything other than the darkness is coming yet again. You fight on the moon against the hive who is draining the travelers strength. We're told the hive are not important and must go to Venus to fight the vex. We fight the vex, then meet the queen who tells us the gate to the black garden is on Mars. We go to Mars and kill the black blubber. The speaker tells you that your not important. Grimoire cards are good and all but the excuse that it is the games story is false as the cards only give tidbits and short stories of weapons, enemies and even multiplayer playlists. They are meant to be supplemental to the overall story which is absent in game.

Only people hating on halo are the sony fans because they have had terrible games consistently the past 10 years.

Ah but Destiny also has more content than one of the best games ever.......Pac-Man.

The difference between destiny and halo, is halo had life in it. Go to the tower. It's the most boring, antisocial, dead experience in any game. The factions are pointless aside from getting guns. They got all these amazing voice actors and all they say is "hello warlock". Go on patrol. All this open space, and nothing to do. The enemies are in the same spots, the patrols are the same objectives. After the first week you have done every piece of content in the game. But you have to do it over, and over, and over. Halo was great because it was an addicting multiplayer experience set in an incredibly rich universe. We know nothing about destiny, The speaker, the stranger literally doesn't have time to tell us why she doesn't have time, and the vanguards and factions are hollow npc that just serve to be a store. I like destiny, but if bungie doesn't get their stuff together come November 11th, then I'm moving on to Halo and missing the days when bungie was a great developer.

Jesus fuçking Christ. This fanboyism is being taken to a whole other extreme.

Both games are fantastic. But be patient my friends and watch Destiny evolve into the game it's suppose to be.