[i]Years ago at a secret meeting in Bungie Studios...[/i] Harold Ryan: Ok everybody, we've run into a kind of figurative brick wall. Destiny has an awesome storyline whose narrative is interwoven seamlessly into the game, incredible missions that outshine anything we did on Halo, fantastic multiplayer modes unlike anything you would find on other first person shooters, unparalleled world exploration, incredible boss battles, and a functional loot system. Where did we screw up? Harold Ryan: Anybody? Marty O'donnell: I don't see anything wrong with it. Destiny seems pretty fantastic so far. Harold Ryan: That's the problem, Destiny as it is now, is a great game. Players love it! That is NOT what we want the players to do. We want them to be disappointed. Stosh: Um..... Harold Ryan: Yes stosh? As the rest of you know, I brought Stosh in here for his creativity. Stosh: Perhaps we should redesign the levels so that they are more boring and more predictable. Maybe in each level, it should consist only of players having their ghost hack something, and defending it against hordes of enemies. Harold Ryan: That is a terrific idea! Marty: Are you serious? Why would we do that? Right now, the levels are fantastic. That level you guys have where you have to climb a skyscraper-sized colossus made of vex parts and bring it down from the top is fantastic! Players would be thrilled! Harold Ryan: Marty, you don't get it. Do you? We don't want players to have fun, we want to piss them off and mislead them. Marty: Why would you want to do that? Harold Ryan: Because it will be hilarious. Marty: Harold, what is wrong with you? Harold Ryan: You know what Marty? You can leave. NOW! Marty: ........*gets up and leaves, shaking his head. Harold Ryan: The rest of you can leave as well. Stosh, you can stay. *everybody else in the room leaves Harold Ryan: I should probably fire him after he finishes the soundtrack. That will piss everybody off even more. Anyway Stosh, you were saying? Stosh: Well, we should also put barriers around part of the levels players were originally allowed to explore. They will really hate that especially since they have the ability to double jump now. Harold Ryan: HAH!!! That is fantastic! I can imagine it now, players trying to jump on top of a roof that is only 10 feet in the air, only to be stopped by an invisible barrier! They will be so angry!!!! I'm getting hard just thinking about it. Stosh: Haha yeah, and you know what else we should do? We should lie in our advertisements. We should have somebody say "You see that mountain in the background? It is not a skybox, you can climb it." But when they try to go there, they die. Harold Ryan: This is fantastic. We should have hired you earlier when we were working on Halo. Stosh: T-thank you. I also think we should out the in-game grimoire and force players to visit our website to get the whole story. Harold Ryan: Wait.....you really think so? Stosh: Yeah, they'll really hate it. Basically, very few of them will even be aware that the game even has a story. Harold Ryan: THAT IS PURE GENIUS!!! Stosh: Basically, I think Destiny should be incomplete and filled with lies. Harold Ryan: That is EXACTLY the direction I want bungie to be heading in. Stosh, you are a man after my own heart. Whatever kind of game Destiny turns out to be, just know it would not have been possible without you.