A movie based on the Destiny world would be amazing. Who would be a great Lord Shaxx? Lance Reddick would be an amazing Savala, as he is the voice actor for Zavala, plus the man is built like a tank, and killed a whole squad with John freakin' Wick. Tho, he would have to be blue..

Also Bungie you had the biggest missed opportunity ever when you brought the crow back and didn’t also bring back the cutscene where he said “out here in the wild this is how we talk” it could have been an awesome moment but you were probably making some eververse ornaments instead

Bungie never will. Staten probably has a personal backup copy of his own but would get sued he if released it. Now if a copy anonymously leaked that would be interesting...

Just to be clear I’m sure we will never see this super cut of D1 but damn I’d be lying if I said I didn’t still think about what could have been. Imagine if Marty O donnel was still around how much different things would be.

Bungie admitting they’re wrong? Fat chance, boy-o!

Yeah they are finally since BL been taking inspiration from the original story but I agree it'd be awesome to see and play the actual original story that sounds so so much better than what we got, a long time ago I watched the leaked storyboard for the original opening cutscene and it was fantastic. LEAGUES ahead for what we actually got but I haven't been able to find the video for years, I assume it was taken down sadly

I just wonder what the game would have been like. I can only ponder.

I wish we could have the Staten cut. Sadly we're stuck with the 1000 monkeys with typewriters cut.

We are playing the original D1 storyline right now. Some much of this sounds so much like the plot that Kataku leaked years ago.

The super cut wasn’t just for D1 but the overall arch of the entire franchise. I’d love to see it. There was a supposed leak of the original contract that detailed some of the original storyline. I read it and it sounded vaguely interesting. Basically the Traveler was the source of Dark and Light and the Vanguard leaders knew about it. Crow was meant to guide us to the truth. That’s where the Ulan-Tan idea came from. We couldn’t stop the Darkness without sacrificing the Light since they came from the same source.

It was just the script, not cutscenes. There's no way all of that would have been developed. Unless someone backed it up (like Staten himself), the chances of it truly existing might be low. Still sometimes think what could have been, I know, it stings. Even with how D1 started, i was tolerable to the idea of it evolving to reach that point. I did the math a while back and kinda drew to the idea that over these 7 years, the fundamental gameplay or way of playing Destiny has not really grown. There might be significantly "more" now than before, but it never really went beyond. It's still a matter of doing the cut and dry routine week to week. It doesn't make the world feel alive at all, leaving its "evolving" qualities as time goes on kinda meh. Ships are still just loading screens, the city is still a stage rather than an actual town, you can't just go anywhere you want. Interaction with others is so weak (they had to literally add game chat), it just keeps going. I longed for that "raid" of Charlemange's tomb on Mars to find Thorn. What happened instead? BOUNTY Bungie didn't even go for the things they did right with Halo that were not exclusive to it. Halo doesn't own map editors or custom gamemodes, or replay theaters. User-generated content is so important to the community and they just didn't try beyond a basic ass private match.It's hard to look at anything we have now and say adding that would be easy, it's probably impossible, but had the game been built differently from the start, and if the excess didn't push away their best minds, I feel like we wouldn't be in such a low spot where the game is pretty much ruined by apathy.

D1 is over and done with. What does it matter anymore? Perhaps it might have been better with it, perhaps not. They moved on. It’s sad in a way because of the wasted effort, but it won’t make D2 magically a better game if reused. We’re in maintenance mode, not break out onto the market mode. Best we can hope for is quality of live improvements, decent seasonal missions like presage and hopefully down the road a D3 done in a new engine, not marinated in the latest fad business model, but with a rather solid foundation. One can dream I guess.

I've said it in the past; I would literally pay money to see that in its entirety. Staten knows what the hell he's doing. I have no doubt Destiny would be in a much better place if he were still around and the old team had more control over the actual game.

Didnt even know the original story was cut. Would be dope to see the original - maybe thats what their new project is?

How do you think they are able to piece together all the seasonal cut scenes and story? It was creatively done from the ground up it was old content they re worked

If they're taking some elements from his story, I doubt we'll see it until years after Destiny is done as a franchise, or until that original story is no longer possible in the storyline. As long as there's spoilers/elements they can use, I doubt we'll see it.

He’s actually correct https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kotaku.com.au/2017/12/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny/amp/

I remember it as the explanation of why the story told in D1’s vanilla campaign was confusing.

Yes. I still can’t believe they scrapped his story.