I have played every Halo game. I have read at least half of the books, and watched all of the movies/shows. I love everything about the Halo Universe, and Halo is my primary reason for buying Microsoft Consoles. That said: The INGAME STORY of Halo: Combat Evolved(aka the very first Halo game, on the first Xbox) was incredibly generic and paint by numbers. You had a generic faceless space marine fighting generic alien bad guys while trying to stop a generic doomsday weapon. The game was saved by spectacular gunplay and revolutionary (at the time) enemy AI. What Halo:CE's story has over Destiny's is structure and cohesion. Halo:CE told a single, cohesive, complete story. Destiny is trying to tell several stories at once and not completing any of them. The Halo Franchise did not begin to have an amazing story until both Halo 2 and the Fall of Reach Book released, and the game universe was fleshed out and moved beyond generic sci-fi. Of course Halo Fanboys will scream till they are blue in the face that Halo has the best story ever created, but that did not begin until Halo 2, and Halo: The Fall of Reach. The Fall of Reach book, specifically, did wonders for the Franchise, by explaining the origins of Spartans, and making John-117 more than a generic space marine.

Looking back on Halo, it's easy to remember the overall story and those seriously bad ass moments that instantly come to mind. There were Halo cut scenes that for me were awesome and showed off how MC was the most lethal warrior humanity had ever produced. Was Halo's story amazing? To some yes and to some no. But it was at least cohesive and if it was confusing sometimes, you could put it all together in the end. You also knew without a doubt that you were a very important part of humanity's survival and had a sense of big responsibility on your shoulders as MC. Destiny's story is just difficult to get into, your character seeming lost and directionless. When reading through the entire grimoire, it makes more sense and reveals potential to be epic. In-game, the cut scenes and characters of Destiny just don't have life or personality. Some would argue that MC was underdeveloped with no personality, & though that may be true, you had Cortana to add personality and character while MC was undeniably bad ass even if he didn't have much personality. This is just my analysis of the comparison, based on my opinion. But I think there are big differences in the two stories, with Destiny severely lacking some much needed elements.

People compare the story of all three games to this one installment. If you look at the first Halos story and Destinys story, they are about the same quality.

The art of using a game to tell a story has yet to be perfected. Halo had a good story but mainly told through the Eric Nyland books, they were a great SF read. The story as told through the game was ok but limited in scope due to the fact that it is a game. I think the only game that effectively told a story and melded it with action was TLOU. HL2 and Bioshock also but to a lesser extent.

If anyone played the original Marathon series, they'd probably agree with the following: by comparison to Marathon, Halo's story was written in crayon.

It's like people don't remember the first Halo. Hey, we found this ring thing. Oh no, enemies are attacking. Fight enemies with a loose backstory. Halfway through the game it turned into shotguns vs zombies. Original enemies show back up. The Halo we're on and the others are designed to kill everything to stop the flood. We must stop the Halo. Our robot allies turn on us. We kill everyone and blow up our ship, to stop the Halo. Cliffhanger ending... I recently enjoyed playing Halo (all of them), but I think Bungie did a better job with Marathon. But that may just be the nostalgia talking. I've also admitted that playing through them for the first time, earlier this year, may have dampened the wow factor of the series. With some of the graphics/physics seeming a bit dated and missing out on all the community stuff surrounding the games in their heyday.

In halo you blew up a ring that could wipe out all sentient life in a portion of our galaxy. In destiny I blew something up... I don't know what it was, but it was... Something right?

What story?

At least halo had a story

Bungie cant make a good story. Period. I wasn't expecting something like bioshock or any other game with a good story

Halo has been widely accepted as a legendary series lol

Look stop defending destiny It's a great game but could've had a way better story Halo makes you do lots of the same things like scanning and waves of enimes BUT you don't know that unless you really think which is a trick but a good one that makes the game fun Also there's a solid story HALO:you a spartan last of your kind.....a super solider born to save humanity....you killed aliens and destroyed one of many weapons they wielded....but this is just the beginning... DESTINY:you a GAURDIAN of earth dead for many years have been awoken to deafeat THE DARKNESS....you kill aliens and establish contact with other colonies....and stop a invasion from space zombies by your self....but it's not tht awesome because all it is you stop is a super knight not a cool diffrent boss that has a story just a big alien....then after that you jut walk over to Venus after meeting this chick that never tells you anything(unless you buy DLC am I right?! XD) so you kill aliens and robots then go too mars to stop the aliens robots pigs who the -blam!- knows....and apperently you kinda stop the cabal Then you rush in to a maze an kill 3 of the Same mini Bosses that you already fought....so Thats a bummer and you end with way too many cliffhangers(1-2 max guys come on) Destiny has more words and WHATVER but halo is simple and awesome so SHUT UP

That's not the point. Halo followed a clear line with begining and end. Even if it wasn't a great story. The Destiny story is shit. No clear end, so many unanswered questions, and much more...