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Edited by JayMadIV:
9/23/2014 6:01:24 AM
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4 things that SHOULD have been explicitly explained in the Story Mode.
A major problem with Destiny's Story, is that several plot points are not resolved, and are left open in an unsatisfactory manner. There is no sense of closure, or even progress to any of the plot threads that we begin to open in the story mode. Yes the game series is not finished, and neither is the Story, but there are several plot threads that could and should have been completed. Instead we are kinda left hanging, without making any significant Plot Progress.
1. What exactly, The Traveler is. The major, primary question of the game. This should have been answered first and foremost. This should have been THE Major plot point of the game.
2. Where is Rasputin, what is it protecting, how did it survive The Collapse.
3. When/How did The Hive arrive on Earth without being detected.
4. Where did The Stranger come from, and what is her specific agenda. She seems to be written as "mysterious" just for the sake of being mysterious.
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6 RepliesRandom speculation (yes, they should have covered it ingame) The Traveller (and the Darkness) are both post-singularity intelligences of power. Who obviously don't like each other. The Darkness apparently won whatever prior dispute they had, so the Traveller came to Earth to build an army to fend off its enemy. It didn't go so well apparently, possibly due to Rasputin executing its own survival plans. Rasputin is an AI Warmind designed to defend Earth/The Sol System. He has possibly analyzed the the Traveller was the reason the Darkness attacked the system, and may have engineered the Collapse while trying to kill the Traveller as a survival measure, or possibly temporarily aligned with the Darkness to appease it. He clearly is acting as a roadblock to Guardians trying to access Golden Age technology and data. I assume they just dropped down when no one was there. The general indication seems to be that before the current wave of Guardians pushed back in force, Humanity was prettymuch locked in the city and not really able to observe outside well. The Stranger is from a future where the Vex overrun everything, and came back through their timegates to prevent the effect (Terminator style). She has a gun specifically mentioned as "shouldn't exist yet", and uses communication and transmat (teleport) technology with much greater range and capability then Guardians. She additionally mentions not being forged in the light, indicating the Traveller was destroyed in her timeline (possibly by the Hive Ritual she directs the player Guardian to stop)
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2 Repliesthe whole story hasn't been added yet and if it was then you would lose interest I remember when people tried to figure these things out instead of begging for spoilers
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The point of leaving things like that open to question is to build speculation in the community for us to figure out or talk about
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Dude, it's like the tv show "LOST" all questions and no answers! By the end of this we are going to find out we are all dead!
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10 Replies1. The Traveler is just that. A mysterious entity that is possibly a Machine God that allowed Humanity to advance to the next tech level and usher in a Golden Age. This was answered in the cutscene when you make a new character. 2. Rasputin is an AI. This mean as long as his terminal is connected to anything that can transmit signal waves, he can be ANYWHERE and EVERYWHERE simultaneously. Clearly it survived the collapse in a computer bank somewhere that was recently connect back into the global array in Skywatch that allowed him to connect to the transmitters on other planets. This should have been obvious throughout the Warmind story mission. As for what it's protecting, the Darkness First Ghost Fragment states in computer language that it's engaging in information suppression. It's fulfilling it's directives that were hardcoded from before the Collaspe until ether the situation changes and it can lift these restrictions or someone spoofs authorized access and tells Ras to knock it off and let us see what it's guarding. It also has control to planetary defense arrays. That means orbital cannons. 3. Clearly they got there via secret means that we will never know. Or perhaps that Hive seeder Ghost talked about in one of those moon missions hinting more then a few impacted Earth had something to do with it. 4. Clearly she is from the future as the tooltip of her rifle states and she seems to have a vested interest in the Vex as both seem to be time travelers considering her temporal confusion. See if you stopped being pissed about the lack of content and kept one ear on Ghost, you'd learn something.
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3 Replies"You've been dead for a long time, guardian" "Who am I?" "I'll tell you later, we need to move" Arrive at the tower "Ok, were safe now, let me ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS"
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1 ReplyLets compare this to halo 1 for a second. 1) We didn't know jack about the covies. 2) We didn't get much on the forruners. 3) Why were we at war with the covies? 4) Where did the flood come from? I could go on. Point being the story is more or less like halo ce. We get thrown into a new universe with practically no information on anything. Given a gun and sent out into the unknown to fight for our survival.
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think of this first game as chapter 1 in a book. in a book..is every major plot point answered in the first chapter??
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Those are questions for a sequel
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4 RepliesHave you ever read the first book in a series.. There is almost no closure at all, they leave you with so many questions. Destiny is exactly that.. The first book in a series.
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1 ReplyAs much as I keep telling myself that the story was just establishing a background for our legend, I don't think it's a real excuse for why the story was crap. It was Bungie's only real chance at drawing us in. So many people will write off Destiny's DLC and sequels because of this. I'm honestly surprised that Joe Staten wrote this. So maybe it's not so bad that he left.
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1 and 4 will be tackled in the future. The Rasputin one is tricky, I think we will learn more about in the future but i do feel as if Bungie should have done a better job of making the Rasputin plot point more relative to the games narrative. I do feel that the game should have done a better of job introducing each alien species ( especially the ones on Earth, the Fallen and the Hive ). We are simply told these guys are aliens, they are bad and then told to shoot them. A lot of the info from the grimoir should have been in the game to explain the cultural differences between each species.
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1 ReplyWhy people complain about this game so much should have been explained, I still dont get it!
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Disagree...the only things that should be explained are the loot cave location and the etiquette... Or more seriously these things will come over time, just be patient...mystery is fun....
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There isn't meant to be any closure. Expansions, etc will continue the story.
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I like all the mystery, really gives u a sense of what it feels like to just wake up one day, hundreds of years in the future to a world gone to hell. you are just one of millions of soldiers drafted by house lanister to fight the darkness, so quit whining about not being as significant to the story as kratos is in god of war
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This is just chapter one, the story is just begining. What a boring story this would be if you knew who dun it right away.
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2. Bunker RaS/2: is probably where Rasputin is. After glitching inside during the beta there are clearly servers with cooling ducts everywhere. It is a high techish bunker designed area that is the most probable area for him to be in. Huge central area that looks to be his core. Watch a video on the bunker and you will see what I mean. Check Gametuts on Youtube as he has one and how to get in still.
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Lulz, he wants a sense of closure in a game with an evolving story. Fellowship of the Ring felt pretty open-ended too. I mean, OMG Gandalf, that was it!?
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Theres no sense of closure because the gane is far from over. Its a ten year game and will be adding the story in, unfortunately, dlc's.
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And why the AI in the Libary on Venus thinks your a doctor, or maybe we were a doctor in out last life, who know...
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These are questions left intentionally vague, and things we can only speculate on for now, and will hopefully learn in the future.
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Eh, I don't think they should have explained those things. They could, however have gone into more detail. The lore is actually quite interesting but it's buried in the grimoire. For example, the three factions actually have different political aims and the Speaker basically mediates between them all. None of this is in the game proper, they're just vendors in game.
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Has anyone actually come to the realization that the story/ENTIRE GAME is about the traveler?!? It might as well have been named "The legend of Traveler". Anyone remember "THE -blam!-ING LEGEND OF ZELDA"?!?! It wasnt called..."Link...you're the shit bro!!!". You...YOU...are just a foot note, if that, in this story. You were literally a dead foot soldier revived by a small part/servant of the traveler to help it. This generation is literally all about me me me. "Make like a tree...and get the f-f--blam!- out!!!"
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For me it's more like a single point: WHO the -blam!- is everyone???? I don't know any of those guys in the tower or about any faction or any enemy cause NONE get a proper introduction. They are all generic and nameless to me.
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it shouldnt be "explained" it should be "mentioned" like dialogue options with the speaker, or the fractions, or the gunsmith or the shipwright or or or ANY OTHER useless NPC that just stands around and could have been used to INTERACT with the guardian rather than not doing anything.. its part of the "waxcabinett of mister disney", nice to look at , absolutely useless and no way to interact.. the only interaction parts are "pruble ball" , "football" ," fan off /on" a littel bit crappy for "the biggest game in 10 years"
